Searchable Project List

BC341: *Priority CASE Project* Sensing natural climate solutions: are forests leaking carbon into receiving waters? (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

CE332: *Priority CASE Project* Modelling the fluid dynamics and carbon drawdown potential of kelp forests (Lead Supervisor: John Taylor, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

BC301: *Funded through NERC* Restoring Scotland’s Native Woodlands: understanding benefits and constraints using the Cairngorms Connect landscape restoration project

BC302: *Priority CASE Project* Bumblebee conservation in agricultural landscapes – the role of landscape structure and the Environmental Land Management Scheme (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

BC303: *Priority CASE Project* Population identity and foraging ecology of South Georgia humpback whales (Lead Supervision: Jennifer Jackson, British Antarctic Survey)

BC304: *Priority CASE Project* Genetic improvement of the black soldier fly (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC305: Palaeontological and developmental approaches for resolving vertebrate phylogenetics and character evolution (Lead Supervisor: Robert Asher, Zoology)

BC306: Tracking the aftermath of the Cambrian Explosion with Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs) (Lead Supervisor: Nick Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC307: Formation and geobiological significance of sedimentary phosphate nodules (Lead Supervisor: Nick Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC308: Exceptional preservation of an early Miocene lacustrine ecosystem (Lead Supervisor: Nick Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC309: Passive rewilding the woodlands in the Southern Alps of New Zealand (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC310: Modelling optimal control of forest diseases at the landscape scale (Lead Supervisor: Nik Cunniffe, Plant Sciences)

BC311: Invasion Earth: Co-evolution of life and environment during the Carboniferous climax of terrestrialization (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

BC313: Assessing the resilience of regenerative agriculture and associated ecosystem services to climate change (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

BC314: Understanding the impacts of insect decline on ecological function and human well-being (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

BC315: The wider ecosystem benefits of managing for soil health on UK farms (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

BC316: Genomics of adaptive speciation in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Richard Durbin, Genetics)

BC317: Biomechanics and ecology of sticky capture fluids in carnivorous plants (Nepenthes) (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC318: Trading off chemical and physical defences: How do specialist caterpillars cope with stiff and sharp plant trichomes? (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC319: Evolutionary biomechanics: The role of “wax barriers” and mechanisms of host specificity in Macaranga-ant mutualisms (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC320: Whale-spotter: Counting whales by satellite with deep learning (Lead Supervisor: Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey)

BC321: How the tree got its rings (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Friend, Geography)

BC322: Iridescence in flowers – how and why? (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC323: Development of the light-focusing prism cells of California poppy (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC324: Climate change signatures from marine invertebrate skeletons over the last century (Lead Supervisor: Liz Harper, Earth Sciences)

BC325: 4 million years of environment change: faunal and ecological changes in the North Sea (Lead Supervisor: Liz Harper, Earth Sciences)

BC326: MIOHERP: Reconstructing Deep-Time diversity and its environmental drivers in a diverse vertebrate clade (Lead Supervisor: Jason Head, Zoology)

BC327: Grinnell vs. Elton in deep and shallow time: Ecological drivers of lizards and snakes during the last 23 million years (Lead Supervisor: Jason Head, Zoology)

BC328: Form, function and phylogeny: Elucidating snake origins from axial and neurocranial anatomy (Lead Supervisor: Jason Head, Zoology)

BC329: The process and evolutionary impacts of admixture in the hominin clade (Lead Supervisor: Guy Jacobs, Archaeology)

BC330: The genetic basis of coevolution (Lead Supervisor: Frank Jiggins, Genetics)

BC331: Body-building in beetles (Lead Supervisor: Rebecca Kilner, Zoology)

BC332: Bacteria chemotaxis in the ocean (Lead Supervisor: Eric Lauga, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

BC333: Machine-learning for marine microorganisms (Lead Supervisor: Eric Lauga, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

BC334: Tracking great baleen whales with seismic data from the North Atlantic seafloor (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)

BC335: Establishing the biological affinities of proposed Ediacaran ‘survivors’ (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)

BC336: A genomic view of African diversity (Lead Supervisor: Andrea Manica, Zoology)

BC337: Super-traits of Ediacaran organisms ~(580-560 Ma) (Lead Supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Zoology)

BC338: Spot the difference: the genetic and developmental basis of pigment pattern variation in Malawi cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Emilia Santos, Zoology)

BC339: Management options for river margin restoration in oil palm plantations (Lead Supervisor: Edgar Turner, Zoology)

BC340: New tools to study coral bleaching (Lead Supervisor: Jenny Zhang, Chemistry)

CE301: *Priority CASE Project* Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE302: *Priority CASE Project* Oxygen isotopic insight into the oxidative size of biogeochemical cycle (Lead Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Earth Sciences)

CE304: Chemical diversity in dissolved organic matter - does it stay or does it go? (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

CE305: Assessing the atmospheric impacts of adaptations to achieve Net Zero (Lead Supervisor: Alex Archibald, Chemistry)

CE306: Modelling Melt, Refreezing and Flow of Water on Antarctic Ice Shelves (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute)

CE307: Using an ice core bubble barometer to answer: “How big was the Antarctic ice sheet in the past?” (Lead Supervisor: Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey)

CE308: How to make a shell (Lead Supervisor: Oscar Branson, Earth Sciences)

CE309: How do waves break the climate? Modelling abyssal mixing in the world's oceans (Lead Supervisor: Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

CE310: IceFibre: Glacier monitoring with fibre-optic sensors (Lead Supervisor: Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute)

CE311: Crack & bang: Shear margin evolution on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica (Lead Supervisor: Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute)

CE312: Will forests be effective nature-based solutions as the world’s climate changes? (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute)

