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The SAGES Graduate School is convened by Dr John Howe (SAMS).

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SAGES Students

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.
Simona Caruso Aberdeen Themes 1 & 3 Sediment dynamics and destabilization of continental margins: Predicting shelf and slope instability under a changing climate.
Emma Cary Aberdeen Theme 4 Understanding stakeholder decision-making for restoration and rewilding initiatives in the UK.
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?
Oludare Durodola Aberdeen Themes 1, 2 & 3 Optimising water use and soil carbon sequestration in agricultural co-cropping systems.
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.
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.
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.
Afolabi Morakinyo Aberdeen Themes 2 & 3 Basin and petroleum systems (hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, migration and loss) modelling.
Oluwaseun Olabode Aberdeen Themes 1 & 4 Potential of Managed Aquifer Recharge in fast growing megacity under climatic and demographic pressures.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Abiodun Akinola Abertay Theme 4 Optimisation of renewable energy resources for global energy security: a case study of Nigeria.
Roya Eidi Abertay Theme 2 Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen production from renewable energy sources.
Moonstarlyn Enweremadu Abertay Themes 2, 3 & 4 Sustainable waste management system for market wastes in low-income cities: Barriers and opportunities.
Dan Hughes Abertay Themes 1& 4 Design Tools for the End of the World. Can eco-aesthetics and real-time 3D media be used to enhance ecologically functional design decisions?
Adnan Khan Abertay Theme 2 Developing a smartphone mobile application for Scotland that takes camera images and environmental covariates.
Lilyana Mladenova Abertay Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 Revolutionising heritage conservation through AI-powered analysis of timber beam-column connections.
Segun Olo Olorunsiwa Abertay Themes 2, 3 & 4 Development, Implementation and Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment on Oil and Gas Facilities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
Eliza Ralph Abertay Themes 1 & 4 Serious Games for Conservation and Environmental Sustainability: A Practice-based Approach.
Laura Young Abertay Themes 1 & 4 Enhancing Scotland’s resilience to climate change – a blue-green infrastructure inclusivity framework based on community-centred nature-based solutions.
Sarah Crowe Dundee Themes 1 & 4 Water smart cities: towards a place-based approach for waterfront management and flood protection.
Kirsty Jefferies Dundee Themes 1 & 3 MRes – Climatic and topographic controls on the distribution and characteristics of debris-covered glaciers.
Tanya Jones Dundee Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 Can restorative justice create a principle for and process of restorative climate justice applicable to adaptation needs of communities affected by deglaciation?
Tanya MacDonald Dundee Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD Education for Sustainability through Outdoor Learning.
Esther Mabedi Dundee Theme 3 Advancing Methods for Assessing, Mapping and Managing Risks to Groundwater Quality and Access in Malawi.
Fatemeh Mahmoudnejad Dundee Theme 4 Understanding Inclusive Participation in Planning Practice (The Case of Co-Design in Scotland).
Aidan Wrethman Dundee Themes 1, 3 & CESD Examining the tsunami risk from submarine landslides to current & future coastal energy technologies.
Hao Wu Dundee Themes 3 & 4 Research on the Framework of Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China under Judicial Practice.
Asiah Haieri Yazdi Dundee Theme 4 Oil to Gas Shifting by Regional Gas Diplomacy Over The Persian Gulf.
Ruaridh Alexander Edinburgh Themes 2 & 3 Biota and drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition.
Luisa Escobar Alvarado Edinburgh Themes 1 & 4 Socio-ecological dynamics of miombo woodlands in southeast Angola.
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.
Ludwig Baldszti Edinburgh Themes 1, 2, 4 & CESD Assessing extinction risk in plants.
Sophie Baldwin Edinburgh Themes 1 & CESD Intraplate Magmatism at the Cameroon Volcanic Line.
Hannah Bryant Edinburgh Theme 3 Hydrogen the Fuel of the Future? Modelling its Environmental Impacts.
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.
Ri Cao Edinburgh Themes 1 & CESD Massive volcanic domes on Venus and the mobilisation of crystal mush: Insights from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus.
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.
Marthe Faber Edinburgh Themes 1, 2, 3, 4 & CESD 3D Imaging with Seismic Wavefield Gradiometry.
Nina Fischer Edinburgh Themes 1, 2 and 4 Shaping the future of the UK’s landscapes – building a decision support system for sustainability.
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.
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.
Ed Holt Edinburgh Themes 1 & 3 Investigating the potential collapse of Greenland’s land-terminating margin.
Nick Homer Edinburgh Themes 3 & CESD Image processing and machine learning techniques applied to remotely sensed data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eilidh Vass Payne Edinburgh Theme 1 Metamorphic reactions in evaporites: dehydration and re-hydration reactions in the calcium-sulphate system.
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.
Jonathan Reid Edinburgh Themes 1, 2 & 3 Understanding properties of clay minerals relevant to the Martian surface.
Mark Robertson Edinburgh Theme 1 Modelling the state of the Martian core.
James Scott Robinson Edinburgh Theme 4 Socio-ecological impacts of community forest management in Tanzania.
