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Measurement and Modelling of Snow in Arctic Tundra and Taiga Biomes
Land surface models (LSMs) have been found to poorly simulate Arctic snowpack properties leading to large errors in process representation (e.g. metamorphism), simulation of the gr...
ElementTracker: a digital framework to track elemental flows through the global economy
A growing population, the strive for economic development and the need for decarbonization and a transition to zero pollution are going to intensify the demand for mineral resource...
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements enhance microbial community resilience?
Many ecologically-important traits, including bioremediation, symbiosis, virulence, and resistance, are transmitted between bacteria by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), driven by th...
Seismicity and Structure of Subducting Slabs
Subduction zones host the majority of the Earth's seismic moment release. Whilst much of this is the result of motion between plates along the plate interface, significant sei...
Environmental drivers of mixotrophy and its impact on the plankton metabolic balance
Mixotrophy is a successful nutritional strategy as it provides marine micro-organisms with the ability to combine photoautotrophy and phago-heterotrophy, and therefore use alternat...
Remote Sensing of Snow for Improvement of Weather Forecasts
In order to further understand the linkages between Arctic atmospheric conditions and mid-latitude weather, more accurate Numerical Weather Predictions (NWP) are exclusively requir...
Linking structure to function in plant-fungal symbioses
Many plants form symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) which increase access to soil mineral nutrients such as phosphorus. Recently, the supervisory team has shown that...
Improving flood risk management in small, rapid response catchments under climate change
Rainfall extreme events have become more frequent and intense, with a predicted steeper increase in the future. For this reason, understanding the rainfall relationship with runoff...
Unravelling the drivers of coral reproductive phenology and synchrony
Scleractinian corals are the ecosystem engineers of coral reefs, one of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on the planet. Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species...
Dynamics of carbon capture in Scottish and Irish peatlands over the past centuries
Because peatlands store and potentially release large amounts of carbon, predicting their role in future warming is essential (e.g., Gallego-Sala et al., 2018; Ferretto et al. 2019...
What Controls critical metal Sn-W-Ta deposit formation in granite batholiths? Unravelling the magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Bushveld Comp
Large granite provinces are associated with the development of critical metal resources such as tin, tungsten, tantalum and lithium. These metals are required for essential new gre...
Working with natural processes to adapt to climate change and to reduce flood risk
The Earth's climate is changing, altering the seasonal hydrological regime of water flow in rivers and the frequency and magnitude of extreme events (storms and floods). As ri...
Are land plants good or bad for coral reefs?
Coral reefs are under threat, and not for the first time in Earth history. Here we ask whether plants are a good thing for coral reefs because they trap mud on land. The student wi...
North Atlantic circulation during past abrupt climate events in the Holocene
The formation and circulation of deep waters in the North Atlantic is a critical component of the global climate system.Periods of abrupt climate change have occurred frequently du...
Arrival of the fittest: examining the underlying mechanisms of morphological plasticity in an adaptive radiation
Studentship strategic priority area: Biodiversity Keywords: Evolution, plasticity, gene expression, bone Abstract:Phenotypic plasticity currently drives contentious debate in evolu...
Functional Role of Uncharted CoralReefs in the Anthropocene
Tropical reef-building corals are vulnerable to breakage as a result of physical impact from wave energy and associated projectiles. Some corals also asexually reproduce via fragme...
Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, 74,000 years ago
Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, 74,000-years ago
How do birds contribute to the spread of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms?
The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance genes (AMR) amongst pathogenic microorganisms is one of the greatest health issues of this century.Over-use of antibiotics in t...
Exploring molecular methods of monitoring peatland function
Remote sensing is being increasingly explored as a method of peatland monitoring.1 The spectral properties on a temporal and/or spatial scale may provide insight into vegetation, h...
Development of Novel Convection Nowcasting Techniques for Southeast Asia
Background and RationaleThe Maritime Continent region of Southeast Asia contains the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea. It is a region of complex t...