New members – February 2026
SAGES welcomes the following new members.EDINBURGH:Jasmine Relf - PhD. Jasmine has joined themes 1 & 3 and the Earth Systems and Source to Sea fora.Vikki Thompson - PDRA. Vikki has…
| Name | Location | Theme | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Asamoah-Boateng | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Exploring the impacts of pro-poor Solar Home System (SHS) on adopters in the off-grid rural communities of Ghana. |
| Lucy Ashpitel | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | Bacteria-amoebae interactions: investigating their relationship with an insight on how the anthropogenically contaminated environment and the interaction bacteria-protists favour the rise of antimicrobial resistance. |
| Christine Bordean | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 2 | Reconstructing the spatial ecology of Pleistocene Ursidae. |
| Eilidh Campbell | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Tracking critical minerals using icesheet dynamics . |
| Simona Caruso | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Sediment dynamics and destabilization of continental margins: Predicting shelf and slope instability under a changing climate. |
| Hannah Poppy Clark | Aberdeen | Theme 3 | The role of sponge competition on cold-water coral reefs. |
| Marcus Craigie | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Growing Scotland’s Islands: can the National Islands Plan stimulate a population turnaround? |
| Niamh Doherty | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Assessing impact of glacier surging on glacier mass balances in Svalbard. |
| Oludare Durodola | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | Optimising water use and soil carbon sequestration in agricultural co-cropping systems. |
| Darlington Egbonyi | Aberdeen | Themes 2 & 4 | Building Energy Security Through Localised Sustainable Resources in Local Communities in Nigeria. |
| Aya El Samad | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Understanding the social values on low carbon sub-surface technologies in the UK and Australia. |
| Zara Evans | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Analysing past biodiversity in North-eastern Scotland using DNA metabarcoding and metagenomics. |
| Antonia Foley | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 2 | Water resources in agricultural settings: unravelling patterns in water storage, flows and water quality. |
| Roederer Fullerton | Aberdeen | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | The role of universities in regional net zero partnerships as anchor organisations. |
| Kirsten Gow | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Island connection and return migration: the potential role of the Scottish Islands Diaspora in sustainable futures for island communities. |
| Mhairi Hallford | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Mapping and measuring glacier mass balance: developing a best practice approach for understanding glacier change. |
| Anna Jandova | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Constraining climate during the Last Local Glacial Maximum in the Apennines |
| Brady Johnson | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | The role of groundwater in adapting to climate change and increasing resilience to drought in Eastern Scotland. |
| Morrigan Jones | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Comparative Glaciology: Reconstructing Glaciers on Earth and Mars to understand landscape evolution with respect to climate change. |
| Heather Kennedy | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Geothermal reservoir characterisation and monitoring from three-component beamforming of ambient seismic noise. |
| Bartosz Kurjanskii | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2, 3 & CESD | Glacigenic reservoir characterisation using sedimentology, geomorphology and virtual outcrop mapping. |
| Ben Medley | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Unearthing the Secrets of Hill-Fort Vitrification in Early European History |
| Afolabi Morakinyo | Aberdeen | Themes 2 & 3 | Basin and petroleum systems (hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, migration and loss) modelling. |
| Alex Nurdin | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | Improving offshore renewable energy site characterisation through optimised high resolution seismic data inversion and geotechnical parameter definition. |
| Kebesobase Ofem | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Adoption of Digital Platforms and GIS Strategies by the Oil and Gas Sector for Crisis Management in Niger Delta Region. |
| Jennifer Pirie | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | The role of surface and groundwater connections in managing distillery water supplies with Nature-Based Solutions. |
| Anna Ranger | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Crevasse Squeeze Ridges: a fingerprint of unstable glacier flow? |
| Grace Rigby | Aberdeen | Theme 4 | Environmental and Social Sustainability of Critical Mineral Extraction in Greenland. |
| Kara Ross | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Unravelling Glacier and Climate History of the Californian Sierra Nevada during the Last Deglaciation. |
