Results for Environment
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Understanding rock Fatigue mechanisms in Underground hydrogen StoragE: FUSE
Green or renewable energy has become vital in achieving net zero carbon and the key enabling technology to realise green energy ambitions is energy storage infrastructure. For inst...
Microbial lipid cycling in the oceans: an integrated 'omics' approach
Lipids, containing carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, are a major component of all living cells and are constantly released into the oceans due to programmed cell death, vira...
Breaking the ice: Insights into the evolution of plate tectonics from numerical modelling of Europa's ice subduction
Subduction is the major driver for plate tectonics, linking present day surface and interior processes, and controlling the Earth's planetary evolution.However, it is unclear...
COntinental COnvective OrganisatioN and rainfall intensification in a warming world: Improving storm predictions from hours to decades (COCOON)
Some of the most pressing questions in atmospheric and climate science today focus on how thunderstorms will respond to changes in the atmospheric environment. How will extreme rai...
HYdroclimate Reconstruction in Arid eXtremes (HYRAX): understanding the mechanisms of global desertification
Earth is experiencing clear warming toward climate states humans have not seen since the stone age. Adaptation to these changes will be challenging. Drylands (water-limited regions...
Bridging theory to reality in projections of the Asian and West African monsoons (Bridge)
In Asia and West Africa the majority of rain falls during the summer monsoon season. Monsoon rain is vital for agriculture, and a late or weak monsoon can mean disaster for crops,...
Unraveling oceanic multi-element cycles using single cell ionomics
Oceanic elemental cycles are strongly influenced by marine microbes, including phytoplankton.Although it has long been recognised that the elemental composition of microbes is a ke...
Developing a practical application of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for conservation research and monitoring of endangered wildlife
Many wildlife species have been pushed into Earth's few remaining areas still unmodified by human activities, at the edge of existence. Advances in the capabilities of Uncrewe...
A missing link between continental shelves and the deep sea: Have we underestimated the importance of land-detached canyons?
Submarine canyons are assumed to be globally-significant conduits for the transfer of sediment, nutrients, organic carbon and pollutants between continental shelves and the deep se...
Explaining process, pattern and dynamics of marine predator hotspots in the Southern Ocean
Despite being among the largest remaining 'marine wildernesses', the Southern Ocean is impacted by climate change and human activities.Conservation and management of Sout...
New perspectives on ocean photosynthesis
Solar energy ultimately drives all biogeochemical cycles and sustains planetary habitability.In the oceans, diverse microbes absorb this solar energy and many use it in photoautotr...
Counting the cost of living in modern and fossil animals
The energetic cost of living defines how animals interact with their environment.The rate at which animals capture and expend energy dictates where and how they can live, and their...
Illuminating luciferin bioluminescence in dinoflagellates
Noctiluca scintillans (the sea sparkle) and other dinoflagellates are responsible for most bioluminescence in European seas and familiar blue-glow blooms.Dinoflagellate bioluminesc...
Offshore renewable energy (ORE) foundations on rock seabeds: Advancing design through analogue testing and modelling
This project aims to advance the understanding and design of foundation systems on rock seabeds, to support the necessary expansion of offshore renewables energy (ORE, e.g. wind tu...
Estimating marine mammal abundance and distribution from passive acoustic and biotelemetry data
Ecosystem function weakening due to reduction in top predator numbers is a first order global problem. In the oceans anthropogenic activities adversely affect marine mammals, with...
How well can we predict future changes in biodiversity using machine learning? Experiments in an eco-evolutionary testbed.
Marine plankton communities are a fundamental component of the Earth system.They support food webs, drive global biogeochemical cycles, and play a central role in the regulation of...
Ocean influence on recent climate extremes
In this project the student will use a state-of-the-art eddy-resolving global ocean simulation which covers the period from 1958 to present to study the genesis of ocean temperatur...
Marine ecosystem responses to past climate change and its oceanographic impacts
Earth's oceans are warming and losing dissolved oxygen due to human activity. Experiments on modern animals show that the combined impacts of seawater oxygen and temperature a...
The role of iron in nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in changing polar oceans
Iron is essential for marine primary production due to its enzymatic requirement in key metabolic functions such as photosynthesis, respiration and the acquisition of macronutrient...
Triggers and Feedbacks of Climate Tipping Points
Abrupt changes in the climate system could have potentially devastating socio-economic impacts. Simulating them in future climate scenarios is therefore of great importance. Future...