This studentship offers you the opportunity to work with scientists across the UK to develop a new isotope tracer for the element phosphorus (P). Phosphorus… Read More »Whodunnit? An isotopic fingerprint to identify phosphorus sources and cycling in catchments
The effects of soil nutrition on plant growth and yield are well known and plant resource and life-history theories can predict patterns of plant community… Read More »Understanding the links between soils, plants and pollination
In the last decade, polar regions have seen rapid climate change. From the sea ice loss and impact on polar bears in the Arctic to… Read More »Tracking trends in upper-ocean mixing around Antarctica
Currently there is an array of persistent organic pollutants that undergo long-range transport in air and seawater and are present in the Earth’s Polar Regions.… Read More »The role of the cryosphere in determining the fate of persistent chemicals in the marine system of the Arctic
At the global scale, ozone pollution, formed from complex photochemical reactions involving pollutants formed from vehicle and industrial emissions has been predicted to pose as… Read More »Strategies for reducing ozone and drought impacts on wheat yield
This studentship offers a unique opportunity to explore the key controls of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from hill and upland soils using state-of-the-art measurement equipment… Read More »Scaling links between soil moisture and greenhouse gas emissions in grassland systems
The adverse health effects of air pollution are the main drivers of policies to improve air quality both nationally and internationally. Although many pollutants have… Read More »Safe indoors? Monitoring and modelling personal exposure to air pollution
It is now widely recognised that hydrological and biogeochemical processes that occur at the interface of groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW) can have a… Read More »Revealing hydrological and biogeochemical heterogeneity at the groundwater-surface water interface using geophysics
Malaysia’s North Selangor peat swamp forest is experiencing rapid and large-scale conversion of pristine swampland to oil palm agriculture, contrary to prevailing environmental guidelines. This… Read More »Remote sensing investigation of how oil palm cultivation is degrading Malaysia’s tropical peatland ecosystem services
This project will evaluate how incorporating interspecific ecological interactions into species distribution models affects predictions of species’ responses to climate change. Although ecological theory has… Read More »Predicting climate change effects on Anolis lizards using physiological models and ecological traits