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Current SAGES Funded Students
Rachel Oien | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Climate at the onset of the Antarctic ice-sheet growth: a detailed analysis of ice-buried glacial cirques. |
Carla Casas | Abertay | Theme 2 | Utilising anthropogenic waste products for Microbial-Induced calcite Precipitation. |
Julien Sartorius | Dundee | Theme 4 | Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: engaging participatory approaches to inform community decision-making. |
Henry Finn | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Going beyond transmission: Promoting the transformative potential of Education for Sustainable Development . |
Francesca Gregory | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | How green will the Arctic get? Understanding plant nutrient availability in Arctic ecosystems and its impacts on global climate change. |
William Harcourt | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 3 | The application of millimetre wave radar to the study of volcano-glacier interactions and ice-ocean interactions in conditions of reduced visibility. |
Current Associate Students
Temitope Olumuyiwa Akinsanpe | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD | Organic Geochemistry of Devonian Terrestrial Organic Matter. |
Lucy Ashpitel | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | Bacteria-amoebae interactions: investigating their relationship with an insight on how the anthropogenically contaminated environment and the interaction bacteria-protists favour the rise of antimicrobial resistance. |
Tracy Asamoah-Boateng | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Exploring the impacts of pro-poor Solar Home System (SHS) on adopters in the off-grid rural communities of Ghana. |
David Ania Ayiine-Etigo | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD | Technological Innovation systems of offshore wind potential in Ghana and eco-tourism. |
Carol Barbone | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Marine Protected Areas and Brexit – Navigating Complexity and Securing Reforms for Sustainable Marine Systems. |
<>Hannah Poppy Clark | Aberdeen | Them 3 | The role of sponge competition on cold-water coral reefs. |
Maria del Pilar Di Martino Perez | Aberdeen | Themes 2 & CESD | Unconventional reservoir imaging and geological interpretation in porous, heterogeneous environment via integrated seismic, petrophysical and mineralogical techniques. |
Oludare Durodola | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | Optimising water use and soil carbon sequestration in agricultural co-cropping systems . |
Annabel Everard | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | The palaeoenvironmental history of ancient deciduous woodlands in Scotland & Ireland, with particular emphasis on the sub-canopy layers. |
Jessica Fennell | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Evaluating nature based strategies in rural landscapes for managing low flows and stream temperatures. |
Rebecca Fletcher | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Ice Streams: Present to Palaeo. |
Simona Gabrielli | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | Moving: PhD in Geophysics and Geography. |
Jesus Mezquita Gonzalez | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Hydrogeophysical approaches for characterising fluid flow and storage in weathered/fractured reservoirs and implications for hydrocarbon and groundwater exploration in basement rocks. |
Yogendra Kumar | Aberdeen | Theme CESD | Ground water flow characterisation using self-potential geophysical method at fracture scale. |
Bartosz Kurjanskii | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2, 3 & CESD | Glacigenic reservoir characterisation using sedimentology, geomorphology and virtual outcrop mapping. |
Eva Loerke | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | UAV thermal remote sensing for assessing river temperature. |
Afolabi Morakinyo | Aberdeen | Themes 2 & 3 | Basin and petroleum systems (hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, migration and loss) modelling. |
Martyn Roberts | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | The role of place and scale on effectiveness of temporary storage areas for surface run off attenuation. |
Haruna Dantata Salihu | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD | Systematic Investigation of Interfacial Tension Measurements of Brine and Hydrocarbon Systems with CO2: CO2-Eor and CCS. |
Natasha Simmonds | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Facilitating a natural capital approach in Marine protected area governance in the UK. |
Panayiota Sketsiou | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Extending the life of mature basins in the North Sea and imaging sub-basalt and sub-intrusive structures using seismic intensity monitoring. |
Jamie Stevenson | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | The role of isotopes in urban eco-hydrology. |
Marja van den Houten | Aberdeen | Themes 3, 4 & CESD | Environmental Stewardship and the changing face of Citizen Science . |
Abiodun Akinola | Abertay | Theme 4 | Optimisation of renewable energy resources for global energy security: a case study of Nigeria. |
