2015-16 Cambridge ESS (NERC) DTP Cohort
| Student First Name |
Student Second Name |
Research Project | Lead Supervisor | Department | Funding |
| Ian | Ostericher | Monumentality, Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change in the Forest-Steppe of Northern Mongolia | Prof Charles French | A&A (Archaeology) | |
| Amy | King | Carbon in ice: Examining the organic content of ice cores for climate reconstruction | Markus Kalberer | BAS/Chemistry | NERC Funded (half) |
| Christine | McKenna | Dynamical pathways for the influence of Arctic change on mid latitude weather and climate | Tom Bracegirdle | BAS/DAMTP | NERC Funded (full) |
| Hayley | Allison | Understanding the variability of the Earth’s electron radiation belts | Richard Horne | BAS/DAMTP | NERC Funded (full) |
| Thomas | Hudson | Volcano-ice interaction: using microseismicity to probe subglacial processes in Iceland | Alex Brisbourne | BAS/Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Emily | Potter | Melting Himalayas: Using a regional climate model to simulate the effect of future climate change on the ‘Water Tower of Asia’ | Andrew Orr | BAS/Geography-SPRI | NERC Funded (full) |
| Rebecca | Vignols | Understanding future changes in Northern Hemisphere snow cove | Gareth Marshall | BAS/Geography-SPRI | NERC Funded (full) |
| Felipe | Simoes | Phylogeography & Ecophysiology of Antarctic Insects | Pete Convey | BAS/Zoology | |
| Andrea | Chlebikova | Size isn’t everything: Complex analysis of the dependence of size and composition on aerosol effects within the Earth system | Alex Archibald | Chemistry | NERC Funded (full) |
| Conor | Bolas | Isoprene Measurements In Tropical Forests | Dr Neil Harris | Chemistry | NERC Funded (full) |
| Amalia | Thomas | Focus on the particle | Nathalie Vriend | DAMTP | |
| Emily | Kruger | Fluid dynamics of strong convective events in the atmosphere | Prof Paul Linden | DAMTP | |
| Jacob (Jake) | Smith | Processes determining stratospheric water vapour | Prof Peter Haynes | DAMTP | |
| Anthony | Shillito | Understanding the theatre of terrestrialization: Ordovician-Silurian sedimentary landscapes and continental ecosystems & other projects | Neil Davies | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Clare | Donaldson | Constraining magma pathways and pressure release mechanisms at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii using seismicity | Bob White | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Conor | O'Malley | Modern and ancient drainage of the continents. | Nicky Wnite | Earth Sciences | |
| Fergus | McNab | Dynamic Topography, Landscapes and Source-to-Sink. | Nicky Wnite | Earth Sciences | |
| Fiona | Iddon | Eruption dynamics of peralkaline rhyolitic volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift | Marie Edmonds | Earth Sciences | |
| Fiona | Llewellyn-Beard | Modelling (reactive) transport of migrating fluids: Efficient multi-component codes applied to geological carbon storage | Mike Bickle | Earth Sciences | |
| Isarapong | Eksinchol | The dynamical effects of deglaciation on magmatism | John Rudge | Earth Sciences | |
| Jonathon | Smith | Geomechanical properties of Groningen Reservoir, Netherlands, from deformation and seismicity. | Bob White | Earth Sciences | |
| Katy | Relph | Silicate and carbonate weathering from the Eastern Syntaxis of the Himalaya: The Mekong and Red River basins | Ed Tipper | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Patrick | Ball | Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography | Nicky White | Earth Sciences | |
| Sam | Wimpenny | E109: New insights into earthquake characteristics, fault behaviour, and the rheology of the lithosphere | Alex Copley | Earth Sciences | |
| Simon | Matthews | Investigating the role of lithological heterogeneity in the storage and transport of mantle volatiles | Oliver Shorttle | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (half) |
| Thomasina | Ball | Fluid driven elastic fracturing: Inflationary dynamics of shallow magmatic intrusions | Jerome Neufeld | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Victoria | Honour | Late-stage magmatic liquids and ore deposits: the Triple Group of the Skaergaard Intrusion, East Greenland | Marian Holness | Earth Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Aleksander | Mottelli | Investigating glacial history and sedimentary architecture of marine glaciated margins and their linkages to global climate | Julian Dowdeswell | Geography-SPRI | |
| Corrine | Benedek | Energy Absorption by Surface Lakes and Channels on The Greenland Ice Sheet | Ian Willis | Geography-SPRI | |
| Gao | Wenkai | The location and dynamics of Arctic treeline and its relationship with circumarctic snow cover variability | Gareth Rees | Geography-SPRI | |
| Rachel | Seary | Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods | Tom Spencer (Geog) | Geography-SPRI | |
| Yifu | Wang | Understand pangolin trade and market in China to reduce demand | Nigel Leader-Williams | Geography-SPRI | |
| Amirah | Mohammad-Sidik | Role of annexins in plant responses to ozone | Julia Davies | Plant Sciences | |
| Boris | Bongalov | Tropical rainforest responses to anthropogenic global change: the rise of the liana seen through the lens of image spectroscopy | David Coomes | Plant Sciences | NERC Funded (full) |
| Ebenezer | Gyamera | Using viral proteins as probes to understand the control of plant resistance to aphids, important plant pest and disease vectors | John Carr | Plant Sciences | |
| Netsai | Mhlanga | Effects of plant pathogens of plant-pollinators relationships | John Carr | Plant Sciences | |
| Benno | Simmons | What is the importance of pollinators for wild plant communities? | Bill Sutherland | Zoology | NERC Funded (full) |
| Charlotte | Payne | Food for the future? Quantifying the environmental, health and economic impacts of farming and eating insects | Andrew Balmford | Zoology | NERC Funded (full) |
| Eleanor | Tew | Conservation Science | Bill Sutherland | Zoology | |
| Kathleen | Darragh | Using molecular techniques to investigate the genetic basis of the phenotypes we see in nature, in testing how these phenotypes are related to evolutionary processes | Chris Jiggins | Zoology | NERC Funded (full) |
| Liisa | Hamalainen | Behavioural Ecology | Rose Thorogood | Zoology | |
| Sophia | Cooke | Assessing the contribution of road traffic to declines in British bird populations | Andrew Balmford | Zoology | NERC I-CASE Funded (full) |
| Syuan-Jyun | Sun | Behavioural Ecology | Becky Kilner | Zoology |