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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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Julianne Zelda Kiely

The Macroevolution of Leaf Venation
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Sophie Powell

Understanding the impact of climate change and elevated CO2 on tree microbial diversity
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Ebrahim Shabbir Takulla

Consequences of nutrient limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton
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Beth Holdsworth

Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world
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Georgie Mountford

Reconstructing 30 million years of past climate change
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Katie Baumer

Relating Changes in Melt Genesis to Dynamic Conditions of the Demise of a Continental Arc; Antarctic Peninsula Arc
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flooding in Uttarakhand.

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Mature Temperate deciduous forest at BIFoR-FACE where N and P manipulation experiments are underway to form part of this PhD studentship. The green mesh in the picture is used for litter fall collection

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