Results for Environment
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Towards Safe Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Lower-Strength Sedimentary Rocks (GEOSAFE).
The UK has been generating electricity from nuclear power for over sixty years. Nuclear power generates 15% of the UK's electricity as of 2023, and current government plans ca...
Data Analytics for Urban Environmental Planning
GALLANT will produce a virtual data hub that will bring to life the living lab of data collated and created through the programme on environment, ecology, place, people and communi...
Developing a novel system to monitor the status of coastal ecosystems in South West England: from remote sensing to marine predators
This PhD Project aims at developing a reliable and robust monitoring system that will provide comprehensive information about the status of the coastal marine ecosystem off Southwe...
Fish nurseries in a changing world: towards functional indicators of habitat quality
Scientific BackgroundThe identification and conservation of "Essential Fish Habitat" is emerging as a research, management and policy priority. Protecting habitat...
Call of nature: How do livestock veterinary drugs impact dung beetles and other macroinvertebrates, their microbiota and associated ecosystem services
Project Outline:The activities of dung beetles and other soil macroinvertebrates support the maintenance of healthy soils by facilitating the breakdown of dung through combined dir...
Adaptation to an anthropogenic habitat: Integrated modelling of ecological and physiological impacts on chacma baboons
Global human population growth is rapidly converting natural ecosystems into human-modified landscapes. This land transformation and associated loss of natural habitat has resulted...
Understanding multi-scale relationships between geodiversity and biodiversity
Geodiversity (defined as the diversity of hydrology, geomorphology, soil and geology in terms of their resource giving potential) is strongly interlinked with climatic variables (e...
The Origin of Metabolism and Heredity
An autotrophic origin for life is increasingly gaining experimental plausibility.Nonenzymatic equivalents already exist for core parts of metabolism conserved in all life, includin...
Quantifying the controls on, influences and glaciological impacts of glacier disconnections on ice masses in the Himalaya (Op2302)
Himalayan glaciers are thinning and receding rapidly in response to the ongoing climate change.The topography further imparts the non-linear response of these glaciers to climate c...
Harnessing the power of eDNA to investigate how anthropogenic stressors affect biodiversity on tropical coral reefs, an example of a highly diverse
Title: Harnessing the power of eDNA to investigate how anthropogenic stressors affect biodiversity on tropical coral reefs, an example of a highly diverse ecosystemCoral reefs are...
DMSP cycling in unexpected places
Scientific background: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is known as a marine anti-stress compound made by marine algae and bacteria. It has key roles in global nutrient and sulfur...
Reconstructing Pleistocene ungulate migration in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
Ungulate mass migrations have historically dominated African grasslands. Today, due to a variety of anthropogenic impacts, mass migrations are restricted to discrete protected land...
Investigating North Atlantic Circulation During the Last Deglaciation.
As a component of the global ocean conveyor belt of heat, salt and nutrients, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a major part in the global climate system...
Microfibres in Soils: Detection, Degradation and Impact
Microplastic pollution is a global concern, with plastics now considered a marker of the Anthropocene. One of the major sources of microplastic pollution has been shown to be micro...
Modelling the impact of planting choices and management on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens
What we plant and how we manage our gardens can have a significant impact on the environment. Domestic gardens cover up to 30% of UK urban areas, and recent research has linked gar...
A quantitative risk framework to assess the impact of climate change on coal tip stability.
Wales has approximately 2500 disused coal tips, including 327 considered high risk. In February 2020, extreme rainfall during Storm Dennis resulted in several large coal tip landsl...
Comparative glaciology: reconstructing glaciers on Earth and Mars to understand landscape evolution with respect to climate change
Glaciers are one of the most significant drivers of landscape evolution on Earth. Similarly for Mars, ice played an important role in altering its surface and atmospheric compositi...
Competition amongst endemic lizard species on a tropical island (Round Island, Mauritius)
Round Island, Mauritius, hosts a community of rare endemic lizard species. Their environment was cleared of most vegetation by introduced goats and rabbits (now eliminated).A partn...
Do protected areas work? Tracking resilience and functional diversity change to investigate the impacts of anthropogenic stress
Ecosystems provide a plethora of benefits to humanity, and consequently maintaining and promoting biodiversity remains a key societal challenge.Protected areas are used as a key co...
Reconstructing hominin phylogeny using a combined genomic-morphometric approach.
Scientific breakthroughs in evolutionary genomics have revolutionised our understanding of hominin evolution.But combining genomic insights with studies of hominin morphology has p...