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A hidden carbon source: permafrost under the Arctic shelves
A Mediterranean Sea in the middle of unprecedented climate change
Advancing environmental DNA (eDNA) observation of marine and coastal biodiversity
Advancing process-based sargassum forecasts with Earth Observation and Machine Learning
Antarctic Ice Sheet response to climate forcing
Are forever chemicals really forever? Determining PFAS cycling in the environment.
Assessing sedimentary Blue Carbon to inform marine management *
Beyond species on the move: characterising Southern Ocean bioregions and communities under present and future climates
Calming effect of group living in social fishes
Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs
Connecting the world: Subsea cable risks in the Polar Seas *
Controls on organic carbon transport and burial in deep-sea basins in the Atlantic Ocean
Coupled biological-physical controls on estuarine flocculation
Desert dune avalanche processes in modern and ancient environments
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings *
Does organic carbon burial explain the ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’ transition?
Does temperature drive enhanced carbon cycling in Holocene lake sediments?
Ecosystem engineering in past and future reefs
Effect of microplastics on methane-cycling in marine sediments
Effects of electromagnetism associated with offshore windfarms on North Sea fish *
Evolution of calcification in coccolithophores
Evolution of symbiosis in a warming world
From ridge to trench: seismic evolution of Pacific oceanic crust
Functional ecophysiology of Atlantic mesopelagic fishes
How can we best observe and analyse Antarctica's coldest water masses?
How climate change is causing global ocean biogeochemistry to adapt.
How does Antarctic Intermediate Water ventilate the global ocean?
How does vertical mixing shape the Arctic shelf sea dynamics?
Hydrogel based chemosensors for detecting metal ion contamination in seawater
Impact and feedbacks of turbulent mixing of heat around melting ice in Antarctic waters
Impacts of environmental change on coastal UK habitats and implications for nature-based solutions *
Impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal ecosystem structure and function
Impacts of underwater noise associated with offshore windfarms on marine fish *
Impacts on the marine ecosystem of dietary biomolecules
Improving the projection of gravel barrier transgression impacts
Intercomparison of Inlet Dynamics over annual and decadal timescales *
Interconnections of past greenhouse climates: lessons for the future
It’s getting hot, sour and breathless – impacts of climate change on carbon(ate) fixation by foraminifera
Keeping up with ocean change: Using robots to push the envelope in ocean carbon observing *
Long-term change in the benthos – seabed photography as a critical tool for monitoring *
Macroecological patterns and climate change in abyssal seafloor communities *
Mapping Fishing Industry Response to Shocks: Learning Lessons to Enhance Marine Resource Resilience *
Mapping the biological pump: ocean carbon storage from space to seafloor
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Microplastics in the Southern Ocean: sources, fate and impacts. *
Novel ocean sensing using seafloor telecommunications cables for geohazards and environmental monitoring
Nutrient limitation in a changing Arctic Ocean
Ocean deoxygenation and marine biodiversity in warm ancient climates
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Physical and biogeochemical responses to Antarctic sea ice loss: what are the implications for ocean carbon uptake? *
Polar amplification of climate change in the past and future
Predicting future shark habitats and distributions under climate change
Reconstructing major volcanic eruptions from their deep-sea records *
Reconstructing the history of submarine volcanoes using sediment biogeochemistry and modelling
Resolving Antarctic meltwater events in marine sediments and exploring their significance using climate models
Role of Multiple Anthropogenic Pressures in Determining Marine Benthic Ecosystem Functioning
Seafloor Mapping with Heterogenous Swarms of Underwater Robots using Machine Learning
Seismo-acoustic properties of sea-ice and applications to climate monitoring.
Size does matter: linking particle size to ocean carbon storage *
Southern Ocean Iron Supply: Does Size Fractionation Matter?
Space-time geography of Antarctic ice shelf mixing
Spatiotemporal patterns of the southern Indian Ocean higher predator community
Synchronous Circumpolar Cross-Slope Exchanges Modulating Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting
The Acid Test – high-resolution records of climate change across the PETM and other hyperthermals
The role of Antarctic sea ice in configuring the global ocean
The role of Antarctic sea ice in configuring the global ocean
The role of Greenland currents in mediating the interaction between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic
Towards a mechanistic understanding of how chemical contaminants affect marine invertebrates, using a common jellyfish as a model organism.
Tracking nutrient and metal exchange during Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement *
Tracking the fate of natural and geoengineered ocean carbon sequestration
Understanding phytoplankton metabolism by single cell sequencing
Understanding process interactions that cause wave overtopping for hazard managers.
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Up, up and away – the fate of upwelled nutrients in an African upwelling system and the biogeochemical and phytoplankton responses
Will Earth’s warming climate shift to a “permanent El-Niño” state?

* signifies projects with additional CASE funding.

Please note that environmental science is a multi-disciplinary research area needing both specialists in environmental science disciplines but also specialists in other areas (e.g. Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics), who bring their deeper understanding of individual specialisms to environmental science. You do not need a background in an environmental science subject; every year we welcome many new PhD students who do not have such a background.

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