| Ioanna Samakovlia | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | The future of irrigated agriculture in Europe’s mountainous regions; exploring trade-offs and synergies for climate adaptation. |
| Jacob Seston | Aberdeen | Theme 3 | A sustainable future for Arctic marine shipping using Artificial Intelligence |
| Belay Sisay | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 3 | Sustainable Management of Fresh Groundwater Resources in Coastal East Africa – Using Lessons from the Past to Build Future Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change |
| Malgorzata Skwiot | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | MScR - Investigating conflict-driven land use changes and vegetation degradation with remote sensing analysis in data-poor active conflict zones. |
| Louise Smith | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | The historical ecology of lowland hillscapes: assessing the impact of post-medieval settlement colonisation on relationships between humans, animals, and plants. |
| Danni Thompson | Aberdeen | Themes 3 & 4 | Drivers of individual specialisation in foraging behaviour in a model seabird, the Falkland Islands shag. |
| Leia Tilley | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | An Integrated Multi-Proxy Approach to the Late Pleistocene Landscapes and Environments of Ireland and Scotland, and the Potentials for Human and Faunal Recolonizations at the End of the Last Ice Age. |
| Charlie Towler | Aberdeen | Themes 3 & 4 | The range dynamics and conservation of great crested newts under global change. |
| Tryggvi Unnsteinsson | Aberdeen | Theme 1 | Ice on Fire: exploring the relationship between glaciers and volcanoes. |
| Steven Wallace | Aberdeen | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | AI Deep Learning, and Remote Sensing to Study Environmental Change. |
| Stephanie Webb | Aberdeen | Themes 1 & 4 | Cultural landscape aesthetics of beaver-modified landscapes, a cross cultural comparison. |
| Foteini Dervisi | BGS | Themes 1 & 4 | Machine learning-based earthquake monitoring and forecasting. |
| Ruaridh Alexander | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Biota and drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition. |
| Christina Antoniou | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Controls of climate versus tectonic effects in Pleistocene mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments (Polis graben, NW Cyprus). |
| Ayushi Arora | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Photocatalytic Oxidation for water treatment and environmental remediation. |
| Nicholas Ashmore | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Predicting the fate and transport of CO2 in carbon storage reservoir overburden. |
| Jack Baker | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Exploring Pathways to Impact at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. |
| Ludwig Baldszti | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2, 4 & CESD | Assessing extinction risk in plants. |
| Milo Bischof | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Sea ice and upper-ocean mixing in the warming west Antarctic Peninsula region. |
| Charlie Bunce | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Investigating controls on calving front morphology at Kangiata Nunata Sermia, a Greenlandic tidewater glacier. |
| Hannah Calleja | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | Explosive basaltic eruptions and the potential role of supercritical fluids. |
| Gregoire Canchon | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | The impact of Heatwaves on Arctic Vegetation and the Carbon Budget. |
| Aksha Chowdhary | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Understanding the response of flooded savannas to climate, fire and people. |
| Alys Daniels Creasey | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | A green gold rush? Natural capital investments and implications for rural communities in Scotland. |
| Harry Davis | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Stability of Marine Basins in the Antarctica Peninsula Ice Sheet from Remote Sensing. |
| Doria De Souza Etchells | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Climate variability over Greenland between 500-1500 AD. |
| Tshering Dorji | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Impacts of woody encroachment on the grassland ecosystems of Bhutan. |
| Dana Druka | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Developing a simple, cost-effective way to assess peatland health on the molecular level. |
| Helene Engler | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Manganese Cycling and Mobilisation in Scottish Reservoirs and Catchments. |
| Nina Fischer | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2 and 4 | Shaping the future of the UK’s landscapes – building a decision support system for sustainability. |
| Amy Foster | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 and 4 | Sustainable infrastructure: can residential property development be retrofitted to withstand multi-hazard disasters utilising environmentally-conscious materials and green tech design to shape a better and more resilient world? |
