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Global CO2 storage capacity: Modelling limitations of geography and injectivity
The importance of carbon capture and storage in the mitigation of climate changes arises from the potential capacity for the injection of large volumes of CO2 into suitable subsurf...
Ecological risk assessment and food webs: multiple stressor effects on biodiversity and ecosystem function
Ecological risk assessment is used to determine the likelihood of adverse ecological effects resulting from human impacts on the environment. Most regulatory toxicity studies measu...
Authentication of Sustainable Oil Palm Production for Protection of Tropical Biodiversity
The Southeast Asian region is estimated to have 27.1 million hectares of peatlands, or 6% of the global total, while also producing nearly half of global crude palm oil. The main c...
Looking to the past to conserve present-day biodiversity: using distributional information and ecological modelling
Species conservation has long focused on preventing human-driven extinctions. Conservation success has therefore been measured using changes in species' extinction risk over t...
The consequences of the Moon-forming impact for the chemistry of Earth
At the very end of its growth, Earth was hit by another planet-sized body that spewed material into orbit, out of which the Moon formed. This collision, known as the Moon-forming g...
Quantifying kelp detrital pathways: what is potentially locked away as Blue Carbon?
Kelp forests have some of the highest plant production rates globally of between 460 g C m2 yr to 3000 g C m2 yr per unit area [1] and are important for the biodiversity of our coa...
Making wealth: precipitating synthetic gold from hydrothermal solutions to understand gold deposition processes
Highlights:-Design and undertake new experimental procedures to generate synthetic gold veins in the first systematic study of its kind-Produce some seminal work on understanding t...
Investigating Palaeoclimate Using Spherules in the Geological Column
The geological record holds a record of the past climate conditions on Earth.The evidence in the rocksprovides the only reliable baseline by which models of extreme climate behavio...
Hidden costs of environmental pollutants: functional impacts on host-pathogen interactions
When predicting biological responses to global pollutants one of the greatest challenges is the potential of non-additive interactions between abiotic and biotic stressors. This is...
Flood-Inducing Atmospheric and Antecedent Conditions: Variation and Change Across the UK and Europe
The aim of this project is to identify extreme flood-inducing atmospheric patterns (and antecedent conditions) and understand how they vary both spatially (across different hydrocl...
The role of marine plankton in the Earth's chemistry
Project BackgroundIn 2014 the IPCC stated that "natural global climate change at rates slower than current anthropogenic climate change caused significant ecosystem shifts...
The Evolution of Fluvial Sediment Delivery from Asia's Rivers to the Oceans: Trends and Causes
This project aims to quantify and explain variations (1985-2020) in the discharge of fluvial sediment to the oceans, with a focus on the continent of Asia.River-borne sediments hel...
Climate and societal impacts of Icelandic volcanism
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Mandrills and microbes: The role of the skin microbiome in primate communication
SummaryThis project combines microbial and behavioural ecology to examine key questions in animal behaviour, including how animals recognise kin, how they identify potential mates,...
Re-purposing of mine waste tailings for carbon dioxide removal via enhanced rock weathering
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a technique for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere based on amending agricultural soils with finely ground calcium-and magnesium-rich sil...
The role of woodlands in the diversity and resilience of pollinator communities in agricultural landscapes
Scientific backgroundIntensive agriculture is a key driver of declines in pollinating insect populations and pollination services. Ecological intensification to mitigate these effe...
Ecosystem and biogeochemical reassembly after fire on peatlands
The project will take place in northern Scotland where wildfires have burned areas spanning a variety of ecological contexts and the plots differ in their fire history. Sampling of...
THE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF POLAR GEOENGINEERING
The Arctic is warming two to four times faster than the global average (Jacobs et al., 2021), (Masson-Delmotte et al., 2021), and has lost three quarters of its late summer sea ice...
The smell of infection - detecting infectious disease and determining mechanisms underlying the spread of disease in social networks
Social organization facilitates contacts between individuals altering the probability of parasite transmission (Perkins et al., 2009). Consequently, social animals have evolved mec...
ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CHEMICAL USE (ECORISC CDT)
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils.For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https:/...