2017-18 Cambridge ESS (NERC) DTP Cohort
| Student First Name |
Student Second Name |
Research Project | Lead Supervisor | Department | Funding |
| Hisham | Ali | Explaining the ecological diversity of Mycalesine butterflies | Paul Brakefield | Zoology | |
| Karol | Bacik | Nathalie Vriend | DAMTP | ||
| Conor | Bacon | Seismic tomography of southeast Asia | Nick Rawlinson | Earth Sciences | |
| Lily | Bentley | The limit is the sea, not the sky; the importance of habitat accessibility and preference for understanding seabird distributions and abundance. | Andrea Manica | Zoology | |
| Matthew | Brady | Sniffing Hydrated Minerals for Life | David Hodell | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Danny | Buss | Whale population structuring in the polar South Atlantic | Jennifer Jackson | BAS | NERC DTP |
| Alec | Christie | Determining the biases and consistency in the evidence for conservation biology | William Sutherland | Zoology | NERC DTP |
| Sam | Coffin | Polar Algae - exploiting cold tolerant phenotypes in polar algae for increased growth and metabolite production | Melody Clark | BAS | NERC DTP NPIF |
| Kez | Conroy | From provinciality to trans-continentality: the evolving scale of hominin species ranges | Rob Foley | Biological Anthropology | NERC DTP |
| Roberto | Correa | Maximising Return on Investment for elephant and ape conservation in Africa | Andrew Balmford | Zoology | |
| James | Crosby | The source and flux of volatiles in Earth’s lithospheric mantle | Sally Gibson | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Becky | Dell | Melting, ponding and refreezing on Antarctic ice shelves | Ian Willis | SPRI | NERC DTP |
| Emily | Doyle | Geochemical study of sulphate and sodium in ice cores too improve the interpretation and use of volcanic and sea ice proxies | Eric Wolff | Earth Sciences | |
| Christopher | Duncan | Succession and inheritance in animal societies | Timothy Clutton-Brock | Zoology | |
| Madeleine | Emms | There, and back again: range contractions and recolonization of the Red Sea by coral reef fishes during the last glacial. | Andrea Manica | Zoology | |
| Xiaolei | Feng | Materials Properties of Deep Planetary Interiors | Simon Redfern | Earth Sciences | |
| Caitlin | Frankish | Incorporating behaviour and habitat preference to improve assessments of the vulnerability of seabirds to fisheries | Richard Phillips | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP (fees only) |
| Katherine | Grayson | Near-surface interactions between strongly nonlinear internal gravity waves | Stuart Dalziel | DAMTP | NERC DTP NPIF |
| Alex | Gutai | Mixing and eruption of crystal laden bubbly magmas in the shallow crust | Andy Woods | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Sridhar | Halali | Evolution of sex traits: contrasting rate of evolution of sexual ornamentation, male sex pheromones and genitalia across sympatric and allopatric species pairs in Asian Mycalesines | Paul Brakefield | Zoology | |
| Alec | Hutchings | Biogeochemical heavy metal (Cr, U) cycling in coastal wetlands: Insights from salt marsh sediments | Sasha Turchyn | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Janice | Johnson | Ulf Buentgen | Geography | ||
| Rian | Lawrence | Biogeochemistry of marginal marine environments and the impact on the global carbon cycle | Sasha Turchyn | Earth Sciences | |
| Zhi | Li | High-resolution imaging on the core-mantle boundary | Sanne Cottaar | Earth Sciences | |
| Alexander | Lozinski | Radiation Exposure to Satellites in Medium Earth Orbit | Sarah Glauert | BAS | NERC DTP NPIF |
| Matthew | Maitra | Long period free-oscillations of the Earth | David Al-Attaar | Earth Sciences | |
| Arlie | McCarthy | Variation in predation by soft-bodied predators from the tropics to the poles | David Aldridge | Zoology | |
| Elisabeth | Meulendijks | Assessing the Role of Forests and Landscapes in relation to Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Livelihoods | Andrew Balmford | Zoology | |
| Leo | Middleton | Modelling the ice-shelf ocean boundary layer | John Taylor | DAMTP | NERC DTP |
| James | O'Shea | Tracking the aftermath of the Cambrian Explosion with Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs) | Nick Butterfield | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Abigail | Parker | Ecometric Analysis of the Effects of Environment and Mammals on the Traits of Fossil Reptile Communities | Jason Head | Zoology | |
| Michael | Pashkevich Jr. | Investigating spider ecology and biodiversity in Southeast Asia oil palm plantations | Edgar Turner | Zoology | |
| Lucy | Roberts | Evolution of axial skeleton diversity in reptiles | Jason Head | Zoology | NERC DTP |
| John | Staunton-Sykes | VHALS: Volcanic sources of Halogens And their cLimate impactS | Alex Archibald | Chemistry | NERC DTP |
| Frank | Syvret | Theoretical and computational studies in full-waveform inversion | David Al-Attar | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Dieter | Tetzner | Whipping up a storm – reconstructing winds using Antarctic ice cores | Liz Thomas | BAS | |
| Emily | Tilby | Environmental Impacts on Neanderthal Extinction in Southwest Asia: Climate Reconstruction of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (57-29 ka) Based on Small Mammal Records from Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan) | Preston Miracle | Archaeology | NERC DTP |
| Omry | Volk | Seismicity and tectonics of North Borneo | Nick Rawlinson | Earth Sciences | |
| Ruixue | Wang | Investigations of oceanic rare earth elements and Nd isotope cycling | Alex Piotrowski | Earth Sciences | |
| Penny | Wieser | Kilauea Volcano’s high fountaining eruptions: the story from the crystals | Marie Edmonds | Earth Sciences | NERC DTP |
| Sam | Woodman | Andrew Tanentzap | Plant Sciences | ||
| Benjamin | Young | Avalanche! Getting to “the bottom” of geophysical mass flows | Nathalie Vriend | DAMTP | NERC DTP |
| Le | Yuan | Low cost sensor networks for air pollution monitoring in Beijing | Alex Archibald | Chemistry |