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BC504: Interpreting the early fossil record of eukaryotes (Lead supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)
BC505: An exceptionally preserved lacustrine ecosystem from the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum (Lead supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield, Earth Sciences)
BC506: Reevaluating the fossil record of spiculate sponges (Lead supervisor: Nicholas J. Butterfield , Earth Sciences)
BC528: Terminal Ediacaran insights into the early evolution of animals (Lead supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)
BC529: To what extent did palaeogeography and palaeoenvironment drive biodiversification during the Cambrian Explosion? (Lead supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)
BC530: The impact of meiofauna on sediment physical and chemical properties across Earth history (Lead supervisor: Alex Liu, Earth Sciences)
BC532: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of early animals (Lead supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Zoology)
CE502: Monitoring ice sheets and the oceans using inverse theory (Lead supervisor: David Al-Attar, Earth Sciences)
CE504: Modelling the evolution of surface lakes George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica (Lead supervisor: Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute)
CE505: Can a machine learn to mix the climate? Lead supervisor: Colm-cille Caulfield, DAMTP)
CE506: The destiny of anthropogenic carbon in the ocean interior (Lead supervisor: Laura Cimoli, DAMTP)
CE507: Reconstructing past ocean transport to understand present and future carbon cycle (Lead supervisor: Laura Cimoli, DAMTP)
CE512: Predicting El Nino: important processes and their representation in climate models (Lead supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)
CE515: Metamorphosis of ocean turbulence and mixing in the warming Arctic (Lead supervisor: Adrien Lefauve, DAMTP)
CE518: Topographically-influenced upper ocean turbulence (Lead supervisor: Ali Mashayek, Earth Sciences)
CE519: Ocean turbulence in a changing climate (Lead supervisor: Ali Mashayek, Earth Sciences)
CE520: Climate tipping points induced by deep water formation in the polar oceans (Lead supervisor: Ali Mashayek, Earth Sciences)
CE523: Vertical ocean mixing and atmospheric carbon across the Eocene (Lead supervisor: David Munday, British Antarctic Survey)
CE527: Subglacial hydrology, sediment transport and the stability of Antarctic grounding zones (Lead supervisor: Jerome Neufeld, DAMTP/Earth Sciences)
CE533: Reconstructing Arctic Ocean and Nordic Sea Circulation During Melting Events (Lead supervisor: Alex Piotrowski, Earth Sciences)
CE534: Constraining methane-climate feedbacks past, present and future (Lead supervisor, Rachael Rhodes, Earth Sciences)
CE536: Using proxy biases to assess seasonality and inter-annual impacts of past abrupt climate change (Lead supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)
CE537: Rare and reduced: novel oxygenation proxies to constrain past ocean CO2 sequestration (Lead supervisor: Luke Skinner, Earth Sciences)
CE538: Let it (marine) snow! (Lead supervisor: John Taylor, DAMTP)
CE539: Quantifying bio-geochemical cycles at the salt-fresh water interface (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
CE540: Negative CO2 emissions: Enhanced chemical weathering as a way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
CE541: The long view: time integrated records of CO2 consumption and weathering from the Eastern Syntaxis of the Himalaya (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
CE542: How do carbonates record ocean chemistry? (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
CE543: Did phosphate fuel biospheric evolution? (Lead supervisor: Nicholas Tosca, Earth Sciences)
CE544: Greenland Ice Sheet velocity response to surface melt, lake drainages, and subglacial hydrology (Lead supervisor: Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute)
CE545: Evolution of surface ponds on debris-covered glaciers, High Mountain Asia (Lead supervisor: Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute)
CE547: Constraining the climate impact of a newly identified polar aerosol source (Lead supervisor: Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey)
CE548: Monitoring and mitigating the hazards from landslide-triggered glacial lake outburst floods. (Lead supervisor: Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries, Geography and Earth Sciences)
SE501: The geodynamics of critical mineral formation (Lead supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)
SE502: The first physically- and chemically-unified view of continental lithosphere evolution and deformation (Lead supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)
SE503: New Insights into the Active Tectonics of the Continents (Lead supervisor: Alex Copley, Earth Sciences)
