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A missing link between continental shelves and the deep sea: Have we underestimated the importance of land-detached canyons? *
Antarctic Ice Sheet response to climate forcing
Antibiotic resistance genes in chalk streams
Assessing changes in astronomical tides on global scales
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
Cascading hazards from the largest volcanic eruption in over a century: What happened when Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted in January 2022? *
Climate at the time of the Human settlement of the Eastern Pacific
Climate Change effects on the developmental physiology of the small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Deep oceanic convection: the outsized role of small-scale processes
Desert dune avalanche processes in modern and ancient environments
Development and evolution of animal biomineral skeletons
Disturbance and recovery of benthic habitats in submarine canyon settings *
Ecological role of offshore artificial structures *
Electrochemical sensing of the sea surface microlayer
Evolution of symbiosis in a warmer world
Explaining process, pattern and dynamics of marine predator hotspots in the Southern Ocean
Exploring Dynamics of Natural Capital in Coastal barrier Systems *
Fingerprinting environmental releases from nuclear facilities
Fish with friends: The calming effect of group living in social fishes
Hot, acidified and breathless – biomineralisation of deep sea corals in the oceans of the future *
How well can we predict future changes in biodiversity using machine learning? Experiments in an eco-evolutionary testbed
Illuminating luciferin bioluminescence in dinoflagellates
Impact of pharmaceuticals in the marine environment in a changing world *
Integrated Earth Observation (EO) mapping change across the land and sea
Interconnections of past greenhouse climates
Is ocean mixing upside down? How mixing processes drive upwelling in a deep-ocean basin
Long-term change in the benthos – creating robust data from varying camera systems *
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
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Microplastics in the Southern Ocean: sources, fate and impacts. *
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
Ocean influence on recent climate extremes
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Offshore renewable energy (ORE) foundations on rock seabeds: Advancing design through analogue testing and modelling
Oxidation of fossil organic matter as a source of atmospheric CO2
Resolving Antarctic meltwater events in Southern Ocean marine sediments and exploring their significance using climate models
SOS for plant stress – the role of singlet oxygen signaling in plant responses to heat and drought stress
Southern Ocean Iron Supply: Does Size Fractionation Matter?
The Gulf Stream control of the North Atlantic carbon sink
The oceanic fingerprints on changing monsoons over South and Southeast Asia
The role of iron in nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in changing polar oceans
Time variability on turbulent mixing of heat around melting ice in the West Antarctic
Triggers and Feedbacks of Climate Tipping Points
Understanding the role of cell motility in resource acquisition by marine phytoplankton
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Unpicking the Anthropocene in the Hawaiian Archipelago
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

* signifies projects with additional CASE funding.

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