PhD Opportunities

Project: Developing drone and satellite remote sensing to support catchment scale monitoring and management of invasive plant species
Supervisor: Professor Aileen Mill
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-001
CASE project: Yes

Project: How development shapes the pace-of-life of animals
Supervisor: Dr Isabel Smallegage
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-003
CASE project: No

Project: The impacts of electromagnetic fields from offshore cabling on lobster (Homarus gammarus) and crab (Cancer pagurus) behaviour
Supervisor: Professor Clare Fitzsimmons
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-021
CASE project: Yes

Project: Greenhouse gas balance in an agricultural grassland system with enhanced rock weathering of basalt as a carbon dioxide removal strategy
Supervisor: Dr Tom Reershemius
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-023
CASE project: Yes

Project: The origin of life at ancient alkaline hydrothermal vents
Supervisor: Dr Jon Telling
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-029
CASE project: No

Project: Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs in omnivorous generalist beetles using network inference, molecular dietary analysis and nutritional networks
Supervisor: Dr Jordan Cuff
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-039
CASE project: No

Project: Rewilding: integrating technologies and data to monitor upland food-web change
Supervisor: Professor Darren Evans
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-041
CASE project: No

Project: Multiscale interpretations of the internal complexity of evaporite sequences from mine workings, borehole and seismic data
Supervisor: Dr Mark Ireland
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-047
CASE project: No

Project: Time travelling with ancient DNA: revealing past adaptations of plants to changes in atmospheric temperature and CO2 levels
Supervisor: Dr Maxim Kapralov
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-051
CASE project: No

Project: Humpback whales sentinels of ocean health: population dynamics and drivers for occurrence in breeding locations off East Africa
Supervisor: Professor Per Berggren
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-060
CASE project: Yes

Project: Microbial ecological archaeology of Antarctic microbes through single cell genomics
Supervisor: Dr Matt Bawn
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-064
CASE project: No

Project: Nature-based solutions for coastal management – The role of biofilms in induced carbonate precipitation and sediment stability
Supervisor: Dr Cees van der Land
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-070
CASE project: Yes

Project: Improving spatial estimates of species' extinction risk for conservation planning
Supervisor: Dr Fabrice Stephenson
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-074
CASE project: Yes

Project: Adders in the north: Conserving northern England’s adder (Vipera berus) populations
Supervisor: Dr Simon Maddock
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-097
CASE project: No

Project: Future Seas: Intraspecific differences in the ecological and transcriptional stress responses of intertidal ecosystem engineers
Supervisor: Dr Ben Wigham
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-100
CASE project: No

Project: Assessing the eco-hydrological and geomorphic effects of floodplain restoration
Supervisor: Professor Claire Walsh
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-012
CASE project: No

Project: The impacts of gigaton-scale direct air capture of carbon dioxide on natural resources
Supervisor: Dr Greg Mutch
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-033
CASE project: No

Project: Machine Learning for Innovative Slope Design to Radically Decarbonise Open Pit Mining
Supervisor: Domenico Balsamo
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-007
CASE project: Yes

Project: Physics-informed neural networks for urban flood modelling
Supervisor: Dr Vassilis Glenis
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-057
CASE project: No

Project: Investigating how well coastal protection strategies trap and keep sediment for mangrove rehabilitation in the Guiana Shield
Supervisor: Dr Caspar Hewett
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-083
CASE project: No

Project: Representing runout in landslide nowcasts to improve disaster information and response
Supervisor: Dr David Milledge
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-095
CASE project: No

Project: Laboratory modelling of internal tsunami generation due to ice calving
Supervisor: Dr Magda Carr
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-127
CASE project: No

Project: Palaeoglacier and palaeoclimate reconstructions in the Chilean and Argentinian Lake District, Patagonia
Supervisor: Professor Bethan Davies
IAPETUS number: IAP2-23-027
CASE project: No

Project: Uncovering the impacts of volcanic ash deposition on plant and soil communities
Supervisor: Dr Nick Cutler
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-013
CASE project: No

Project: Role of turbidity currents in organic carbon and nutrient transport to deep-sea environment
Supervisor: Dr Sanem Acikalin Cartigny
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-045
CASE project: No

Project: Late Glacial and Holocene glacier dynamics in southeast Alaska / British Columbia
Supervisor: Dr Christine Batchelor
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-046
CASE project: No

Project: Time-evolving hazard and risk from Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Bhutan.
Supervisor: Professor Rachel Carr
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-062
CASE project: No

Project: Impacts of rapid proglacial lake formation on glacial and proglacial systems in SE Iceland
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Russell
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-084
CASE project: No

Project: Invasions and extractions in Lough Neagh and their role in water quality deterioration
Supervisor: Dr Chris Hackney
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-085
CASE project: No

Project: Long-term pastoral impact on mountain soils
Supervisor: Dr Francesco Carrer
IAPETUS number: IAP-24-081
CASE project: No