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Dating the Icelandic lowland glaciation: Implications for Greenland Ice Sheet Vulnerability (CENTA 2024-B23)

University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Vulnerability of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) to current climate warming, which could provide c. 7 m of dangerous sea-level rise if it melted completely, is a first-order global concern. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Jones

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Mobilising Palaeoecology for Local Nature Recovery: Using temporal land-use and ecological data to inform sustainable agriculture and landscape recovery schemes in the Lake District National Park

Durham University Department of Archaeology

This project investigates how palaeoecological archives can be used to inform nature recovery strategies in the Lake District National Park and UNESCO World Heritage site. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Milek, Dr A Davies, Dr A Welch

5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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(BBSRC DTP) BioloGical Information System (BioGIS): Creating a Google map of spatial transcriptomics for machine learning applications

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) measures the gene activity in a tissue sample and maps it to a distinct spatial location of the tissue. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Murtuza Baker, Dr I Iqbal, Prof A Sharrocks

19 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Advanced geophysical multi-sensor data inversion and integration into GIS

University of Birmingham Department of Civil Engineering

Although we have significantly improved our ability to map and monitor overground objects, our ability to detect and locate buried objects has not improved much in the last 20 years. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Faramarzi, Prof N Metje

30 November 2023 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Understanding anomalous glacier fluctuations

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Summary. This field-based project will utilise geomorphology, tephrochronology and remote sensing to better understand how Icelandic glacier fluctuations can be decoupled from climate drivers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A J Dugmore, Dr R Bingham

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Understanding the controls on cyanobacteria blooms in Northern Ireland lakes: a palaeolimnological perspective

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. OVERVIEW. The proliferation of harmful cyanobacteria algal blooms (cyanoHABs) is recognised as a global environmental problem threatening the quality of surface waters. Read more

Supervisors: Prof H Roe, Dr V Louca

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Developing an Innovative System for Sustainable Resilience to Coastal Erosion: A Demonstration Project for Coastal Golf Courses

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. All coastlines are subject to dynamic change through wave and wind action resulting in significant loss or gain of land through erosion and/or accretion. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Green, Prof J McKinley

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating cryptic speciation in the beadlet sea anemone Actinia equina

University of Plymouth The School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Applications are invited for a 3.5 years PhD studentship. The studentship will start on 01 October 2024. Scientific background. Organisms inhabiting the intertidal zone experience stressors from both the aquatic and aerial environments they straddle, providing an “early warning system” for the impacts of climate change. Read more

Supervisors: Dr SL Lane, Dr C Boschetti, Dr N Foster

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Understanding the extinction vortex: inbreeding in haplodiploids

University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology

Around 20% of all animals - including all the bees, wasps and ants that are important pollinators and seed dispersers - are haplodiploid (Heimpel and de Boer, 2008). Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Hammond

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Crevasse squeeze ridges: a fingerprint of unstable glacier flow?

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Crevasse squeeze ridges (CSRs) are somewhat enigmatic landforms, though our understanding of their formation and preservation mechanisms are now near fully understood1. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Rea, Dr A Newton

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Hydrologically-informed estimates of malaria transmission

University of Leeds School of Geography

Summary. Malaria is a climate sensitive vector-borne disease that was responsible for an estimated 619,000 deaths from 247 million malaria cases worldwide in 2021; 95% of these malaria cases were in Africa (WHO, 2022). Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Smith

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Life on the Edge: Historic Erosion, Erosion Susceptibility and Heritage at Risk

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. . Climate change is having a huge impact on heritage particularly across the northern world as rising sea levels and coastal erosion leads to very significant loss of critical data. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Noble, Dr W Megarry

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Characterising temporal and spatial characteristics and environmental drivers of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Lough Neagh by mining satellite imagery

Queen’s University Belfast School of Biological Sciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Reid, Dr A Bhardwaj

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Offshore Engineering Geomorphology for Energy Transition

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. The energy transition is upon us as society aims to reduce emissions by transitioning into clean, renewable and carbon neutral energy sources. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Kurjanski, Dr A Newton

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Assessing potential for recovery of degraded forests in Southeast Asia

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Edinburgh UK CEH

Large areas of the tropics have been deforested or degraded through land-use pressures and resource extraction. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Banin, Dr M Hughes, Dr K Dexter, Dr S Budiharta, Dr M Struebig

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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