Results for Environment
40,772 grants found
Showing 4,461 – 4,480 of 40,772 grants for "Environment"
Antarctic sea-ice in a changing planet - insights from palaeoclimate archives.
Sea ice is currently undergoing major changes.In the Arctic, sea ice has been declining rapidly over the last few decades, with an expectation of amplified global climate change du...
Modelling airborne infection risk in urban environments
The transmission of airborne infection (e.g.SARS-CoV-2 virus) from expiratory activities is strongly influenced by the distance between people, types of expiratory activity, and am...
Ecological baselines, biodiversity conservation and human-wildlife co-existence - opportunities and insights from natural history collections
Anthropogenic pressures are causing a global biodiversity crisis, with 75% of the planet's terrestrial and 66% of its marine environments "severely altered"...
River ecosystem responses to decreasing glacier cover
Climate change poses a considerable threat to the biodiversity of high altitude ecosystems, with Arctic alpine regions across the world already beginning to show clear responses to...
Keeping tabs on ocean acidification: Using novel technologies to monitor carbonate chemistry from polar to tropical waters
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution the ocean has become more acidic due to uptake of anthropogenic CO2, a process that is projected to continue under current scenario...
Are There Perennial and Light-Independent Microbial Processes on Supraglacial Ecosystems?#
Life thrives even on the sun-kissed surfaces of glaciers. But does life on ice survive in the darkened depths of Arctic winters and sediments?We know glacier surfaces are home to a...
Experimental coevolution in microbial communities
Coevolution is believed to be ubiquitous and have profound impacts on evolutionary and ecological processes.However, our understanding of coevolution is primarily derived from high...
The role of transposable elements in driving evolution and adaptation in the deep sea
An enduring and perplexing puzzle in evolution is why species often undergo rapid diversification and adaptive radiation when they enter a new ecological niche or undergo range shi...
Improvement of fog forecasting using atmospheric electricity
Fog causes flight cancellations and lengthy days at airports around the world on a regular basis.Accurate forecasting of fog can minimize such disruption, but this presents a signi...
Understanding the role of Antarctic sea ice in dense water formation and heat and carbon sequestration: from satellite altimetry to 'big data' analysi
The ocean is the largest carbon reservoir in the Earth system and it stores over 90% of the excess heat produced by anthropogenic activities. The rate at which both heat and carbon...
Comparative Conservation Genomics of an Endangered Cooperative Breeder: The African Wild Dog
Small populations face elevated extinction risks due to processes such as genetic drift and inbreeding.These processes work to homogenise small populations, reducing their adaptive...
Uncovering the long term sensitivity of Southern Ocean phytoplankton to Antarctic climate change, using novel geochemical and ancient DNA proxies
The Antarctic is changing. Delicate ecosystems, from marine mammals and birds, to the phytoplankton at the base of the food web, are under threat from both global warming and human...
Understanding recent land-use change in Snowdonia to plan a sustainable future for uplands: integrating palaeoecology and conservation practice
The UK's sustainable future rests on a holistic appraisal of rural landscape function/land use and the state of critical ecosystem services [1].In upland Britain, important co...
Agricultural Innovation and Biocontrol in sub-Saharan Africa
Across sub-Saharan Africa native and invasive crop pests, such as the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, continue to threaten smallholder farming systems and their food se...
Geophysical-assisted landscape archaeology of the the Vallum of Hadrian's Wall (North England)
Non-invasive geological and geophysical investigations are conducted in areas of archaeological interest to (1) determine how parts of the soil were eroded/deposited in recent hist...
Sources, Sinks and Subsidies of Carbon within Coastal Saltmarsh Habitats
Saltmarshes are vegetated intertidal ecosystems that support unique biodiversity and provide coastal protection from storms and floods, alongside other ecosystem services. They acc...
Reducing the impact of climate change and other environmental stresses on native UK oak tree health
With a background in GIS and surveying, I have a strong interest in the application of novel survey techniques and remote sensing to tree health assessments and forest management....
The contribution of native woodlands to UK's net-zero climate targets
Conservation and restoration of forests, wetlands and grasslands can provide one-third of the actions needed to hold global temperature increase below 2C and prevent disastrous cli...
Circulation types and AI for crop yield anomaly detection and prediction
The main hypothesis of this PhD project is that weather types can be used to explain spatial and temporal climate-related crop variability and can provide longer crop yield predict...
Global space-time variability in primary production and carbon flux using the Argo float network
Global climate change is predicted to alter the ocean's biological productivity with implications for fisheries and climate.Long-term changes in phytoplankton abundance projec...