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Water bodies as interfaces and pathways for zoonotic and livestock pathogen transmission in Africa and Scotland
Waterborne pathogens, such as Leptospira spp., Mycobacterium spp., E. coli and Campylobacter spp., are responsible for important diseases of human and livestock. Water can play an...
Quenching the thirst at the foot of the giants: the effect of climate change on glacier-derived water resources in high mountain regions
Glacier-derived water is essential to communities in many mountain catchments and to millions of people who live downstream and rely on it for hydropower generation; irrigation (68...
Ice speed & Artificial Intelligence (AI): Using satellite data and advanced computer techniques to detect ice sheet change
Global sea level rise and the associated flood and coastal realignment that accompanies it, is recognized as posing the greatest climate change risk to the UK. Over the past centur...
Applying computer vision to natural history collections for ecological, taxonomic, and conservation research
Recent mass digitization efforts of Natural History Collections (NHCs), pioneered by institutions like the NHM, have given scientists across the globe access to untold numbers of s...
Convective-Scale Impacts of Deforestation on Amazonian Rainfall
The Amazon rainforest contains 40% of all remaining tropical rainforest in the world, but has seen rapid deforestation since the 1960s, and as much as 40% of the Brazilian Amazon c...
Biodiversity and relationships of Urochloa grasses for application in sustainable tropical forage systems
More than half of the world's agricultural land is grazing land, but tropical fodder plants receive little attention. Their relationships and biodiversity are poorly understoo...
Severe weather over Southeast Asia
The Maritime Continent in Southeast Asia (predominately Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) plays a key role in the global weather and climate system. Its complex island geog...
Non-CO2 effects of aviation on climate
This project will use state-of-the-art models and observations to quantify the climatic effect of aviation non-CO2 emissions from current and future generation aircraft.Global avia...
The molecular basis and evolution of host manipulation by nematomorph parasites
The Nematomorpha, commonly known as horsehair worms, comprise one of three fully parasitic animal phyla. Nematomorphs are parasitic worms of invertebrates, which infect and manipul...
Modelling Ocean Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have used hot-water drilling and autonomous underwater vehicles to observe ocean conditions beneath ice shelves. Recent advances in the...
Understanding the role of frazil ice production in polynyas
I will look at frazil ice formation in polynyas, aiming to better understand the ice formation process and the impact it has on local and global ocean convection. To do this I will...
Climate interconnections of the Pliocene greenhouse
Global warming has already reached 1C above the pre-industrial level because of ongoing greenhouse gas emissions. The polar regions are losing ice mass and the ocean is warming, re...
Assessing Scotland's Pollinator Strategy: A 'real world' approach
Pollinators are exposed to multiple threats and are widely in decline.This project is at the interface between policy and science and will assess the impact of Scotland's Poll...
Modelling sea-bird central place foraging under anthropogenic environmental change
Many seabirds display complex foraging behaviours constrained by nesting sites, food availability, and foraging distributions of neighbouring colonies. Given extensive environmenta...
White Sea meromictic lakes as rich archives of paleoenvironmental change
Climate change is ever increasingly threatening global lake ecosystems1. It is predicted that approximately 16% of lakes worldwide will see a reduction in their mixing regime and b...
Nitrogen oxides in remote tropical ocean environments and their impact on air pollution and climate
Nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO+NO2) play a central role in the chemistry of the atmosphere, controlling both the production and loss of key air pollutants and climate gases such as meth...
Identifying Environmental Factors for Soil Transmitted and Food Borne Helminth Diseases in Border Regions of Northern Thailand
Parasitic worm infections (helminthiases) of humans greatly impact low to medium income countries such as Thailand, by undermining health and agricultural productivity. Particularl...
Assembly of ungulate communities as an outcome of interspecific interactions over ecological and evolutionary time frames
The relative importance of factors influencing the assembly of local species communities is a key question in ecology. The distribution of any individual species is impacted by a r...
How do large earthquakes start? Illuminating the nucleation phase from seismology and geodesy
Project BackgroundHow do large earthquakes start? The answer to this simple question might enable improved early warning and earthquake forecasting. In one endmember model, small t...
Far-flung influences on midlatitude climate and weather extremes: The stratospheric pathway
Teleconnections are processes which link variations in weather and climate between different parts of the globe, often many thousands of kilometres apart. They are important for ma...