Results for Environment
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Advancing process-based sargassum forecasts with Earth Observation and Machine Learning
Since 2011, free drifting (pelagic) sargassum has proliferated across the tropical Atlantic, consequential for coastal communities in the eastern Caribbean.Accumulation and decompo...
Extreme fluvial flood risk in groundwater-dominated catchments
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Marine phytoplankton are key players in the global carbon cycle, responsible for half of Earth's primary production. This project will use underwater robots to evaluate small-...
Does temperature drive enhanced carbon cycling in Holocene lake sediments?
This project will use annually laminated (varved) lake sediments to reconstruct Holocene sub-decadal summer temperature and carbon cycling.These records can evaluate: (a) different...
Using historic data to assess changes in flooding in the Clyde Estuary, Scotland
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Biological and environmental control of herbivory by an agricultural insect pest
The diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, causes >$5 billion in annual damages worldwide by impacting brassica agriculture.Its unique glucosinolate sulfatase (GSS) en...
Role of Multiple Anthropogenic Pressures in Determining Marine Benthic Ecosystem Functioning
The widespread reorganisation of ecological communities associated with anthropogenic activity, within the context of climate change, heighten concerns about the likely consequence...
Functional ecophysiology of Atlantic mesopelagic fishes
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Analysing the evolution of form and function in sand dollars
Understanding how the environment has shaped the evolution of form and function is a key question in evolutionary biology, yet still not well-understood.For example, while it is cl...
Inventorising and analysing household level flood risk adaptation
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research.This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because i...
Spatial patterns of tipping points in global vegetation data
Climate change may lead to tipping points where ecosystems shift to alternative states (i.e. grassland to desert). New theory suggests that tipping points may not be uniform but di...
Calming effect of group living in social fishes
Group living is common across the animal kingdom. The ubiquity of sociality suggests that this lifestyle imparts a range of benefits.However, the evolutionary drivers of individual...
Dissolved Organic matter subduction and transport along the east Greenland Margin
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the largest pool of reduced carbon in the ocean, sequestering 2 Pg C/yr of atmospheric carbon dioxide.This project uses in situ physical and chemi...
Beyond species on the move: characterising Southern Ocean bioregions and communities under present and future climates
Many marine taxa have, and will continue to, undergo poleward shifts in distributions.While predictions of species distributions now exist for various Southern Ocean pelagic specie...
Geochemical signatures of mantle magmatism in plume-ridge contexts: a long-distance relationship
This project investigates enigmatic long-distance geochemical trends in fundamental magmato-tectonic systems including plume-to-rift and rift-to-spreading contexts.We aim to determ...
The Acid Test - high-resolution records of climate change across the PETM and other hyperthermals
The project involves the development of novel analytical techniques and their application to a unique sample set to provide exciting new constraints on important geological events....
It's getting hot, sour and breathless - impacts of climate change on carbon(ate) fixation by foraminifera
Foraminifera produce around 30% of all calcium carbonate in the ocean, muchof which is buried in marine sediments, locking carbon out of the ocean-atmosphere system. Conversely, ca...
The role of Antarctic sea ice in configuring the global ocean
This project will determine the mechanisms by which Antarctic sea ice regulates the establishment of the world ocean's permanent pycnocline (PP, an interface of elevated strat...
Mapping the biological pump: ocean storage from space to seafloor
Thanks to the action of plankton-based ocean ecosystems, each year several gigatons of carbon are transported from the surface ocean into the ocean interior, where this carbon is s...
Investigating mechanochemical tracers of seismic slip: IODP Exp. 405 JTRACK
Large earthquakes in subduction settings rarely breach the sea floor, as the shallow portions of the fault mainly deform through non-earthquake creep processes. The 2011 Tohoku-oki...