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CE215 *Priority CASE Project*: Jet variability and the ‘signal-to-noise’ paradox (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
BC229 *Priority CASE Project*: Population identity and foraging ecology of South Georgia's humpback whales (Lead Supervisor: Jen Jackson, British Antarctic Survey)
CE237 *Priority CASE Project*: Machine Learning Techniques for Chemical Prediction during Carbon Capture and Storage (Lead Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Earth Sciences)
BC201: *Priority CASE Project* Restoring Scotland’s Native Woodlands: understanding benefits and constraints using the Cairngorms Connect landscape restoration project (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)
BC202: *Priority CASE Project* Domestication of the black soldier fly (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)
BC203: *Priority CASE Project* Deforestation dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: combining Earth Observation and socio-economic data to understand unregulated land use change (Lead Supervisor: Emily R. Lines, Geography)
BC204: *Priority CASE Project* Butterflies, behaviour and buffering: investigating the interaction between fine-scale habitat use, temperature and behaviour in UK butterflies (Lead Supervisor: Edgar Turner, Zoology)
BC205: Tracking microplastic flows through freshwater ecosystems (Lead Supervisor: David Aldridge, Zoology)
BC206: Native and invasive freshwater snails as model systems for host-parasite dynamics (Lead Supervisor: David Aldridge, Zoology)
BC207: Palaeontological and developmental approaches for resolving vertebrate phylogenetics and character evolution (Lead Supervisor: Robert Asher, Zoology)
BC208: Understanding the rules of convergent evolution (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)
BC209: Why do plants accumulate animal-type neurotransmitters? (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)
BC210: Defining the evolutionary mechanisms underlying a novel eukaryotic gene cluster (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)
BC211: A hard nut to crack: the evolution, ecology and conservation of tropical oaks (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)
BC212: Tainted Love? Modelling the epidemiology, ecology and evolutionary consequences of pollinator-transmitted plant disease (Lead Supervisor: Nik Cunniffe, Plant Sciences)
BC213: Invasion of the Stragglers: Sedimentary and Ichnological Insights into the Carboniferous Climax of the Terrestrialization of Life (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)
BC214: The wider ecosystem benefits of managing for soil health on UK farms (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)
BC215: Understanding the impacts of insect decline on ecological function and human well-being (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)
BC216: Genomics of adaptive speciation in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Richard Durbin, Genetics)
BC217: Losing diapause: is the loss of diapause and rapid population build-up of Potato Cyst Nematodes in Africa prophetic for a warmer UK? (Lead Supervisor: Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Plant Sciences)
BC218: Trading off chemical and physical defences: How do specialist caterpillars cope with stiff and sharp plant trichomes? (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)
BC219: Biomechanics and ecology of sticky capture fluids in carnivorous plants (Nepenthes) (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)
BC220: Species matters: impacts of species diversity on ecosystem responses to environmental change (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Friend, Geography)
BC221: Plant growth and the global carbon cycle (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)
BC222: Iridescence in flowers – how and why? (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)
BC223: Development of the light-focusing prism cells of California poppy (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)
BC224: 4 million years of environment change: faunal and ecological changes in the North Sea (Lead Supervisor: Liz Harper, Earth Sciences)
BC225: Signals of long-term change in marine invertebrate skeletons – analysis of samples over 50 years in cockles across Europe (Lead Supervisor: Elizabeth M. Harper, Earth Sciences)
BC226: Snaking through squamate history: Discovering the patterns and mechanisms in the evolution of the snake-like body form (Lead Supervisor: Jason Head, Zoology)
BC227: MIOHERP: Reconstructing Deep-Time diversity and its environmental drivers in a diverse vertebrate clade (Lead Supervisor: Jason Head, Zoology)
BC228: 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)
BC230: The scales of genetic divergence and adaptation in island societies (Lead Supervisor: Guy Jacobs, Archaeology)
BC231: The genetic basis of coevolution (Lead Supervisor: Francis Jiggins, Genetics)
BC232: The sexy smells of tropical butterflies: Genetics of pheromones and female choice (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)
BC233: Dissecting the evolution of bright wing patterns in tropical butterflies (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)
BC234: Small yet mitey: the evolution of a species complex (Lead Supervisor: Rebecca Kilner, Zoology)
BC235: Evolution after deforestation? Divergence and local adaptation in surviving fragments of the Wild Wood (Lead Supervisor: Rebecca Kilner, Zoology)
BC236: Machine-learning the dynamics of marine microorganisms (Lead Supervisor: Eric Lauga, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
BC237: Novel remote sensing to understand the structure, function and future of wet woodland in the UK (Lead Supervisor: Emily R. Lines, Geography)
BC238: Geodiversity controls on European forests (Lead Supervisor: Emily R. Lines, Geography)
BC239: The ancient past of Africa: reconstructing paleobiomes over the last 800k years (Lead Supervisor: Andrea Manica, Zoology)
BC240: Quantitative Ecology of Antarctic Benthic Communities (Lead Supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Zoology)
BC241: Spatio-temporal dynamics of the oldest deep-sea communities from the Ediacaran (~565 million years ago) (Lead Supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Zoology)
BC242: Community ecology approaches for understanding early animal evolution (Lead Supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Zoology)
