Results for Environment
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Evaluating recent hydrological changes in Irish peatlands
Climate warming and human impacts are thought to be causing peatlands to dry, potentially converting them from sinks to sources of carbon. This project investigates recent hydrolog...
Building Targeted Air Quality Evidence for Local Policy in Leicester
Air pollution is considered by Public Health England to be the single greatest environmental health threat in the UK, with 28,000 - 36,000 premature deaths each year attributable t...
Investigating minke whale acoustic and foraging ecology to underpin MPA-based
North Atlantic minke whales in Scottish waters face a diversity of anthropogenic threats, including entanglement in fisheries, collision risk with vessels and offshore devices such...
How does land use impact on global air quality and climate: a combined satellite and model study
Background and MotivationFuture pressures driven by food security and population growth result in anthropogenic land use change. Land use change impacts air quality by changing nat...
Urban greenspace - what attributes determine wellbeing ?
Stress is ubiquitous in UK society (85% of which is urban). However, access to green space is correlated with better quality of life, and can actively reduce levels of stress hormo...
Detecting and modelling transient crustal deformation using Sentinel-1 InSAR and Machine Learning
As the quality of satellite geodetic observations of surface deformation from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Satellite Radar Interferometry (InSAR) have improved it...
Spatio-temporal variations of slip on active normal faults in central mainland Greece
Understanding how earthquakes occur in space and time has been a complex problem. Two key problems in earthquake forecasting are unpredictable earthquake recurrence times and unpre...
Laboratory Analogue of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
In the equatorial stratosphere. between 5-100 hPa and 15 N-15 S, the dominant source of variability is an alternating pattern of descending eastward and westward wind regimes known...
Towards enhanced black-legged kittiwake metapopulation modelling in the context of global change and renewable energy development.
This project focuses on improving our ability to capture realism in the quantification and subsequent forecasting of kittiwake metapopulation dynamics.This work will advance our un...
Fishing for parasite genomes: host-parasite co-evolution of an emerging salmonid disease
Changing climates and environments are linked with the emergence of diseases - with potentially severe consequences for ecosystem health and services. Epidemics may arise through r...
BioDAR: Using Weather Radars and Machine Learning to Examine Insectageddon
Weather radar scan the entirety of the UK every 5 minutes, and similar types of radar are used around the world for the same purpose. These radars routinely detect insects, but sin...
The ageing bee: how does sociality affect ageing in social animals?
Explaining patterns of ageing in organisms is essential for both our understanding of the diversity of life histories and our ability to manipulate them in beneficial ways. Yet, de...
Assessing ecosystem service provision from local to landscape scale to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability in Papua New Guinea
Je-S Paragraph - complete the section below if your project has to be registered with the NERC Research Council One of society's greatest global challenges is to achieve food...
Understanding risks and optimising anaerobic digestion to minimise pathogen and antimicrobial resistance genes entering the environment.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) utilises organic materials to produce energy via biogas while also producing nutrient-rich digestate ideal for land application as fertiliser. However, the...
The War-torn Woodlands of Britain: Reconstructing the ecological impacts of historical disturbance
In 1971 UKCEH surveyed a stratified sample of 103 broadleaved woodlands across GB.Understory and canopy species composition, stem diameters, soil and indicators of management were...
Using plant hydraulic scaling to predict the drought vulnerability of the world's tallest tropical trees
Tropical rainforests are one of the planets most important stores of carbon, as well as being essential to water cycling at large scales. Within tropical forests the largest trees,...
The ecology of lightning strikes: How many trees in tropical forests killed by lightning?
Project Background:Tropical forests are one of the most important and diverse ecosystems on Earth. However, recent research has revealed an increase in the rate of tropic tree mort...
The impact of competition on global-change induced range shifts in birds
Many species of birds are currently undergoing rapid range shifts in response to human-induced changes. As their ranges change, species encounter new species with which they hadn&#...
Assessing benthic recovery following cessation of salmon farming using eDNA metabarcoding (ABReDNA)
Salmon farming enriches local sediments with organic matter (OM) to an extent that depends on the local hydrodynamic regime, site characteristics and hosted fish biomass. The OM ac...
Fanning the flames: past and future links between climate change and fire activity across Siberia.
Siberia extends across northern Eurasia and encompasses more than 13 million square kilometres. Much of it is covered in forest, comprising a small number of tree species, whose di...