This project will work with ancient and modern samples of oak (Quercus sp.) to assess the influence of human activities on genetic diversity of this keystone species. Using the exceptional preservation of timber on Scottish crannogs, this PhD project will explore forest histories through ancient ...
This exciting interdisciplinary PhD project focuses on characterising the geomorphology of the present day seabed around the UK to better understand the how, where and why seabed is changing and present and how has it changed in the past. In shelf seas around the planet large areas of the seabed ...
Both the environment and climate can be catalysts for human resilience and adaptation but can also have catastrophic effects on human health. In this project, we test the hypothesis that human diet and oral health track environmental and climatic variability. It focuses on proteomics and ...
The Last Interglacial, specifically sub-stage MIS5e, saw a global climatic amelioration that brought a curious suite of temperate mammalian species to Britain, some of which are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa today. Characterised from the Joint Mitnor Cave type-site in Devon, but found across ...
This PhD project will be conducted within the scope of the MEDGREENREV ERC-Synergy project though which you will gain experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary, international research team. The links between pastoralism, cultivation, manuring, geology and type of field system are ...
The Mary Rose hull has undergone extensive conservation following centuries of submersion and subsequent exposure in a controlled museum environment. A range of techniques (micro-CT, XRF, XANES and physical monitoring of movement and moisture content) have been used at different stages, but these ...
Les algorithmes d’apprentissage non-supervisé, et plus particulièrement les algorithmes de segmentation ou de factorisation, peuvent jouer un rôle central dans l’exploitation des images spectrales pour lesquelles chaque pixel est caractérisé par un spectre complet. L’utilisation de la ...
The red squirrel in Britain has been under heavy pressure for centuries, particularly so after the introduction of the invasive grey squirrel in the late 1800s, and is now extinct in most of its former range. But already since the late 1700s, people have tried to counter the decline by bringing ...
