Peat mass movements are relatively common geomorphological events in UK and Irish uplands. In recent years several significant peat landslides have been caused by engineering work, usually construction of access roads for onshore windfarm projects.
This project is part of the ONE Planet DTP. Find out more here. https://research.ncl.ac.uk/one-planet/. Campina do Encantado is a tropical low-altitude bog (at sea level) that produces methane in São Paulo State, Brazil (under Tropical Forest).
The aim of this project is to use peat deposits in southern South America to identify long-term changes in the strength and position of the Southern Westerly winds (SWW) during the last ~2000 years.
The project will be supervised by Dr Deepak Kumaresan of Queen’s University School of Biological Sciences and by Dmitri Mauquoy of the University of Aberdeen’s School of Geosciences.
Understanding the consequences of metal pollution is of increasing importance given the ever-growing consumption of resources and the increasing sophistication of metallic products, creating new and different types of waste, which is often discarded into the environment (Nriagu, 1990).
CASE STUDENTSHIP with Moors for the Future Partnership. The blanket peatlands of the UK are important terrestrial carbon stores but are uniquely eroded because of impacts of industrial pollution, overgrazing, wildfire and climate change (Evans and Warburton, 2011 and Figure 1).
As anthropogenic atmospheric warming is forecasted to exceed 2°C above preindustrial temperatures by 2100, it remains unclear how thermal energy will be redistributed across the globe (from equator to pole) and to what extent this will impact the terrestrial environments.
Dr B Van Dongen, Dr S Boult, Prof R Wogelius, Prof D Polya
Application Deadline:
6 February 2019
CASE STUDENTSHIP WITH ARVIA TECHNOLOGY LTD, UK. Over the years, organometallic compounds such as organo tin and lead compounds, have been used in a wide number of commercial applications.
Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD to commence in October 2019. The PhD will be based in the Department of Geography and will be supervised by Dr Sabine Wulf, Dr Mark Hardiman and Dr Dave Giles.
