Breaking the tropical convection “dead-lock”: Scale interactions of deep convection and tropical circulation Theme(s): Atmosphere and Climate, Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Meteorology Primary Supervisor: John Marsham Institution: School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Elastic properties of heterogeneities in Earth’s mantle Theme(s): Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics Primary Supervisor: Dr Sebastian Rost Institution: School of Earth and Environment
Computationally efficient upper atmosphere chemistry schemes for a weather and climate model Theme(s): Atmosphere and Climate, Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Meteorology Primary Supervisor: Prof. Martyn Chipperfield <M.Chipperfield@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (Earth and Environment)
Seeing the Northern Lights at the equator? Predicting the next reversal of Earth’s magnetic field. Theme(s): Geomagnetism, Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics Primary Supervisor: Dr Phil Livermore <p.w.livermore@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
The fingerprint of environmental change in the aeolian sedimentary record Theme(s): Applied geoscience, Climate, Earth Processes, Palaeoenvironments and palaeontology, Sedimentology, geomorphology and basin analysis Primary Supervisor: Professor Nigel Mountney <n.p.mountney@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Planetary Habitability Inside and Out Theme(s): Chemistry of the Earth, Earth Processes, Geomagnetism, Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics Primary Supervisor: Dr Jon Mound Institution: School of Earth and Environment
Abrupt climate and sea level change Theme(s): Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Glacial/Cryosphere Primary Supervisor: Ruza Ivanovic <r.ivanovic@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Full waveform modelling and inversion – can we finally determine real Seismic source mechanisms and Peak ground motions from Rockbursts? Theme(s): Applied geoscience, Earth Processes, Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics Primary Supervisor: Dr Mark Hildyard <m.hildyard@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Does mountain building control long-term climate? Theme(s): Chemistry of the Earth, Earth Processes Primary Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Mills <B.Mills@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
BioDAR: Using Weather Radars and Machine Learning to Examine Insectageddon Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Ecosystem processes, dynamics and functioning, Living World, Meteorology, Population, community and behavioural ecology Primary Supervisor: Dr Ryan R. Neely III <r.neely@leeds.ac.uk> Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)