Adnan Khan | Abertay | Theme 2 | Developing a smartphone mobile application for Scotland that takes camera images and environmnetal covariates . |
Abdullahi Baba Mohammed | Abertay | Theme 4 | An Integrated Assessment of Environmental Impact and Sustainability of Oil Refinery Development and Operations in a Developing Country: A Case Study of Kaduna Refinery in Nigeria. |
Segun Olo Olorunsiwa | Abertay | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Development, Implementation and Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment on Oil and Gas Facilities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria . |
Laura Young | Abertay | Themes 1 & 4 | Enhancing Scotland’s resilience to climate change – a blue-green infrastructure inclusivity framework based on community-centred nature-based solutions. |
Sarah Crowe | Dundee | Themes 1 & 4 | Water smart cities: towards a place-based approach for waterfront management and flood protection |
Travis Dickinson | Dundee | Theme 1 | Proglacial landform and sediment signatures of subglacial overdeepenings |
Tanya Jones | Dundee | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | Can restorative justice create a principle for and process of restorative climate justice applicable to adaptation needs of communities affected by deglaciation? |
Tanya MacDonald | Dundee | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD | Education for Sustainability through Outdoor Learning . |
Kate Sargent | Dundee | Theme 4 | Intersections of waste and unwanted materials with the lives of African street youth. |
Aidan Wrethman | Dundee | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Examining the tsunami risk from submarine landslides to current & future coastal energy technologies. |
Kerr Adams | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Scotland’s freshwater landscape and its resilience to change: as assessment to support future policy. |
Prerita Agarwal | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Modelling Black Carbon Aerosols over South Asia using a High-Resolution Regional Chemistry-Transport model. |
Luisa Escobar Alvarado | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Socio-ecological dynamics of miombo woodlands in southeast Angola. |
Ayushi Arora | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Photocatalytic Oxidation for water treatment and environmental remediation . |
Ludwig Baldszti | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2, 4 & CESD | Assessing extinction risk in plants . |
Sophie Baldwin | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Intraplate Magmatism at the Cameroon Volcanic Line. |
Elizabeth Balmer | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Sedimentary development of the latest cretaceous-neogene of West Cyprus. |
Hannah Bischof | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Future changes in sea ice and upper ocean mixing in the warming West Antarctic Peninsula. |
Kelsey Archer Barnhill | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Cold-Water Coral Reef Growth and Loss in a Changing Ocean. |
Rosie Bisset | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Monitoring and modelling changes to polar ice sheets and ice caps over the last 50 years. |
Julien Bodart | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Reconstructing the history of marine basins in West Antarctica. |
Hannah Bryant | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Hydrogen the Fuel of the Future? Modelling its Environental Impacts. |
Ashley Buchan | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Beetles and the development of Thorne Moors, SE Yorkshire, UK. |
Charlie Bunce | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Investigating controls on calving front morphology at Kangiata Nunata Sermia a Greenlandic tidewater glacier. |
Sophie Butcher | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | What can low-frequency seismicity tell us about subduction zone volcanic processes? |
Hannah Calleja | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Explosive basaltic eruptions and the potential role of supercritical fluids |
Ri Cao | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Massive volcanic domes on Venus and the mobalisation of crystal mush: Insights from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus |
Mariana Garcia Criado | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Quantifying distribution shifts of plant species under climate change. |
Gergana Daskalova | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Attribution of biodiversity change to land-use change and climate change. |
Margot Debyser | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Characterising nutrient cycling in the Atlantic Arctic gateways using dissolved nitrate and silicon isotopes. |
Richard Delf | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Characterisation of subglacial hydrology in Svalbard using ground penetrating radar. |
Ribanna Dittrich | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | The Role of Organic Matter in the Oceans around Antarctica. |
Justine Perry Domingo | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Assessment of spatial and temporal variation in the sediment and metal fluxes in nickel-mining affected catchments. |
