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A Canyon Conundrum: What controls contemporary sediment, carbon and pollutant transport in submarine canyons? *
Adaptation mechanisms of globally successful cyanobacteria *
Associations between baleen whales and their prey in the northern Scotia Arc
Behavioural impact of environmental pollutants and parasites in gammarid amphipods
Biodiversity of macrobenthic Mollusca in the deep Atlantic, with special reference to the Southern Ocean
Carbon dioxide mineralization of mine tailings for permanent CO2 storage
Challenging the limits of the AMOC’s latitudinal coherence
Characterising the efficiency of Enhanced Weathering as an atmospheric CO2 removal strategy using isotopic tracers
Computational Fluid Dynamic investigation and optimization of biomass production using vertical stacking units
Constraining ascent rates of diamond-bearing kimberlite magmas using diffusion chronometry
Costa Rican subduction - connecting Earth’s deep water cycle to earthquake and volcanic hazard *
Crustal growth and recycling during continental collision
Deep oceanic convection: A finescale view from marine robots
Determining and Mitigating the toxic effect of lithium-ion batteries in the marine environment
Determining the duration of ridge flank hydrothermal exchange and its role in global biogeochemical cycles
Developing a microfluidic system for population level 3D, high-resolution imaging of nano- and microplankton
Developing a practical application of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for conservation research and monitoring of endangered wildlife *
Dissecting the microbial foodweb: determining the influence of phytoplankton derived organic matter substrates on bacterial growth efficiency
Drones Against Climate Change (DACC): improving the estimates of forest fire smoke emissions *
Dynamic phytoplankton iron physiology and its impacts on global ecosystem function
Earthquakes, Transforms, Mid Ocean Ridge-Understanding the Plate Tectonics beneath the oceans at the Equatorial Mid Atlantic Ridge
Effective monitoring of deep-sea fauna using towed cameras *
Enhancing Autonomy and Decision-Making Capabilities of an Obstacle Avoidance System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Under Ice *
Examining the evolutionary loss of calcification in coccolithophores
Explaining process, pattern and dynamics of marine predator hotspots in the Southern Ocean
Exploring the role of turbulence and biological glue on marine snow formation
Facilitating forest restoration to improve sustainability of swidden agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Faulting, magmatism and fluid flow during volcanic rifting in East Africa *
Greenhouse climates, ocean circulation and monsoon strength
Holocene reconstruction of terrestrial habitats and dispersal pathways in the Antarctic Peninsula and sub-Antarctic Islands
How has the tropical Pacific climate changed in the past?
How well can we predict future changes in biodiversity using machine learning? Experiments in an eco-evolutionary testbed
How will microplastics affect marine copepods and their contributions to global biogeochemical cycles?
Identifying predictors of deforestation across Brazilian landscapes
Impact of tidal mixing on shelf sea dynamics under strong tidal influences *
Impacts of environmental change on UK coastal ecology for nature based solutions
Interaction between gelatinous zooplankton and microplastics in the Southern Ocean
Investigating the determinants of woody vegetation encroachment in African drylands
Investigating the effects of environmental change on tropical montane bees and their pollination services
Is ocean mixing upside down? How mixing processes drive upwelling in a deep-ocean basin
Marine Soundscapes – finding and communicating biological signals within acoustic data collected by autonomous vehicles
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Modelling compound (combined fluvial, pluvial) and coastal flood inundation on large spatial scales *
Modelling the evolution of adaptive responses to climate change across spatial landscapes
Nitrogen cycling in the subsurface biosphere – an analogue for early life on Earth
Novel modern terrestrial analogues for potential life-favouring environments on ancient Mars
Oceanic heat and carbon sinks: The changing role of Global Ocean Mode Waters
Probabilistic assessment of exposure to coastal hazards at nuclear power station development sites in the UK *
Quantifying the status and success on restored native oyster Ostrea edulis beds in the Solent
Re-purposing of mine waste tailings for carbon dioxide removal via enhanced rock weathering and mineral carbonation *
Resolving Antarctic meltwater events in Southern Ocean marine sediments and exploring their significance using climate models
Robust Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Under the Polar Ice *
Scale dependency of benthic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Size matters: how does microplastic and nanoplastic size influence their abundance and toxicity in the aquatic environment?
SOS for plant stress – the role of singlet oxygen signaling in plant stress responses
Temporal variability of the carbon system across the Atlantic Ocean; causes and implications
The Acid Test: revolutionizing the record of abrupt changes in ocean pH through novel laser analysis of marine microfossils *
The biology of Mesozoic birds
The changing freshwater composition of the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean: causes and impacts
The impact of continental break-up on the global carbon cycle
The response of the water cycle under elevated temperatures – lessons from the past
The role of melt water on glacier behaviour
The role of ocean circulation in future climate change
The role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling on North Atlantic air-sea interactions *
Thermal sensitivity of field metabolic rates of marine fishes across global latitude gradients
Time controls on mixing of heat around melting ice in the West Antarctic
Triggers and Feedbacks of Climate Tipping Points
Understanding freshwater fish response to light: enhancing opportunities for conservation *
Unravelling oceanic multi-element cycles using single cell ionomics
Unravelling southwest Indian Ocean biological productivity and physics: a machine learning approach
Unravelling the environmental interactions of subsea communication cables using Autonomous Robotic Survey Data and Deep Learning *
Untangling the effects of climate change on ice shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
Valuation of Viral Agent Spread in Open and Closed Water Swimming
What does it take to survive in the future ocean? A comparative study on the adaptive potential of fish to ocean acidification *
What drives monsoon climate and droughts over East Asia and the Western Pacific Ocean?
What the flux? Assessing the global ocean biological carbon pump
Where did all the Carbon go? Understanding and predicting carbon inventories in coarse sediments
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