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PhD Environmental Sciences


Research is undertaken under a set of guiding themes, in interdisciplinary centres as well as by groupings of like-minded researchers. Centres: Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Climatic Research Unit, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Groupings: Atmospheric Chemistry Group, Coastal Processes, Environmental Assessment and Management, Environmental Earth Sciences, Integrated Catchment Science and Management, Interactions Between Ocean Biogeochemistry, Physics and Climate, Interdisciplinary Research on Coral Reefs, Meteorology, Oceanography and Climate Dynamics, Geology, Geophysics, Seismic Risk and Stable Isotope Laboratory. Wherever possible, novel connections are identified and exploited, within and between research themes, with the rest of UEA and research institutes across the Norwich Research Park and beyond to the wider academic community.

We reserve the right to occasionally offer an advertised PhD project to an applicant before the stated application deadline. Click here to view a key to the funding symbols.

We also welcome applications to study for a PhD from those with their own research project proposal; click here to apply online.

  Adapt or disperse: how do marine plankton cope with climate change? Project offered to Henrieke Tonkes Dr Carol Robinson (Environmental Sciences)

  Aerosol Trace Metal Chemistry Dr Alex Baker (Environmental Sciences)

  Atmospheric Budgets of Gases Relevant to Climate Dr Claire Reeves (Environmental Sciences)

  Biotic and abiotic mediation of the erosion of intertidal sediments under combined flows. Trevor Tolhurst (Environmental Sciences)

  Carbon Dioxide Uptake and Carbonate Chemistry in UK Shelf Waters Dr Dorothee Bakker (Environmental Sciences)

  Chemistry-cloud-climate links in the Marine Boundary Layer Dr Roland von Glasow (Environmental Sciences)

  Clumped isotope characterisation of fluid-rock interactions in fault zones: The Gulf of Corinth Dr Victor Bense (Environmental Sciences)

  Coastal Megacities and their Atmospheric Implications Dr Roland von Glasow (Environmental Sciences)

  Combining seismology and space geodesy for accurate quantification of global earthquakes and Earth structure Dr Ana Ferreira (Environmental Sciences)

  Cross-bedded fluvial sandstones resulting from unit bar migration Professor Jan Alexander (Environmental Sciences)

  Daily temperature data - analysis of homogeneity testing and interpolation methods, and comparison with reanalysis and regional climate model (RCM) output Professor Phil Jones (Environmental Sciences)

  Desert salts: Tracers of the ancient atmosphere Dr Mark Claire (Environmental Sciences)

  Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics with the Marine Coccolithophore Emiliania Huxleyi RCC1217 Dr Thomas Mock (Environmental Sciences)

  Explicit Representation of Bacteria in a Global Ocean Biogeochemical Model. Dr Erik Buitenhuis (Environmental Sciences)

  FULLY FUNDED STUDENTSHIP: Novel mass spectrometric techniques for stable isotope measurements in atmospheric halocarbons Dr Jan Kaiser (Environmental Sciences)

  How has atmospheric nitrogen varied through earth history? Dr Mark Claire (Environmental Sciences)

  Identification of Genetic Networks Involved in Silicon Metabolism of Marine Diatoms Dr Thomas Mock (Environmental Sciences)

  Identifying the Molecular Underpinnings of Bloom Formation in Marine Diatoms Dr Thomas Mock (Environmental Sciences)

  Influence of microzooplankton on the phytoplankton community structure. Dr Erik Buitenhuis (Environmental Sciences)

  Investigating soil organic carbon loss and turnover resulting from changing land management practices in a lowland arable catchment in East Anglia, UK Dr Nikolai Pedentchouk (Environmental Sciences)

  Iron-light Colimitation of Phytoplankton Dr Erik Buitenhuis (Environmental Sciences)

  Mechanisms for anthropogenic carbon uptake by the Southern Ocean Dr Dorothee Bakker (Environmental Sciences)

  Mitigating the risk of variable weather and climate associated with renewable energy penetration in electricity grids. Dr Steve Dorling (Environmental Sciences)

  Ocean climatic linkages during millennial-scale events Dr Mark Chapman (Environmental Sciences)

  Reconstructing Late Pleistocene climate change from speleothems Dr P.J.Rowe (Environmental Sciences)

  Seismic Hazard: Partitioning Seismicity and Segmenting Faults Dr Paul W Burton (Environmental Sciences)

  Spillovers between Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Exploring the Influence of Status, Visibility, Imitation, and Motivation Dr Charlie Wilson (Environmental Sciences)

  Sulfur isotopes and the evolution of the atmosphere Dr Mark Claire (Environmental Sciences)

  The contested politics of green budgeting: a comparative national perspective Dr David Benson (Environmental Sciences)

  The counterintuitive notion of counterfactual analysis Dr Alan Bond (Environmental Sciences)

  The Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviours Professor Andy Jones (Environmental Sciences)

  The Erosion of Mixed Material Sediments Professor Jan Alexander (Environmental Sciences)

  The life cycle of wind-driven energy in the ocean Dr. Xiaoming Zhai (Environmental Sciences)

  The use of global positioning systems to study physical activity and dietary behaviours Professor Andy Jones (Environmental Sciences)

  Tropical ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Indian Ocean: Seaglider observations and ocean modelling Dr Adrian Matthews (Environmental Sciences)

  Uptake and Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Atlantic Ocean Dr Marie-Jose Messias (Environmental Sciences)

  What causes the ocean to bloom? Revisiting Sverdrup’s critical depth hypothesis Dr Jan Kaiser (Environmental Sciences)