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Addressing risk, stakeholder preferences and appropriate responses to the UK energy crisis in a climate changed world
In January 2021, more than 50% of the UK's energy needs came from renewables sources. At that time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson (as he then was) committed the United Kingdom...
Quantifying ecological impacts and changes to ecosystem services as a result of seaweed aquaculture
Cultivation of microalgae and macroalgae (i.e. seaweeds) currently contributes about 20% of total global aquaculture biomass and is rising rapidly at 8% per year. Seaweed products...
Boulder 3D: sediment mobility in bedrock landscapes
Rivers carve mountain ranges by incising into bedrock exposed on riverbeds, driving steepening of adjacent hillslopes. When these hillslopes reach a threshold steepness, they becom...
Exploring the links between volcanoes, climate and humans using speleothem records
Reconstruction of past volcanic eruptions using stalagmites, analysing trace and rare earth elements leached from tephra, combining with traditional stable isotope methods to inves...
The End of the Amazon Carbon Sink? (AMSINK)
How forests respond to climate change and the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affects the course of climate change itself. The response of these ecosys...
Does rewilding improve ecosystem resilience?: a soundscape perspective
Understanding why some ecosystems appear more resilient to perturbation than others is of fundamental importance if we wish to avoid biodiversity collapse and maintain a habitable...
Welding of hot pyroclasts in volcanic environments
In this project, fieldwork will be undertaken at type field-localities in Gran Canaria (Spain) and Pantelleria (Italy), and with possible extension fieldwork in the Snake River Pla...
Innovative energy-harvesting technologies to promote active travel
GALLANT aims to enhance the connectivity that is important not only for nature, but for active travel and inclusive mobility; and to tackle sustainable energy as a key challenge to...
Are sea ice and surface foam important in determining oceanic uptake of CO2?
Scientific backgroundThe global oceans take up about a third of the carbon dioxide (CO2) we emit, and about half of this uptake occurs within the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarct...
Optimising high throughout mechanistic ecotoxicology for assessing comparitive toxicicity across species and chemicals?
Investigating the effects of different chemicals across a number of species and developing a system to predict these effects.
Exploring conservation co-benefits to biodiversity and carbon storage and sink capacity across forests to improve practice.
Conservation of global forests is at the centre of the climate and biodiversity crisis prevention efforts. Forests play a fundamental role in mitigating climate change, absorbing a...
Understanding Emerging Threats to Felid Populations in Suriname
Suriname is a northern South American Republic, a former Dutch colony and one of the most forested countries on earth, with 93% of the land enveloped by vegetation (FAO, 2015). The...
Trophic interactions and the ecology of emerging lungworm infections under global warming
The risk posed to human and animal welfare by infectious diseases has been emphasised in recent years following the Covid-19 pandemic. With attention focused on viruses, parasitic...
Linking microbial genes to methane emissions from peatlands under water-table changes
The overall aim of my PhD research is to explore the taxonomic and functional diversity of methane producing microorganisms (methanogens) and methane consuming microorganisms (meth...
Luminescence dating a tool to interrogate multi-scale coastal landscape response, Cape south coast, South Africa.
The South African coast is a key region for Neogene and Pleistocene sea level studies (Hearty et al. 2020). Along the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, thick sequences of cemente...
Studying relationships at biological interfaces through directed assembly of marine biofilm communities
This research will focus on the interactions between invertebrate larvae and biofilms, investigating if specific bacterial taxa present within the biofilms prevent or accelerate th...
The molecular basis of daily and seasonal migration behaviour in the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the face of climate change
Climate-change-induced increases in oceanic temperatures are causing poleward distribution range shifts in many temperate marine organisms. These shifts have far-reaching effects o...
Populations at the edge: range dynamics and conservation of the Great Crested Newt under global change.
Under anthropogenic exploitation and rapid environmental changes, many species are challenged with novel conditions, some are shifting their ranges moving to new suitable areas, an...
Resilient woodlands to support biodiversity recovery
The project will analyse extensive UK data sets mapping woodland characteristics and distributions of 1000s of UK species (including birds, insects,plants), complemented by biodive...
Conserving the diversity of bees in farmland
This project will conduct a programme of field research to understand how, and why, wild bee communities respond to changes in farm and landscape management, with a particular focu...