The London NERC DTPCurrent Research

The London NERC DTP currently funds 104 PhD students, undertaking research across eight themes.

Title	PhD Student	Institution	1st Supervisor	Theme:
Understanding the dynamics of vegetation: delineating drivers of change within periods of abrupt sub-millennial climatic variability	Ashley Abrook	[1516]	Ian Matthews	Past Life and Environments
Cultural change and sustainability of subsistence hunting of long beaked echidnas and other large vertebrates in Papua	Paul Barnes	[1516]	Katherine Homewood	Biodiversity and Ecology
Using an Ecosystem Model to evaluate harvesting strategies and identify optimal use scenarios	Tatsiana Barychka	[1516]	Georgina Mace	Biodiversity and Ecology
Empirical and mechanistic approaches to understanding and projecting change in coastal marine communities	Dan Bayley	[1516]	Andy Purvis	Biodiversity and Ecology
Conservation of the White-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes in the face of invasive non-native species pressures	Daniel Chadwick	[1516]	Carl Sayer	Biodiversity and Ecology
Ectotherm diversity through time: the interplay of sampling biases, environmental drivers and macroevolution	Terri Cleary	[1516]	Paul Barrett	Past Life and Environments
Developing novel monitoring mechanisms to achieve adaptive management for enhanced environmental decision-making at multiple scales	Anthony Dancer	[1516]	Kate Jones	Biodiversity and Ecology
A mechanistic approach to understanding phenology and spatial redistribution of marine organisms	Lowri Evans	[1516]	Andrew Hirst	Biodiversity and Ecology
Space Invaders: Quantifying the Environmental Impacts of Alien Species	Thomas Evans	[1516]	Tim Blackburn	Biodiversity and Ecology
Integrating GIS approaches with Geographic Profiling as a novel conservation tool	Sally Faulkner	[1516]		Biodiversity and Ecology
A multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of crocodylian phylogeny, diversity and biogeographic history in Deep Time	Sebastian Groh	[1516]	Paul Upchurch	Past Life and Environments
Mapping the role of green natural infrastructure in flood mitigation to the world’s cities under climate change.	Kelly Gunnell	[1516]	Rob Francis	Biodiversity and Ecology
Ecosystem resilience to abrupt climatic and environmental change in Southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary	Poppy Harding	[1516]	Anson Mackay	Past Life and Environments
The palaeodietary and morphometric responses of Pleistocene spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777) to environmental changes in Europe	Angharad Jones	[1516]	Danielle Schreve	Biodiversity and Ecology
Evolution and extinction in Miocene planktonic foraminiferal genus Paragloborotalia	David King	[1516]	Bridget Wade	Past Life and Environments
A interdisciplinary modelling approach to estimate the impact of the Columbian depopulation on climate and atmospheric CO2	Alexander Koch	[1516]	Chris Brierley	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Examining ecosystem function across urban London rivers to determine the success of restoration	Anna Lavelle	[1516]		Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Coexistence with large carnivores in Spain	Agnese Marino	[1516]	Sarah Durant	Biodiversity and Ecology
Ecohydrology of temporary ponds: implications for conservation	Sara Martins	[1516]	Helene Burningham	Biodiversity and Ecology
Development of a novel model to quantify nitrous oxide emissions in the biological nutrient removal process of wastewater treatment plants	Theoni Massara	[1516]	Evina Katsou	Environmental Pollution
Exploring the effects of environmental contaminants on the epigenome and breast cancer development	Phoebe Maund	[1516]	Elisabete Silva	Environmental Pollution
The quality of the early hominin fossil record: implications for evolutionary analyses	Simon Maxwell	[1516]	Philip Hopley	Past Life and Environments
Quantifying rates of active extension and seismic hazard in the upper plate of subduction zones	Marco Meschis	[1516]	Gerald Roberts	Solid Earth Dynamics
The Ecological Impacts and Environmental Challenges of a New Invasive Species in UK Rivers: The Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis).	Daniel Mills	[1516]	Michael Chadwick	Environmental Pollution
Identifying key threats and conservation priorities for the Critically Endangered Yangtze finless porpoise	Lisa Mogensen	[1516]	Samuel Turvey	Biodiversity and Ecology
Stable isotopes in small mammal dental carbonate: investigating their applications for reconstructing Quaternary climate variability in the UK	Elizabeth Peneycad	[1516]	Ian Candy	Past Life and Environments
Projecting climate change impacts for a tropical carnivore: from individual to species	Daniella Rabaiotti	[1516]	Rosie Woodroffe	Biodiversity and Ecology
Investigating the ecological impacts of salinity change in coastal lakes & wetlands using lake sediments	Lucy Roberts	[1516]	David Horne	Past Life and Environments
Beyond Drosophila Melanogaster: a comparative approach to unravelling the genomic architecture of intralocus sexual conflict	Filip Ruzicka	[1516]	Max Reuter	Evolution and Adaptation
Assessing human impacts on groundwater resources in sub-saharan Africa	David Seddon	[1516]	Richard Taylor	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Overcoming dry spells through low cost adaptations among small holder farmers in the Volta, assessing biophysical and social viability	David Smedley	[1516]	Mark Mulligan	Pan-disciplinary
Conduits of Invasive Aquatic Species into the UK: The Angling Route?	Emily Smith	[1516]	Helen Bennion	Biodiversity and Ecology
Using observed population trends to improve forecasts of the future impacts of environmental change on biodiversity	Fiona Spooner	[1516]	Richard Pearson	Biodiversity and Ecology
Forecasting Unrest and Eruption at Large Volcanic Calderas	Alexander Steele	[1516]	Chris Kilburn	Natural and Biological Hazards