BC243: Co-evolution of coloration and colour vision in colourful songbirds (Lead Supervisor: Nick Mundy, Zoology)
BC244: TP or not TP? That is the question: the implications of intra‐individual variability for trophic position estimates from nitrogen isotopic analyses (Lead Supervisor: Tamsin O'Connell, Archaeology)
BC245: The resilience of plant biodiversity to changing fire regimes (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)
BC246: An inordinate fondness for seabirds: how to explain patterns in abundance and diversity of albatrosses and petrels across the Southern Ocean (Lead Supervisor: Richard Phillips, British Antarctic Survey)
BC247: Using pathogen genomes to identify the changing landscape of disease ecology (Lead Supervisor: Henrik Salje, Genetics)
BC248: Evolution and development of pigment pattern variation in cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Emília Santos, Zoology)
BC249: Invisible world: the biogeography of molecular and microbial diversity in European lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)
BC250: Exploring the role of fungi in mediating crop-weed interactions (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)
BC251: Tracking the aftermath of the Cambrian Explosion with Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs) (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)
BC252: Exceptional preservation of an early Miocene lacustrine ecosystem (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)
BC253: Formation and geobiological significance of sedimentary phosphate nodules (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Butterfield, Earth Sciences)
BC254: *Priority CASE Project* Sensing natural climate solutions: is forest management leaking carbon into receiving waters? (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)
BC255: The genetic basis for a complex polymorphism (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)
BC256: Resolving the convergent evolution of pigments in plants and fungi (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)
BC257: Linking beaver population dynamics to ecological regime shifts in northern Canada (Lead Supervisor: Ulf Buentgen, Geography) Formerly CE207
CE201: *Priority CASE Project* Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)
CE202: *Priority CASE Project* Clumping, Climate and Dinosaurs: Application of clumped isotope thermometry to palaeoclimate and palaeontology (Lead Supervisor: David Hodell, Earth Sciences)
CE203: *Priority CASE Project* Oxygen isotopic insight into the oxidative size of biogeochemical cycles (Lead Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Earth Sciences)
CE204: Incorporation of ice dynamics into the glacial isostatic inverse problem (Lead Supervisor: David Al-Attar, Earth Sciences)
CE205: How to make a shell (Lead Supervisor: Oscar Branson, Earth Sciences)
CE206: Climate and societal impacts of large volcanic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: Ulf Buentgen, Geography)
CE207: This project has moved to the Biology Theme, see BC257
CE208: How do waves break the climate? Modelling abyssal mixing in the world's oceans (Lead Supervisor: Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics)
CE209: North-South Asymmetries in the Polar Atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Ingrid Cnossen, British Antarctic Survey)
CE210: Will forests be effective nature-based solutions as the world’s climate changes? (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)
CE211: Searching for geological evidence for the co-evolution of life and carbonate weathering (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)
CE212: Sea salt 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)
CE213: Lifting the veil on past changes in the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Chiara Giorio, Chemistry)
CE214: Health and climate impacts of volcanic aerosols emitted through continuous degassing (Lead Supervisor: Chiara Giorio, Chemistry)
CE216: Convective overshoots: numerical investigations of penetrative convection in the atmosphere and ocean (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
CE217: Improving parametrizations for convection in climate models (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)
CE218: Modelling Ocean Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Lead Supervisor: Paul Holland, British Antarctic Survey)
CE219: Climate clusters: using interpretable machine learning to detangle the dynamical and biogeochemical structures of the climate system (Lead Supervisor: Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey)
CE220: What are the atmospheric drivers of melt on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica? (Lead Supervisor: Amelie Kirchgaessner, British Antarctic Survey)
CE221: Ice sheets, fans and drifts: how glacial-marine processes and climate change have built the West Antarctic continental margin (Lead Supervisor: Robert Larter, British Antarctic Survey)
CE222: Machine Learning for past climate reconstruction: Identifying AMOC variations using proxy-climate fingerprints (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)
CE223: Do extra-terrestrial impacts offer global stratigraphical markers? (Lead Supervisor: Victoria Peck, British Antarctic Survey)
CE224: Ecosystem and biogeochemical reassembly after fire on peatlands (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)
CE225: Nutrient limitation of tropical savanna-forest biomes (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)
CE226: Balancing the methane budget from pre-industrial to present (Lead Supervisor: Rachael Rhodes, Earth Sciences)
CE227: Volcanic and anthropogenic signals in the ocean (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Chemistry)
CE228: Climatic and societal impacts of Icelandic volcanism (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Geography & Chemistry)
CE229: Impacts of volcanic ash from explosive eruptions on climate (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Chemistry)
CE230: Revisiting the role of ventilation in past CO2 change (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)
CE231: Past deep ocean heat content and global climate change (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)
CE232: Thawing Arctic: productivity and sources of carbon cycling in small lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)
