Previous Research Experience Placements

Previous Research Experience Placements

Previously Funded Research Experience Placements

Please note these projects have completed and are not open for applications

Accurate measurement and prediction of biotic responses to global warming

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex
Lead supervisor: Dr Etienne Low-Decarie

Acoustic monitoring biodiversity over a human-modified tropical landscape

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent
Lead supervisor: Dr Matthew Struebig

Antarctic Extreme Temperature Events and Related Meteorological Patterns

British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
Lead supervisors:   Dr Hua Lu and Professor John Turner

Computer model to study the Gaia hypothesis and the evolution of Daisyworld 

School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Lead supervisor: Prof van Oosterhout

Computer simulations to test a new theory of immune gene evolution

Location: School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich
Lead supervisor: Dr Cock van Oosterhout

Data Visualisation of Trends in Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences , School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Supervisors: Prof Claire Reeves, Dr Dave Oram, Dr Grant Forster.

Deriving reflectance measures from hyperspectral UAV imagery using a modelling approach

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford
Lead supervisor: Dr France Gerard , Earth Observation, Climate System group.

Do Positive Population Level Effects of Mortality (PEMs) persist in Variable Environments?

School of Life Sciences, University of Essex
Lead supervisors:  Dr Tom C Cameron and Prof Edward Codling

Does sexual selection create superior invaders?

School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Lead supervisor: Prof Matt Gage

Do certain wind regimes promote surface melt over George VI Ice shelf? 

Lead Supervisor: Dr Amelie Kirchgaessner
Location: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Reproduction in a deep-sea coral

Lead supervisor: Dr Michelle Taylor
Location: School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Extremes of Antarctic sea ice in observations and climate models

Location: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Compliance with plant health regulation in the wildlife trade

Lead supervisor: Dr David L Roberts
Location: Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent

Long-term impacts of oil rigs on benthic food web structure in the North Sea

Lead supervisor: Dr Eoin O’Gorman
Location: School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Ocean forcing of Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf

Lead supervisor: Dr Peter Davis
Location: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Exploring surface snow ions in the Arctic

Lead supervisor: Dr Xin Yang
Location: Atmosphere, Ice and Climate, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Understanding how and why plants make the organosulfur moleculeDMSP

Lead supervisor: Dr Ben Miller (PI) and Dr Rocky Payet (PDRA)
Location: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia

Effects of farmland management on functional ecomorphology of pollinator assemblages

Lead supervisor: Dr Richard Davies
Location: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia

Humans and fire in Amazonia: mapping fire to land user groups 

Lead supervisor: Dr Matthew Jones
Location: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Past climate from tree-rings: can Liebig’s law help? 

Lead supervisor: Dr Tim Osborn
Location: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Drivers of global land abandonment available for bioenergy crops

Lead supervisor: Dr Naomi Vaughan 
Location: School of Environmental Sciences, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia
Lead supervisor: Dr Queenie Hoi Shan Chan
Location: Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London