Conservation planning for the recovery of the critically endangered Australian Regent honey eater	Gemma Taylor	[1516]	John Ewen	Biodiversity and Ecology
Human-wildlife co-occurrence: understanding the causes of vulnerability and resilience to human populations in the Anthropocene	Judith Ament	[1516]	Chris Carbone	Biodiversity and Ecology
Assessing the extent of semi-arid environments in Late Quaternary Eurasia using mammalian evidence: implications for understanding ecological and human responses to abrupt climate change.	David Arnold	[1516]	Simon Blockley	Past Life and Environments
Dimorphic fruits, seeds and seedlings in Aethionema arabicum as adaptation mechanisms to abiotic stress in unpredictable environments	Waheed Arshad	[1516]	Gerhard Leubner	Evolution and Adaptation
Evaluating transport of African mineral dust to the Amazon Basin	Natalie Bakker	[1516]	Nick Drake	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Assessing the effects of habitat management practices on vocalizing animals using passive acoustic monitoring	Richard Beason	[1516]	Julia Koricheva	Biodiversity and Ecology
Designing Silvopastoral Systems For The Amazon: A Framework For The Evaluation Of Native Species	Lucy Dablin	[1516]	Simon Lewis	Biodiversity and Ecology
Using annually-resolved records to assess how the Baltic Ice Lake influences North Atlantic climate during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition.	Rachel Devine	[1516]	Adrian Palmer	Past Life and Environments
Anthropogenic impacts on African tropical lake benthic communities	Christopher Doble	[1516]	Julia Day	Biodiversity and Ecology
One or multiple ant queens? The genetic architectures underlying convergent evolution of a fundamental social trait	Emeline Favreau	[1516]	Yannick Wurm	Evolution and Adaptation
Sexual selection as a defence against meiotic drive in stalk-eyed flies	Sam Finnegan	[1516]	Andrew Pomiankowski	Evolution and Adaptation
Protecting the ocean’s meadows by increasing the protection of seagrass habitats through diversification of incentives	Alix Green	[1516]	Peter Jones	Pan-disciplinary
A model for human evolution in Europe	Michael Hanks	[1516]	Maria Martinon-Torres	Evolution and Adaptation
Using Bayesian Networks to investigate the role of Arctic change in the rise of extreme weather at mid-latitudes	Nathanael Harwood	[1516]	Andrew Russell	Past Life and Environments
Characterising the catchment effect on physical habitats in UK rivers	Eleanore Heasley	[1516]	James Millington	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
The effect of strain-rate and fault curvature variability on seismic hazard: a comparison between high and low strain-rate rifts	Francesco Iezzi	[1516]	Gerald Roberts	Solid Earth Dynamics
A laboratory and field based study into the deformation of sandstone under hydrothermal conditions: implications for fluid flow within the crust	Mark Jefferd	[1516]	Nicolas Brantut	Solid Earth Dynamics
Exploring the roles and consequences of physiological tolerance and interspecific aggression in avian species replacement in tropical mountains.	Samuel Jones	[1516]	Steve Portugal	Biodiversity and Ecology
Prokaryotic dissolution of sulfide minerals	Sarah Jones	[1516]	Karen Hudson-Edwards	Pan-disciplinary
Waveform modelling of global seismic anisotropy and geodynamical implications	Elodie Kendall	[1516]	Ana Ferreira	Solid Earth Dynamics
Sexual selection and macroevolution	Andrew Knapp	[1516]	David Hone	Evolution and Adaptation
Towards improving thickness retrievals from CryoSat	Isobel Lawrence	[1516]	Julienne Stroeve	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Automating geological hazard identification, magnitude and timing in New Zealand through 3D landscape reconstruction of high resolution satellite imagery.	Niall Lehane	[1516]	James Brasington	Natural and Biological Hazards
The contribution of managed ponds to avian diversity and abundance on farms in lowland England	Jonathan Lewis	[1516]	Steve Brooks	Biodiversity and Ecology
Habitat use and the consequences of variable environments on the endangered loggerhead sea turtles	Emma Lockley	[1516]	Christophe Eizaguirre	Environmental Pollution
Modelling complexity in coupled human natural systems.	Mattia Ciro Mancini	[1516]	James Millington	Pan-disciplinary
The role of gene expression in defining colony phenotypes in social insects	Carlos Martinez Ruiz	[1516]	Richard Nichols	Evolution and Adaptation
Constraining the influence of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies on the past, present and future behaviour of the Monte San Lorenzo Glaciers, Patagonia	Julian Martin	[1516]	Bethan Davies	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Evolution and significance of fault damage structures on plate boundary faults: the southern San Andreas fault system	Giles Ostermeijer	[1516]	Tom Mitchell	Solid Earth Dynamics
Ecological correlates of reputation based systems of cooperation	Sarah Peacey	[1516]	Ruth Mace	Past Life and Environments
Nature of the link between tectonics and volcanism in the Centra and Southern Andes	Rebecca Pearce	[1516]	Phil Meredith	Solid Earth Dynamics
Burrowing snake evolution	Filipa Sampaio	[1516]	David Gower	Evolution and Adaptation
The Role of the Hydrothermal System in Unrest at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy	Lara Smale	[1516]	Stephen Edwards	Natural and Biological Hazards
Eel fisheries from local to global: drivers of exploitation and prospects for sustainability	Kristen Steele	[1516]	Caroline Garaway	Biodiversity and Ecology
Ground-truthing the assumptions of climate change impacts on small island states by cross-referencing multiple methods	Rory Walshe	[1516]	George Adamson	Natural and Biological Hazards
Archaeological Human Remains from the River Thames and its London Deposits	Nichola Arthur	[1516]	Heather Bonney	Past Life and Environments