Antonia Doncila | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Nitrogen cycling in the warming Acrtic Ocean. |
Wenquan Dong | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Mapping forest biomass and biomass change in China . |
Matthew Dumont | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Reconstructing the biological pump in the Southern Ocean across the last deglaciation. |
Marthe Faber | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD | 3D Imaging with Seismic Wavefield Gradiometry |
Ben Fisher | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | How do climate-driven shifts in phytoplankton composition influence carbon and nitrogen uptake and recycling along the West Antarctic Peninsula?. |
Morag Fotheringham | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Ice-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Arctic |
David James Fulton | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & CESD | Mechanisms and effects of decade scale climate variability. |
Boris Gailleton | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Topographic response to cessation of subduction in the Carpathian mountain range. |
Ivonne Garcia | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Mechanisms of Long-term climate variation over Central America: the role of atmospheric teleconnections. |
Marta Santos Garcia | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Changes in nitrogen inputs and cycling in the warming Arctic Ocean. |
Selena Georgiou | Edinburgh | Assessing greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical peatlands | |
Emma Graf | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Evacuation of earthquake-triggered landslide sediment by rivers in the Nepalese Himalaya. |
Rebecca J. Grant | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | The geographies of energy justice: assessing the implications of off-grid solar PV promotion and uptake in Rwanda. |
Maude Grenier | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Autumn planting phenology responses to a warming Arctic. |
Tom Grove | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Assessing the impact of whale watching encounters on blue and humpback whale populations in north Iceland. |
Peter Hargreaves | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4/td> | Remote Sensing of poverty and its role in measuring socioeconomic conditions at fine spatio-temporal resolution. |
Carla Huynh | Edinburgh | Theme 1; | Glacial retreat in southernmost Patagonia since the last glacial maximum. |
Chris Holdsworth | Edinburgh | Themes 2, 4 & CESD | Tracking industrial scale CO2 mineralisation at the CarbFix2 site, Iceland using a combination of geochemical tracing and reservoir modelling. |
Nick Homer | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & CESD | Image processing and machine learning techniques applied to remotely sensed data. |
Diana Jerome | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Shrub climate sensitivity across boreal, subarctic and tundra ecosystems |
Zixuan Jia | Edinburgh | Theme CESD | The influence of the East Asian monsoon on air quality in China. |
Jize Jiang | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Quantifying climate-dependent ammonia emissions and investigating the impacts on air quality and climate. |
Callum Leavey-Wilson | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Land use integration, change and conflict amelioration in the British uplands. |
Rory Leslie | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Quantifying rates of CO2 dissolution in natural CO2 reservoirs through integration of noble gas geochemistry and 3D reservoir modelling. |
Tancrede Leger | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Reconstructed dating of preserved quaternary glacial rock deposits. |
Anna Mackie | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Interpreting Earth’s top-of-the-atmosphere broadband radiation fluxes using numerical models. |
Blair Mackie | Edinburgh | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Resource Recovery from Chitosan and Ragworms’ Bioremediation of Waste. |
George Malczyk | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | .Glaciology. Title: Imaging Elevation of the Cryosphere from combined analysis of large datasets of satellite, airborne and field observations. |
Monika Mendelova | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Reconstructing the timing, extent and significance of Quarternary glaciations in Patagonia. |
Aideliz Montiel Alvarez | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | A new 3D conductivity model of the British Isles based on magnetotelluric data for space weather impact studies. |
Jonathan Morley | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Quantifying the effects of development projects on biodiversity conservation in West Africa. |
Jazmin Mota | Edinburgh | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Drivers for a Lower Carbon Intensity Economy in Mexico, CO2 – EOR and storage projects. |
Alexis Moyer | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Investigating tidewater glacier and iceberg submarine melt rates in Greenlands fjords. |