SE504: Effect of heterogeneity at core-mantle boundary on planetary dynamics 9Lead supervisor: Sanne Cottaar, Earth Sciences)
SE505: Terrestrialization Tipping Points: A Statistical and Sedimentary Geological Analyses of Trace Fossils, Ichnofabrics and Lithological Materials of the Devonian Critical Zone (Lead supervisor: Neil Davies, Earth Sciences)
SE506: Volcanic gas hazards to UK airspace from Icelandic eruptions (Lead supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE507: Volcanic gas carbon isotopes as a monitoring tool (Lead supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE508: The deadly 1868 eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawai'i: lessons from a crystal cargo (Lead supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE509: Rising from the ashes: the impact of volcanic eruptions on ecosystems (Lead supervisor: Marie Edmonds, Earth Sciences)
SE510: The origin of compositional diversity in ocean island volcanoes (Lead supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)
SE511: Linking volcanic sulfur emissions with deep Earth sulfur cycles: constraints from Galapagos volcanoes (Lead supervisor: Sally Gibson, Earth Sciences)
SE512: Slow earthquake dynamics (Lead supervisor: Adriano Gualandi, Earth Sciences)
SE513: Multiparametric analysis of Near Fault Observatories data (Lead supervisor: Adriano Gualandi, Earth Sciences)
SE514: Environmental Magnetism and Microscopy of Particulate Matter Air Pollution (Lead supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)
SE515: 3D Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging of Natural Materials (Lead supervisor: Richard Harrison, Earth Sciences)
SE516: Volcanic plumbing systems: the xenolith record of a trans-crustal mush zone (Lead supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)
SE517: *Priority CASE project* The physical and chemical behaviour of emulsions in a solidifying crystal mush: implications for ore deposit formation in layered intrusions (Lead supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)
SE518: *Priority CASE project* Unlocking the dynamics of bimodal magmatism and its implications for the development of critical raw materials in the Slieve Gullion Complex of Northern Ireland (Lead supervisor: Marian Holness, Earth Sciences)
SE520: Mining massive seafloor datasets for whale vocalisations and other signals (Lead supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)
SE521: How the lithosphere controls the distribution of earthquakes in Britain, Ireland and around the world (Lead supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)
SE522: Seismic tomography of the deep upper mantle (Lead supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Earth Sciences)
SE523: Using Crystal Chemistry to Reconstruct Magma Storage Prior to Large Icelandic Eruptions (Lead supervisor: John Maclennan, Earth Sciences)
SE525: Melt migration and storage beneath Askja volcano, Iceland, from earthquake analysis (Lead supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)
SE526: The seismic structure of Borneo from passive array data (Lead supervisor: Nicholas Rawlinson, Earth Sciences)
SE527: The rheology of the partially molten mantle (Lead supervisor: John Rudge, Earth Sciences)
SE528: Volcanic carbon emissions tracked by isotopes (Lead supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)
SE529: How does magma move through the Earth: a data science view (Lead supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Earth Sciences)
SE530: Rare Earth Element Cycling Through Geological Time (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
SE531: Tracking global biogeochemical cycles through deep time: changes in mudrock chemistry during the Palaeozoic. (Lead supervisor: Ed Tipper, Earth Sciences)
SE532: Transient creep of geological materials (Lead supervisor: David Wallis, Earth Sciences)
SE533: Probing the Structure of Oceanic Currents in Space and Time with Novel Technology (Lead supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE534: How Mantle Dynamics Sculpts the Earth's Surface and Controls Oceanography and Climate (Lead supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE535: Exploring the Global Relationship between Carbonate Compensation Depth and Mantle Dynamics (Lead supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE536: Expeditions to collect and study sedimentary and basaltic rock cores from seabed south of Iceland to understand plume dynamics (Lead supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE537: Ancient Fire, Ice, Buried Landscapes and Mantle Dynamics: Probing the Carboniferous Earth System (Lead supervisor: Nicky White, Earth Sciences)
SE538: Core material in the source region of the Iceland mantle plumes? New clues from novel metal stable isotope systems (Lead supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)
SE539: Using novel stable isotope tracers to understand the formation of critical metal (rare earth element) deposits. (Lead supervisor: Helen Williams, Earth Sciences)