Peter Rowe Edinburgh Theme 4 Faith in the Forest: Christianity, Conservation, and Relationships in the Dakatcha Woodland, Kenya.
Marina Ruiz Sanchez Oro Edinburgh Theme 1 Learning to recognise landslides and catastrophic landscape change with deep neural networks.
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.
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.
Anya Towers Edinburgh Theme 1 What determines the delivery of coarse sediments and can it be predicted in Scotland?
Toyo Valentina Vignal Edinburgh/Heriot Watt Themes 1 & 4 Mathematical modelling for ecological sustainability.
Donny Rio Wahyudi Edinburgh Themes 1, 3 and CESD Can geomorphic indicators be used to infer relative motion along a major fault?
Ian Watt Edinburgh Themes 2 & 4 A laboratory investigation of carbon dioxide storage by mineral carbonation.
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.
Chenzhe Xu Edinburgh Theme 2 Prediction of biochar longevity and carbon sequestration efficiency in soil systems: a new modelling approach.
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.
Uduak Essien Affiah Glasgow Themes 1, 3 & CESD Vulnerability of the Nigerian coast to climate change induced coastal hazard.
MD. Jahangir Alam Glasgow Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 The composition and pollution implications of waste materials from historic paper making sites in Scotland.
Khaled Alghafli Glasgow Themes 3 & 4 Quantifying regional groundwater recharge using GRACE satellites.
Michael Ashe Glasgow Theme 2 Exploring the relationship between elements of microbial community structure and biogeochemical function.
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).
Daniel Bezzera Glasgow Theme 1 Landscape evolution of mountainous regions in intraplate settings.
Fakhri Bintang Glasgow Theme CESD Numerical modelling of melting and magmatic differentiation in planetesimals.
Tong Chai Glasgow Themes 1 & 3 Economic eruptions: modelling the formation of magnetite-apatite deposits at El Laco volcano.
Marta Argemi Cierco Glasgow Themes 1 & 2 Nature based coastal protection: A predictive model for marsh ecosystem services.
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.
Kwetishe Danjuma Glasgow Themes 1 & 3 Fluvial Sedimentology – Automated Quantified Analysis of Distributive Fluvial System (DFS).
Marli De Jongh Glasgow Themes 1, 3 & 4 Sustaining Scotland’s clay-rich sandstone buildings.
Rui Deng Glasgow Themes 3 & 4 Efficient and explainable modeling of geospatial tabular data in urban systems.
Cameron Floyd Glasgow Themes 1, 2 & CESD Space Weathering of Carbonaceous Asteroids and its Astrobiological Implications.
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.
Joshua Glazer Glasgow Theme 1 Xenoliths in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites as treasure troves of early Solar System history.
Robin Haller Glasgow Theme 1 Geochemical Modelling of CM chondrite aqueous alteration.
Holly Hourston Glasgow Theme 2 MRes – Biogeochemistry of the Winchcombe meteorite CM1 clasts.
Neil Jackson Glasgow Theme 4 Green biofilters: testing multifunctional urban greening solutions that improve asset resilience and air and water quality.
Puja Jadav Glasgow Themes 1, 2 & 3 MRes- The Cenozoic evolution of the Midland Valley (Scotland): implications for geothermal energy.
Kelly James Glasgow Theme 2 The Evolution of Post-Hydration Heating in Carbonaceous Chondrites in Relation to C-Complex Asteroids.
Laura Elise Jenkins Glasgow Theme 1 Scottish maerl bed blue carbon in a changing world.
Heather Kerr Glasgow Theme 1 Spatial variability in meander characteristics.
Faisal Waleed Khudhur Glasgow Theme 2 Carbon capture using alkaline wastes.
Hyunseong Kim Glasgow Theme 1 Breaking the ice: Insights into the evolution of plate tectonics from numerical modelling of Europa’s ice subduction.
Beth Langley Glasgow Theme 2 Arctic Blue Carbon: human and climatic drivers of change.
Qing Li Glasgow Theme 1 Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in Tropical Rivers of Philippines.
Jose Porfirio Del Angel Lozano Glasgow Theme 2 A comparison of passive atmospheric CO2 capture with steel slag in Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Mairi MacArthur Glasgow Themes 1, 3 & 4 Geodiversity and marine biodiversity interaction: enhancing ecosystem service provision on rocky and engineered coasts.
Patrick McMaster Glasgow Theme 1 MRes – Where do Whale Skeletons Come From?
Pierre-Etienne Martin Glasgow Theme 1 Delivery of water on Earth by carbonaceous chondrites.
Christopher Masafu Glasgow Themes 3 & CESD A novel approach for flood hazard mapping.
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.
Neve Norris Glasgow Theme 1 Masters by Research: 'Spatial Variability of Meander Characteristics Within a Distributive Fluvial System Experiencing an Avulsion’.
Franziska Paul Glasgow Theme 4 Energy Democracy Coalitions and Radical Energy Futures.