Sahara Dune Sands: Quantifying Celerity, Dust Production, and Provenance	Thomas Baird	[1516]	Pieter Vermeesch	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Species integrity and gene flow in anthropomorphic Orchis species (Orchidaceae)	Leif Bersweden	[1516]	Mike Fay	Biodiversity and Ecology
The effects of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) on hydrology and nutrient dynamics in UK headwater streams	Olly van Biervliet	[1516]	Julian Thompson	Environmental Pollution
Auto-Sexual Behaviours in Primates: Evolution and Functions	Matilda Brindle	[1516]	Volker Sommer	Evolution and Adaptation
Understanding the impacts of environmental change on bat populations using acoustic monitoring methods	Ella Browning	[1516]	Kate Jones	Biodiversity and Ecology
Paleoceanographic context of organic matter deposition on the Yangtze Craton, South China during the Ediacaran Period	Fuen Canadas	[1516]	Graham Shields	Solid Earth Dynamics
Investigating the drivers and responses of climatic complexity during the Younger Dryas.	Alice CarterChampion	[1516]	Ian Matthews	Past Life and Environments
Chronologies and palaeoenvironments of humid phases in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia over the past 0.5 Ma	Richard ClarkWilson	[1516]	Simon Armitage	Past Life and Environments
How does climate effect cetacean diversity? Evidence from the past and present	Ellen Coombs	[1516]	Anjali Goswami	Evolution and Adaptation
Abrupt climate changes during the last deglaciation and Holocene: pollen & biomarker analyses from the Portuguese Margin	Anna Cutmore	[1516]	Chronis Tzedakis	Past Life and Environments
Ecology of vector-borne disease threats to Galapagos avifauna	Liam Fitzpatrick	[1516]	Andrew Cunningham	Natural and Biological Hazards
Dynamic modelling of vector-borne disease transmission under current and future scenarios of global change.	Lydia Franklinos	[1516]	Ibrahim Abubakar	Natural and Biological Hazards
A sampled approach to assessing the spatial distribution of plant species traits across the continent of Africa and their interpretation using remotely sensed variables	Tim Harris	[1516]	Mark Mulligan	Biodiversity and Ecology
Trajectories of land cover change in semi-arid regions of East Africa and its impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services.	Sarah Johnson	[1516]	Emma Tebbs	Biodiversity and Ecology
Host-microbe interactions in wild vertebrate populations	Adrienne Kerley	[1516]	China Hanson	Evolution and Adaptation
Evolutionary biomechanics of the dinosaur hand	Joao Leite	[1516]	Paul Barrett	Evolution and Adaptation
Climate Change and Biomass Dynamics: Novel Methods in Extracting Forest Biophysical Properties.	Harry Owen	[1516]	Emily Lines	Pan-disciplinary
Contemporary Evolution of a Tropical Ectotherm in Response to Environmental Change	Daniel Nicholson	[1516]	Rob Knell	Evolution and Adaptation
Late Middle Miocene climatic and biotic evolution: a high resolution record from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338	Paul Minton	[1516]	Bridget Wade	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Quantifying utility of conservation interventions for threatened species recovery: the future of seabird management	Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton	[1516]	John Ewen	Biodiversity and Ecology
Homo erectus behavioural and cognitive evolution at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). A technological approach.	Carmen Martin Ramos	[1516]	Sylvia Bello	Past Life and Environments
Connecting science with policy for sustainable development of urban ecosystems	Mikaël J. A. Maes	[1516]	Ben Milligan	Biodiversity and Ecology
Sustainable fishing in Greenland: impact of deep-sea trawling on benthic ecosystems	Stephen Long	[1516]	Chris Yesson	Biodiversity and Ecology
Impacts of Climate Change induced displacement on Health and Social Indicators: a case study in sub-Saharan Africa	Rebecca Parrish	[1516]	Ariana Zeka	Natural and Biological Hazards
Plankton evolution and the Paleogene/Neogene transition	Claire Marie Routledge	[1516]	Paul Bown	Past Life and Environments
Understanding the tectono-magmatic relevance of transverse crustal faults in the Andes, Chile from seismicity and seismic imaging	Almudena Sanchez de la Muela Garzon	[1516]	James Hammond	Solid Earth Dynamics
Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Ecology and Disease	Michael Stevens	[1516]		Biodiversity and Ecology
Structural controls on fluid pathways and alteration in the seismic cycle of economic deposits	Rebecca Strachan	[1516]	Tom Mitchell	Solid Earth Dynamics
Spatialising the interactions between people, animals, volcanic hazard and local perceptions and responses in Mexico – are there context-specific differences between urban and rural sites at risk from Popocatepetl volcano?	Mihaiela Swift	[1516]	Amy Donovan	Natural and Biological Hazards
Mechanisms and evolution of caste plasticity in a simple eusocial wasp	Benjamin Taylor	[1516]	Seirian Sumner	Evolution and Adaptation
The Late Pleistocene Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus, Linnaeus, 1758) of Britain and Western Europe: Past migrations, Seasonality and Palaeodiet	Emily Wiesendanger	[1516]	Danielle Schreve	Biodiversity and Ecology
Investigating the Efficacy of Riparian Reserves for Maintaining Invertebrate Biodiversity in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape	Joseph Williamson	[1516]	Stephen Rossiter	Biodiversity and Ecology
Persistent Organic Pollutants: assessing the threat to cetaceans	Rosie Williams	[1516]	Susan Jobling	Biodiversity and Ecology
Can ocean bubbles help spread diseases?	Bryn Saunders	[1516]	Beth Okamura	Environmental Pollution
The utilisation of a sensory ecology approach to understand and address the problem of bird bycatch in fishing nets	Jenny Cantlay	[1516]	Steve Portugal	Biodiversity and Ecology
