This studentship explores the relationship between atmospheric ammonia concentrations at the landscape scale and agricultural management practices at the field and farm scale for predominantly… Read More »Linking landscape-scale atmospheric ammonia concentrations with farm management practices
Tropical forests contain more carbon (C) than any other terrestrial ecosystem, at least half of which is stored belowground. Roughly 50% of the world’s tropical… Read More »Linking functional diversity with soil carbon dynamics in secondary tropical forests
Forests’ ecosystems and their soils represent the largest reservoir of organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems. The belowground processes of forests mediate many key biogeochemical… Read More »Investigating the role of soil microbes and rhizodeposition in carbon cycling and long-term C sequestration of forest ecosystems
Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) sponsorship secured with BGS. “The transition of Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles from 40 kyr to 100 kyr periodicity during… Read More »Investigating Bering Sea oceanographic controls on the Milankovitch orbital cycle climatic shift during the middle Pleistocene
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