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*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* BC042 The role of habitat heterogeneity and reserve management in buffering butterfly species from the impacts of future climate change (Lead Supervisor: Edgar Turner, Zoology)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* CE001 Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* CE002 Development of inverse modelling techniques to quantify emissions of air pollutants in developing megacities (Lead Supervisor: Rod Jones, Chemistry)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* CE003 Hyperlocal air quality network in London (Lead Supervisor: Rod Jones, Chemistry)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* CE004 Untangling the web: Using machine learning to understand climate critical dynamics in the Southern Ocean (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Meijers, BAS)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* SE002 Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Phanerozoic Dynamic Topography (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* SE003 Relationships between Topography, Seismic Tomography and Mantle Convection on Earth (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

*PRIORITY CASE PROJECT* SE004 Seismic Imaging of Oceanic Realm in Space and Time within South Atlantic Ocean (Lead Supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)

*Priority CASE Project* SE029 Machine Learning and Volcanic Rocks (Lead Supervisor, John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

BC001 Building resilient and integrated ex-situ living collections for the conservation of plant diversity (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)

BC002 Using airborne laser scanning to track the impacts of global change on forest ecosystems (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC003 Hyperspectral imaging of disease spread in New Zealand native forests (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC004 Biodiversity and genetic impacts of low impact logging in Peru (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC005 Out of Thick Air: The Evolution and Physiology of the Namaqualand Fog Harvesting Plants (Lead Supervisor: Samuel Brockington, Plant Sciences)

BC006 Pyritization of shelly fossils (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC007 Exceptional preservation of an early Miocene lacustrine ecosystem (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC008 Tracking the aftermath of the Cambrian Explosion with Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs) (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

BC009 Plant viruses: Frenemies with benefits? (Lead Supervisor: John Carr, Plant Sciences)

BC010 Hyperspectral analysis of plant biodiversity and evolution (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

BC011 Tainted Love? Modelling the epidemiology, ecology and evolutionary consequences of pollinator-transmitted plant disease (Lead Supervisor: Nik Cunniffe, Plant Sciences)

BC012 Ediacaran Sedimentary Environments: Anactualistic or Ambiguous? (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

BC013 Landscapes of Extinction and Evolution: The Global Sedimentary Record of Biotic-Abiotic Feedbacks in Mesozoic and Cenozoic River Systems (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

BC014 Adaptive selection on hybridisation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation (Lead Supervisor: Richard Durbin, Genetics)

BC015 Slippery surfaces and sticky fluids of carnivorous pitcher plants: biomechanics and ecology (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC016 How do specialist caterpillars cope with stiff and sharp plant trichomes? (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC017 Silk-based attachment of caterpillars on plant surfaces: biomechanics, and cost-benefit analysis of silk production (Lead Supervisor: Walter Federle, Zoology)

BC018 Surviving dinosaurs: Assessing selectivity on avian genome size and growth rate across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (Lead Supervisor: Daniel Field, Earth Sciences)

BC019 Ecology in the Earth System: Conserving a safe operating space for terrestrial ecosystem functioning (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Friend, Geography)

BC020 Forecasting Amazon rainforest tree dynamics under changing climate and CO2 (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Friend, Geography)

BC021 Spurring evolution: understanding the development and diversity of nectar spurs (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC022 The MYB/bHLH/WDR complex and the evolution of cellular diversity in plants (Lead Supervisor: Beverley Glover, Plant Sciences)

BC023 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)

BC024 Why are some parasites more virulent than others? (Lead Supervisor: Frank Jiggins, Genetics)

BC025 Genetics of polymorphism in the wood tiger moth (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC026 The smell of speciation - chemical signalling in butterfly diversification (Lead Supervisor: Chris Jiggins, Zoology)

BC027 Leaf mesophyll constraints on global water and carbon cycles (Lead Supervisor: Johannes Kromdijk, Plant Sciences)

BC028 Incorporating ecology into virulence evolution: an experimental evolution approach (Lead Supervisor: Helen Leggett, Zoology)

BC029 The Ediacaran biota in miniature: palaeoecological and palaeobiological insights from sub-centimetre fossils (Lead Supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)

BC030 The ancient past of Africa: reconstructing paleobiomes over the last 800k years (Lead Supervisor: Andrea Manica, Zoology)

BC034 The invisible missing link: the importance of the coastal wetland root zone for key wetland functions (Lead Supervisor: Iris Möller, Geography)

BC035 Sex differences in coloration: causes and consequences (Lead Supervisor: Nick Mundy, Zoology)

BC037 Microevolution and development of a sexual dimorphic pigment pattern in cichlid fishes (Lead Supervisor: Emília Santos, Zoology)

BC038 Investigating the past using genomic, environmental and archaeological evidence (Lead Supervisor: Aylwyn Scally, Genetics)

