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Environmental monitoring: What is the extent of canopy dieback in a refugial forest?
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Honours project: Use satellite imagery and on-ground monitoring data to map the extent of tree dieback to develop predictions and policy recommendations.
Impact of thermal environment and melatonin on animal body temperature and reproduction
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Honours project: Research opportunities are available to investigate how body temperature variation in pigs and sheep impact reproduction.
Testing for irradiated foods
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Honours project: Optimise methodologies to detect irradiated food by optically-stimulated luminescence.
Environmental monitoring: Teasing out real biodiversity patterns from sampling biases
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Honours project: Identify areas of conservation priority through the development of on-ground biodiversity sampling strategies and the interpretation of ecosystem changes.
Advanced research in plant hormones
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Honours project: Contribute to new research on ways to make plants more resilient.
Using the ancient DNA to explore human adaptation & evolutionary medicine
Honours project: Get involved in research into human adaptation and evolutionary medicine.
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Complex Systems
Honours projects: Projects focused on complex systems which are are typically comprised of a large number of interconnected components which interact collectively, leading to emergent behaviour, such as self-organisation, which is not apparent from the properties of the underlying components.
Synthesis and structuralisation of Metal-organic Frameworks
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Honours project: This chemistry research opportunity aims to investigate the structuralisation of Metal-organic Frameworks.
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Developing a forensic mitochondrial DNA database for human identification
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Honours project: Learn with the experts who are developing new genomics techniques for human identification.
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Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
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Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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