Keiko Nomura | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Impacts of palm oil plantations on forests in Southeast Asia. |
Amaris Ormond | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | ‘Resilience and acclimation potential of temperate rainforest lichens |
Louise Parkes | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Investigating seismic anisotropy in a gas chimney using ambient seismic methods. |
Leo Peskett | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Runoff generation, flow paths and flooding in the UK uplands. |
Hannah Pollak | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Informing Design of Novel Materials for Drug Pollution Remediation through Molecular Modelling. |
Alex Priestley | Edinburgh | Theme CESD | Assimilation of geophysical data in snow hydrology modelling. |
Laura Quick | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Sediment dynamics of the Himalayan foreland basin from the Neogene to present times. |
Myriam Andrea Rada-Torres | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Constructing a high resolution palaeosecular variation master curve describing the geomagnetic field in Scotland during the last 10,000 years. |
Berta Ramiro Sanchez | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Biogeographical patterns in the deep ocean: environmental, biological and historical drivers in the North Atlantic. |
James Scott Robinson | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Socio-ecological impacts of community forest management in Tanzania. |
Peter Rowe | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Faith in the Forest: Christianity, Conservation, and Relationships in the Dakatcha Woodland, Kenya. |
Marina Ruiz Sanchez Oro | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Learning to recognise landslides and catastrophic landscape change with deep neural networks. |
Michael Saunders | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & 4 | An Observational Review of Submarine Hydrothermal System Geochemistry and an Evaluation of Vented Products as an Unconventional Mineral Resource. |
Julian Shield | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | The role of organic nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle of temperate forests |
Lauren Shotter | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Environmental Impact of Plinian Eruptions in Iceland. |
Jiacheng Sun | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | A study of algae-derived biochar and bioenergy using pyrolysis. |
Paul Tepes | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Arctic glacier and ice cap change using high resolution CryoSat-2 swath altimetry. |
Saraswati Thapa | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Modelling the impact of sediment transport on flooding in the Kathmadu Basins, Nepal. |
Polly Thompson | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Volcanic ash layers and environmental change: Decoding records of past landscapes held within tephra layers. |
Galina Toteva | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | Measuring the Effects of Ammonia Dry Deposition on Nitrous Oxide Fluxes from Forest Soils. |
Anya Towers | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | What determines the delivery of coarse sediments and can it be predicted in Scotland? . |
Andrew Twelves | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Modelling the influence of ice shelf melt on primary productivity in the Amundsen Sea, West Antartica. |
Warwick Wainwright | Edinburgh/SRUC | Theme 4 | Economic mechanisms for supplying agrobiodiversity conservation services. |
Kai Wan | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & 4 | The temperature -related mortality in Scotland’s changing climate in terms of its science and policy landscape. |
Xutong Wang | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 2 | Thermochemical coupling with electrokinetic treatment for sewage sludge utilization. |
Yue Wang | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Torrefaction (Pyrolysis) of Biomass. |
Ziqiong Wang | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & CESD | Modelling anlysis of atmospheric pollutants over China. |
James Watt | Edinburgh/SRUC | Theme 1 | Predictive Modelling of Vanadium Cycling, Speciation and Bioavailability in Contrasting Scottish and Chinese Lake Sediments. |
Ian Watt | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | A laboratory investigation of carbon dioxide storage by mineral carbonation.. |
Diorbhail Wentworth | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | Facilitating the circular economy in India’s food security: the social, economic and agronomic barriers and opportunities of sewage. |
Joshua Williams | Edinburgh/SRUC | Theme 3 | Controls on Ice Discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet. |
Laura Wollacott | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Sages Pawprint Internship – improving behaviour change outcomes. |
Rosie Wood | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | Molecular modelling for design of biochar materials. |
Aythya Young | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Insects, post glacial colonisation and refugia in Northern Norway. |
