Soil aggregates, essentially the building blocks from which soils are composed, control many soil properties on which our understanding of many of the major challenges… Read More »Imaging the role of aggregate structure on soil hysteresis
You will reconstruct different landform assemblages from geophysical and sedimentological data, revealing how landscapes have evolved offshore the UK and Ireland from the Last Glacial… Read More »Glacial sculpting and post-glacial drowning of the Celtic Sea
This project investigates how increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration impacts on greenhouse gas release from wetlands which provides an important feedback on the global climate. Today… Read More »Ecosystem climate feedbacks in a CO2 rich world
Mangroves provide a wide variety of ecosystem services to some of the poorest people on the planet. Under natural conditions, mangroves can persist in an… Read More »Ecological tipping points in mangrove ecosystems
Many cuttings and embankments within the UK transport and utilities infrastructure networks were constructed more than 100 years ago and were poorly engineered. Consequently many… Read More »Early warning of landslide events using computer vision and geophysical image analysis
When storms cause trees to break or become uprooted they can be responsible for loss of lives, destruction of buildings/infrastructure and disruption to transport, energy… Read More »Crowdsourcing tree failure information to generate a step-change in risk assessment
With increasing energy prices and advances in drilling and hydraulic rock fracturing (‘fracking’) technology, shale gas has radically changed the energy landscape over the world.… Read More »Characterizing behaviour of gases in shale reservoirs
We have recently found convincing evidence that soil dust contamination of food is an important (non-haem) dietary source of iron in several sub-Saharan African (SSA)… Read More »Characterisation of iron bioavailability from African soils
Long-range insect migration occurs on an enormous scale and provides huge costs and benefits to agricultural ecosystems. Insect population dynamics and migration phenology are both… Read More »Changing patterns of insect migration studied with a network of weather radars
The norm is to be exposed to a wide range of infectious organisms and most wild animals are infected with a wide range of parasites.… Read More »Causes and consequences of immune variation in rodents