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BC103: *Priority CASE Project* Pathogenic viruses of bees and aphids: Are plants a common reservoir? (Lead Supervisor: John P Carr, Plant Sciences)

CE101: *Priority CASE Project* CO2 Sequestration Dynamics (Lead Supervisor: Andy Woods, BP Institute)

CE102: *Priority CASE Project* Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE103: *Priority CASE Project* Ice to Iron (Lead Supervisor: Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey)

CE104: *Priority CASE Project* Bounding the role of Atmospheric Chemistry in the Earth system (Lead Supervisor: Alexander Archibald, Chemistry)

SE101: *Priority CASE Project* Seismic Imaging of Oceanic Currents in Space and Time within South Atlantic Ocean (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE102: *Priority CASE Project* Global Relationship between Mantle Dynamic Topography and Carbonate Compensation Depth (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE103: *Priority CASE Project* Relationships between Topography, Seismic Tomography and Mantle Convection on Earth (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE104: *Priority CASE Project* Squeezing and Cracking Crystals in Magma: Machine Learning and Microstructure (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

SE136: *Priority CASE Project* On the nature and origin of volatiles in flood basalt magmas (Lead Supervisor: Sally A Gibson, Earth Sciences)

BC101: *Priority CASE Project* Domestication of the black soldier fly (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC102: *Priority CASE Project* Quantifying the value of pollinators in biodiversity conservation (Lead Supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Zoology)

BC104: Transpiration through hydrogels (Lead Supervisor: Grae Worster, DAMTP)

BC105: Invisible world: the biogeography of molecular and microbial diversity in European lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

BC106: Evolutionary 'omics of adaptation in environmental microbiomes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

BC107: Evolution on the wild side: the predictability of adaptation to global change (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

BC108: Evolution and development of pigment pattern variation in cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Emília Santos, Zoology)

BC110: Using pathogen genomes to identify the changing landscape of disease ecology (Lead Supervisor: Henrik Salje, Genetics)

BC111: The resilience of savanna ecosystems to changing fire regimes (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)

BC112: Resistance of Antarctic marine species to predicted freshening and lower salinity in the Southern Ocean (Lead Supervisor: LLoyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey)

BC113: Co-evolution of colour vision and coloration in colourful songbirds (Lead Supervisor: Nick Mundy, Zoology)

BC115: Community ecology of deep-sea benthic systems (Lead Supervisor: Emily G Mitchell, Zoology)

BC116: Ecological analyses of the oldest deep-sea communities from the Ediacaran (~565 million years ago). (Lead Supervisor: Emily G Mitchell, Zoology)

BC117: Hippos, humans and crocodiles: the palaeobiology and ecology of Middle Pleistocene Lake Turkana, Kenya (Lead Supervisor: Marta Mirazón Lahr, Archaeology)

BC118: The ancient past of Africa: reconstructing paleobiomes over the last 800k years (Lead Supervisor: Andrea Manica, Zoology)

BC119: The Ediacaran biota in miniature: palaeoecological and palaeobiological insights from sub-centimetre fossils (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)

BC120: Palaeobiology of late Ediacaran microbial substrates (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)

BC121: Small yet mitey: the evolution of a species complex (Lead Supervisor: Rebecca Kilner, Zoology)

BC122: Why are some parasites more virulent than others? (Lead Supervisor: Francis Jiggins, Genetics)

BC123: Dissecting the evolution of mimicry and bright wing patterns in tropical butterflies (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC124: The long‐term dynamics of immunity genes within rabbit populations (Lead Supervisor: Frank Jiggins, Genetics)

BC125: 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)

BC126: 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)

BC127: Development of the light-focusing prism cells of California poppy (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC128: How to spot a daisy (evolution and development of petal spots) (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC129: Terrestrial vegetation dynamics, climate, and the global carbon cycle (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)

BC130: Ecology in the Earth System: Conserving a safe operating space for terrestrial ecosystem functioning (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)

BC131: Wing biomechanics across a crucial interval during the dinosaur-bird transition (Lead Supervisor: Daniel J. Field, Earth Sciences)

BC132: The deep-time evolution of Anseriformes, a key clade for untangling the origin of modern birds (Lead Supervisor: Daniel J. Field, Earth Sciences)

BC134: Genomics of adaptive speciation in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Richard Durbin, Genetics)

BC135: Invasion of the Stragglers: Sedimentary and Ichnological Insights into the Carboniferous Climax of the Terrestrialization of Life (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