CE233: Shrinking sea ice – reconstructions from ice cores (Lead Supervisor: Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey)
CE234: What does the dirt say? Reading the riverine sediment record (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
CE235: What is dolomite telling us about ancient seawater chemistry? (Lead Supervisor: Nick Tosca, Earth Sciences)
CE236: How were carbonates formed before skeletons? (Lead Supervisor: Nick Tosca, Earth Sciences)
CE238: Geoengineering with Bio-Inspired Cellulose Nanocrystals (Lead Supervisor: Silvia Vignolini, Chemistry)
CE239: ICEOTOPE: Novel isotope tracing of iron and metal weathering cycles in polar regions (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)
CE240: Surface ponds on debris-covered glaciers, High Mountain Asia (Lead Supervisor: Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute)
CE241: Modelling Volcanic Gas Plumes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Woods, Earth Sciences)
CE242: Sediment transport during glacier melting in fjords (Lead Supervisor: Andy Woods, BP Institute/Earth Sciences)
CE243: Unlocking the fingerprint of air-snow exchange of reactive halogens and nitrogen at the poles (Lead Supervisor: Xin Yang, BAS)
CE244: Accelerating sea ice loss in the Arctic; models and melt ponds (Lead Supervisor: Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey)
SE201: *Priority CASE Project* Volatile emissions from volcanoes in Large Igneous Provinces (Lead Supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)
SE202: *Priority CASE Project* Probing Volcanic Systems with Machine Learning for Quantitative Petrography (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)
SE203: *Collaborative Project* The impact of meiofauna on sediment structure and chemistry across Earth history (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)
SE204: Earthquakes, mountain building, and the tectonic evolution of the Earth’s continents (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)
SE205: Multi-angled seismic investigation of the boundary between the upper and lower mantle (Lead Supervisor: Sanne Cottaar, Earth Sciences)
SE206: Understanding the Theatre of the Cambrian Explosion: Sedimentary and Geochemical Characteristics of the Earliest Phanerozoic Marine Sediments (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)
SE207: Time Completeness and Representativeness of the Sedimentary Stratigraphic Record: Perspectives from Active Tidal Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Geochemistry (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)
SE208: Invisible threats? Assessing hazard from volcanoes in long repose periods (Lead Supervisor: Amy Donovan, Geography)
SE209: Unlocking the secrets of lithium in volcanic systems (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE210: Virtual Reality and 3D Visualisation for Volcano Monitoring (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE211: Diffuse degassing of magmatic carbon dioxide from the Askja region of Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE212: Quantifying global volcanic ash-aviation risks (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE213: Unveiling the lithospheric cradle of the Antarctic ice sheet and dynamic topography effects (Lead Supervisor: Fausto Ferraccioli, British Antarctic Survey)
SE214: Temporal and spatial variations in the oxidation state of Earth’s continental mantle (Lead Supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)
SE215: Crystal-melt segregation and the generation of large crystal-poor silicic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)
SE216: Decoding crystal shape to unlock the history of igneous and metamorphic rocks (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)
SE217: Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, 74,000 years ago (Lead Supervisor: Christine Lane, Geography)
SE218: Empty waters? Explaining the absence of Ediacaran macro-organisms in shallow-marine Avalonian palaeoenvironments (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)
SE219: Hawaiian mush: insights from ultramafic xenoliths (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)
SE220: Timing the triggers of volcanic eruptions with diffusion chronometry (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)
SE221: Growing the crust by loss: investigating how weathering made the continents (Lead Supervisor: Alexander Piotrowski, Earth Sciences)
SE222: Tracking melt movement through the Icelandic crust using microearthquakes (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)
SE223: Seismicity and plate tectonics in central Indonesia (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)
SE224: The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Lead Supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)
SE225: How does microstructural evolution control transient creep in the seismic cycle? (Lead Supervisor: David Wallis, Earth Sciences)
SE226: Metamorphic and tectonic evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Grenville Orogen, eastern Canada (Lead Supervisor: Owen Weller, Earth Sciences)
SE227: Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE228: Global Relationship between Mantle Dynamic Topography and Carbonate Compensation Depth (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE229: Relationships between Topography, Seismic Tomography and Mantle Convection on Earth (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE230: Seismic Imaging of Oceanic Currents in Space and Time Lead Supervisor: (Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE231: Landscape Development, Source-to-Sink and Dynamic Topography (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE232: Novel stable isotope tracers for the evolution of the crust-mantle system (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)
SE233: Lengthscales of lithological and chemical heterogeneity in the upper mantle (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)
SE234: Novel stable isotope tracers of the protoliths and geodynamic setting of early continental crust formation (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)
SE235: A sandy chase: Migration and interaction potentials in dune corridors (Lead Supervisor: Nathalie Vriend, BP Institute & Earth Sciences)
SE236: Landslide! Cohesion, friction and failure of particulate matter (Lead Supervisor: Nathalie Vriend, BP Institute & Earth Sciences)