Rob Blackwell (BAS/UEA)
Real-time reporting of ecosystem metrics from acoustic sensors on ocean gliders
The central component of the NEXUSS student’s doctoral experience is a major, challenging and innovative research project, in which the student will conduct original SAOS-based environmental research. NEXUSS projects are carefully designed to be at the forefront of SAOS development and application to an exciting environmental science problem. The remit of NEXUSS projects is such that novel integration of environmental, engineering and Big Data technology or approaches is required to pursue the research. Each student will be guided in their research by a multidisciplinary supervisory team of at least three expert researchers from two or more NEXUSS partner institutions.
Cohort 1
Karen Boswarva (SAMS)
Testing the effectiveness of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for monitoring and mapping the seabed in Marine Protected Areas
Pierre Cauchy (UEA)
Sounds in the Sea. How can we listen from ocean gliders?
Pauline Goulet (St. Andrews/BAS)
New insight into the foraging strategies of Antarctic marine predators using innovative biologging tools
Thomas Lowndes (UoS)
Intelligent AUV swarm behaviours for monitoring of rapidly evolving ocean phenomena
Luca Possenti (UEA)
Autonomous carbon system observations from gliders (AutoCarb)
David Price (UoS)
Fine scale mapping of cold-water coral and shallow water coral reefs
Jason Salt (SAMS)
Quantifying the temporal and spatial variability of Primary Productivity using Smart Autonomous Systems
Ryan Scott (BAS)
Can underwater gliders quantify horizontal mixing in the west Antarctic?
Pip Simpson (UoS)
Development of in-situ ‘lab-on-chip’ sensors for ocean science, fisheries and aquaculture
Cohort 2
Daniel Bird (UEA)
GPU-Accelerated 3D Visualisation and Analysis of Migratory Behaviour of Long Lived Birds
Ellen Bowler (UEA)
Automated UAV and satellite image analysis for wildlife monitoring
Florentin Bulot (UoS)
Performance characterization and application of networks of low-cost sensors for air pollution in urban areas
Stefan Chindea (University of Bath)
Sensor development for in-situ measurements of charge in non-thunderstorm clouds using small UAVs and balloons
Jennifer Cocking (SAMS)
Microplastics in the marine environment: Detection using a novel, hyperspectral infrared camera on a UAV
Tobias Ehmen (University of Exeter)
Listening to the Oceans: Autonomous Acoustic Imaging of Oceanic Structure
Emma Langan (UEA/Earlham Institute)
Ship-seq: Nanopore MinION sequencing of polar microbes on-board icebreakers
Sarah Laughlin (UoS)
Development of novel microfluidics systems for radionuclide detection
Philip Leadbitter (UEA)
Mapping ocean mixing using autonomous gliders: Indian Ocean and Antarctic shelf seas
Celia Marlowe (UEA)
Plug and play monitoring: developing novel solutions for marine observations using divers as citizen scientists
Annabell Moser (Heriot-Watt University)
Developing the next generation of sediment profile imaging camera/ planar optode system for use on autonomous platforms
James Rodgers (SAMS)
Sea Ice Retreat – using AUVs to measure the turbulent polar oceans
Callum Rollo (UEA)
Shear Madness, new ways to measure ocean velocities from a glider
George Rossides (University of Bath)
Cooperative autonomous marine vehicles for adaptive passive acoustic monitoring
Marta Serra Acácio (UEA)
The environmental determinants of dispersal and migratory behaviour of long lived birds
Christopher Tomsett (UoS)
Development of a UAV based topographic sensor for monitoring dynamic environments
William Vickers (UEA)
Marine Mammal Detection using Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Jenny Walker (UoS)
Learning in the Deep: Quantifying change in deep-sea benthic environments using images collected by AUVs
Jan-Torben Witte (UoS)
A coupled CFD and observational approach to improve measurements of ocean turbulence from gliders
Cohort 3
Miles Clark (UEA)
Passive and automated sensing of fluvial sediment and wood transport
James Coogan (SAMS)
Where AUVs dare: Svalbard’s subglacial discharge plumes
Sarah Cryer (NOC)
The role of river flow is regulating ocean acidification in Belizean coastal waters
Anthony Duncan (UEA)
Big-data analysis tools for bridging the gap between omics and earth system science
Chloe Game (UEA)
Automated underwater image analysis
Jethro Gauld (UEA)
Improving the detection and estimation of birds' collision risk with energy infrastructure
Artjoms Gorpincenko (UEA)
Underwater Monitoring Using Sonars and Deep Learning
Brandon Hobley (UEA)
Blue eyes: New tools for monitoring coastal environments using remotely piloted aircraft and machine learning
Anthony Lindley (UoS)
A high-throughput autonomous microfluidic imaging system for the analysis of microalgae using a novel ultrasonic technology
Chelsey McGowan-Yallop (SAMS)
Sounding out zooplankton: using autonomous wideband echosounders to characterise polar ecosystems
William McMinn (HWU)
Autonomous Insights Into Algal Nutrient Uptake
Andrea Rochner (University of Exeter)
Southern Ocean - carbon source or sink?
Robyn Samuel (NOC)
Autonomous monitoring of marine organisms using novel technologies
Pablo Trucco Pignata (NOC)
Multiplatform study of the carbonate system in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean
Alan Wright (UoS)
Develop a new generation of active chlorophyll fluorometers designed specifically to facilitate high resolution in situ measurements of oceanic primary production