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Enhancing UAV manoeuvres and control using distributed sensor arrays
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A missing link between continental shelves and the deep sea: Have we underestimated the importance of land-detached canyons?
A seismic study of the continent-ocean transition southwest of the UK
A study of rolling contact fatigue in electric vehicles (EVs)
Acoustic monitoring of forest exploitation to establish community perspectives of sustainable hunting
Acoustic sensing and characterisation of soil organic matter
Advancing intersectional geographies of diaspora-led development in times of multiple crises
Aero engine fan wake turbulence – Simulation and wind tunnel experiments
Against Climate Change (DACC): improving the estimates of forest fire smoke emissions
All-in-one Mars in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) system and life-supporting using non-thermal plasma
An electromagnetic study of the continent-ocean transition southwest of the UK
An investigation of the relationship between health, home and law in the context of poor and precarious housing, and complex and advanced illness
Antarctic ice sheet response to climate forcing
Antibiotic resistance genes in chalk streams
Assessing changes in astronomical tides on global scales
Being autistic in care: Understanding differences in care experiences including breakdowns in placements for autistic and non-autistic children
Biogeochemical cycling in the critical coastal zone: Developing novel methods to make reliable measurements of geochemical fluxes in permeable sediments
Bloom and bust: seasonal cycles of phytoplankton and carbon flux
British Black Lives Matter: The emergence of a modern civil rights movement
Building physics for low carbon comfort using artificial intelligence
Building-resolved large-eddy simulations of wind and dispersion over a city scale urban area
Business studies and management: accounting
Business studies and management: banking and finance
Business studies and management: decision analytics and risk
Business studies and management: digital and data driven marketing
Business studies and management: human resources (HR) management and organisational behaviour
Business studies and management: strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship
Carbon storage in reactive rock systems: determining the coupling of geo-chemo-mechanical processes in reactive transport
Cascading hazards from the largest volcanic eruption in over a century: What happened when Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted in January 2022?
Characterisation of cast austenitic stainless steels using ultrasonic backscatter and artificial intelligence
Climate Change effects on the developmental physiology of the small-spotted catshark
Climate at the time of the Human settlement of the Eastern Pacific
Collaborative privacy in data marketplaces
Compatibility of climate and biodiversity targets under future land use change
Cost of living in modern and fossil animals
Creative clusters in rural, coastal and post-industrial towns
Deep oceanic convection: the outsized role of small-scale processes
Defect categories and their realisation in supersymmetric gauge theory
Defining the Marine Fisheries-Energy-Environment Nexus: Learning from shocks to enhance natural resource resilience
Desert dune avalanche processes modern ancient environments
Design and fabrication of next generation optical fibres
Developing a practical application of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for conservation research and monitoring of endangered wildlife
Development and evolution of animal biomineral skeletons
Development of all-in-one in-situ resource utilisation system for crewed Mars exploration missions
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings
Ecological role of offshore artificial structures
Effect of embankment and subgrade weathering on railway track performance
Efficient ‘whole-life’ anchoring systems for offshore floating renewables
Electrochemical sensing of the sea surface microlayer
Engagement with nature among children from minority ethnic backgrounds
Ensuring the Safety and Security of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems
Environmental and genetic determinants of Brassica crop damage by the agricultural pest Diamondback moth
Estimating marine mammal abundance and distribution from passive acoustic and biotelemetry data
Evolution of symbiosis in a warmer world
Examining evolutionary loss of calcification in coccolithophores
Explainable AI (XAI) for health
Explaining process, pattern and dynamics of marine predator hotspots in the Southern Ocean
Exploring dynamics of natural capital in coastal barrier systems
Exploring the mechanisms of microplastics incorporation and their influence on the functioning of coral holobionts
Exploring the potential electrical activity of gut for healthcare and wellbeing
Exploring the trans-local nature of cultural scene
Facilitating forest restoration sustainability of tropical swidden agriculture
Faulting, fluids and geohazards within subduction zone forearcs
Faulting, magmatism and fluid flow during volcanic rifting in East Africa
Fingerprinting environmental releases from nuclear facilities
Flexible hybrid thermoelectric materials for wearable energy harvesting
Floating hydrokinetic power converter
Glacial sedimentology associated subglacial hydrology
Green and sustainable Internet of Things
How do antimicrobial peptides alter T cell cytokine production?
How do calcifying marine organisms grow? Determining the role of non-classical precipitation processes in biogenic marine calcite formation
How do neutrophils alter T cell metabolism?
How well can we predict future changes in biodiversity using machine learning?
