Cohort 5 | SPITFIRE

Name	Project Title	Host Organisation	Supervisory Team	Website
Flo Atherden	Using metabolomics to investigate the impacts of climate change on polar zooplankton (Calanus spp.) physiology	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Dr Dan Mayor (NOCS) Dr Cathy Lucas (SOES) Dr Kathryn Cook (NOCS) Prof David Pond (University of Stirling) Prof Mark Viant (University of Birmingham)	View student profile
Rachel Brown	Reconstructing paleo-CO2 using stable boron isotopes to investigate the relationship between climate and CO2	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Gavin Foster Paul Wilson Tom Chalk Eelco Rohling	View student profile
Mike Buckingham	The impacts of multiple stressors on reef corals	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Joerg Wiedenmann Cecilia D'Angelo	View student profile
Connor Butler	Factors affecting the distribution of cryptic anurans in Malaysian montane forests	Biological Sciences, UoS	Prof Patrick Doncaster Dr Mark Chapman Dr Kelvin Peh Dr Orly Razgour	View student profile
Matthew Clark	Changing Atlantic influences on northwest European shelf seas	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Prof Robert Marsh (UoS SOES) Dr James Harle (NOC) Prof Martin Edwards (SAHFOS/MBA)	View student profile
Hannah Connabeer	Blue Biotechnology	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Tom Bibby Matthew Terry Ivo Tews	View student profile
Oana Dragomir	Dynamics of the polar Southern Ocean response to climate change	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Alberto Naveira-Garabato George Nurser Michael Meredith (BAS) Anna Hogg (U o Leeds)	View student profile
Jacob Harper	Understanding the stoichiometric coupling of nutrients and carbon within the Southern Ocean	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Prof Mark Moore (SOES) Dr Adrian Martin (NOCS) Prof Toby Tyrrell (SOES)	View student profile
Charlotte Hipkiss	Stress in Paradise: Quantifying the frequency and impacts of ENSO driven droughts in tropical Pacific Island Nations	Geography, UoS	David Sear Peter Langdon Justin Sheffield Ian Croudace	View student profile
Emma Horn	Using mantle cumulates as an insight into explosive volcanic eruptions and a geochemical understanding of the magma chamber below Tenerife	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Rex Taylor Tom Gernon	View student profile
Amy Jackson	Identification and analysis of speciation genes in island plants	Biological Sciences, UoS / Natural History Museum	Mark Chapman Lorraine Williams Mark Carine (NHM)	View student profile
Tereza Kunkelova	Aridity in the Greater Middle East: palaeoclimate insights into human-induced climate change and the history of our hominid ancestors	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Paul Wilson Steve Bohaty Anya Crocker	View student profile
Spencer Long	Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Production by Marine Nitrifiers	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Dr Phyllis Lam (main supervisor) Dr Julie Robidart Dr Paul Skipp	View student profile
Alex Nicol-Harper	The not-so-Common Eider: applying transient analysis to seaduck conservation	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Dr Tom Ezard Professor Patrick Doncaster	View student profile
Hannah Parry-Wilson	Gonad analysis of three native UK topshell species to compare spawning cycles in response to rising sea surface temperatures. Analysing the biodiversity of the invasive seaweed Sargassum muticum to assess what epifauna and epiflora are utilising it as a habitat.	MBA	Phillip Fenberg Nova Mieszkowska	View student profile
John Robotham	Integrated lowland catchment management: working with natural processes to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Dr Gareth Old Prof David Sear	View student profile
Najam Sahar	Eat in eat out? Effect of plant communities on microbial metabolic activities	Biological Sciences, UoS	Dr Bjorn Robroek Dr Marc Dumont	View student profile
Harry Shepherd	Using Plant-Soil Feedbacks to Enhance Ecosystem Restoration	Biological Sciences, UoS	Dr Bjorn Robroek Dr Marc Dumont Dr Jane Catford	View student profile
Philip Smith	Assessment of temporal changes in the benthos of the Atlantic Abyss	NOCS	Dr Dan Jones	View student profile
Nichola Strandberg	When was the South Pacific colonised? A lake sediment approach to understanding climate: human drivers of ecosystem change on remote Pacific Islands	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Sandra Nogue Bosch Peter Langdon David Sear Mary Edwards	View student profile
Charles Turner	The impact of anthropogenic heat uptake on the ocean storage and future uptake of carbon dioxide	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Kevin Oliver Peter Brown Elaine McDonagh	View student profile
Connor Tyler	Harnessing natural plant defence pathways to control Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)	Biological Sciences, UoS	Dr Herman Wijnen Dr Haruko Okamoto	View student profile
Sara Lise Underhay	Machine Learning for Optimal Unexploded Ordnance Mitigation	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Prof Tim Henstock Prof Adam Prugel-Bennett	View student profile
Rebecca Walley	Drivers of marine ecosystem change through the end Triassic extinction and recovery	Natural History Museum, London	Jessica Whiteside Richard Twitchett (NHM) Stephen Stukins (NHM)	View student profile
Emma Watts	‘Mt Vesuvius: Chemical investigation into the plumbing and evolution of the volcanic system’	Ocean & Earth Science, NOCS	Tom Gernon Derek Keir Rex Taylor	View student profile