| Adam Francis | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Controls on nitrogen fixation in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Christine Gaebel | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Operationalising Evidence-based Management of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction in a Changing Ocean. |
| Marta Santos Garcia | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | Changes in nitrogen inputs and cycling in the warming Arctic Ocean. |
| Calum Grevers | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Transformative Participatory Action Research (TPAR) for Disability and Climate Justice: Exploring Climate Impacts, Adaptations and Solutions with Disabled and Intersectional Communities. |
| Peter Hargreaves | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Remote Sensing of poverty and its role in measuring socioeconomic conditions at fine spatio-temporal resolution. |
| Calum Hoad | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Arctic greening across spatial scales. |
| Nick Homer | Edinburgh | Themes 3 & CESD | Image processing and machine learning techniques applied to remotely sensed data. |
| Ed Holt | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | Investigating the potential collapse of Greenland's land-terminating margin |
| Leam Howe | Edinburgh | Themes 1 and CESD | Remote sensing and modelling of mountains snow patches. |
| Carla Huynh | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Glacial retreat in southernmost Patagonia since the last glacial maximum. |
| Richard Ing | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Investigating the influence of meltwater runoff and near-terminus subglacial hydrology on the dynamics of Greenland’s marine-terminating glacier margins. |
| Lokesh Jain | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Will ice mélange reduce the sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to climate warming? |
| Shona Jenkins | Edinburgh | Themes 1 and 4 | The human uses of the central Congo basin peatlands. |
| Isabel Key | Edinburgh | Themes 3 and 4 | Characterising the biodiversity of temperate seagrass meadows. |
| Callum Leavey-Wilson | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 4 | Land use integration, change and conflict amelioration in the British uplands. |
| David Lewis | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Phase relations in planetary ices from atomistic and free energy calculations. |
| Lu Liang | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Permafrost synamic monitoring in High Mountain Asia, especially in Tibetan Plateau. |
| April Liu | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Regulating Antimicrobial Use using an Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance (ESG) framework. |
| Vanessa Lopes | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Science policy for a Small Island Developing State: Using existing science to inform policies for marine spatial management in Cabo Verde. |
| Fathia Lutfiananda | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Assessing Pyroclastic Density Currents' Risk with Emphasis on Indonesia’s Volcanoes: Implications for Mitigation and Response. |
| Frederik Dahl Madsen | Edinburgh | Theme CESD | Reconciling geomagnetic jerks with intradecadal variations in length-of-day. |
| Oliver McFarlane | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | A Physical Basis for the Influence of Vegetation Structure on Radar Scattering and Estimates of Biomass Change. |
| Beatrice McWilliams | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Exploring the utility of ultra high resolution spatial (UAV) data and machine learning for seabird colony assessment. |
| Ethan Mitchell Innes | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | The role of biome transitions as a driverof novel above and belowground functionality in the Neotropics. |
| Aideliz Montiel Alvarez | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & CESD | A new 3D conductivity model of the British Isles based on magnetotelluric data for space weather impact studies. |
| Elise Mouat | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Gas management in low heat generating waste geological disposal facilities using alternative sustainably sourced rock materials. |
| Wan Nurainie | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Augmentative Biological Control: Can augmented parasitoid release in open fields sustainably control aphid pests? |
| Clara Nyqvist | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Researching the internal structure of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet using ice-penetrating radar data. |
| Amaris Ormond | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | Resilience and acclimation potential of temperate rainforest lichens. |
| Gwyn Owens | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 3 | The changing nitrogen cycle in the Southern Ocean and the biological carbon pump. |
| Claudia Elijas Parra | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Applying of granular physics to the understanding of pyroclastic density currents. |
| Bethan Payne | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Microbial Consumption of Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) Gases in Lower Strength Sedimentary Rocks and Implications for Long-Term GDF Performance. |
