Research Experience Placements

NERC Research Experience Placements

Each year Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) provides funding for Research Experience Placements (REPs).

The REP scheme focusing on quantitative skills gaps and underrepresentation by offering funding to support paid summer placements for undergraduate students, during which students carry out research projects within the scope of the environmental sciences.

These placements are intended to encourage students to consider a career in this field.

Applications for Summer 2023 are now closed. 

 

Previous Projects 

2023_01_A new generation of ice-sheet fracture models to predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise

Project Description: A new generation of ice-sheet fracture models to predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering

2023_02_Innovative recycling technique for achieving zero pollution wind power

Project Description: Innovative recycling technique for achieving zero pollution wind power (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Chao Wu
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering

 2023_03 _Predicting the effect of anthropogenic activity on insect biodiversity change

Project Description: Predicting the effect of anthropogenic activity on insect biodiversity change (PDF)
Supervisor: Joe Millard
Department/Institution: Natural History Museum

2023_04_Planetary helical motion in the ocean

Project Description:Planetary helical motion in the ocean (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Arnaud Czaja
Department/Institution:  Physics

 2023_05_NowWaves: Real time prediction of coastal waves

Project Description: NowWaves: Real time prediction of coastal (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Ioannis Karmpadakis

Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering

2023_06_Generating an energy-mass-information equivalence simulator for waste-to-energy non-classical bioprocessing optimisation

Project Description: Generating an energy-mass-information equivalence simulator for waste-to-energy non-classical bioprocessing optimisation (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Henry-Po Lee
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Previous Projects

These are some of the projects students worked on in previous years:

Project TitleDepartment/Organisation
Ecosystem responses to drought intensification Civil and Environmental Engineering
Next-generation ice-sheet fracture models to quantitatively predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modifying spatial reproductions of natural soundscapes to evaluate ecoacoustic analysis algorithms Dyson School of Design Engineering
Quantum linear regression for anaerobic digestion unprecedented forecasting and optimisation Civil and Environmental Engineering
Novel chemistry for a circular economy for bauxite residue Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pathway to providing environmentally friendly lubrication solutions - replacing silicone oils with bio-acceptable alternatives Mechanical Engineering
Towards nature-positive businesses: Meta-meta-analysis on the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity Natural History Museum
Machine learning analysis of micro-scale industrial energy systems Center for Environmental Policy
Phytophthora communities in UK nurseries: understanding the role of traits, biotic interactions and nursery management in pathogen invasions UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Investigating shoreline changes using freely available archives of satellite image data Earth Science and Engineering
Do habitat and distributional traits predict which European mosquito species vector important viruses? UK Centre for Ecoloyg and Hydrology
 EcoBuilder: an ecosystem dynamics game  Life Sciences
 Tackling xenobiotic reistance in agriculture: implications for carbon emissions Institute of Zoology
 Risk analysis of nanomaterials in the environment  Materials
 Machine learning analysis of energy storage data Dyson School of Design
 Is the geomagnetic field dipolar at high-latitudes Earth Sciene & Engineering
 Low-cost wireless sensor networks for river flow monitoring  Civil & Environmental Engineering
 Techno-economic analysis of biorefineries fuelled by sugar beet pulp  Chemical Engineering
 Where are the missing grasses?  Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
 Developing a Bayesian framework for modelling repetitive element evolution  Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
 Biogas conversion in oxygen separation membranes  Earth Science & Engineering
Plate reconstructions in the South Atlantic  Earth Science & Engineering
Probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard to the UK  Earth Science & Engineering
Uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation in environmental fluid dynamics  Earth Science & Engineering
An investigation of the characteristics of visits to National Trails  Natural England