Jayoung Yun | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Dust as an important driver of Asian monsoon variability. |
Alcide Zhao | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & CESD | Modelling the effects of atmospheric chemical compositions on climate change and extremes. |
Uduak Essien Affiah | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Vulnerability of the Nigerian coast to climate change induced coastal hazard. |
MD. Jahangir Alam | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | The composition and pollution implications of waste materials from historic paper making sites in Scotland. |
Khaled Alghafli | Glasgow | Themes 3 & 4 | Quantifying regional groundwater recharge using GRACE satellites. |
Daniel Bezzera | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Landscape evolution of mountainous regions in intraplate settings. |
Maricela Blair | Glasgow | Themes 4 & CESD | Micro- and nanoplastics in wastewater systems and receiving waters. |
Alison Brown | Glasgow | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Greenhouse gas emissions from human impacted rives and estuaries: identifying ‘hotspots’ from source-to-sea, their drivers and stability . |
Danielle Buchanan | Glasgow | Theme 1 & 3 | Seasonal to decadal scale change of a rock coast system: Platform erosion and boulder transport dynamics, Glamorgan Coast, UK. |
Marta Argemi Cierco | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 2 | Nature based coastal protection: A predictive model for marsh ecosystem services. |
Edward Curley | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Investigating the impacts of hydrodynamics on the behaviour of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel. |
Kwetishe Danjuma | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Fluvial Sedimentology – Automated Quantified Analysis of Distributive Fluvial System (DFS) . |
Marli De Jongh | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Sustaining Scotland’s clay-rich sandstone buildings. |
Laura Ebeler | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Development of an interdisciplinary decision support tool to inform mangrove restoration/conservation in large Asian deltas |
Cameron Floyd | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2 & CESD | Space Weathering of Carbonaceous Asteroids and its Astrobiological Implications |
Charlotte Francoz | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Assessing Saltmarsh Resilience in a changing climate. |
Chao Gu | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Does catchment inorganic C influx drive freshwater CO2 degassing? |
Holly Hourston | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Biogeochemistry of the Winchcombe meteorite CM1 clasts. |
Neil Jackson | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Green biofilters: testing multifunctional urban greening solutions that improve asset resilience and air and water quality |
Kelly James | Glasgow | Theme 2 | The Evolution of Post-Hydration Heating in Carbonaceous Chondrites in Relation to C-Complex Asteroids. |
Laura Elise Jenkins | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Scottish maerl bed blue carbon in a changing world |
Heather Kerr | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Spatial variability in meander characteristics. |
Faisal Waleed Khudhur | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Carbon capture using alkaline wastes. |
Beth Langley | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Arctic Blue Carbon: human and climatic drivers of change. |
Qing Li | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in Tropical Rivers of Philippines. |
Jose Porfirio Del Angel Lozano | Glasgow | Theme 2 | A comparison of passive atmospheric CO2 capture with steel slag in Mexico and the United Kingdom. |
Mairi MacArthur | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Geodiversity and marine biodiversity interaction: enhancing ecosystem service provision on rocky and engineered coasts. |
Ellen MacDonald | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | Oceans on Acid: using historic ocean acidification to understand marine ecosystem function under global change. |
Patrick McMaster | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Where do Whale Skeletons Come From? |
Jennifer Mallon | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | Coral reef community metabolism. |
Pierre-Etienne Martin | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Delivery of water on Earth by carbonaceous chondrites. |
Christopher Masafu | Glasgow | Themes 3 & CESD | A novel approach for flood hazard mapping |
Freya Muir | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Real-time monitoring and modelling of coastal change |
Aine O’Brien | Glasgow | Theme 1, 2, 4 & CESD | Macromolecular carbon in martian meterorites. |
Franziska Paul | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Energy Democracy Coalitions and Radical Energy Futures. |
Velveth Perez | Glasgow | Themes 1, 4 & CESD | Volcanic processes and hazard assessment of the Torfajokull volcanic area, Iceland. |
Mmapula Sylvia Phesodi | Glasgow | Theme CESD | Genesis of kimberlites and evolution of the underlying lithospheric mantle in Botswana. |