BC136: Tainted Love? Modelling the epidemiology, ecology and evolutionary consequences of pollinator-transmitted plant disease (Lead Supervisor: Nik Cunniffe, Plant Sciences)

BC137: A hard nut to crack: the evolution, ecology and conservation of tropical oaks (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC138: Getting epidemiological: applications of hyperspectral remote sensing to detecting, predicting and managing the spread of plant diseases (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC141: Tracking the aftermath of the Cambrian Explosion with Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs) (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC142: Pyritization of shelly fossils (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC143: Exceptional preservation of an early Miocene lacustrine ecosystem (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

CE105: Fracturing of ice shelves (Lead Supervisor: Grae Worster, DAMTP)

CE106: Sediment Laden Melt Water Plumes under Ice Sheets (Lead Supervisor: Andy Woods, BP Institute)

CE107: Quantitative Ecology of Antarctic Benthic Communities (Lead Supervisor: Rowan Whittle, British Antarctic Survey)

CE108: What determines the iron isotope composition of sedimentary rocks? (Lead Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Earth Sciences)

CE109: Muddying the waters: cation exchange processes as a major control on weathering fluxes? (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

CE110: Shrinking sea ice – reconstructions from ice cores (Lead Supervisor: Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey)

CE111: Melting ice cores (Lead Supervisor: Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey)

CE112: Simulating the vertical distribution of microplastics in the ocean (Lead Supervisor: John Taylor, DAMTP)

CE113: Thawing Arctic: productivity and sources of carbon cycling in small lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

CE114: Thermal history of the ocean and its influence on climate carbon cycle feedbacks (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE115: Imprinting solar and orbital signals on Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (Lead Supervisor: Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey)

CE116: Volcanic and anthropogenic signals in the ocean (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Chemistry & Geography)

CE117: Volcanic impacts in a warming climate (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Chemistry & Geography)

CE118: Carbon monoxide in ice core bubbles: can an atmospheric history be obtained? (Lead Supervisor: Rachael Rhodes, Earth Sciences)

CE119: Bubbles of past gas - reconstructing the history of atmospheric methane using ice cores and modelling (Lead Supervisor: Rachael Rhodes, Earth Sciences)

CE120: The effect of the interaction between climate change and fire on ecosystem health and productivity in tropical and temperate forests (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)

CE121: The effect of fire on coniferous forests in the western United States (Lead Supervisor: Adam Pellegrini, Plant Sciences)

CE122: Do extra-terrestrial impacts offer global stratigraphical markers? (Lead Supervisor: Victoria Peck, British Antarctic Survey)

CE123: Diverse climate and society impacts of Icelandic volcanic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: Clive Oppenheimer, Geography)

CE125: Modelling seasonal variations in traction at glacier beds complemented by observations of a natural laboratory: Hofsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, DAMTP)

CE126: 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)

CE127: What can we learn from solar induced fluorescence signals to better constrain gross primary productivity? (Lead Supervisor: Johannes Kromdijk, Plant Sciences)

CE128: The role of the Eurasian Ice Sheet in glacial North Atlantic climate and deep-water circulation change (Lead Supervisor: David Hodell, Earth Sciences)

CE129: Temperature and Ice Volume Variation during the Cenozoic (Lead Supervisor: David Hodell, Earth Sciences)

CE130: Evaluating the predator-prey concept for the convective cloud spectrum (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE131: The changing Brewer-Dobson Circulation (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, DAMTP)

CE132: The link between variability and forced response in the tropical atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, DAMTP)

CE133: From bugs to brains: magnetism and microscopy of iron (hydr)oxide nanoparticles in the natural environment (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

CE134: Lifting the veil on past changes in the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Chiara Giorio, Chemistry)

CE135: Health and climate impacts of volcanic aerosols (Lead Supervisor: Chiara Giorio, Chemistry)

CE136: Evolution of urban air quality due to modernisation of the vehicle fleet (Lead Supervisor: Chiara Giorio, Chemistry)

CE137: 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)

CE138: Searching for geological evidence for the co-evolution of life and carbonate weathering (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

CE139: Winds of change: understanding storm damage to forests in the face of climate change (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

CE140: Machine Learning for past climate reconstruction: Identifying AMOC variations using proxy-climate fingerprints (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)

CE141: North-South Asymmetries in the Polar Atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Ingrid Cnossen, British Antarctic Survey)

CE142: Capturing ice-cliff instability and structural controls on iceberg calving in Greenland (Lead Supervisor: Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute)

CE143: How do Waves Break the Climate? Climatic Implications of Ocean Turbulence (Lead Supervisor: Colm-cille Caulfield, DAMTP & BP Institute)

