Can our upland landscapes provide clean drinking water, store carbon, maintain\u00a0biodiversity, act as a platform for leisure activities and provide a rural economy around\u00a0grazing all whilst coping with the increasing pressures of climate change? Our\u00a0mountainous regions are clearly under many, sometimes conflicting, demands, and this\u00a0has led to a substantial degradation in the ecosystem functions that underpin the services\u00a0society needs. At the centre of this is a healthy and functioning soil, and this project aims\u00a0to explore this in an ecosystem context under a range of management scenarios. You will\u00a0join a consortium of researchers, land managers and conservation workers to make the\u00a0first exploration of a soil functions across the UNESCO world heritage designated Lake\u00a0District. You will then use study catchments in Wild Ennerdale and Haweswater\u00a0sustainable catchment project to explore, using cutting edge isotopic and molecular tools,\u00a0how management intensity can degrade or build soil functions. You will learn new\u00a0techniques, gain valuable experience in field ecology, work closely with CASE partner\u00a0Natural England (including a placement), develop strong links working with United Utilities\u00a0and RSPB, and also with our international partners, spending some time in the mountains\u00a0of Norway. Training will solidify expertise in numerical ecology, isotope and molecular\u00a0ecology, survey and monitoring. You will work regularly in mountain ecosystems, have an\u00a0interest in management and conservation, and a desire to learn new and cutting-edge\u00a0techniques. You will be at the forefront of understanding how different management\u00a0regimes interact with climatic extremes, such as flooding, to affect the functioning of our\u00a0soils, and you will leave with a comprehensive CV, and a wealth of experience working\u00a0with researchers and industry partners, giving you a springboard into either research or\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n
You will hold a minimum of a at UK Honours degree at 2:1level or equiv in subject areas\u00a0such as, but not limited to, geography, environmental science, conservation, ecology,\u00a0biology, agricultural sciences, hydrology or natural sciences.<\/p>\n
For further enquiries or more details about the project, please contact Dr Robert Mills on\u00a0robert.mills@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can our upland landscapes provide clean drinking water, store carbon, maintain\u00a0biodiversity, act as a platform for leisure activities and provide a rural economy around\u00a0grazing all whilst coping with the increasing pressures of climate change? Our\u00a0mountainous regions are clearly under many, sometimes conflicting, demands, and this\u00a0has led to a substantial degradation in the ecosystem functions that… Read More »Sustainable grazing and mountain soils; safeguarding water provision through soil functions and resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[44,12],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-51","tag-case","tag-lancaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/10\/Nick-Ostle-Image-400x400px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-1wY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}