Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
This PhD opportunity aims to develop a novel proxy to reconstruct the strength and movement of southern westerly winds, crucial for understanding climate tipping points. It involves quantifying wind-blown particles found in sub-Antarctic peat, integrating data into global climate models, with fieldwork in sub-Antarctic islands.
The magnitude of future warming will depend upon the strength of carbon cycle feedback mechanisms. However, there are carbon cycle feedbacks that we still know little about. This PhD project will test whether CO2 release from sedimentary rocks is a missing carbon cycle feedback in past and future warm climates.
This project will identify the microbial communities associated with corals from the Persian-Arabian Gulf (PAG) and study their persistence, potential functions and responses to changing conditions. This research will thus help establish functional mechanisms and environmental drivers that facilitate the extreme heat tolerance of PAG corals.