Reconstructing the evolution of extinct sloths from continental America and the Caribbean using ancient DNA	Maria Zicos	[1516]	Laurent Frantz	Past Life and Environments
Lacustrine oxygen-isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe.	Joanna Tindall	[1516]	Jonathan Holmes	Past Life and Environments
Linking Feeding Ecology and Population Dynamics in Sea Turtles: From Genes to Ecosystems	Leila Fouda	[1516]	Christophe Eizaguirre	Biodiversity and Ecology
Using Comparative Socio-Genomics to investigate the evolution of Sociality in the African Mole-rats	James Gilbert	[1516]	Chris Faulkes	Evolution and Adaptation
The genetics and evolution of sexual antagonism	Michael Jardine	[1516]	Max Reuter	Evolution and Adaptation
Using a mixed methods approach to determine status and threats to the Critically Endangered Philippine pangolin and inform conservation action in Palawan, Philippines.	Lucy Archer	[1516]	Samuel Turvey	Pan-disciplinary
Temporal and spatial distribution of microplastics in the sediments of UK rural and urban lakes	Chiara Enrica Paola Bancone	[1516]	Neil Rose	Environmental Pollution
Using GPR to investigate and characterise Tsunami Deposits.	Lucy Buck	[1516]	Charlie Bristow	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Opportunities and challenges for managing European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus); a threatened UK species	Georgina Fauconier (Collins)	[1516]	Alice Baynes	Biodiversity and Ecology
Acoustic tracking of ocean wanderers: revealing behavioural context on the wing	Aline da Silva Cerqueira	[1516]	Terry Dawson	Biodiversity and Ecology
Investigating climatic gradients across Britain during the Lateglacial Interstadial (GI-1) using chironomids and oxygen isotopes	Chris Francis	[1516]	Ian Candy	Past Life and Environments
Assessing impact of residential air purification on ambient living environments utilising enhanced optical particle sensors	Stefan Gillot	[1516]	Benjamin Barratt	Environmental Pollution
Machine learning tools for pattern recognition in polar climate science	Will Gregory	[1516]	Michel Tsamados	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Application of eDNA approaches for surveying riverine communities: an assessment of the River Thames	Jane Hallam	[1516]	Elizabeth Clare	Biodiversity and Ecology
Facial morphology of Australopithecus afaransis: exploring intraspecific variation in human evolution	Hester Hanegraef	[1516]	Fred Spoor	Evolution and Adaptation
The influence of spatial and temporal scales on landslide susceptibility: A case study in the East-Sikkim and Uttarakhand regions of India	Renee Heijenk	[1516]	Bruce Malamud	Natural and Biological Hazards
Elucidating Timescales of magma recharge and movement for the 2013 – present eruption at Colima Volcano, Mexico	Gerallt Hughes	[1516]	Hilary Downes	Solid Earth Dynamics
Monitoring degassing behaviour and eruption precursors at Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania	Kate Laxton	[1516]	Adrian Jones	Natural and Biological Hazards
Chambers, crystals and charges: quantifying crystallisation dynamics in lower crystal magma chambers	Zoe Matthews	[1516]	Christina Manning	Solid Earth Dynamics
Evolution of embryonic development in brood parasites	Stephanie McClelland	[1516]	Franscisco Ubeda	Evolution and Adaptation
The potential for trophic transfer of micro-plastics in Thames Estuary food chains	Alexandra McGoran	[1516]	David Morritt	Environmental Pollution
Optical properties of atmospheric aerosol using laser tweezers	Megan McGrory	[1516]	Martin King	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Causes and consequences of global pollinator biodiversity change in the Anthropocene	Joseph Millard	[1516]	Tim Newbold	Biodiversity and Ecology
Understanding the socio-ecological impacts of banning trophy hunting in Botswana	Helen Muller	[1516]	Marcus Rowcliffe	Pan-disciplinary
Improving predictions of sea level rise under climate change, through modelling of the Pliocene Antarctic ice sheet	Jamie O’Neill	[1516]	Tamsin Edwards	Natural and Biological Hazards
Endophytic entomopathogenic fungi in crop protection	Tara O’Neill	[1516]	Alan Gange	Biodiversity and Ecology
Investigating the mechanisms of viral evolution in a lethal wildlife pathogen	Chris Owen	[1516]	Francois Balloux	Natural and Biological Hazards
Extending the varve record for Central Patagonia: Assessing glacier dynamics and responses during the last deglaciation	Josh Pike	[1516]	Adrian Palmer	Past Life and Environments
The effects of the invasive Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on native fish communities in the UK	Eleri Pritchard	[1516]	Jan Axmacher	Biodiversity and Ecology
Interpreting the ice dynamics and palaeogeography of the Ediacaran to Cambrian Luoquan Formation of North China	Thomas Matthew Vandyk	[1516]	Bethan Davies	Past Life and Environments
Intra-and inter-specific variation of skull morphology in Hominoidea	Anna Westland	[1516]	Christophe Soligo	Past Life and Environments
The environmental drivers influencing the movement networks and ecology of reef sharks in the British Indian Ocean Territory	Michael J Williamson	[1516]	Emma Tebbs	Biodiversity and Ecology
Protecting the unknown: Streamlining the Sampled Red List Index approach to assess trends of extinction risk in megadiverse groups	Sergio Henriques	[1516]	Robin Freeman	Biodiversity and Ecology
4-dimensional Evolution of Fault Zones	Lucia Andreuttiova	[1516]	Pieter Vermeesch	Solid Earth Dynamics
The Future of Alien Invasions: modelling the impact of rates of introduction, and introduction bias, on the richness and composition of alien assemblages.	Angela Bartlett	[1516]	Jane Catford	Pan-disciplinary
Environmental monitoring of medically and veterinary important freshwater snails and their trematode parasites	Zikmund Bartonicek	[1516]	Bonnie Webster	Natural and Biological Hazards
