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.
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.