BC039 New approaches for cost-effective conservation decision making (Lead Supervisor: William Sutherland, Zoology)

BC040 Evolution on the wild side: the predictability of adaptation to global change (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

BC041 Invisible world: the biogeography of molecular and microbial diversity in European lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

BC043 The effects of logging and forest disturbance on tropical river ecosystems (Lead Supervisor: Edgar Turner, Zoology)

BC044 Are you compatible? The genomic architecture of hybrid fitness (Lead Supervisor: John Welch, Genetics)

CE005 Modelling Mediterranean shrubland communities using Unmanned Aerial Surveys (Lead Supervisor: Harriet Allen, Geography)

CE007 Understanding the impact of water flow beneath palaeo-ice sheets: submarine geomorphic evidence and numerical investigations (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Geography: SPRI)

CE008 Modelling Water Flow on Antarctic Ice Shelves (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Geography)

CE009 Climatic implications of ocean turbulence (Lead Supervisor: C. P. Caulfield, DAMTP)

CE010 Tracking damaged ice in Thwaites Glacier shear margin, Antarctica (Lead Supervisor: Poul Christoffersen, Geography)

CE011 How resilient are tropical rainforest to anthropogenic climate change? (Lead Supervisor: David Coomes, Plant Sciences)

CE012 Identifying ancient marine sedimentation on other planets: constructing a geological toolbox from Earth's pre-Silurian rock record (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Department of Earth Sciences)

CE013 Sea salt from blowing snow above sea ice - variability and magnitude of a new particle source in a warming world (Lead Supervisor: Markus M Frey, British Antarctic Survey)

CE014 From bugs to brains: magnetism and microscopy of iron (hydr)oxide nanoparticles in the natural environment (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

CE015 Is there a relation between natural variability and future long-term change for the tropical atmosphere? (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes)

CE016 The dynamics of changes in the Brewer-Dobson Circulation (Lead Supervisor: Peter Haynes, DAMTP)

CE017 Convective Precipitation, Aerosols and Climate (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE018 Predicting El Nino: important processes and their representation in climate models (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)

CE019 Speleothem Palaeoclimatology of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (Lead Supervisor: David Hodell, Earth Sciences)

CE021 Testing the Milankovitch hypothesis in the “41-kyr world” (Lead Supervisor: David Hodell, Earth Sciences)

CE022 Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions using sensor networks (Lead Supervisor: Rod Jones)

CE023 C4 photosynthesis in a changing climate, virtue or vice? (Lead Supervisor: Johannes Kromdijk, Plant Sciences)

CE024 The Southern Ocean cloud problem – the role of aerosols (Lead Supervisor: Tom Lachlan-Cope, British Antarctic Survey)

CE025 Stirring the seas: How is the structure of the global ocean set, and why do climate models get it so wrong? (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Meijers, British Antarctic Survey)

CE026 How do orbital and solar cycles imprint themselves on Greenland and Antarctic ice cores? (Lead Supervisor: Dr Louise Sime, BAS)

CE027 A new proxy climate database of North Atlantic Ocean climate variability during the past two millennia (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)

CE028 Volcanic impacts on the ecosystems of our ancestors (Lead Supervisor: Clive Oppenheimer, Geography)

CE029 Future stratospheric ozone changes and associated climate impacts (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Orr, BAS)

CE030 Global and regional hazards to aviation from volcanic gases (Lead Supervisor: Anja Schmidt, Chemistry)

CE031 Oxygenation of the ocean interior: life, climate and biogeochemical cycling in the Quaternary (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE032 The Last Lake Agassiz Superflood: deciphering the ‘catastrophe’ and its climatic implications (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

CE033 Thawing Arctic: productivity and sources of carbon cycling in small lakes (Lead Supervisor: Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences)

CE034 Melt layers in ice cores (Lead Supervisor: Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey)

CE035 Earth’s carbon cycle: Novel proxies for the weathering hot-spots of SE Asia (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

CE036 Quantifying carbonate weathering with novel tracers (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

CE037 Methane evasion from rapidly melting permafrost (Lead Supervisor: Alexandra Turchyn, Department of Earth Sciences))

CE038 What determines the iron isotope composition of sedimentary rocks? (Lead Supervisor: Alexandra Turchyn, Earth Sciences)

CE039 Surface ponds on debris-covered glaciers, High Mountain Asia (Lead Supervisor: Ian Willis, Geography)

CE040 The new ozone killer – sea-salt aerosol produced over sea ice (Lead Supervisor: Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey)

CE041 Mind the gap: exploiting satellite technology for coastal climate change adaptation in the data-poor ‘gap’ of intertidal zones (Lead Supervisor: Iris Möller, Geography)

