CASE Projects available for students starting in 2020

CASE projects (formerly known as ‘Cooperative Awards in the Science and Engineering) are research projects that involve close research collaboration between academic and non-academic partner organisations, who may be from the private, public or civil society sectors. CASE students will undertake the same core training as other DTP students, and will spend extended period(s) of time working with the research partner organisation.
The projects are listed according to stream.
CASE Studentships BEEP stream
1: Seabird Watch: testing out of the box image analysis methods and citizen science data for large-scale monitoring of seabirds.
Supervisors: Tom Hart (Zoology), Mark Jessop (University of Cork), John Arnould (Deakin University) & Ellie Owen (RSPB)
2: Improving environmental, social and economic outcomes of nationally significant infrastructure projects
Supervisors: EJ Milner Gulland (Zoology) & Julia Baker Balfour Beatty
3: Can humanity have its cake and eat it too? Extending the Mitigation Hierarchy to support implementation of international biodiversity targets in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Supervisors: EJ Milner Gulland (Zoology) & Julia Baker Balfour Beatty
4: Native and invasive ladybirds in a changing UK climate
Supervisors: Jen Perry (Zoology) and Helen Roy (CEH) (CASE partner Royal Horticultural Society)
5: Movement analysis of zooplankton through filming
Supervisors: Mike Bonsall (Zoology) & Ulrike Obertegger (FEM)
6: Bayesian models for the analysis of botanical citizen science data: Understanding bias and improving inference
Supervisors: Stephen Harris (Plant Sciences), Oliver Pescott (CEH) (CASE Partner The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland)
7: Integrating socio-economic impacts in marine resource management
Supervisors: Rob Salguero-Gomez (Zoology) and Katrina Davis (Zoology, also University of Exeter and University of Queensland, Australia), CASE partner DEFRA
8: Mechanisms and impacts and of host-parasite relationships
Supervisors: Rob Salguero-Gomez (Zoology), Chris Thoroughoudl (Oxford Botanic Gardens), Dr James Bullock (CEH) CASE Partner Royal Horticultural Society
9: Beyond the mean: using drones to understand spatial drivers of phenological responses
Supervisors: Ben Sheldon & Ella Cole (Zoology), Yadvinder Malhi (Geography) & Adrian Thomas at CASE partner Animal Dynamics.
10: Using marine UAVs to integrate seabird census with phenology
Supervisors: Tom Hart (Zoology) & Adrian Thomas at CASE partner Animal Dynamics
CASE Studentships PCS Stream
11: Global measurements of Sea Surface Temperature using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
Supervisors: Anu Dudhia (Physics) and Roger Saunders Met Office Satellite Applications Group
12: Mechanisms for variability of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in laboratory and numerical models
Supervisors: Peter Read (Physics), Alfonso Castrejon-Pita (Engineering Science) Scott Osprey (Physics and NCAS), Neal Butchart and Ben Shipway Met Office
13. A unified approach to multi-scale modelling of wind farms and complex terrain
Supervisors: Takafumi Nishino (Engineering Science) and Tom Dunstan (Met Office)
14. Quantifying the role of AMOC decline in climate change impacts
Supervisors: Tim Woollings (Physics) & Jeff Knight (Met Office)
CASE Studentships DESPNH Stream
15: The fate of mercury (Hg) during thermal maturation of sediments and its implications for interpreting the geological record
Supervisors: Tamsin Mather, Hugh Jenkyns (Earth Sciences) and Sander Van Den Boorn (Shell)
16: The dynamics of flowing, subsurface salt sheets: observational constraints and theoretical models.
Supervisors: Richard Katz & Joe Cartwright, (Earth Sciences) and Dan Roberts of CASE partner Rockfield
17: Near-source effects on global wavefields: A forensic seismology study applied to nuclear monitoring
Supervisors: Tarje Nissen-Meyer, (Earth Sciences) & Stuart Nippress and David Bowers (AWE Blacknest)
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- CASE/Collaborative Studentships
- CASE Projects available for students starting in 2020
- Mechanisms for variability of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in laboratory and numerical models
- Improving environmental, social and economic outcomes of nationally significant infrastructure projects
- Integrating socio-economic impacts in marine resource management
- Mechanisms and impacts and of host-parasite relationships
- Quantifying the role of AMOC decline in climate change impacts
- Drivers of life history variation in flatworms
- Movement analysis of zooplankton through filming
- Can humanity have its cake and eat it too? Extending the Mitigation Hierarchy to support implementation of international biodiversity targets in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Near-source effects on global wavefields: A forensic seismology study applied to nuclear monitoring
- The fate of mercury (Hg) during thermal maturation of sediments and its implications for interpreting the geological record
- Tracking ocean circulation in the Cretaceous ‘Chalk Sea’
- Native and invasive ladybirds in a changing U.K. climate
- A unified approach to multi-scale modelling of wind farms and complex terrain
- Terrestrialisation in vertebrates using evidence from synchrotron tomography
- The dynamics of flowing, subsurface salt sheets: observational constraints and theoretical models
- Beyond the mean: using drones to understand spatial drivers of phenological responses
- Global measurements of Sea Surface Temperature using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- Using marine UAVs to integrate seabird census with phenology
- Seabird Watch: testing out of the box image analysis methods and citizen science data for large-scale monitoring of seabirds.
- Bayesian models for the analysis of botanical citizen science data: Understanding bias and improving inference
- Collaborative Projects available for 2020 entry
- Paramaterization of submesoscale eddies in the ocean surface boundary layer
- Satellite Observations of Air Quality
- What the finder knew: measuring changing public knowledge of natural history
- Reconstructing the past eruption history of Campi Flegrei, Italy
- Improving probabilistic weather and climate forecasts using observational constraints
- Improving our understanding of plant diversity to better protect it
- Understanding the molecular mechanisms of trace metal interactions with mineral surfaces in natural systems: an integrated stable isotope, XAS and HRTEM study.
- Nutritional value of floral pollen to bee species
- Seasonal shifts in phytoplankton community structure in the Southern Ocean observed from space
- Insects, agriculture and environmental change
- Nitrogen limitation in the Earth System: merging top-down and bottom-up
- Studying weather and climate predictability with crowd computing
- Development, environmental change, and dispersal abilities in living and extinct mammals
- The impacts of climate variability and change on groundwater resources in the UK
- Observing the origins of Tropical Cyclones