| Hannah Picton | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 & CESD | The influence of climate on the long-term stability of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. |
| Hannah Pollak | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Informing Design of Novel Materials for Drug Pollution Remediation through Molecular Modelling. |
| Munawir Pratama | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Modelling the Erosion in the Scottish Coasts using the Process-Based Approach: Historic Validation and Projection of the Climate Change Scenarios. |
| Myriam Andrea Rada-Torres | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Constructing a high resolution palaeosecular variation master curve describing the geomagnetic field in Scotland during the last 10,000 years. |
| Mathew Rees | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Unexplored transitions between forests and savannas in Africa. |
| Jasmine Relf | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Towards a resilient coast: developing a continuous coastal resilience indicator for monitoring and adaptation in a changing climate. |
| Mark Robertson | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Modelling the state of the Martian core. |
| Peter Rowe | Edinburgh | Theme 4 | Faith in the Forest: Christianity, Conservation, and Relationships in the Dakatcha Woodland, Kenya. |
| Gillian Smith | Edinburgh | Themes 1 & 3 | Applying a machine learning model of ice flow to glaciers in High Mountain Asia, incorporating recent ice thickness observations. |
| Jack Andrew Smith | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Tomographic imaging of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, to study earthquake triggering potential. |
| Sarah Stewart | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Understanding Preservation of Potential Biosignatures by Martian Soils. |
| Oliver Swainston | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Cryosphere and Hydrological responses to a warming High Mountain Asia. |
| Katherine Taylor | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Heat, Drought and Fire - Risk from Compound Extreme Weather Events. |
| Emily Topness | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Drivers of rangeland change in northern Iceland. |
| Galina Toteva | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | Measuring the Effects of Ammonia Dry Deposition on Nitrous Oxide Fluxes from Forest Soils. |
| Eilidh Vass Payne | Edinburgh | Theme 1 | Metamorphic reactions in evaporites: dehydration and re-hydration reactions in the calcium-sulphate system. |
| Rutger Vervoordeldonk | Edinburgh | Themes 1 | Quantitative analysis of drainage patterns. |
| Donny Rio Wahyudi | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 3 and CESD | Can geomorphic indicators be used to infer relative motion along a major fault? |
| Diorbhail Wentworth | Edinburgh | Themes 2 & 4 | Facilitating the circular economy in India’s food security: the social, economic and agronomic barriers and opportunities of sewage. |
| Jakub Wieczorkowski | Edinburgh | Themes 1, 4 and CESD | From little things, big things grow: biodiversity patterns and extinction risks of grasses and forbs in African savannas. |
| Haosheng Yang | Edinburgh | Theme 2 | Composition-function relationship of soil microbial diversity for nutrient cycling under climate change. |
| Tianhui Zhou | Edinburgh | Theme 3 | Tropical and Extra Tropical Forcing on Future Droughts over Asia: Drivers and Mechanisms. |
| Doris Akoto | Glasgow | Theme 3 | Development of rapid low-cost tools to quantify soil organic carbon. |
| Nasser Al Monsoori | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | Ecological Mangrove restoration in Qatar. |
| MD. Jahangir Alam | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | The composition and pollution implications of waste materials from historic paper making sites in Scotland. |
| Zohrab Aliyev | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Tectonic-Climatic Coupling in the Greater Caucasus: Quantifying Cenozoic Evolution Through Integrated Structural-Kinematic and Thermo-Kinematic Modelling. |
| Elizabeth Barre | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Best-practice river restoration techniques and habitat selection via ‘smart’ mussel sensors to improve the recovery of the imperilled freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera). |
| Nicola Capaldi | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 2 | MScR - Analysis of high-pressure carbon polymorphs and micro-diamonds within the Almahata Sitta meteorite to determine the geological history of the Ureilite parent body. |
| Tong Chai | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Economic eruptions: modelling the formation of magnetite-apatite deposits at El Laco volcano. |
| Carolyn Cload | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | The effect of channel confinement on long term flood risk in dynamic river systems. |
| Edward Curley | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Investigating the impacts of hydrodynamics on the behaviour of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel. |
