Cohort 1

 

Name

Project Title

Host Organisation

Supervisory Team

Website

Stephanie Allen

Variability and trends in sub-Arctic phytoplankton populations

National Oceanography Centre

Stephanie Henson (NOC), Anna Hickman (OES), Claudie Beaulieu (OES) and Erica Head (DFO Canada)

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Adham Ashton-Butt

Rapid assessment of biodiversity and biogeochemical processing across tropical land-use gradients

UoS/Centre for Biological Sciences

Kelvin Peh, Jake Snaddon and Guy Poppy

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Elena Bollati

Influence of nutrient stress on coral bleaching

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Joerg Wiedenmann (OES) and Cecilia d’Angelo (OES)

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Steven Bourne

The genomics of adaptation and its consequences for marine biological invasions

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Marc Rius (OES), Mark Chapman (CfBS) and Christopher Woelk (UoS-Medicine)

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Nikki Brown

Thermodynamics of the Arctic Ocean

National Oceanography Centre

Sheldon Bacon (NOC) and Alberto Naveira Garabato (OES)

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Abbie Chapman

A functional trait perspective on the biodiversity of hydrothermal vent communities

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Amanda Bates (OES), Jon Copley (OES), Adrian Glover (NHM) and Verena Tunnicliffee (University of Victoria)

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Matthew Cobain

Trophic level and size relationships across coastal habitats

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Antony Jensen (OES) and Clive Trueman (OES)

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Elizabeth Comer

Causes and Impacts of Decadal Ocean Climate Variability in the Subpolar North Atlantic

National Oceanography Centre

Penny Holliday (NOC) and Sheldon Bacon (NOC)

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James Gott

Valuing the cultural benefits that coastal ecosystems provide to people using citizen science

UoS/Geography & the Environment

 

 

Oliver Hogg

An integrated ecological and geophysical approach to habitat mapping at the sub-Antarctic South Georgia and South Sandwich islands: an analysis to underpin the world’s largest marine protected area

British Antarctic Survey

Katrin Linse (BAS), Huw Griffiths (BAS), Jon Copley (OES) and Veerle Huvenne (NOC)

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Finnigan Illsley-Kemp

Interaction between tectonic deformation and magmatism during volcanic rifting in Afar

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Dr Derek Keir (OES) 

Professor Jon Bull (OES)

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Harry Jackson

Marine microalgae for biofuel

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Tom Bibby (OES), Matthew Terry (CfBS), Mark Moore (OES) and Mike Zubkov (NOC)

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Kyle Mayers

Probing rates of growth and mortality in natural coccolithophore populations

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Alex Poulton (NOC) and Toby Tyrrell (OES)

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Samuel Monk

Development of an autonomous dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) sensor for ocean measurements

National Oceanography Centre

Socratis Loucaides (NOC), Matt Mowlem (NOC) and Nick Bates (OES/BIOS)

 

Lucie Munns

Shedding light on coccolithophore calcification

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Anna Hickman (OES), Alex Poulton (NOC), Toby Tyrrell (OES)

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Robert Needham

Quantifying the hydrodynamic and geomorphological effect of beaver dams and impacts on the movement of fish

UoS/Faculty of Engineering & the Environment

Paul Kemp (FEE), Gerald Mueller (FEE), David Sear (UoS-Geography) and Martin Gaywood (Scottish Natural Heritage)

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Elis Newham

Dental histology at the root of the tree of mammals: Exploring the use of tomographic techniques in the study of fossil dental tissues

UoS/Faculty of Engineering & the Environment

Philipp Schneider (FEE) and Gareth Dyke (OES)

 

Clare Prebble

Migratory Connectivity of Whale Shark Aggregations

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Clive Trueman (OES), David Sims (MBA), Simon Pearce (MMF Mozambique)

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Jasmine Saban

Population genomics of plant adaptation to rising atmospheric CO2

UoS/Centre for Biological Sciences

Gail Taylor (CfBS), Mark Chapman (CfBS) and Tom Bibby (OES)

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Samantha Simpson

Understanding migratory movements of threatened rays and their fishery interactions

Marine Biological Association

David Sims (MBA) and Clive Trueman (OES)

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Kate St John Glew

Retrospective geo-location of free-living marine animals - new tools for spatial ecology, natural resource management and conservation

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Clive Trueman (OES), Felix Eigenbrod (UoS – CfBS) and Sujit Sahu (UoS – Maths)

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Rose Stainthorp

Shifting the paradigm: Testing the ecological relevance of oxygen and capacity limited thermal tolerance

British Antarctic Survey

Simon Morley (BAS) and Amanda Bates (OES)

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Harry Teagle

Climate change impacts on the structure and functioning of kelp forest ecosystems in the NE Atlantic

Marine Biological Association

Dan Smale (MBA), Steve Hawkins (OES) and Pippa Moore (IBERS)

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Matthias Thomsen

Incorporating compensation effects into predictive models of shelf sea biodiversity – ecosystem functioning

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Martin Solan (OES), Jasmin Godbold (OES), Stefan Bolam (CEFAS), Clement Garcia (CEFAS) and Ruth Parker (CEFAS)

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Lissette Victorero Gonzalez

Spatial patterns in benthic seamount habitats: scales, drivers and effects on biodiversity

National Oceanography Centre

Veerle Huvenne (NOC) and Jon Copley (OES)

 

Charlotte Walker

Quantifying the cost of calcification in coccolithophores

Marine Biological Association

Colin Brownlee (MBA), Toby Tyrrel (OES) and Glen Wheeler (PML/MBA)

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Edward Wort

The role of habitat gaps and oceanography on the biogeography of rocky intertidal species over historic time scales

UoS/Ocean & Earth Science

Philip Fenberg (OES), Marc Rius (OES), Stephen Hawkins (OES), Suzanne Williams (NHM) and Ellinor Michel (NHM)

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Ryan Patmore

Dynamics of the Ross Gyre

British Antarctic Survey

Paul Holland (BAS) Michael Meredith (BAS) Alberto Naveira-Garabato(NOCS) David Stevens (UEA)