CE042 Coastal chaos or predictable process: can different types of coastal wetland change be attributed to specific human and environmental drivers? (Lead Supervisor: Iris Möller, Geography)

CE043 Can methane mitigation meet our climate commitment? (Lead supervisor: Alexander Archibald, Chemistry)

CE044 Thermal history of the ocean and its influence on climate carbon cycle feedbacks (Lead Supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)

SE005 Applications of gradient-based optimisation to the glacial isostatic inverse problem (Lead Supervisor: David Al-Attar, Earth Sciences)

SE006 Geological carbon storage: Estimating CO2 dissolution from injection experiments (Lead Supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, Earth Sciences)

SE007 Phosphogenesis in ancient oceans - geochemical and palaeobiological implications (Lead Supervisor: Nicholas J Butterfield, Earth Sciences)

SE008 Earthquakes, metamorphism, and melting: understanding the behaviour and evolution of mountain ranges (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley)

SE009 New insights into earthquake characteristics and fault behaviour (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)

SE010 The structure and rheology of the continental lithosphere (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)

SE011 Understanding the relationships between earthquake cycles, geological structures, and seismic hazard (Lead Supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)

SE012 Zooming in on small-scale structures on the core-mantle boundary (Lead Supervisor: Sanne Cottaar, Earth Sciences)

SE013 The Torridonian Mudstones: Implications for Early Life and Extraterrestrial Sedimentary Geology from the Neoproterozoic Diabaig Formation (Lead Supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)

SE014 Quantifying diffuse fluxes of volcanic and tectonic carbon dioxide (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE015 Unlocking the secrets of lithium in volcanic systems (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE016 Volcanic outgassing and magma permeability (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE017 Volcano monitoring and the magma sponge (Lead Supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)

SE018 Modelling the subice Antarctic lithosphere and the evolution of dynamic topography (Lead Supervisor: Fausto Ferraccioli, BAS)

SE019 Novel constraints on the volatile contents of mantle melts feeding Large Igneous Provinces (Lead Supervisor: Sally A Gibson, Earth Sciences)

SE020 A new target for Archean paleomagnetism (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison)

SE021 Aqueous alteration of iron sulphides in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial environments (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison)

SE022 Hyperspectral cathodoluminescence imaging: the hunt for primary magnetism in Hadean zircon (Lead Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE023 The search for the magnetic holy grail: micromagnetic modelling of the multi-vortex state (Lead Supervisor : Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)

SE024 Crystal-melt segregation and the generation of large crystal-poor silicic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)

SE025 Decoding crystal shape to unlock the history of igneous and metamorphic rocks (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)

SE026 Magmatic sedimentology (Lead Supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)

SE027 Explosive volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: a tephrostratigraphic perspective (Lead Supervisor: Christine Lane, Geography)

SE028 A volcanic stopwatch from models of crystal growth and chemical evolution (Lead Supervisor : John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

SE030 Powering the nation: Heat balancing Icelandic magmatism (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan)

SE031 Timing the triggers of volcanic eruptions (Lead Supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)

SE032 A new understanding of the dynamics of continental deformation (Lead Supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, Earth Sciences)

SE033 Pressure transients and trapping rates of CO2 in heterogeneous strata (Lead Supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, Earth Sciences)

SE034 Impact cratering: from dynamics to morphology (Lead Supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, Earth Sciences)

SE035 Global seismic imaging of the lithosphere using transdimensional tomography (Lead Supervisor; Nicholas Rawlinson)

SE036 Seismic attenuation tomography of Iceland (Lead Supervisor: Nick Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

SE037 The alternative chemistry of deep planetary interiors (Lead Supervisor: Simon Redfern, Earth Sciences)

SE038 Beyond Imaging: Optical Spectroscopy for Mineral Characterization (Lead Supervisor: Emilie Ringe, Earth Sciences)

SE039 Patterns of magmatism in time and space (Lead Supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)

SE040 The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Lead Supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)

SE041 Tracing mantle carbon (Lead Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)

SE042 Carbon dioxide source or sink? The fate the organic carbon in large rivers in SE Asia (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE043 Cooking the crust: 4.4 billion years of weathering-driven continental maturation? (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE044 Sediments from source to sink in from the Eastern Syntaxis of the Himalaya (Lead Supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)

SE047 Carbon and sulfur cycling in the Earth’s mantle over the last 4 Ga: new clues from novel stable isotopes (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE048 Stable isotope tracers for the evolution of the crust-mantle system (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE049 The storage and cycling of carbon in subduction zones: implications for the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere (Lead Supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)

SE050 Dynamics of Explosive Submarine Eruptions (Lead Supervisor: Andy Woods, Earth Sciences)

SE051 Understanding Borneo in 3-D from advanced seismic imaging methods (Lead Supervisor: Nick Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)

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