CE314: Ice nucleating particles from blizzards above sea ice - magnitude and climate impacts of a new particle source in a warming world (Lead Supervisor: Markus M. Frey, British Antarctic Survey)

CE315: In the balance: unravelling ecological and physiological controls on the global terrestrial carbon balance (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Friend, Geography)

CE316: The fluid dynamics of stratospheric smoke-driven vortices (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

CE317: Improving parametrizations for convection in climate models (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE318: What are the atmospheric drivers of melt on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica? (Lead Supervisor: Amelie Kirchgaessner, British Antarctic Survey)

CE319: Forest - landscape dynamics (Lead Supervisor: Emily Lines, Geography)

CE320: The forgotten forests: remote sensing and predictive modelling to understand the structure, function and future of wet woodlands (Lead Supervisor: Emily Lines, Geography)

CE321: Isotopic approaches to unravelling export and recycling processes in the Southern Ocean (Lead Supervisor: Clara Manno, British Antarctic Survey)

CE322: Improving the synchronization of ice cores for reconstructions of global volcanism and solar activity (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)

CE323: Machine Learning for past climate reconstruction: Identifying AMOC variations using proxy-climate fingerprints (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)

CE324: Farming for carbon: developing new age models and monitoring methods to mitigate climate change (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)

CE325: Mapping and Anticipating the Threats of Disease and Fire to Ecosystems (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)

CE326: Rare Earth Element Cycling Through Geological Time (Lead Supervisor: Alexander Piotrowski, Earth Sciences)

CE327: Abrupt sea ice loss in the Arctic: Tipping points in warm and cold climates (Lead Supervisor: Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey)

CE328: Revisiting the ocean's carbon clock: new radiocarbon insights into carbon cycle change prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE329: Rare and reduced: using novel oxygenation proxies to constrain past ocean CO2 sequestration (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE330: The last gasp of glacial Lake Agassiz: hydraulics and timing of a super-flood (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE333: Unlocking the fingerprint of air-snow exchange of reactive halogens and nitrogen at the poles (Lead Supervisor: Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey)

CE334: *Funded through NERC* Sources of methane during field studies of Fenland ecosystem (Lead Supervisor: Alexandra Turchyn, Earth Sciences)

CE335: *Funded through NERC* Can nature-based climate solutions enhance the resilience of key ecological functions in farmed landscapes? (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

SE301: *Priority CASE Project* Unlocking the secrets of lithium in granitic systems (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE302: *Priority CASE Project* Novel Analytical Development of Sulfur Isotope Ratios in Sulfur Gases using LASER ENVI (Lead Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Earth Sciences)

SE303: Advances in modelling and inversion of the Earth's free oscillations (Lead Supervisor: David Al-Attar, Earth Sciences)

SE304: Time Completeness and Representativeness of the Sedimentary Stratigraphic Record: Perspectives from Active Tidal Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Geochemistry (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE305: Mud (r)evolution: silicate weathering and sediment retention during the greening of Earth (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE306: Landscapes of extinction and evolution: Earth surface processes in the late Palaeozoic (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE307: Understanding the volcanic carbon cycle using carbon isotopes in gases (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE308: *Confirmed CASE Project* Volatile emissions from volcanoes in Large Igneous Provinces (Lead Supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE309: Linking volcanic sulfur emissions with deep Earth sulfur cycles: constraints from Galápagos volcanoes (Lead Supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE310: Deep time cycling of carbon and water in Earth’s mantle (Lead Supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE311: 3D Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging of Natural Materials (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE312: The search for the magnetic holy grail: micromagnetic modelling of the multi-vortex state (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE313: Probing human prehistory with a new Pleistocene tephrostratigraphy of Ethiopia (Lead Supervisor: Christine Lane, Geography)

SE314: Mapping the mantle flow beneath the North Atlantic with new, seafloor seismic data (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)

SE315: Imaging the structure and composition of the lithosphere using petrological inversion of diverse geophysical datasets (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)

SE316: Imaging the Earth’s interior using novel, surface-wave overtone datasets (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)

SE317: High-resolution global seismic tomography (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)

SE318: The seismic structure of Borneo from passive array data (Lead Supervisor: Nick Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE319: Melt migration and storage beneath the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Nick Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE320: Multi-scale seismic imaging of the crust and mantle beneath Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Nick Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE321: The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Lead Supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)

SE322: How oxidising is Earth’s mantle and why? (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE323: How much carbon degasses from Volcanoes? New volcanic carbon budgets from microanalysis (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE324: How does magma move through the Earth? (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE325: The sediment archive of chemical weathering (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE326: Metal isotope fractionation in carbonate minerals - implications for seawater chemistry records (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE327: How does microstructural evolution control transient creep in the seismic cycle? (Lead Supervisor: David Wallis, Earth Sciences)

SE328: How Mantle Dynamics Sculpts the Earth's Surface and Controls Oceanography and Climate (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE329: Ancient Fire, Ice, Buried Landscapes and Mantle Dynamics: Probing the Carboniferous Earth System (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE330: An Expedition to Collect and Study Basaltic Rock Cores from the Seabed South of Iceland to Understand Plume Dynamics (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE331: Probing the Structure of Oceanic Currents in Space and Time with Novel Technology (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE332: Exploring the Global Relationship between Carbonate Compensation Depth and Mantle Dynamics (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE333: The origin of chemical heterogeneity in the depleted mantle (Lead Supervisor: Helen M. Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE334: Hadean Matte? The role of mantle iron sulfide segregation in defining the Earth’s physical and chemical evolution (Lead Supervisor: Helen M. Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE335: Do Earth’s hottest magmas have super-deep origins? (Lead Supervisor: Helen M. Williams, Earth Sciences)

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