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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 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 - 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: Prof Neil Hall Scientific background Ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF) are a crucial yet often overlooked group of organisms that play a key role in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. These fungi form symbiotic associations with plant root systems, where plants supply...
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Primary Supervisor - Prof Tracey Chapman Strong interdisciplinary training, within the ARIES Ecology and Biodiversity theme, to equip you with high-in-demand analytical skills in phenotypic and molecular genetic engineering. Scientific Background In all species that lay eggs externally - in...
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Primary Supervisor: Dr Jose De Vega Scientific Background: Interspecific hybridisation is a common mechanism of diversification in plants, unlike in animals, largely because plants can overcome hybrid sterility through chromosome doubling, resulting in polyploid plants. Hybridisation and...
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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...
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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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