NERC-funded PhD studentships: British Geological Survey; Natural History Museum; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Zoological Society of London

NERC-funded PhD studentships: British Geological Survey (BGS); Natural History Museum; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Zoological Society of London

The Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) Doctoral Training Partnership integrates six host partners and several business and policy sector partners, to offer an exciting programme that trains and inspires the next generation of environmental experts and leaders to address some of the toughest challenges of our time. The SSCP DTP is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and is based at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.

Projects for an October 2024 start are listed below. Some projects listed are led by a core partner and co-supervised by an Imperial supervisor - these are listed both under the department as well as the core partner and are marked with an asterisk*. For a full list of these and other projects, further details on the studentships, information on eligibility and instructions on how to apply, go to: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education/science-and-solutions-for-a-changing-planet-dtp/studentship-opportunities/

For project-related queries, contact individual supervisors. For general enquiries about the SSCP DTP, contact Christiane Morgan, Doctoral Training Coordinator.

Closing date for applications Monday 8 January 2024, midday (12pm GMT).

List of supervisors and projects in the British Geological Survey (BGS) in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Assessing the sustainability of lithium brine extraction in high Andean salars	Dr Andrew Hughes/ Professor Anna Korre (Department of Earth Science and Engineering)*
Protect Chalk streams or maintain groundwater resources, do we have to choose?	Dr Christopher Jackson/ Prof Adrian Butler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)*
Securing future groundwater supplies: development and evaluation of numerical, statistical and machine learning methods for continuous simulation of groundwater yields	Dr Kirsty Upton/ Prof Adrian Butler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)*

List of supervisors and projects in the Natural History Museum (NHM) in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Marine ecosystem change in southwest UK during the Late Devonian mass extinction	Prof Richard Twitchett/ Dr Martin Brazeau (Department of Life Sciences)*
Reconstructing vertebrate faunal dynamics in Central Asia through the last mass extinction	Prof Anjali Goswami/ Dr Mark Sutton (Department of Earth Science and Engineering)*
Detrital mineral records of magmatism and fertility in porphyry copper districts	Prof Jamie Wilkinson (Natural History Museum and Department of Earth Science and Engineering)*
Developing a chemical audit approach for characterisation of mine site material: implications for magmatic and hydrothermal transport, critical element recovery, environmental impacts and waste repurposing	Prof Jamie Wilkinson/ Dr Pablo Brito-Parada (Department of Earth Science and Engineering)*

List of supervisors and projects in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Evolution of adaptive traits in lichens: Mechanisms of chemical self-resistance and heat resistance	Dr Ester Gaya/ Prof Thomas Bell (Department of Life Sciences)*
Extinction risk and threatened evolutionary history in epiphytic flowering plants	Dr Eimear Nic Lughadha/ Dr James Rosindell (Department of Life Sciences)*
Fungi as bioindicators of belowground ecological recovery in woodland regeneration initiatives	Dr Laura Martinez Suz/ Dr Martin Bidartondo (Department of Life Sciences)*
Understanding the role of non-native tree introductions in driving new species interactions	Dr Laura Kelly (Kew)/ Dr Tilly Collins (Centre for Environmental Policy)*

List of supervisor and project in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Use of Satellite Observations to identify and attribute Decadal Climate Change	Dr Richard Siddans / Prof Helen Brindley (Department of Physics)*

List of supervisors and projects in the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Predicting chemical impacts on environmental microbiomes using species sensitivity distributions	Dr Daniel Read/ Prof Tom Bell (Department of Life Sciences)*
From lab to land: Advancing synergetic green technologies for the remediation of contaminated land	Dr Gbotemi Adediran/ Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco (Department of Life Sciences)*

List of supervisors and projects at the Zoological Society London (ZSL) in 2024

Project Title	Lead Supervisor
Asian wild bovids in a social-ecological landscape: understanding human dimensions of tamaraw conservation in Mindoro	Prof Samuel Turvey/ Dr Caroline Howe (Centre for Environmental Policy)*
How do pathogen genotype climate envelopes dictate opportunities for coinfections and recombination of a multihost pathogen?	Prof Trenton Garner/ Professor Matthew Fisher (School of Public Health)*

NERC-funded PhD studentships: British Geological Survey (BGS); Natural History Museum; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Zoological Society of London

List of supervisors and projects in the British Geological Survey (BGS) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the Natural History Museum (NHM) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2024

List of supervisor and project in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects at the Zoological Society London (ZSL) in 2024

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NERC-funded PhD studentships: British Geological Survey (BGS); Natural History Museum; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Zoological Society of London

List of supervisors and projects in the British Geological Survey (BGS) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the Natural History Museum (NHM) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2024

List of supervisor and project in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects in the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in 2024

List of supervisors and projects at the Zoological Society London (ZSL) in 2024

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