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Available Research Projects

The MRes is open to any student with a Bachelors degree (2:1 or first-class degree) in a science or social science subject. The MRes is suitable for students with a science, engineering, social science or an arts background. A list of available research projects is provided below. You can also approach staff with your ideas; your supervisor will support you to develop your ideas.

Mapping and Interpretation of Fluvial Archives

Project Supervisor: David Bridgland
map of a fluvial archive

A Postglacial Sea-Level Database for Alaska

Project Supervisor: Dr Simon Engelhart
Alaska Field Trip

Reconstructing relative sea level change along the coast of East Antarctica

Project Supervisors: Dr David Small and Prof Mike Bentley
A photo of Windmill Island

The co-evolution of landscape form and hydrological connectivity

Project Supervisors: Sim Reaney & Fiona Clubb
Dramatic landscape view of a lake and rolling hills

Communicating Flood Risk

project supervisors: Dr Jessica Lehman & Dr Sim Reaney
Flood risk

Reconstructing long-term impacts of climate change on Arctic reindeer herds

Lead Supervisor: Dr Helen Mackay
A snowmobile going across Arctic landscape

Diffuse pollution, land cover change and marine impacts

Project Supervisor: Sim Reaney
An Oil Rig in the Ocean

FinTech, Global Development and State Building

Project Supervisor: Prof Paul Langley
Fintech icon on an abstract financial background

Evidence for postglacial faulting in lake sediments from South Greenland

Lead supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Woodroffe
oastal lake in South Greenland that may contain evidence of an earthquake and tsunami in its sediments.

Terrestrial response to freshwater forcing around Greenland

Lead supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Woodroffe and Dr Paola Moffa-Sanchez
a lake in Greenland

Impacts of freshwater forcing on North Atlantic Circulation: Insights from the past

Lead supervisor: Dr Paola Moffa-Sanchez
North Atlantic freshwater

Quantitative reconstruction of Atlantic Water variability around the Greenland Ice Sheet

Lead supervisors: Dr Jerry Lloyd and Dr Paola Moffa-Sanchez
A boat in water with greenland in the distance

Debris flow erosion and sediment transport in the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands

Lead supervisors: Dr. Fiona Clubb and Dr. Elizabeth Dingle
Debris flows supplying sediment to the River Feshie, Caingorms, Scotland

Crevasse evolution on glaciers observed from high-resolution DEMs

Lead supervisors: Dr Tom Chudley and Prof Chris Stokes
Aerial image showing crevasse extent

Unravelling the sources of sediment and contaminant accumulation in proglacial environments

Lead supervisor: Dr. Caroline Clason
Image of a proglacial landscape

Scales of morphological change in a gravel-bed river

Lead supervisor: Prof. Rebecca Hodge
Images of gravel bed rivers at different scales

Constraining the landscape evolution and past ice sheet behaviour of northeast Greenland

Lead supervisors: Dr Guy Paxman and Prof Dave Roberts
A digital elevation model of NE Greenland

Identifying fine-scale fractures on Antarctic ice shelves using remote sensing

Lead supervisors: Prof. Chris Stokes and Dr. Tom Chudley
Image showing Ice-shelf fracture in Antarctica

Machine learning approaches to automatically detect boulder distribution and transport in mountain rivers

Lead supervisors: Dr. Elizabeth Dingle and Dr. Patrice Carbonneau
Photograph of a mountain river by Dr. E. Dingle