How environmentally-induced adaptation and migration events have shaped the DNA of worldwide human populations.	Nancy Bird	[1516]	Garrett Hellenthal	Evolution and Adaptation
Quantifying marine redox across the Triassic-Jurassic Mass extinction	Andrew Bond	[1516]	Alex Dickson	Past Life and Environments
The Genetic Architecture of Colour and the Evolution of Marine Colour Polymorphisms	Hugh Carter	[1516]	Suzanne Williams	Evolution and Adaptation
Comparing effects of tree species and tree genetic diversity on forest structure and ecosystem functions in Boreal Forests	Amanda Cooper	[1516]	Julia Koricheva	Biodiversity and Ecology
Comparative Ecology of African Tropical Forests	Declan Cooper	[1516]	Simon Lewis	Biodiversity and Ecology
Patagonian Ice Sheet deglaciation and palaeolake evolution in the Rio Cisnes-Ñirehuao-Toqui basins Chile (44-45°S)	Emma-Louise Cooper	[1516]	Varyl Thorndycraft	Past Life and Environments
Mechanisms and Evolution of Post- Reproductive Lifespan	Owen Corbett	[1516]	Seirian Sumner	Evolution and Adaptation
Variations in fault parameters and seismic hazard in the Central and Southern Italian Apennines	Claudia Sgambato	[1516]	Joanna Faure Walker	Solid Earth Dynamics
	Bobby Elsigood	[1516]	Phil Meredith	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Molecular evolution and adaptation of ranavirus	Charlotte Ford	[1516]	Richard Nichols	Natural and Biological Hazards
Investigating shifts in magma dynamics of the Atitlán volcanic centre, Guatemala	Finley Gilchrist	[1516]	Chiara Maria Petrone	Solid Earth Dynamics
Uncovering how interactions between genome size, macronutrients and land use change contribute to shaping species distributions and ecology of the UK flora	Marie C Henniges	[1516]	Ilia J Leitch	Biodiversity and Ecology
The evolution of plant-associated lifestyles in the Ascomycota	Rowena Hill	[1516]	Richard Buggs	Evolution and Adaptation
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Tsunami Warning System: Considerations for Enhancing Hazard Communication and Response	Rachel Hunt	[1516]	Mark Maslin	Natural and Biological Hazards
The composition, structure and evolution of Mars’ core – Thermoelastic properties of the [Fe,Ni]₃Si system	Andrew Jamieson	[1516]	Lidunka Vočadlo	Solid Earth Dynamics
Hydrological Impacts of Agricultural Land Abandonment in Nepal and Colombia	Stefanie Kaupa	[1516]	Mark Mulligan	Pan-disciplinary
Plio-Pleistocene planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy and biochronology	Marcin Latas	[1516]	Bridget Wade	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Modelling and Measuring Snow on Arctic Sea-Ice	Robbie Mallett	[1516]	Julienne Stroeve	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Why Do Eggs Fail? An investigation into hatching failure in managed wild and captive bird populations.	Ashleigh Marshall	[1516]	Patricia Brekke	Biodiversity and Ecology
Vulnerability to hydro-meteorological hazards: interactive mapping solutions and enhanced data analysis and visualisation.	Jonathan Mille	[1516]	Stephen Edwards	Natural and Biological Hazards
Spatiotemporal patterns of aquatic insect emergence and its impact on terrestrial communities across multiple spatial scales in tropical and temperate forests	Liam Nash	[1516]	Pavel Kratina	Biodiversity and Ecology
Pore Scale Characterisation and Assessment of Potential Subsurface Carbon Storage Reservoirs: A Digital Approach	Ryan Payton	[1516]	Domenico Chiarella	Environmental Pollution
Climate variability and human evolution: A perspective from palaeo-lake Naivasha, Kenya	Cecile Porchier	[1516]	Mark Maslin	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
The evolutionary pathway and molecular mechanisms underpinning the evolution of social complexity in termites.	Lewis Revely	[1516]	Paul Eggleton	Evolution and Adaptation
Character of climate instability during warm periods: Investigations from Central Italy	Carole Roberts	[1516]	Chronis Tzedakis	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Geospatial estimation of non-exhaust emissions using remote earth observation	Annalisa Sheehan	[1516]	David Green	Environmental Pollution
What are the environmental and biological factors conditioning current and historic changes in the aquatic plant communities of upland waterbodies in the United Kingdom?	Ewan Shilland	[1516]	Iwan Jones	Environmental Pollution
Evaluating the effect of temporal and spatial change in a species with temperature dependent sex determination: from primary to operational sex ratio	Laura Sivess	[1516]	Gail Schofield	Biodiversity and Ecology
Can boron isotopes be used as a palaeodietary proxy?	Joe Sumesar-Rai	[1516]	Philip Hopley	Past Life and Environments
Ultraviolet and Infrared absorption by the Ozone molecule	Apoorva Upadhyay	[1516]	Jonathan Tennyson	Environmental Pollution
Understanding lake ecosystem responses to natural and human stressors through the Holocene: a palaeolimnological approach	Amy Walsh	[1516]	Alice Milner	Past Life and Environments
Thermal structure of the northwest Atlantic during the Quaternary	Jack Wharton	[1516]	David Thornalley	Past Life and Environments
A Deep Learning Model for Global Camera Trap Labelling	Benjamin Evans	[1516]	Allan Tucker	Biodiversity and Ecology
Understanding melt distribution beneath volcanoes using experimental and seismic techniques	Lauren Cox	[1516]	James Hammond	Natural and Biological Hazards
Pathways for habitat restoration in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil: seeking co-benefits for biodiversity and local livelihoods	Yara Shennan-Farpón	[1516]	Ken Norris	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Global seismic tomography using seismic wave amplitudes and resolvability of Earth structure using 3D geodynamic modelling	Will Sturgeon	[1516]	Ana Ferreira	Solid Earth Dynamics