Sophie Plant | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | Deciphering triggers of past coral bleaching. |
Octria Adi Prasojo | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Understanding the morphodynamics of global river deltas facing the sea-level rise. . |
Yusuff Sarnoh | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 4 | Drought Vulnerability Assessment of Central and North-West Liberia to Climate Change. |
Charlotte Slaymark | Glasgow | Themes 3 & CESD | Development and the application of biomarkers for climate change in the United Kingdom for the last glacial-interglacial transition and early Holocene. |
Lea Stolpmann | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | Mangrove sediment carbon budgets along eroding and prograding coasts |
Eilidh Stott | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD | Rainfall-to-reach, real time modelling of braided river morphodynamics. |
Pamela Louise Tolentino | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Influence of catchment characteristics on hydrologic regimes. |
Breanna Van | Glasgow | Theme 1 | MSc Identify and assess changes associated with the post-restoration stage of two-stage channel design and embankment set-back restoration on the Upper Nith river near New Cumnock, Scotland . |
Savanna van Mesdag | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 4 | Anthropogenic biodiversity – geodiversity: can legacy industrial waste help offset falling global biodiversity? |
Yuchen Wang | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Sediment Transport of Made Ground along urban Scottish Coasts |
Rachel Williams | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Masters by Research in Earth Science: Quantifying variation within the medial portion of modern and ancient distributive fluvial systems. |
Kang Xie | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Quantifying Late Quaternary sea-level changes and paleoclimatic conditions: the Iona speleothem record. |
Josephine Zimba | Glasgow | Themes 3 & 4 | Precarious Lives: Assessing the effects of climate change and urbanisation on livelihoods in Malawi. |
George Biddulph | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 2 | Past & present spatial patterning of the newly discovered peat swamp forests in the Congo Basin. |
Kirsty Eleanor Black | St Andrews | Themes 2 & 3 | Assessing the resilience of Scotland’s Blue Carbon Sediment Stores. |
Florian Brouillet | St Andrews | Themes 3 & CESD | Climate impact of the 1783 Laki eruption: Study and review of 1783 Laki eruption using new hight time resolution elements and S isotopes measurement from Greenland Ice core. |
Alexander Chaudhri | St Andrews | Themes 3, 4 & CESD | Idealised Modelling of Monsoon Depressions and Their Response to a Warming Climate. |
Camille Choquet | St Andrews | Them 4 | Conserving the tropical peatlands of the north Peruvian Amazon while supporting and improving the livelihoods of the people who live there: an analysis of the multi-level strategies. |
Hanna Ewen | St Andrews | Themes 2, 3 & CESD | Scotland’s Deep Carbon Resources: Sources, Rates and Fates . |
Rhiannon Grant | St Andrews | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD | The quantity and quality of organic matter in the sediments of the Firth of Clyde |
Oliver Hall | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Predicting tidewater glacier retreat . |
Alex Houston | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 2 | Sources, Sinks and Subsidies of Carbon within Coastal Saltmarsh Habitats. |
Corallie Hunt | St Andrews | Theme 2 | A national inventory of sedimentary blue carbon for Scotland. |
Laura Kamp | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Assessing the impact of environmental chemicals on seabird development and health. |
Georg Kodl | St Andrews | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Use of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery and Spatial Models of Erosion to Assess the Sustainability of High-Latitude Rangeland Grazing Areas . |
Willem Koster | St Andrews | Theme 1 | New digital tools for using palaeoenvironmental records to understand longterm human ecodynamics in Iceland. |
Anna Macphie | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Human impacts on Amazonian peatlands. |
Simone Riegel | St Andrews | Themes 1, 2 & 4 | The Potential of Scottish Saltmarshes for Climate Change Mitigation. |
Madison Shankle | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Southern Ocean Mechanisms of CO2 Draw Down and Release on Glacial/Interglacial Timescales . |
Abigail Whitefield | St Andrews | Theme 4 | Developing Policies for Managing Peri-Urban Deer in Lowland Scotland: Understanding Perceptions to Shape Policymaking. |
Ella Wood | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Hydrologic significance and climate response of rock glaciers in the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan . |
Beate Zein | St Andrews | Themes 3 & CESD | Modelling geomagnetic bird navigation. |
Christian Armstrong | SAMS | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | Assessing dynamic seabead change on the UK continental shelf. |
