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Study of the role of microbial networks on carbon cycling under controlled pressure and temperature conditions
This project will monitor the carbon cycle in pressure- and temperature-controlled environments consisting of soil and microbes under different nutrient regimes. We will study the...
Investigating the potential for catastrophic collapse of Greenland's 'land'-terminating glacier margins
This project will investigate the influence of proglacial lake formation on the long-term dynamic stability of outlet glaciers draining the Greenland Ice Sheet.This project will us...
Impact Of Microplastics On Soil Nutrients
Impact Of Microplastics On Soil Nutrients
Understanding the rules of convergent evolution
The long-term goal of our research group is to resolve the step wise evolutionary emergence of a complex specialized metabolic trait. The objective of this PhD is to build on our r...
How do anthropogenic threats reorganise insect communities?
Insects play crucial roles in natural and managed ecosystems.They have been in rapid decline in some places around the world, but the extent of and reasons for this decline are not...
Deforestation dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: combining Earth Observation and socio-economic data to understand unregulated land use change
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An inordinate fondness for seabirds: how to explain patterns in abundance and diversity of albatrosses and petrels across the Southern Ocean
Seabirds are amongst the most conspicuous and charismatic of all bird groups, reflecting their often very high abundance at colonies, and their phylogenetic and morphological diver...
Ocean heat waves or frozen seas - Can we make seasonal ocean forecasts?
Project Background:Seasonal forecasting is at the cutting edge of climate science and is used by many (terrestrial) industries, such as agriculture, the energy sector, and commodit...
Evolution of Body Form, Posture, and Locomotion in Birds and Dinosaurs
The evolution of birds from non-avian dinosaurs is a long-standing interest in vertebrate palaeontology, which has been rigorously investigated over the past few decades, driven by...
Glacial meltwater evolution during the deglaciation of THE Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
Rising global temperatures are likely to lead to an impact on the generation of glacial meltwater, its distribution, and its seasonal evolution on contemporary ice masses (e.g. Kin...
Monitoring air quality from space: fast retrievals of short-lived atmospheric pollutants and precursors
Climate change and air quality are the most pressing environmental issues of our lifetime, and they are inextricably linked.Nitrogen oxides (primarily produced through combustion p...
Nowcasting the risks of wildfire
Wildfire represents an increasing risk to people and property. There is concern that if present trends continue, the risks to insurance and re-insurance companies will become unsus...
Understanding noble gases in the context of mantle dynamics
Mantle convection drives critical processes such as seismicity, volcanoes and mountain building. Noble gases provide key constraints on this poorly understood, but fundamental, man...
Probing Volcanic Systems with Machine Learning for Quantitative Petrography
This project centres on the development of machine learning techniques for the quantification of igneous rock properties from optical and electron microscopy. Following on from our...
The formation of ice in clouds and the impact on climate
The aim of this PhD project is to understand how ice-nucleating particles in the atmosphere affect clouds and climate. The formation of ice in clouds is one of the least well-under...
Social-ecological-systems approach to badger management in the UK
The UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with 1 in 4 native mammals facing extinction1. Lacking Government-owned protected areas, UK conservation focuses h...
Can temperate agroforestry systems benefit soil function
ntensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity and soil function, threatening the future of our soils and productivity. This is an unsustainable situation, and yet food demand cont...
Microclimate refugia site management strategies for biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity is predicted to be severely impacted by ongoing climate warming and extinctions are likely to occur even in the most optimistic future climate change scenarios. Many s...
Northern Perspectives: community-based monitoring for tracing environmental change in the Canadian Arctic
Aims and Objectives Aim 1: Enhancement of CBM strategies, methodologies and deliverables to help inform community members of climate change impacts and adaptation planning. Objecti...
Understanding the effects of thermal metamorphism on the water and organic contents of primitive carbonaceous chondrites
Scientific backgroundThe effects of thermal alteration on the structure, concentration and chemistry of organic matter have been studied in both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial m...