The Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA), is a consortium of research-intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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Training schedule
Our training includes lots of student support throughout and also a residential in the first year to help you prepare.
Our student stories
Robert Newbould
Towards sustainable surface water ecosystems in India: Predicting the fate, transport and effects of urban wastewater pollutants in rivers
Alex Hall
Arctic dust from above and below: Constraining the unseen contributions of northern high latitude dust sources
Charlie Theobald
Development and field testing of low cost, high accuracy sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems
Abra Ash
Creating Bio-Inspired Synthetic Flowers to Support Standardised Monitoring of Pollinating Insects
Lisa Mignanelli
Fate and Transport of Tyre Wear Particles in the Subsurface Environment
Jiacheng (Allen) Gao
Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Peatlands – a Role for Micro-propagated Sphagnum-Associated Methanotrophs