| Silvia da Silva Mourao | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 4 | Digital Twins For Coastal Management: Physics-Informed AI For Multi-Scale Coastal Evolution. |
| Lucy Daniels | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Implications of river restoration for geomorphic diversity and flood risk. |
| Rui Deng | Glasgow | Themes 3 & 4 | Efficient and explainable modeling of geospatial tabular data in urban systems. |
| Heloisa Dickinson | Glasgow | Theme 2 | CO2 sequestration and pollutant immobilisation in derelict and contaminated land sites. |
| Edward Amego Gakpe | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | CH4, N2O, & CO2 Measurement and Quantification from the Clyde Salt Marsh. |
| Heather Gibson | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | MRes Lithological types and alteration history of the Winchcombe meteorite. |
| Oliver Gilmore | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 4 | MScR 4D micro-CT approach for MRV, in Wollastonite. |
| Joshua Glazer | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Xenoliths in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites as treasure troves of early Solar System history. |
| Anya Gray | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Building the Next Generation of Numerical Landscape and Species Evolvers to Quantify Geo-biological Linkages in Changing Environments. |
| Lara Gribble | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | Rapid Coastal Change at Slag-Based Anthropogenic Coasts. |
| Rhiannon Hawkins | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Rain rain go away … come back another day': Understanding Scotland's changing relationships between climate change and mental health. |
| Lucy Heaney | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Multiscale modelling of volcanoes and their deep magmatic roots: Fluid release from subvolcanic bodies. |
| Yumei Hu | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | Reconstructing long-term variations in marine primary productivity and sea-ice dynamics in the Sea of Okhotsk. |
| Puja Jadav | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | MRes- The Cenozoic evolution of the Midland Valley (Scotland): implications for geothermal energy. |
| Binyue Kang | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 4 | Shaping Sustainable Management Strategies for Coastal Wetlands Through Driving Forces, Trade-off Analysis, and Scenario Forecasting |
| Heather Kerr | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Spatial variability in meander characteristics. |
| Hyunseong Kim | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Breaking the ice: Insights into the evolution of plate tectonics from numerical modelling of Europa’s ice subduction. |
| Satish Kumar | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Enhanced Rock Weathering: Quantifying Co-Benefits for Agriculture and Climate Mitigation. |
| Beth Langley | Glasgow | Theme 2 | Arctic Blue Carbon: human and climatic drivers of change. |
| Yue Li | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Urban traffic flows in Glasgow across three phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Prudence W Mhlophe | Glasgow | Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 | Modified Spent Coffee Grounds (SCG) and Biochar remediation of heavy metal contaminated urban soils in Glasgow. |
| Freya Muir | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Real-time monitoring and modelling of coastal change. |
| Velveth Perez | Glasgow | Themes 1, 4 & CESD | Volcanic processes and hazard assessment of the Torfajokull volcanic area, Iceland. |
| Sophie Plant | Glasgow | Themes 2 & 3 | MRes – Deciphering triggers of past coral bleaching. |
| Octria Adi Prasojo | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Understanding the morphodynamics of global river deltas facing the sea-level rise. |
| Isabel Queay | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Stress is Golden- Exploring Tectonic Deformation Controls on the Growth of Gold Crystals in Orogenic Gold Deposits. |
| Kirstin Somerville | Glasgow | Themes 1 and 4 | Earth Writing: Teaching Glacial Processes through Creative Expression. |
| Samantha Suter | Glasgow | Theme 4 | Open science in conservation: combining citizen science and remote sensing for habitat monitoring. |
| Meike Van Lit | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Open science in conservation: combining citizen science and remote sensing for habitat monitoring. |
| Yonathan Viquez Carrera | Glasgow | Themes 1, 3 & 4 | Past spoils, present toils: An interdisciplinary research on the effect of past human activity on present soil health based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. |
| Emily Wackan | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Mapping the Phase Space of Fe-Ni alloys in Meteorites. |
| Yuchen Wang | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Sediment Transport of Made Ground along urban Scottish Coasts. |
| Kang Xie | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Quantifying Late Quaternary sea-level changes and paleiclimatic conditions: the Iona speleotherm record. |
