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secondments to the project’s industry supporter, Fera Science (Sand Hutton, York), where you will have access to complementary instrumentation and expertise within the Food Authenticity team. During your PhD
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for fieldwork in South America. Training and Skills Development This PhD will provide comprehensive training in: Molecular techniques: DNA extraction, PCR, and next-generation sequencing library preparation
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Ian Renfrew Scientific background Arctic climate change and the associated sea-ice retreat are having significant impacts on both the atmosphere, the ocean and their interactions. Atmosphere-ocean surface heat exchange is highest during cold-air outbreaks and high...
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Jacob Malone Scientific Background Soil contamination with plastics and other pollutants causes significant challenges in terms of environmental containment and restoration. For example, the food-safe plastic PET is found throughout the terrestrial ecosystem, where it...
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Primary Supervisor: Prof Kate Hendry Scientific background: Meltwater fluxes from glaciers and ice shelves are increasing across West Antarctica as a result of oceanic warming as well as an increase in atmospheric temperatures. The increase in freshwater inputs into the ocean are likely linked...
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Primary supervisor - Dr Anders Bergström Scientific background The red squirrel in Britain is one of the most iconic examples of a declining population. It has suffered greatly since the introduction of the invasive grey squirrel in the late 1800s, but even before then it was struggling due to...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Lidong Be Scientific Background One of the key challenges in volcanology is understanding changes in volcanic activities during crises, such as transitions from effusive to eruptive activity. These transitions pose significant challenges to hazard management (1). Physical...
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Primary Supervisor -Prof Michal Mackiewicz Scientific background Marine litter is a key threat to the oceans health and the livelihoods. Hence, new scalable automated methods to collect and analyse data are needed to enhance our understanding of sources, pathways and impact of litter. Cefas is...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr Zoja Vukmanovic Scientific background: Layered intrusions represent natural laboratories frozen in time that provide us an opportunity to study how magma cools and differentiates, and how precious metals concentrate to form ore deposits. The ore deposits found in these...
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Primary Supervisor - Dr Xiaoming Zhai Scientific background The Arctic Ocean has undergone rapid changes in recent decades, with far-reaching impacts on both the Arctic region’s environment and the global climate system. An increased intrusion of the warm, saline Atlantic Water has led to the...