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Current research opportunities include: Numerical modelling of Himalayan glacial lake outburst floods; integration of airborne/spaceborne radar and optical data for retrieving forest biomass and structural attributes; mangrove response to coastal environmental change; forest characterisation through integration of terrestrial and airborne laser scanner data; monitoring of semi-natural habitats in Wales using radar and optical remote sensing data; bird diversity: habitat suitability modelling using airborne/spaceborne remote sensing data; late quaternary palaeoglaciology of the welsh ice cap; changes in southern hemisphere mid-latitude ice volumes from the last glacial maximum to present; characterising the flow and structural characteristics of surge type glaciers (karakoram); digital optical televiewing of the englacial structure of ice masses; the long-term dynamic response of Greenland's land and marine terminating outlets to climate and oceanic change; determining the sensitivity and future response of glaciers and ice caps to climate change; modelling and reconstructing the palaeo-glaciology and fluctuations of the cordilleran ice sheet; finding the first factories: archaeological remote sensing in Jordan through integration of radar and hyperspectral data; resolving the early palaeozoic tectonic development of the perio-gondwanan margin in north Wales; automatic remote sensing image matching for environmental applications; green rust, microbes and factors controlling iron precipitation in coal mine drainage; the selenium status of soils, pasture herbage and sheep in Wales; geoarchaeology: soil chemical signatures of Scottish historical sites; sediment transfer to and from the river-estuary transition zone; reconstructing heavy metal contamination histories in the lower Danube drainage basin; forms and processes in mixed bedrock-alluvial rivers in Wales; counting and characterisation of laminated sediments from Ethiopian lakes - is there an el-nino signal?; pleistocene history of lake Tana, the source of the blue Nile, Ethiopia; geochemical fingerprinting of Tephras in Ethiopian lake sediments; remote sensing of vegetation, vegetation change and landscape in the Omo valley, southern Ethiopia; agricultural origins in highland Ethopia: a palaeoecological and biomolecular approach; Teifi flood history from Tregaron bog sediments, mid Wales; medieval population change and land use history, Wrexham, NE Wales; late glacial sedimentary record from the Brecon beacons, SE Wales; stable isotope palaeohydrology of linked lakes in northern Ethopia; geochemistry of varved lacustrine sediments by x-ray fluorescence core scanning; climate variability of the last 1000 years in Ethiopia: a comparison of lake Varve and cave speleothem records; the chronology and provenance of post-settlement alluvium in the British isles; diatom-based records of climate change and human impact from New Zealand Maar lakes; mining, smelting and atmospheric pollution records in Peats, lake sediments from upland Wales; late-glacial and Holocene environmental change recorded in lake sediments from upland Wales; are New Zealand rivers in synchrony with global and regional climate change during the Holocene?; dating glacigenic sediments from Chile using optically stimulated luminescence; the application of luminescence dating to marine terrace sediments from California and Oregon, USA; extending the age range for luminescence dating of loess; tracing metals from sources to sinks in contaminated catchments using stable isotope and trace metal fingerprinting; reconstructing extreme flood events from the Holocene alluvial archive and documentary records; the chronology and provenance of post-settlement alluvium in the British isles; high-resolution characterization and environmental interpretation of the Martian valley glaciers; luminescence dating of biogenic carbonates: a novel method for dating archaeological site

योग्यता

विद्यावारिधि

प्रदान गर्ने निकाय

University of Wales

विभागको नाम

Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences

शिक्षण गरिएको अनुसन्धान

Research course