| Xinyi Yuan | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 4 | Where England’s Cities Are Growing: Evidence from Big Building Footprint Data and Explainable AI. |
| Chang Zhong | Glasgow | Theme 1 | Quantifying drivers of exhumation and landscape responses to tectonic and climatic variability in the Tian Shan region. |
| Zihan Zhu | Glasgow | Themes 1 & 3 | Enhancing Lake Resilience to Climate Change: Utilizing High-Performance Computing and Big Data for Predicting Lake Dynamics, Extremes, and Evaporation. |
| Josephine Zimba | Glasgow | Themes 3 & 4 | Precarious Lives: Assessing the effects of climate change and urbanisation on livelihoods in Malawi. |
| Aelaf Abebe | Heriot Watt | Theme 4 | Integrated Assessment Approaches for SuDS Pond Performance and Maintenance. |
| Mohammed Al Mandhari | Heriot Watt | Themes 2 & 4 | Multi-scale Characterization of H2 Storage in Carbonate Reservoirs. |
| Alex Braggins | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 4 | How land use and climate change pressures on upland wetland and floodplain systems. |
| Sahyuo Buo Achuo Dze | Heriot Watt | Theme 1 | Evaluating Fault Leakage rates for Subsurface storage. |
| Innes Campbell | Heriot Watt | Theme 1 | Geothermal energy prospecting in radiothermal granites in the Cairngorms, Scotland, using an integrated geological, geophysical and petrophysical approach. |
| Elise Cheng | Heriot Watt | Theme 4 | Monitoring and assessing multiple stressors in Green infrastructure and Nature-based solutions. |
| Nair Eguibar | Heriot Watt | Themes 2 & 3 | Blame it on the BOOGIE - Breathing Oceans: understanding the organic skin that modulates the exchange of greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and the ocean, microbial influences. |
| Valeria Ferrari | Heriot Watt | Theme 3 | Mapping offshore distribution of cetaceans through opportunistic surveys and identifying potential high-risk collision areas with AIS vessels. |
| Madeleine Geddes Barton | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 4 | How does root oriented preferential flow affect rain garden hydrology? |
| Benjamin Gustafson | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 2 | Understanding inorganic carbon sources in the pelagic ocean. |
| Rachael Hall | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 2 | Investigating the impact of mangrove forest degradation on coastal biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the coastal zone of Ghana. |
| Isabella Jackson | Heriot Watt | Themes 2, 3 & 4 | Assessing the impact of multiple stressors linked to climate change and pollution across the life history of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. |
| Farshad Jafarizadeh | Heriot Watt | Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | 4D seismic monitoring of geomechanical effects during CO2 injection. |
| Nengi Fiona Karibi-Botoye | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 4 | Thermoregulation and ventilation in termite nests: towards bio-inspired solutions for designing energy-efficient buildings. |
| Asiye Mehraban | Heriot Watt | Themes 1 & 4 | Environment- Nature-based Solution Maintenance. |
| Flora Robertson | Heriot Watt | Theme 4 | The Real Power of Communities - Assessing the indirect and non-monetary benefit of community owned and managed energy systems: The Scottish Rev Gen model. |
| Andrew Tabas | Heriot Watt | Theme 1 | Making Nature-Based Solutions at the Landscape Scale a Reality. |
| Skye Tisdall | Heriot Watt | Theme 1 | Unlocking the geothermal energy potential of old sedimentary systems: Linking reservoir quality, geomechanics and flow. |
| Neil Fraser | SAMS | Theme 3 | Impact of variable ocean/shelf exchange on glacial dynamics in SE Greenland. |
| Caitlin Lamb | SAMS | Themes 3 & 4 | Climate change adaptation: Evaluating long-term resilience of the Scottish Marine Protected Area network. |
| Alejandra Mejia-Saenz | SAMS | Theme 3 | The application of image-based deep learning to establish biodiversity baselines for fragile and remote epibenthic megafauna. |
| Alasdair O’Dell | SAMS | Themes 2 & 3 | Scotland’s blue carbon: the contribution from seaweed detritus. |
| Lea Riehn | SAMS | Theme 3 | River Robots: Utilizing novel autonomous technologies, observations and models to investigate freshwater coastal dispersion. |
| Hayley Swanlund | SAMS | Theme 4 | Seaweed farming in Europe: Appraisal and quantification of ecosystem services. |
| Hannah Towns | SAMS | Themes 2 & 3 | An Environmental Evaluation of Deep-Sea Tailings Placement (DSTP) for Batu Hijau and Elang Gold-Copper Mines. |
| Thomas Webber | SAMS | Themes 2 & 4 | An oceanic species in coastal habitats: Risso's dolphin distribution in Scottish waters and implications for conservation management. |
| Emma Cameron | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Polar Oceanography, ice-ocean interaction, ocean modelling, Greenland Ice Sheet. |
| Stacia Carrington | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 4 | Giraffe geopolitics: The lively commodification and conservation of a political animal. |
| Juan Andres Changoluisa Segovia | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Advancing Environmental Monitoring through Data Fusion Methods to Link UAV Multispectral Data with Ground Sensors for Native Vegetation Classification in Subtropical Areas. |