Hydrant dynamics for acoustic leak detection in water pipes
If ‘Black Lives Matter’, do ‘Asian Lives Matter’ too? Impact trajectories of organisation activism on wellbeing of ethnic minority communities
Illuminating luciferin bioluminescence in dinoflagellates
Imaging quantum materials with an XFEL
Impact of neuromodulating drugs on gut microbiome homeostasis
Impact of pharmaceuticals in the marine environment in a changing world
Impacts of environmental change on coastal habitat restoration
Improving subsea navigation using environment observations for long term autonomy
Information theoretic methods for sensor management
Installation effect on the noise of small high speed fans
Integrated earth observation mapping change land sea
Interconnections of past greenhouse climates
Inverse simulation: going from camera observations of a deformation to material properties using a new theoretical approach
Investigating IgG cell depletion mechanisms
Is ocean mixing upside down? How mixing processes drive upwelling in a deep-ocean basin
Landing gear aerodynamics and aeroacoustics
Lightweight gas storage: real-world strategies for the hydrogen economy
Long-term change in the benthos – creating robust data from varying camera systems
Machine learning for multi-robot perception
Machine learning for multi-robot perception
Mapping Fishing Industry Response to Shocks: Learning Lessons to Enhance Marine Resource Resilience
Marine ecosystem responses to past climate change and its oceanographic impacts
Mechanical effects in the surf zone - in situ electrochemical sensing
Microfluidic cell isolation systems for sepsis
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Microplastics in the Southern Ocean: sources, fate and impacts
Migrant entrepreneurship, gender and generation: context and family dynamics in small town Britain
Miniaturisation in fishes: evolutionary and ecological perspectives
Modelling high-power fibre laser and amplifier stability
Modelling soil dewatering and recharge for cost-effective and climate resilient infrastructure
Modelling the evolution of adaptive responses to climate change across spatial landscapes
Nanomaterials sensors for biomedicine and/or the environment
New high-resolution observations of ocean surface current and winds from innovative airborne and satellite measurements
New perspectives on ocean photosynthesis
Novel methods of detecting carbon cycling pathways in lakes and their impact on ecosystem change
Novel technologies for cyber-physical security
Novel transparent conducting films with unusual optoelectronic properties
Novel wavelength fibre lasers for industrial applications
Ocean circulation and the Southern Ocean carbon sink
Ocean influence on recent climate extremes
Ocean methane sensing using novel surface plasmon resonance technology
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal: Assessing the utility of coastal enhanced weathering
Offshore renewable energy (ORE) foundations on rock seabeds: advancing design through analogue testing and modelling
Optical fibre sensing for acoustic leak detection in buried pipelines
Optimal energy transfer in nonlinear systems
Optimal energy transfer in nonlinear systems
Optimizing machine learning for embedded systems
Oxidation of fossil organic matter as a source of atmospheric CO2
Partnership dissolution and re-formation in later life among individuals from minority ethnic communities in the UK
Personalized multimodal human-robot interactions
Preventing disease by enhancing the cleaning power of domestic water taps using sound
Quantifying riparian vegetation dynamics and flow interactions for Nature Based Solutions using novel environmental sensing techniques
Quantifying the response and sensitivity of tropical forest carbon sinks to various drivers
Quantifying variability in phytoplankton electron requirements for carbon fixation
Reconciling geotechnical and seismic data to accelerate green energy developments offshore
Resilient and sustainable steel-framed building structures
Resolving Antarctic meltwater events in Southern Ocean marine sediments and exploring their significance using climate models
Robust acoustic leak detection in water pipes using contact sound guides
Silicon synapses for artificial intelligence hardware
Smart photon delivery via reconfigurable optical fibres
Southern Ocean iron supply: does size fractionation matter?
The Gulf Stream control of the North Atlantic carbon sink
The Mayflower Studentship: a prestigious fully funded PhD studentship in bioscience
The calming effect of group living in social fishes
The duration of ridge flank hydrothermal exchange and its role in global biogeochemical cycles
The evolution of symmetry in echinoderms
The impact of early life stress on neuronal enhancer function
The oceanic fingerprints on changing monsoons over South and Southeast Asia
The role of iron in nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in changing polar oceans
The role of singlet oxygen signaling in plant responses to heat and drought stress
Time variability on turbulent mixing of heat around melting ice in the West Antarctic
Triggers and Feedbacks of Climate Tipping Points
Uncovering the drivers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease progression using patient derived organoids
Understanding ionospheric dynamics machine learning
Understanding recent land-use change in Snowdonia to plan a sustainable future for uplands: integrating palaeoecology and conservation practice
Understanding the role of cell motility in resource acquisition by marine phytoplankton
Understanding the structure and engagement of personal networks that support older people with complex care needs in marginalised communities and their ability to adapt to increasingly ‘digitalised’ health and social care
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Unpicking the Anthropocene in the Hawaiian Archipelago
Unraveling oceanic multi-element cycles using single cell ionomics
Unravelling southwest Indian Ocean biological productivity and physics: a machine learning approach
Up, up and away – the fate of upwelled nutrients in an African upwelling system and the biogeochemical and phytoplankton response
Using acoustics to monitor how small cracks develop into bursts in pipelines
Using machine learning to improve predictions of ocean carbon storage by marine life
Vulnerability of low-lying coastal transportation networks to natural hazards
Wideband fibre optical parametric amplifiers for Space Division Multiplexing technology
Will it stick? Exploring the role of turbulence and biological glues on ocean carbon storage
X-ray imaging and property characterisation of porous materials
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