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Director's Interdisciplinary Studentships
Further information including supervisor contact details, project descriptions, and project specific websites is available for download in the following outline.
The projects below are now available for students to apply for entry in September 2008. If you are interested in any of these projects please contact the lead investigator of the project for further information. You will have to apply for admission to the University where the lead scientist is located. You will also have to have an interview at the The University of Edinburgh, where all the candidates for SAGES projects will meet early in 2008 (date will be posted soon).
| Project Name |
Supervisors | PDF/Doc Download |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural decision-making and environmental change | John Briggs (Glasgow) and Mark Rounsevell (Edinburgh) |
Project Description |
| The role of geomorphic processes in driving nutrient and carbon cycling in Andean rain forests | Patrick Meir (pmeir@ed.ac.uk) & Tibor Dunai (Edinburgh Univ.); Michael Bird & Ruth Robinson (St Andrews Univ.) | Project Description |
| Potential for Climate Change Mitigation Through Education | Dr Dave Reay School of Geosciences (SAGES member), University of Edinburgh; Prof Pete Higgins School of Education, University of Edinburgh; Dr Charles Warren, School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews (SAGES member). |
Project Description |
| Vulnerability of local communities in Scotland to future climate change and climate-related policies |
Professor Peter Tucker and Dr Alexandre S. Gagnon. Environmental Initiatives
Research Group, E-mail: tuck-ch0@paisley.ac.uk; Alexandre.Gagnon@thurso.uhi.ac.uk Dr. Ruth Doherty. Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, |
Project Description |
| Using hydro-climatic history to estimate flood risk under climate change |
Dr Andrew Black (Geography, Dundee) a.z.black@dundee.ac.uk, Dr Gabi Hegerl (Geosciences, Edinburgh) gabi.hegerl@ed.ac.uk Prof Alan Werritty (Geography, Dundee) a.werritty@dundee.ac.uk, Prof Trevor Hoey (GES, Glasgow) Trevor.hoey@ges.gla.ac.uk , Prof Marian Scott (Statistics, Glasgow) marian@stats.gla.ac.uk |
Project Description |
| Refreezing and runoff at the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet | Doug Mair, Univ. of Aberdeen (d.mair@abdn.ac.uk), Pete Nienow, Univ. of Edinburgh (Peter.Nienow@ed.ac.uk) | Project Description |
| Towards an understanding of the feedbacks between vegetation, carbon, climate, and the growth of mountain belts | Simon Mudd (simon.m.mudd@ed.ac.uk), Richard Essery (Richard.Essery@ed.ac.uk), Mathew Williams (mwilliam@stafmail.ed.ac.uk) and Philip Wookey (Stirling; Philip.wookey@stir.ac.uk) | Project Description |
| Community Response to Hazards and Vulnerability |
Lynn Staeheli and Heather Lovell (Edinburgh), Jo Sharp and Leah Gibbs (Glasgow) |
Project Description |
| Landscape and Climate Change in the Scottish Uplands |
Richard Essery, Simon Mudd (University
of Edinburgh) | Project Description |
| SimSages – predicting & visualising the urban-rural interface |
Dr Jim Bown, SIMBIOS Centre, University
of Abertay Dr Ruth Falconer, SIMBIOS Centre, University of Abertay Prof Mark Rounsevell, Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability Dr. Heather Lovell, Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability |
Project Description |
| Land stewardship for sustainable management of flood risk and water quality in Scotland |
(1) Dr. Tom
Ball, RCUK Research Fellow, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science,
University of Dundee t.ball@dundee.ac.uk
(2) Dr. Kate Heal, School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh k.heal@ed.ac.uk (3) Dr. Alison Reeves,
Geography Department, University of Dundee a.d.reeves@dundee.ac.uk Associate Member
UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee. (4) Dr.
Graham Russell, School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh
Graham.Russell@ed.ac.uk. |
Project Description |
| Sustainable Urban Environments: soil quality and human health |
Professor Andrew Hursthouse, University of the West of Scotland Professor John Farmer, University of Edinburgh |
Project Description |
| Catchment behaviour, carbon storage and climate change |
Ruth
Robinson, Yit Arn Tey, Michael Singer (St Andrews.ac.uk), John Rowan (Dundee),
and Susan Waldron (Glasgow) |
Project Description |
| Tracking the last glacial termination deep into the Holocene in central western Scotland using marine sediments records and land-based records | Vincent Rinterknecht (vr10@st.andrews.ac.uk), Mary Elliot (mary.elliot@ed.ac.uk). Co-supervisors: William Austin (wena@st-andrews.ac.uk), Douglas Benn (Doug.Benn@unis.no). | Project Description |