Les cycles biogéochimiques globaux, régulés par l’activité microbienne, sont essentiels à la santé de la planète. Les activités humaines — exploitation minière, processus industriels et usage d’antibiotiques — ont profondément modifié ces cycles, entraînant une pollution généralisée ainsi que ...
Records of past environmental changes provide an opportunity to understand how ecosystems, and the services they provide, have responded to climate changes outside the range experienced in the recent historical past; this understanding is useful in anticipating how ecosystems might respond to ...
The candidate will work on developing and applying improved methodologies for palaeoproteomic analyses of bones, teeth and sediments from Middle and Later Stone Age sites in Africa. In addition, they will, where appropriate, apply other scientific methods including radiocarbon dating, stable ...
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 ...