| Tamara Darbar | St Andrews | Theme 4 | Enhancing the Effectiveness and Equitability of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). |
| Aysegul Dogan | St Andrews | Theme 2 | Marine mass transport processes: Poorly quantified shuttles of organic carbon to the deep ocean. |
| Daniela Alvarez Gallo | St Andrews | Theme 4 | The pressing challenge of understanding and managing energy consumption in urban environments. |
| Alex Houston | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 2 | Sources, Sinks and Subsidies of Carbon within Coastal Saltmarsh Habitats. |
| Mia Hurst | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Drivers of Ecosystem Change in the Amundsen Sea. |
| Alyssa Kovalski | St Andrews | Themes 2 & 3 | The Role of Calcium Carbonate in Blue Carbon Environments. |
| Kayleigh Letjerbarrow | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Using palaeo-data to inform Scots pine woodland management for climate change resilience |
| Xunhua Li | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Migratory Navigation as an Inverse Reinforcement Learning Problem. |
| Meixuan Liu | St Andrews | Themes 2 & 3 | Studying olfactory navigation in seabirds with a spatial data science approach. |
| Alistair McConnell | St Andrews | Theme 3 | Studying movements of bottlenose dolphins with a spatio-temporal networks approach. |
| Cathilyn McIntosh | St Andrews | Themes 2 & CESD | Assessing blue carbon reactivity in salt marsh-mudflat ecosystems. |
| Innes Manders | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 4 | Assessing future biodiversity outcomes of restoring climate-sensitive habitats. |
| Ali Moayedi | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 3 | Understanding the influence of geomagnetic and environmental factors on migratory bird navigation through data fusion. |
| Chau Nguyen | St Andrews | Theme 4 | Green Horizons - Unveiling the Lived Experiences of Youth Environmentalism in Vietnam through the Lens of the Youth Climate Network |
| Benjamin Ong | St Andrews | Theme 4 | (Extra) ordinary natures: exploring urban human-nature relationships through decolonial, place-based, transformative learning. |
| Aikerim Orken | St Andrews | Theme 4 | Enhancing the sustainability of the primary resource sector: an interdisciplinary analysis of the extractive industry in Kazakhstan. |
| Isabella Prado | St Andrews | Themes 3 & 4 | Bridging the divide between distant water fleets and coastal communities in the biggest unregulated fishery in the world. |
| Charlotte Risbey | St Andrews | Themes 1, 2 & 4 | Development of rapid low-cost tools to quantify soil organic carbon |
| Lucy Robinson | St Andrews | Themes 2 & 3 | Carbon-scapes: Understanding carbon connectivity across the land-ocean continuum using a seascape approach. |
| Lauren South | St Andrews | Theme 2 | Blue carbon: Pushing the frontiers. |
| William Spicer | St Andrews | Themes 1 & 3 | Modelling the impact of submarine melting on tidewater glaciers. |
| Fritha West | St Andrews | Themes 1 and 4 | Mapping social values, attitudes and practices to inform effective ecological and cultural restoration of ‘lost’ tree species. |
| Kirsten Wong | St Andrews | Theme 1 | MRes Volcanic ash (tephra) preservation from Iceland in northern Scotland. |
| Ella Wood | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Hydrologic significance and climate response of rock glaciers in the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan. |
| Yajie Zhu | St Andrews | Theme 1 | Quantify spatial variability in vegetation cover in tundra environments. |
| Liam Godwin | UHI | Themes 1, 2 & 3 | From landscapes to freshwater invertebrates: understanding the effects of peatland restoration on Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) habitat in the Flow Country. |
| Jamie MacManaway | UHI | Theme 1 | After the ice: landscape evolution in deglaciating environments. |
| Robert McHenry | UHI | Theme 2 | How linear infrastructure affects the wider peatland ecosystem through their effects on ecosystem hydrology, peat mechanics, vegetation and predator-prey dynamics. |
| Anna McWilliam | UHI | Themes 1, 2 & 4 | Innovative brash management to enhance water quality following peatland restoration and forestry operations. |
| Maria Iohara Quirino | UHI | Themes 3 & 4 | Drivers of spatio-temporal change in the exploitation of mackerel (Scomber scombrus): a case study of the Scottish pelagic fleet. |
| Elinor Spencer | UHI | Themes 2 & 3 | Trace primary and secondary spread of marine invasive non-native species across Scottish waters to northern sites, in the Arctic. |
| Callum Thompson | UHI | Theme 1 | Developing a trait-based approach to understand Sphagnum responses to hydrological stress in the context of peatland restoration. |
| Sarah Bassey | UWS | Themes 1 & 4 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Contaminated soils (Causes and impact of anthropogenic pollutants on AMR within environmental and coastal settings). |
| Aaron Moses | UWS | Themes 3 & 4 | Impact of organic pollutants on the emergence of Antibiotic Resistance in the aquatic environment. . |
| Amanda Young | UWS | Theme 4 | Fly-tipping in Scotland, From Lie in Dirt to Safer End of Engineered Life: An Assessment of Existing Policies to Enable Sustainability. |
