Background. The Dornoch Firth is Scotland’s least industrial Firth and a Marine Protected Area. Native oysters (Ostrea edulis) were fished-out in Europe in the 1800’s and are now a rare “missing” shellfish habitat of high nature conservation importance.
Background. In Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania, water access has been described as “unjust, inequitable and uneven,” with a combination of electricity outages and overall water shortage affecting supply (Smiley 2016, p.1320).
Dr E Pagaling, Dr L Avery, Dr R Ellis, Dr H Bridle
Application Deadline:
31 January 2019
Background. Private water supplies (PWS) are a concern to public health, both globally and locally, as they are vulnerable to breakdown and subsequent ingress from agricultural run-off and septic tank failures, leading to potential consumption of microbial (and other) contaminants.
This is a prestigious Scholarship awarded for four years with generous travel and research funds. It is a collaboration between the Centre for Living and Moffat Centre in GLASGOW.
Understanding the environmental impacts of wastewater discharges into oceans, dredged material disposal in coastal marine waters and atmospheric emissions from industrial stacks and volcanoes, requires detailed knowledge of how the multiphase (fluid + particulate) behaviour of buoyant jets and plumes is affected by the source conditions (e.g.