Phylogeny, form and function of primate tarsal bones	Nicole Barber	[1516]	Christophe Soligo	Evolution and Adaptation
Understanding ecosystem wide behavioural responses to anthropogenic pressure	Peggy Bevan	[1516]	Kate Jones	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
A comprehensive assessment of volcanic hazard and mitigation strategies at remote volcanoes: Manam, Papua New Guinea	Adam Cotterill	[1516]	Emma Liu	Natural and Biological Hazards
Using remote sensing tools to determine the drivers of foraging behaviour in marine predators, and predict shifts in habitat distribution under different climate scenarios	Hannah Wood	[1516]	Emma Tebbs	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Layered alkaline igneous rocks and element enrichment processes	Todd Downing	[1516]	Emma Humphreys-Williams	Solid Earth Dynamics
Molecular diagnostics for pollinator health	Alicja Witwicka	[1516]	Yannick Wurm	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Hedgehogs in greater London: Viability of fragmented populations in urban environments	Jessica Turner	[1516]	Chris Carbone	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
The origins of the genetic code in protocells	Aaron Halpern	[1516]	Nick Lane	Past Life and Environments
High Pressure and Temperature Crystallography of Mantle Silicates	Evangelia K. Tripoliti	[1516]	Andrew Thomson	Solid Earth Dynamics
Extending coupled crypototephra and paleoclimatic analysis of marine cores to the Eastern Mediterranean over the last ~200ka	Naima Harman	[1516]	Simon Blockley	Past Life and Environments
What controls phenotypic and genetic diversity? Case studies with amphibians	Miranda Sherlock	[1516]	Mark Wilkinson	Evolution and Adaptation
Challenges and Opportunities for Transboundary Conservation of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) in North-East Asia	Joshua Elves-Powell	[1516]	Sarah Durant	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Paleoecological Approach to assist conservation at the Catchment Scale	Tahir Khanzada	[1516]	Helen Bennion	Past Life and Environments
Genetic adaptation and demography of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	Harrison Ostridge	[1516]	Aida Andres	Evolution and Adaptation
Plant conservation in Colombia: Integrating ecological approaches and local knowledge for the protection of useful plant species	Laura Kor	[1516]	Terry Dawson	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Marine community dynamics of megafauna species across space and time	Stuart Negus	[1516]	Gail Schofield	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the footprint on tropical coral reef biodiversity	Jason Lynch	[1516]	Peter Jones	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Investigating the cause and the structure of abrupt climate change events in Marina Oxygen Isotope stage 11	Daniel Parkes	[1516]	Ian Candy	Past Life and Environments
Assessing the Risk of Insecticide Formulations to Wild Bees: Are Co-Formulants “Inert” or Threat Amplifiers?	Guy Mercer	[1516]	Peter Thorpe	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Novel High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Mapping of Vegetation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Structure from Motion Photogrammetry (SfM).	Will Flynn	[1516]	Alex Henshaw	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Investigating key parameters and magnatic interaction in volcanic flank collapse	Lily Moore	[1516]	Hilary Downes	Solid Earth Dynamics
Protected areas	Chloë Alexia Metcalfe	[1516]	Tim Newbold	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Inter- and intra-specific plasticity in response to local and induced environments in Bathyergid mole-rats	Hana Merchant	[1516]	Steve Portugal	Evolution and Adaptation
Evaluating ecological assembly rules for aquatic-terrestrial transition zones.	Luis Moliner Cachazo	[1516]	Michael Chadwick	Past Life and Environments
The behaviour of the economically important elements during crustal processes and volcanic degassing in a continental arc setting.	Clara Matthews Torres	[1516]	Eleanor Jennings	Solid Earth Dynamics
The response of the Antarctic ice sheet to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal	Mira Adhikari	[1516]	Tamsin Edwards	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Sex, success, and resisting extinction: the genetic basis and fitness effects of meiotic drive in two species of the Malaysian stalk-eyed fly.	Sasha Bradshaw	[1516]	Andrew Pomiankowski	Evolution and Adaptation
Investigating the effects of rapid land-use change on the biodiversity of East African Rift Valley Lakes	Aidan Byrne	[1516]	Ken Norris	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Assessing Antillean manatee trophic ecology, habitat and survival status in Northern Brazil	Emma Deeks	[1516]	Pavel Kratina	Evolution and Adaptation
Enhancing overland flow tsunami modelling across urban topography with novel statistical emulation	Jack Dignan	[1516]	Serge Guillas	Environmental Physics and Mathematical Modelling
Structure and function of insect communities in Congolese peat swamp forest	Charlie Hackforth	[1516]	Jan Axmacher	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Dietary flexibility, niche differentiation and ecological resilience in the Quaternary Cervidae	Laura Hemmingham	[1516]	Danielle Schreve	Past Life and Environments
A shifting jet stream in a changing climate. Exploring the response of the polar jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere to various climate futures.	Thomas Keel	[1516]	Chris Brierley	Environmental Physics and Mathematical Modelling
The evolution of culture in heterogenous social networks.	Simon Kenworthy	[1516]	Alecia Carter	Evolution and Adaptation
The importance of urban burial grounds for biodiversity	Zosia Ladds	[1516]	Rob Francis	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Dinosaur biogeography and the implications of fossil record bias	Robert I. Mansergh	[1516]	Paul Upchurch	Past Life and Environments