CE144: Plague epidemics, past and future: understanding environmental drivers and societal impacts (Lead Supervisor: Ulf Buentgen, Geography)

CE145: How to make a shell: the role of metastable minerals and transformations (Lead Supervisor: Oscar Branson, Earth Sciences)

CE146: Coral Calcification in Past and Future Oceans (Lead Supervisor: Oscar Branson, Earth Sciences)

CE147: Modelling Water Flow on Antarctic Ice Shelves (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute)

CE148: Incorporation of ice dynamics into the glacial isostatic inverse problem (Lead Supervisor: David Al-Attar, Earth Sciences)

SE105: Wind Driven Volcanic Ash Dispersal (Lead Supervisor: Andrew W Woods, Earth Sciences)

SE106: Preservation of planetesimal core formation events in the Earth’s mantle: implications for the Earth’s accretion and evolution (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE107: The cycling and storage of carbon and sulfur in subduction zones: a novel stable isotope perspective (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE108: Stable isotope tracers of the early Earth’s crust-mantle system (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE109: Novel stable isotope tracers of the protoliths and geodynamic setting of early continental crust formation (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE110: Novel stable isotope tracers of sulfide melt fractionation during the Earth’s first 500 million years (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE111: Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

SE112: Landslide! Cohesion, friction and failure of particulate matter (Lead Supervisor: Nathalie Vriend, BP Institute & Earth Sciences)

SE113: A sandy chase: Migration and interaction potentials in dune corridors (Lead Supervisor: Nathalie Vriend, BP Institute & Earth Sciences)

SE114: Sediments from source to sink in from the Eastern Syntaxis of the Himalaya (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE115: Earth's thermostat: decrypting the weathering signal in river sediments (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE116: Where is Earth’s missing N? (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE117: Where is Earth’s mantle carbon and how does it escape? (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE118: What are mantle melts really telling us about the mantle? (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE119: How oxidising is Earth's mantle and why (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE120: The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Lead Supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)

SE121: Beyond optical imaging: using spectroscopy to reveal microstructure in natural materials (Lead Supervisor: Emilie Ringe, Earth Sciences & Materials Science)

SE122: Seismic imaging of the Macquarie Ridge Complex in the southwest Pacific (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE123: High resolution passive seismic imaging of the Iceland rift (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE125: Seismicity and plate tectonics in central Indonesia (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE126: Growing the crust by loss: investigating how weathering made the continents (Lead Supervisor: Alexander Piotrowski, Earth Sciences)

SE127: Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption, 74,000 years ago (Lead Supervisor: Clive Oppenheimer, Geography)

SE128: A volcanic stopwatch from models of crystal growth and chemical evolution (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

SE129: Timing the triggers of volcanic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

SE130: The impact of meiofauna on sediment structure and chemistry across Earth history (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)

SE131: The search for the magnetic holy grail: micromagnetic modelling of the multi-vortex state (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE132: Hyperspectral cathodoluminescence imaging: the hunt for primary magnetism in Hadean zircon (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE133: Aqueous alteration of iron sulphides on Earth and planetary building blocks (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE134: A new target for Archean paleomagnetism (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE135: Linking volcanic sulfur emissions with deep Earth cycles: constraints from Galapagos volcanoes (Lead Supervisor: Sally A Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE137: Continental break-up and oceanic plateau formation (Lead Supervisor: Sally A Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE138: Modelling the lithosphere and dynamic topography of the Antarctic continent (Lead Supervisor: Fausto Ferraccioli, British Antarctic Survey)

SE139: Unlocking the secrets of lithium in volcanic systems (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences

SE140: Metal outgassing from Ambrym and Yasur volcanoes, Vanuatu (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE141: Magma mixing and mingling in basaltic volcanic systems (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE142: Diffuse degassing of magmatic carbon dioxide from the Askja region of Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE143: Time Completeness and Representativeness of the Sedimentary Stratigraphic Record: Perspectives from Active Tidal Sedimentology, Geomorphology and Geochemistry (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE144: Evolution of Mesozoic alluvial facies (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE145: Multi-angled investigation of the boundary between the upper and lower mantle (Lead Supervisor: Sanne Cottaar, Earth Sciences)

SE146: Earthquakes, mountain building, and the tectonic evolution of the Earth’s continents (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)

SE147: Phosphogenesis in ancient oceans - geochemical and palaeobiological implications (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

SE148: Decoding crystal shape to unlock the history of igneous and metamorphic rocks (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)

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