Undergraduate – Research Placements & Opportunities
Research Experience Placements
The call for student applications for Research Experience Placements in 2021 is now closed, and we are no longer accepting applications
NERC recognises that there is a shortage of individuals with quantitative skills coming into environmental science and that there are demographic and diversity-related challenges in the environmental sciences. The Research Experience Placement (REP) scheme focuses on these quantitative skills gaps and underrepresentation by offering funding to support paid summer placements for undergraduate students, during which the selected students will carry out research projects within the scope of the environmental sciences. The REP scheme runs annually, with SSCP DTP usually advertising placements in April-May.
Further details on the scheme can be found on the NERC website.
Below the 3 projects which had been advertised this year.
A new generation of physically-based models for predicting iceberg calving and sea-level rise
Project Description: View new generation of models for predicting iceberg calving & sea-level rise (pdf)
Supervisor: Dr Emilio Martinez_Paneda
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering/Imperial College London
Automated High Throughput System for Heavy Metal Pollution Monitoring
Project description: View the System for Heavy Metal Pollution Monitoring project (pdf)
Supervisor: Professor David Payne
Department/Institution: Materials/Imperial College London
Improving abundance estimation methods to support control of bovine tuberculosis in wildlife
Project description: View the estimation methods to support control of bovine tuberculosis project (pdf)
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Rowcliffe
Department/Institution: ZSL Institute of Zoology/Imperial College School of Public Health
Previous Projects
These are some of the projects students worked on in previous years:
| Project Title | Department/Organisation |
|---|---|
| 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 |