The spatial ecology of the Critically Endangered Angelshark (Squatina squatina) and implications for conservation	Lucy Mead	[1516]	Adam Piper	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Integrating fossils and genomes to rebuild the mammal phylogenetic tree	Joseph Minus	[1516]	Mario dos Reis	Past Life and Environments
Data assimilation of satellite snow thickness products in the Arctic Ocean	Carmen Nab	[1516]	Michel Tsamados	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Investigating Biological Insurance: Identifying the use of bet-hedging as an evolutionary strategy to adapt to unpredictable and rapidly fluctuating environmental conditions.	Michael O’Leary	[1516]	Duncan Greig	Evolution and Adaptation
Kinetic instabilities and turbulence in the solar wind and magnetosheath: Space-weather impact on magnetosphere – ionosphere – thermosphere coupling	Simon Opie	[1516]	Daniel Verscharen	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Bringing back the burbot via hydrological rewildling	Reagan Pearce	[1516]	Carl Sayer	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
The impact of plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean on filter-feeding megafauna, particularly reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	Jessica Savage	[1516]	David Morritt	Biodiversity and Ecology
Predicting the response of endangered sea turtles to a changing climate	Samuel Shrimpton	[1516]	Axel Rossberg	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
The Influence of Surface Processes on Continental Deformation: Extension and Erosion in the Basin and Range	Adam Smith	[1516]	Andrew Carter	Solid Earth Dynamics
Investigating the Density of a Chondritic Melt Under High Pressure, and Implications for Earth Formation	Isaac Taschimowitz	[1516]	John Brodholt	Solid Earth Dynamics
An eDNA toolkit for the surveillance of wildlife pathogens in traded and wild amphibians	Joseph Trafford	[1516]	Trent Garner	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Morphological and functional evolution of the tetrapod jaw: a 3D perspective	Emily Watt	[1516]	Anjali Goswami	Past Life and Environments
Using genomics to investigate the adaptive potential of sea turtles in a warming world	Eugenie (Charley) Yen	[1516]	Christophe Eizaguirre	Evolution and Adaptation
Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing of Landscape Fire Properties	Farrer Owsley-Brown	[1516]	Martin Wooster	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Effects of environmental pollution on Molluscan endocrinology	Konstantinos Panagiotidis	[1516]	Alice Baynes	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Multiproxy reconstruction of NE Irish Ice Sheet dynamics during the Late Glacial	Alex Clark	[1516]	Bethan Davies	Past Life and Environments
Understanding generalism and specialism in parasitoid wasps: an evolutionary, genomic and behavioural perspective	Iona Cunningham-Eurich	[1516]	Gavin Broad	Evolution and Adaptation
The Impact of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation on Intermediate and Deep Ocean Circulation	Friso De Graaf	[1516]	Heather Ford	Past Life and Environments
Could high-latitude solar geoengineering refreeze the Arctic?	Alistair Duffey	[1516]	Peter Irvine	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Environmental Assessment of Chemical Contamination from Abandoned Coal and Mineral Mines: A multidisciplinary approach	Ushemegbe Rita Ekhareafo	[1516]	Rakesh Kanda	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Dynamics of flocking in birds: the role of individual recognition and social learning	Robin Mehlhausen-Franks	[1516]	Steve Portugal	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Investigating the chronic impacts of urban air quality on the brain using wild grey squirrels as sentinels for urban wildlife	Cheryl Heard	[1516]	Patricia Brekke	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
The role of tectonics and environment on the distribution of dinosaur diversity	Joel Heath	[1516]	Philip Mannion	Evolution and Adaptation
Geographic profiling the invasion of alpine newts and the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	Rachel Hester	[1516]	Jim Labisko	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
The AMOC and past abrupt climate change: new views on an old paradigm.	Zarina Hewett	[1516]	David Thornalley	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
How do anthropogenic threats reorganise insect communities?	Justin Isip	[1516]	Andy Purvis	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Novel ecosystems and the ecology of recovery; investigating community dynamics in introduced populations	Emily Jordan	[1516]	David Murrell	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Influence of environmental change on water quality and the risks of toxic algal blooms to wildlife in Africa	Davide Lomeo	[1516]	Emma Tebbs	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Rewilding Scotland: Reconciling biodiversity conservation with ecosystem services provision	Connor Lovell	[1516]	Terry Dawson	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Using modern and fossil distribution data of the Dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) to assess niche variation, distribution dynamics and future conservation actions	Mollie Mills	[1516]	Simon Blockley	Past Life and Environments
Understanding the consequences of population bottlenecks and long-term captivity on the phenotype and recovery potential of extinct-in-the-wild and translocated bird species.	Matthew Mitchell	[1516]	Ryan Felice	Evolution and Adaptation
Improving the Understanding of Fault Mechanics A Seismic Study in Central Greece	Sam Mitchell	[1516]	Gerald Roberts	Solid Earth Dynamics