Alasdair O’Dell | SAMS | Themes 2 & 3 | Scotland’s blue carbon: the contribution from seaweed detritus. |
Lea Riehn | SAMS | Theme 3 | River Robots: Utilizing novel autonomous technologies, observations and models to investigate freshwater coastal dispersio. |
Jamie Rodgers | SAMS | Theme 3 | Sea ice retreat – using AUV’s to measure the turbulent polar oceans. |
Heather Anderson | Stirling | Theme 4 | reconciling discrepancies in scientific and non-scientific ontologies of safe water with case studies in the global North and the global South. |
Allan Audsley | Stirling | Themes 2 & 3 | Scotland’s Pockmarks: Understanding the link between gas-escape features and buried carbon in fjordic systems. |
Olivia [email protected] | Stirling | Theme 4 | Above and Belowground Ecological Linkages in Temperate Forest Soils. . |
James Blaikie | Stirling | Theme 1 | Palaeoecological reconstruction of rapid Late-glacial-Holocene environmental change for Central Patagonia, South America. |
Emily Bonsall | Stirling | Theme 2 | Preservation of organic matter by reactive iron species on Mars relevant to Mars Sample Return |
Natalie Boyd Williams | Stirling | Themes 3 & 4 | Exploring the role of human excreta in developing sustainable rural futures in India. |
David Bryan | Stirling | Themes 1 & 2 | Integrated management of Scotland’s agricultural wetlands to deliver multiple benefits and minimise pollution swapping |
Alexandra Bulgakova | Stirling | Themes 2 & 3 | Commercial scale efficiency and environmental assessment of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA). |
Jodie Geldard | Stirling | Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD | Surge Forth: Understanding glacier dynamics where the Scottish Highlands meet the Lowlands. |
Nicola Horsburgh | Stirling | Themes 3 & 4 | Future proofing Scotland’s remote coastal areas: evaluation of the potential for nature-based coastal adaptation . |
Celeste Kellock | Stirling | Themes 2 & 4 | Source to Sea: Soil carbon transport from forested environments to coastal waters. |
Charlotte Lee | Stirling | Themes 3 & 4 | Invisible threats to Oceans (InTo): assessing the combined toxicity effects of emerging anthropogenic pollutants on microbial communities. |
Neil McDonald | Stirling | Theme 1 | Getting to the bottom of ice shelves ( |
Kirelle McManus | Stirling/CEH | Theme 4 | Environmental pollution and human health in Malawi’s informal settlements. |
Kirsten O’sullivan | Stirling | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD | Changing distribution and composition of sub-tropical montane forests in Taiwan. |
Thomas Ovenden | Stirling | Theme CESD | Assessing the resilience of UK forests to extreme climate events. |
Heather Purshouse | Stirling | Theme 4 | Opportunities and barriers for recovering value from faecal sludge in African cities. |
Flora Rendell-Bhatti | Stirling | Themes 1 & 4 | Plastics and the hidden majority – Conservation implications for a threatened UK freshwater fish. |
Jazz Rhoades | Stirling | Themes 1 & 3 | Climate change in marginal habitats: understanding heterogeneity in European beech demography across its rear edge margin. |
Kathleen Stosch | Stirling | Themes 1 & 4 | Building resilience to respond to future environmental change across Scottish catchments. |
Ximena Aguilar Vega | Stirling | Themes 2 & 3 | Ice and Ocean colour: the study of carbon in glaciomarine systems through remote sensing. |
Ilgaz Cakin | UHI | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Reed bed use within Scotch Whisky Distilleries to treat waste water: a new toolkit to help maximise performance. |
Anna McWilliam | UHI | Themes 1, 2 & 4 | Innovative brash management to enhance water quality following peatland restoration and forestry operations. |
James Slingsby | UHI | Themes 3 & 4 | Top predator usage of tidal-stream sites in relation to fine-scale surface hydrodynamic features – using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) as an ecological survey tool. |
Inne Withouck | UHI | Theme 4 | Optimising the siting of marine renewable energy developments. |
Huiyi Zhang | UHI | Theme 3 | Can marine derived plastic litter be used in water remediation? |
Wisdom Adza | UWS | Theme 4 | Exploring the relationship between road traffic noise, air quality and public health. |
Elisa Giammarini | UWS | Themes 1, 2 & 4 | Bacteria-amoebae interactions: investigating their relationship with an insight on how the anthropogenically contaminated environment and the interaction bacteria-protists favour the rise of antimicrobial resistance. |
Ogechukwu Okwu | UWS | Themes 2 & 4 | Challenges for the formal system upgrade where the informal system has a dominant role in WEEE management: A case study of Port-Harcourt Municipal Council, Nigeria. |
Umme Rubab | UWS | Themes 3 & 4 | Climate variability and food security. |
Na Song | UWS | Theme 4 | Contaminants of wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing and the Fate Migration and Transformation of pollution in environment/food chain: case study in Hunan Province, China. |
Current Affiliated Students
Sara Trojahn | Heriot Watt | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | The role of dissolved organic matter in Atmosphere-Land-River interactions. |