Relevant Degree Courses - Natural sciences

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Severe weather over Southeast Asia

Theme(s): Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Modelling, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Dr Juliane Schwendike
Institution: University of Leeds

Investigating the potential for catastrophic collapse of Greenland’s ‘land’-terminating glacier margins

Theme(s): Climate, Glaciology, Hydrology, Modelling, Remote Sensing, Sea Level
Primary Supervisor: Peter Nienow <Peter.Nienow@ed.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Edinburgh

Improving the representation of the stratosphere in meteorological reanalyses

Theme(s): Advanced Computing, Atmosphere and Climate
Primary Supervisor: Martyn Chipperfield <M.Chipperfield@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Using remote sensing tools to study ocean health and whale strandings

Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Geographic Information Systems, Machine Learning, Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Jen Jackson <jeck@bas.ac.uk>
Institution: British Antarctic Survey (Ecosystems)

‘Tipping the Balance’ – Understanding coastal change using novel multi-platform ground and space-based remote sensing methods

Theme(s): Advanced Computing, Earth Observation, Oceanography
Primary Supervisor: Paul Bell <psb@noc.ac.uk>
Institution: National Oceanography Centre (Marine Physics & Ocean Climate)

Impact of humanitarian mine clearances on tropical forest carbon storage

Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Forest, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Gary R Watmough

Next generation tools for understanding habitat change

Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Ecosystem processes, dynamics and functioning, Machine Learning, Multispectral, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Vegetation
Primary Supervisor: David Williams <d.r.williams@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds

Dust storms in the Sahara and Sahel: Nowcasting and its application to understanding dust emission and transport

Theme(s): Air Quality, Atmosphere and Climate, Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Earth Observation, Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Dr John Marsham <J.Marsham@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (Met Office joint chair) (School of Earth and Environment)

How fragmented are the world’s savannas?

Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Ecosystem processes, dynamics and functioning, Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Vegetation
Primary Supervisor: Casey Ryan
Institution: University of Edinburgh (School of GeoSciences)

Falling Basins: revealing hidden faults from patterns of land subsidence from water extraction using Earth Observation data

Theme(s): Geographic Information Systems, Hydrology, Interferometry, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Sedimentology, geomorphology and basin analysis, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics
Primary Supervisor: Dr. John Elliott <j.elliott@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth & Environment)