Investigating the Arctic sea ice snowpack and modelling its interaction with microwave radiation	Connor Nelson	[1516]	Julienne Stroeve	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Microbial life and activity in Arctic endolithic habitats	Sonia Papadaki	[1516]	James Bradley	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Dynamics of Endosymbiosis	Aidan Pierce	[1516]	Nick Lane	Evolution and Adaptation
Comparative Conservation Genomics of an Endangered Cooperative Breeder: The African Wild Dog	Amelia Ramage	[1516]	Rosie Woodroffe	Evolution and Adaptation
Towards an understanding of the Proterozoic seawater carbon isotope curve.	Elias Rugen	[1516]	Graham Shields	Past Life and Environments
Assessing Sediment Budgets in the UK through Remote Sensing Analysis and Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Sediment Flux	Owen James	[1516]	Daniel Schillereff	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Ecological baselines, biodiversity conservation and human-wildlife co-existence – opportunities and insights from natural history collections	Elizabeth Downey	[1516]	Lauren Hughes	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
A systems thinking approach to investigating the environmental sustainability and finding solutions for single-use plastic and polystyrene waste from fishers in Indonesia.	Larisha Apete	[1516]	Eleni Iacovidou	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Antarctica’s contribution to long-term future sea level rise: constraining uncertainty using the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period	Jonathan Barnsley	[1516]	Tamsin Edwards	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Developing annually-resolved chronologies of abrupt climate events during the Last Glacial Interglacial Transition (LGIT)	Anna Beckett	[1516]	Adrian Palmer	Past Life and Environments
Modelling the predicted impact of climate and land use change on coastal ecosystems and spatial distribution of UK seabirds.	Katriona Blomberg	[1516]	Nathalie Pettorelli	Environmental Physics and Mathematical Modelling
Ecomorphological Diversification of Crocodile-Line Archosaurs Across the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary	Ewan Bodenham	[1516]	Paul Upchurch	Past Life and Environments
Testing the interactions between chemical weathering and glaciation cycles using novel isotope tracers.	Katie Brown	[1516]	David Wilson	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
From Earth to Europa: An Investigation into Sulphur-Ice Environments.	Jessica Caughtry	[1516]	Louisa Preston	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Glacier and Hydrological Response to Climate Change in the Khumbu Valley, Nepal	Benjamin Graves	[1516]	Tom Matthews	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
How mitonuclear co-evolution impacts population adaptation in admixing and introgressing populations through time.	Finley Grover-Thomas	[1516]	Florencia Camus	Evolution and Adaptation
Evaluating the role of microplastics as a vector in metal cycling within the Thames Estuary	Ashraf Khan	[1516]	Susan Little	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
Diatoms in microbial mats from Signy Island	Shajeda Khanom	[1516]	Helen Bennion	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes
Early evolutionary history of the Dinosauria.	Jack Lovegrove	[1516]	Paul Barrett	Past Life and Environments
Humpback Whales of the Pitcairn Islands	Katherine McCoy	[1516]	Michael Chadwick	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Evolutionary ecology of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in oil-polluted waters in Trinidad.	Hannah McGovern	[1516]	Rüdiger Riesch	Evolution and Adaptation
Evolution to the rescue? Understanding the evolution of plant behaviour in response to rapid environmental change.	Hayley McMechan	[1516]	Jon Bridle	Evolution and Adaptation
Animals as geomorphic agents in landscape rewilding.	Grace Moore	[1516]	Gemma Harvey	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Implications of variable initial water content for mobilising magmatic metals in arc volcanoes	Wasim Mustafa	[1516]	Emma Liu	Solid Earth Dynamics
Investigating the role of AMOC in intra-interglacial climate variability	Eirini Papachristopoulou	[1516]	Chronis Tzedakis	Past Life and Environments
Air Quality Monitoring on the London Underground: Developing new Understanding of Particulate Matter Variability and Supporting Mitigation Strategies.	Johanna Rehbein	[1516]	Andrew Russell	Environmental Hazards and Pollution
High Latitude Peatland Fires and their Greenhouse Gas Emissions.	Luke Richardson-foulger	[1516]	Martin Wooster	Environmental Physics and Mathematical Modelling
Understanding and predicting the consequences of pollinator and predatory insect declines for global agriculture.	Daan Scheepens	[1516]	Tim Newbold	Environmental Physics and Mathematical Modelling
Extending coexistence theory to predict impact of plant invasions on biodiversity.	Jonathan Sutton	[1516]	Jane Catford	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Exploring genomic history and adaptive selection in a post-medieval population from Spitalfields, London, using ancient DNA.	Alexandra Strang	[1516]	Selina Brace	Past Life and Environments
The behavioural and evolutionary ecology of the Seychelles tree frog Tachycnemis seychellensis.	Eleanor Tinsley	[1516]	Trent Garner	Evolution and Adaptation
Identifying factors affecting the distributions of large marine vertebrates in coastal areas to predict current and future distributions.	Frederick Wilkinson	[1516]	Gail Schofield	Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
Atmospheric modelling of tidally-locked exoplanets	Hannah Woodward	[1516]	Andrew Rushby	Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Processes

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