Velveth Perez Glasgow Themes 1, 4 & CESD Volcanic processes and hazard assessment of the Torfajokull volcanic area, Iceland.
Mmapula Sylvia Phesodi Glasgow Theme CESD Genesis of kimberlites and evolution of the underlying lithospheric mantle in Botswana.
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.
Yusuff Sarnoh Glasgow Themes 1 & 4 Drought Vulnerability Assessment of Central and North-West Liberia to Climate Change.
Kirstin Somerville Glasgow Themes 1 and 4 Earth Writing: Teaching Glacial Processes through Creative Expression.
Eilidh Stott Glasgow Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD Rainfall-to-reach, real time modelling of braided river morphodynamics.
Amanda Stubbs Glasgow Themes 2 and 3 Natural CO2 sequestration in unexpected places.
Samantha Suter Glasgow Theme 4 Open science in conservation: combining citizen science and remote sensing for habitat monitoring.
Pamela Louise Tolentino Glasgow Theme 1 Influence of catchment characteristics on hydrologic regimes.
Breanna Van Glasgow Theme 1 MRes Identify and assess changes associated with the post-restoration stage of two-stage channel design and embankment set-back restoration on the Upper Nith river near New Cumnock, 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.
Rachel Williams Glasgow Theme 1 MRes – Quantifying variation within the medial portion of modern and ancient distributive fluvial systems.
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.
Josephine Zimba Glasgow Themes 3 & 4 Precarious Lives: Assessing the effects of climate change and urbanisation on livelihoods in Malawi.
Mohammed Al Mandhari Heriot Watt Themes 2 & 4 Multi-scale Characterization of H2 Storage in Carbonate Reservoirs.
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 .
Benjamin Gustafson Heriot Watt Themes 1 & 2 Understanding inorganic carbon sources in the pelagic ocean.
Farshad Jafarizadeh Heriot Watt Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 4D seismic monitoring of geomechanical effects during CO2 injection.
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.
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.
Caitlin Lamb SAMS Themes 3 & 4 Climate change adaptation: Evaluating long-term resilience of the Scottish Marine Protected Area network.
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.
Jamie Rodgers SAMS Theme 3 Sea ice retreat – using AUV’s to measure the turbulent polar oceans.
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.
Stacia Carrington St Andrews Themes 1 & 4 Giraffe geopolitics: The lively commodification and conservation of a political animal.
Camille Choquet St Andrews Theme 4 Conserving the tropical peatlands of the north Peruvian Amazon while supporting and improving the livelihoods of the people who live there: an analysis of the multi-level strategies.
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.
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.
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.
Ali Moayedi St Andrews Themes 1 & 3 Understanding the influence of geomagnetic and environmental factors on migratory bird navigation through data fusion.
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.
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.
Abbie Affleck Stirling Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 Using biomineralisation responses to predict molluscan species-specific pathways for resilience to climate change.
Heather Anderson Stirling Theme 4 Reconciling discrepancies in scientific and non-scientific ontologies of safe water with case studies in the global North and the global South.
Emily Bonsall Stirling Theme 2 Preservation of organic matter by reactive iron species on Mars relevant to Mars Sample Return.
David Bryan Stirling Themes 1 & 2 Integrated management of Scotland’s agricultural wetlands to deliver multiple benefits and minimise pollution swapping.
Jodie Geldard Stirling Themes 1, 3, 4 & CESD Surge Forth: Understanding glacier dynamics where the Scottish Highlands meet the Lowlands.
Neil Gow Stirling Themes 1, 2, 3 & 4 One Hour Region: Driving Back Ecological Overshoot at the Regional Scale.
Nicola Horsburgh Stirling Themes 3 & 4 Future proofing Scotland’s remote coastal areas: evaluation of the potential for nature-based coastal adaptation.
Anna Kurop Stirling Themes 1 & 3 Rapid deglaciation and sea-level change on the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Neil McDonald Stirling Theme 1 Getting to the bottom of ice shelves.
Bridget Rusk Stirling Theme 2 Using novel sensors to improve high-frequency monitoring of wastewater pollution in freshwater environments.
Ximena Aguilar Vega Stirling Themes 2 & 3 Ice and Ocean colour: the study of carbon in glaciomarine systems through remote sensing.
Ilgaz Cakin UHI Themes 2, 3 & 4 Reed bed use within Scotch Whisky Distilleries to treat wastewater: a new toolkit to help maximise performance.
Lian 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.
Kiri Lutter UHI Themes 1 & 2 Unravelling the impact of potentially toxic metals in functionalised biochar on soil and plants.
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.
Callum Thompson UHI Theme 1 Developing a trait-based approach to understand Sphagnum responses to hydrological stress in the context of peatland restoration.
Jake Witherington UHI Themes 2 & 3 Modelling eco-hydrological feedbacks and resilience in the blanket bogs undergoing restoration in the context of climate change.
Inne Withouck UHI Theme 4 Optimising the siting of marine renewable energy developments.
Huiyi Zhang UHI Theme 3 Can marine derived plastic litter be used in water remediation?
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.

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