Agroecosystems in a Climate Crisis: Using Big Data to understand the Out of the Ordinary Agroecosystems produce food but also deliver both benefits and disbenefits for the environment, including water and air quality. Climate cha… Read More
Anthropogenic change and disease susceptibility in poison frogs: identifying links with diet, skin alkaloids, and the microbiome Anthropogenic disturbance, coupled with climate change, is a leading cause of biodiversity loss. In Ecuador, approximately 97% of the Chocó… Read More
Assessing Amazon forest vulnerability and resilience to dry periods across soil moisture and microenvironmental gradients Amazon forests are important for global climate and biodiversity. However, major uncertainties remain about how they will respond to future … Read More
Bird life in the Anthropocene: understanding convergent adaptation to urbanisation Urbanisation is a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st Century. Over 4 billion people inhabit urban spaces and by 2050, this is predicte… Read More
Delivering Ecoacoustic Net Gain in the UK Ecoacoustics is the use of sound to understand more about the nature of ecosystems and how they function. The scientific field and practical… Read More
Developing a microfluorination technique for oxygen isotope analysis on biogenic silica Human-induced climate change has altered environments around the world. In pursuit of environmental change resilience, we require vital pala… Read More
Drivers and demographic consequences of seabird foraging strategies in a changing environment Coastal marine ecosystems are undergoing rapid change due to multiple anthropogenic impacts including overfishing, climate change, pollution… Read More
Early warning of reservoir dam failure: harnessing machine learning and novel ground imaging for enhanced hazard assessment This is an exciting opportunity to explore deep learning (DL) methods, in combination with geophysical and hydro-mechanical models, to extra… Read More
Establishing the relative importance of a rainforest microcosm in oil palm plantations Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on Earth and expanding oil palm (Elaies guineensis) plantations are a major contributor t… Read More
Forensic source-fingerprinting of sediment-degraded aquatic habitats using eDNA Excess fine-grained sediment and associated organic matter loadings are pervasive in aquatic habitats globally as a result of land use and c… Read More
Freshwater storage at the “roof of the world” under climate change The Tibetan Plateau, commonly known as the “the roof of the world”, supplies freshwater for nearly two billion people. Water storage is … Read More
How do coral energy strategies influence their survival? Most tropical reef-building corals are mixotrophic, acquiring autotrophic nutrition from their photosynthetic algal endosymbionts and hetero… Read More
Ice ablation controlled by natural and anthropogenic particles Glaciers and ice sheets store 77% of Earth’s freshwater and are key for utility supply, irrigation, and hydropower. Effective water-resour… Read More
Impacts of non-native invasive crayfish in tropical freshwater systems Invasive species are a key cause of biodiversity decline in freshwater systems. Crayfish are a particularly problematic invader, with multip… Read More
Investigating the role of organic nutrient resources in controlling biodiversity and production in freshwater ecosystems The project: Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened ecosystems globally, with nutrient enrichment perhaps the most significant … Read More
Landslide early warning: developing novel geophysical monitoring approaches to ‘see inside’ unstable slopes Slope failures cause considerable social and economic harm. In the UK, impacts are principally economic, through the damage and disruption t… Read More
Measuring the impact of rewilding on pollinator biodiversity: what can machine learning tell us? Rewilding is an approach to conservation which seeks to regenerate degraded ecosystems in a self-sustaining way, with relatively little ongo… Read More
Modelling extreme sea states in a changing climate Applications are invited for a PhD studentship within the NERC-ENVISION Doctoral Training Partnership, co-funded by JBA Trust, with a projec… Read More
Predicting soil microbial responses to environmental change DNA sequencing has revolutionised our understanding of soil microbial biodiversity, uncovering the ecology of thousands of novel taxa and pr… Read More
Promoting a nature-positive future: how to measure biodiversity to assess habitat restoration success Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem services and resilience to global change, but is declining globally. Recent regulatory shifts requir… Read More
Reclaiming the night sky for moths: what drives the flight-to-light response and how can this be mitigated? Over the last 50 years, 33% moth species have declined in total abundance in Britain. This tragic loss of biodiversity is poorly understood,… Read More
Redrawing the lines of battle in coral reef fish communities Coexistence of competing species in ecological communities is made possible by co-evolved “rules of engagement”. During competition, the… Read More
Restoring degraded Kenyan grassland soils Soils underpin food production in Africa, and they are under extreme pressure and while there has been considerable research into the manage… Read More
Seeing in the dark: evolution of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during polar night The Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are responsible for about a third of global sea level rise as a result of increased melting and chang… Read More
The effect of environmental metals on the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes in the stickleback skin microbiome Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to humans, animals, and our environment. Often associated with overuse of antibiotics in hu… Read More
The genomic and adaptive consequences of extreme, human-mediated population decline Human activities are placing incredible pressure on the natural world and impacting population sizes of wild organisms, but the consequences… Read More
The vulnerability of soil carbon to extreme rainfall There is a growing imperative to reverse global soil carbon losses and increase soil carbon stocks. This action could contribute to climate … Read More
Tracking landslides and earthwork failures using electrical geophysics Slope instability is responsible for considerable social and economic harm. In the UK, impacts are principally economic, through damage and … Read More
Understanding nitrogen delivery from glaciers to the Arctic Ocean: Do freshwater buffers help or hinder? Temperatures in the Arctic have been increasing at more than double the global average over the last decades and glacial environments are at… Read More
Understanding the indirect climate impacts of halogens in the troposphere Halogen (i.e. chlorine, bromine & iodine) gases are ubiquitous in Earth’s atmosphere and since the 1970s are recognised as the princip… Read More
Volcanic fertilisation of tropical forest biomes Tropical rainforest biomes are some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the planet, but these systems are also particularly vul… Read More
What’s for dinner? Oceanographic drivers of Manx shearwater chick provisioning and growth Oceanographic features (e.g. fronts, gyres and eddies) are known to aggregate pelagic forage fish and thereby shape the space use of marine … Read More
