The project "DORACLE - Development of River, Agricultural, and City Landscapes on the European Lifeline Danube at Straubing/Sorviodurum" investigates the paleoenvironment of the city of Straubing and its surrounding area with special regard to natural river course shifts and hydraulic engineering ...
Sea-level rise is one of the greatest threats to the global community. The UK Climate Change Committee stated that “climate change will exacerbate the already significant exposure of the English coast to flooding and erosion. The current approach to coastal management in England is unsustainable ...
Faced with the urgent challenge of predicting the consequences of current and future climate change, it is imperative that we seek to learn lessons about climate-animal-human relations from the long-term records available from the past. The Old World witnessed drastic changes in climate over the ...
The analysis of proteins preserved in archaeological and paleontological contexts (termed palaeoproteomics) is an exciting new area in archaeological science, generating ground-breaking new insights into the phylogenies of extinct species, human and animal diets, as well as patterns of health and ...
The Department of Earth Sciences is now looking for a highly-motivated candidate to fill a PhD position on the impact of microbial treatment on the weathering behaviour of rocks. Physical, chemical and biological weathering has a profound impact on the Earth’s landscape and on its building ...
The Dutch Research Council VICI project “Towards protecting and improving building stones through microbial manipulation of pore structure”, will focus on the understanding of bio-manipulated pore-scale processes inside rocks. The 4-year PhD project aims at understanding fluid-rock ...
The Dampier Archipelago (Murujuga) is on Australia's National Heritage List because of its significant rock art and stone features. This land- and seascape has over 1 million art works. While the scientific and cultural significance of this area is acknowledged, we still know little about the ...
This project will explore the scale of, and drivers responsible for, shifts in British animal biodiversity, focusing on the 1000-year period (AD 0-1000) which saw dramatic climatic, cultural and economic shifts akin to those being experienced in the present. It will do this at a multi-scalar ...
