A variety of PhD opportunities are now available
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Contact: Dr Angus Atkinson
At the base of the Arctic food web, there are three major primary producers: small flagellates, diatoms living in open water (pelagic) and diatoms...
Contact: Dr Matthew Cole
Removing marine microplastics with mussel power is a one-year feasibility study funded by Waitrose Plan Plastic to develop an ecological solution...
Contact: Dr Tim Smyth
Artificial light at night (ALAN) can now be detected above 22% of the world’s coasts, and will dramatically increase as coastal human...
Contact: Dr Marie-Fanny Racault
Image courtesy of the World Health Organization.Focusing on the northern Indian Ocean, a multidisciplinary team of scientists from India, Japan and...
Contact: Dr Ming-Xi Yang
Ship emissions are significant sources of polluting aerosols in coastal regions, causing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths per year...
Contact: Dr Helen Findlay
The North East Atlantic Ocean Acidification Hub is being established to serve European countries that are conducting monitoring, and other OA...
Contact: Dr Gavin Tilstone
The AMT4OceanSatFlux project will measure the flux of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the atmosphere and the ocean utilising a state-of-the-art eddy...
Contact: Steve Groom
Through innovation, collaboration and capacity building, PORTWIMS aims to enhance the science, technology and profile of marine science at the...
Contact: Dr Ricardo Torres
The Arctic Ocean is a rapidly changing environment, with rising temperatures leading to an ongoing decline in sea ice and shifting conditions for...
Contact: Dr Luca Polimene
This project will conduct laboratory experiments to provide the physiological information and understanding needed to develop the first ever model...
The world’s oceans generate goods and services with an estimated value of over $49.7 trillion per annum, equivalent to the world’s...
Contact: Dr Susan Kimmance
The oceans, and in particular coastal regions, are responsible for about half of all global photosynthesis as marine bacteria and algae capture...
Contact: Dr Graham Quartly
Sea State CCI is part of the European Space Agency's programme to deliver long-term homogeneous datasets covering many of the recognised...
Contact: Dr Joanna L Dixon
Dimethylsulfide (DMS) is a key ingredient in the cocktail of gases that makes up the 'smell of the sea'. Around 300 million tons of DMS are...
Contact: Professor Mike Allen
The genetic manipulation of marine microalgae has revolutionised the bespoke production of membrane associated products such as triacyl glycerides ...
Contact: Dr Stefano Ciavatta
CAMPUS is a three-year project (2018–2021), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, combining state-of-the-art computer modelling...
Contact: Dr Andy Rees
OPTIMA will advance the capacity of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) to accurately assess the state of the marine...
Contact: Dr Jorn Bruggeman
Contact: Professor Steve Widdicombe
The ChAOS project will focus on how climate change and diminishing sea ice affects impact biological communities, biogeochemical processes and...
Contact: Stefan Simis
Funded by EU H2020, MONOCLE brings together 12 partners from across Europe to create sustainable in situ observation solutions...
MyCOAST will develop risk management tools and a Coordination Atlantic Coastal Operational Observatory to improve coastal monitoring and...
Contact: Dr Peter Miller
The aquaculture sector of Europe’s Atlantic Arc is negatively impacted by the effects of harmful blooms and microbial pathogens. The PRIMROSE...
Contact: Dr Eleni Papathanasopoulou
SOLSTICE – WIO is a four year collaborative GCRF project that aims to strengthen capacity in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region to address...
Contact: Professor Melanie Austen
GCRF Blue Communities is a 4 year research capacity-building programme for marine planning in East and South-East (E/SE) Asia, funded by UK...