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Methods 60% of the world's population live in countries dependent upon seasonal monsoon rainfall. Climate change is causing changes in the character of monsoon rainfall, with potentially severe impacts
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Methods In this project we want to provide a better understanding of how cloudiness affects, and is affected by, environmental factors called “cloud controlling factors”. Success of this goal will be
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Methods Archaea thrive in nearly every habitat on Earth, from salt lakes and volcanic springs to the human body. As major producers of methane and key players in the nitrogen cycle, they greatly impact
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Jackdaw Project – a long-term study population of wild jackdaws run by Alex Thornton – provides the ideal setting to test and validate methods before then applying them to field sites in even more remote
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Methods Why are genetic variants that increase disease susceptibility maintained in populations, when natural selection should eliminate them? Understanding how and why genetic variation is maintained is a
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Methods At a time when many landscapes need repair and global demand for mined raw materials is escalating, this project investigates how to redevelop landscapes when mining finishes. The student will desk
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Methods The occurrence and severity of extreme climate events is changing globally and has marked impacts on agriculture and food security (Falloon et al. 2022), but we currently lack a robust understanding
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Methods Marine bivalves such as mussels and oysters are vital for UK coastal ecosystems and support multi-million-pound aquaculture industries. However, their survival and performance are increasingly
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Methods River migration (by bank erosion and avulsion) displaces thousands of vulnerable people annually, is likely to worsen significantly under climate change, and is challenging to predict. This project
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Methods Future sea level rise is highly uncertain, largely due to how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responds to climate change. The IPCC highlights a split emerging in the 2070s: a lower-impact trajectory