QUADRAT

University of Aberdeen

School of Biological Sciences

• Actions of early life endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure on adult fish health using the zebrafish model
• Biodiversity of the gut microbiome and their links with growth, reproduction and ageing in a wild bird
• Bridging ecology and economics to develop effective and sustainable rodent management strategies in rural Africa
• Chemodynamics of climate-smart rice production: optimizing nutrient cycling in paddy soils
• Conservation implications of variation in reproductive traits among fragmented populations of tropical forest trees
• Eco-evolutionary responses of soil microbes to drought stress
• Ecological and evolutionary processes associated with environmental change in microbial populations
• Ecology of dynamic seasonal salt lakes and their responses to hydrological changes
• Environmental change and the epidemiology of a multi-host pathogen in reservoir hosts: Leptospira in Africa (CASE)
• Establishing Marine Biodiversity Baselines for Blue Carbon Habitats
• Evolution and consequences of mating systems for range dynamics and species’ responses to environmental changes.
• Exploring behaviour and behavioural changes in the light of climate change in Irish Sea cod (CASE)
• Fruit flies: when a food waste party gets too crowded
• Impacts of Offshore Wind Turbines on fishing and the environment: An assessment of Bottom-fixed versus Floating Wind Turbine Concepts.
• Killing two challenges with one biochar: biological enrichment of biochar to increase sustainability and food security
• Modelling long-distance migrants in the face of environmental change: The case of Montagu’s and Pallid Harriers.
• Predicting the ecological impacts of invasive alien insects at multiple levels: from genes to communities
• Quantitative environmental risk assessment of binary and tertiary heavy metal mixtures in agricultural soils
• Rewilding and the return of interacting meso-predators: Understanding, modelling and monitoring predator-prey dynamics in non-equilibrium ecosystems (CASE)
• Salmonid conservation in American rivers in the wake of proliferative kidney disease outbreaks: using functional genomics to understand climate-change driven disease emergence (CASE)
• Spineless, or socially skillful? Social competence in insects and spiders
• The evolutionary ecology of prokaryotic viruses in hyper-saline environments
• The individual within the invaders – how individual variability influences invasion interactions and outcomes
• The role of transposable elements in driving evolution and adaptation in the deep sea
• Understanding and managing connectivity in species with spatially complex life-histories
• Vulnerability of UK marine species and communities to climate change and implications for adaptation planning

School of Geosciences

• Are land plants good or bad for coral reefs?
• Automated soil profiling: identification of soil characteristics using Machine Learning and image analysis
• Exploring past biodiversity in Scotland and Ireland using environmental ancient DNA
• Mapping and measuring glacier mass balance: developing a best practice approach for understanding glacier change.
• Monitoring environmental change with ambient seismic noise
• Quenching the thirst at the foot of the giants: the effect of climate change on glacier-derived water resources in high mountain regions
• Study of the role of microbial networks on carbon cycling under controlled pressure and temperature conditions
• Sustainable Resilience to Coastal Erosion: A Demonstration Project of an Innovative System for Erosion Mitigation for Coastal Golf Courses (CASE)
• The Low Enthalpy Geothermal Potential of Shallow Aquifers in Northern Ireland and Northern Scotland
• The role of ocean currents in the dispersal and sequestration of plastics in the deep ocean
• Towards an integrated workflow for geothermal reservoir characterisation with seismic noise
• Understanding social values on low carbon sub-surface technologies in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Queen's University, Belfast

School of Natural and Built Environment

• Air Quality and Environmental Impact on Human Health
• Development of artificial reefs: design, scientific monitoring, environment impact and management in North/Irish Seas
• Dynamics of carbon capture in Scottish and Irish peatlands over the past centuries
• Glacial meltwater evolution during the deglaciation of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
• Modelling the fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Northwest European Shelf ecosystem with a suite of high-resolution numerical models (CASE)
• Properties of Glacial Tills: Engineering, Environmental and Glaciological Applications
• Quantifying kelp detrital pathways: what is potentially locked away as Blue Carbon? (CASE)
• Repurposing fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composite waste for marine renewable energy
• Resilience and adaptation of First Nations Communities in Canada to Disappearing Winter Road Infrastructure in a Changing Climate
• Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of global peatland fire

School of Biological Sciences

• Authentication of Sustainable Oil Palm Production for Protection of Tropical Biodiversity
• Biodegradable bioplastics as emerging environmental pollutants
• Biological control of mosquitoes: optimising the efficacy of native macroinvertebrate predators
• Do nutrition-parasite interactions drive One Health under climate change?
• Ecological drivers and conservation implications of parental care diversity in vertebrates
• Greening cities: biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with street trees, from ecology to planning
• Identifying Environmental Factors for Soil Transmitted and Food Borne Helminth Diseases in Border Regions of Northern Thailand
• Increasing culture biodiversity and eco-evolutionary understanding of novel bacterial isolates using culturonmics and computational tools
• Investigating the nature and implications of archaea-bacteria interactions
• Investigating the relationship between soil microbiome diversity and resilience to stressors caused by a changing climate and their implications for plant growth for food on Earth and space exploration
• Links between energetics and disease in mammals: use of biologging and remote sensing to assess behaviour and movement (CASE)
• Quantifying the resilience and functioning of lotic ecosystems across spatial and temporal gradients of environmental stress (CASE)
• The Irish Damselfly: identifying population genetic structure and optimising habitat management for an iconic Irish species (CASE)