Projects for NERC -funded Research Experience Placements (REPs) 2025

The 15 projects open for applications are listed here. Please email dtp-admin@esc.cam.ac.uk for full details of the project/s that you are interested in.

Applications close on Friday 9th May 2025. 

1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions versus soil respiration rates in the Cairngorms (Lead supervisor: Alexandra Turchyn, Department of Earth Sciences)

2. Ice Crystal Structure of Antarctic Ice (Lead supervisor: Emma Pearce, British Antarctic Survey)

3. Instrument Development for Measuring Ice Nucleation: from Antarctic Sources to Southern Ocean Clouds (Lead supervisor: Nina Kinney, British Antarctic Survey)

4. Modelling air quality in urban megacities (Lead supervisor: Alex Archibald, Department of Chemistry)

5. Examining the impact of the world’s largest icebergs on Southern Ocean phytoplankton communities (Lead supervisor: Amanda Burson, British Antarctic Survey)

6. An inventory of radar data to study North-South asymmetry in response to space weather (Lead supervisor: Ingrid Cnossen, British Antarctic Survey)

7. Exploring Mesozooplankton Dynamics around South Georgia using Imaging Technologies (Lead supervisor: Vicky Fowler, British Antarctic Survey)

8. In search of ice nucleating particles in Arctic snow and sea ice (Lead supervisor: Markus Frey, British Antarctic Survey)

9. What controls the localisation of seismicity in the New Madrid seismic zone: insights from seismic tomography (Lead supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Department of Earth Sciences)

10. Pan-Arctic BrO Changes in Early Spring Derived from Satellite Remote Sensing (Lead supervisor: Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey)

11. The role of sustainable agriculture in UK invertebrate conservation (Lead supervisor: Lynn Dicks, Department of Zoology)

12. Seismic tomography constraints on the origin of seismicity in the east-central US and Canada (Lead Supervisor: Sergei Lebedev, Department of Earth Sciences)

13. Variability of North Atlantic storms (Lead supervisor: Sebastian Schemm, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

14. Patterns in the plankton: harnessing in-situ imaging and machine learning for zooplankton monitoring (Lead supervisor: Cecilia Liszka, British Antarctic Survey)

15. Antarctic Black mudstone and the Toarcian Global Oceanic Anoxic Event (Lead supervisor: Morag Hunter, Department of Earth Sciences)