Ocean Sciences PhD/Mphil

The opportunities which are currently available are outlined below. • A 1,000 year seawater temperature reconstruction for the South Icelandic Shelf using stable isotopes from mollusc shells • Anthropogenic impacts on coastal ecosystems: the synergistic effects of multiple stressors • Biology and population dynamics of commercially exploited fishes • Climatic buffering by structural habitat formed by macro algae • Context dependent effects of soft-sediment ecosystem engineers on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning • Coral Reef Resilience and Marine Protected Areas • Determining the age of decapod crustaceans • Does fishing impact upon the provision of ecosystem services? • Ecological responses to global warming - the role of phenotypic plasticity in marine benthic invertebrates • Factors which influence seasonally stratified Shelf Sea surface mixed layer depth. • From glacial deposits to giant sediment waves: reconstructing sedimentary processes in the Irish Sea Basin after the retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. • Growth performance of aquatic animals under culture • How do waves interact with cohesive sea beds? • Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in Deep-Marine Sediments • Individual variation in behavioural or physiological performance • Late Holocene sea-levels and high magnitude storm events in NW Wales • Optimal exploitation of multiple marine renewable energy resources • Plankton phenology in response to inter-year variations in the timing of seasonal cycles of primary production • Simulating tsunami generation, propagation and inundation using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) • The future of vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems in a changing climate • The Impact of seasonal Arctic Sea ice loss on air-sea fluxes of heat and momentum • Tide-ocean circulation feedback in a warming climate • Understanding the transport of sand and mud in rivers and seas • Zooplankton faecal pellet characteristics and contribution to elemental fluxes on the shelf seas