Research Projects

Polar blue carbon Sea-Quester - ERC funded

SEA-Quester is investigating marine carbon cycling in novel ecosystems in the polar seas that are emerging due to climate change and as sea ice melts. The Cavan lab component are investigating how the biological carbon pump might change and move as more open-ocean areas open up. We will go to the Arctic sea to make observations and also embark on connecting different computational models to answer our questions.

Enhanced Rock Weathering in rivers A NERC funded project

Working in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, this project aims to understand how the addition of basalt to land during enhanced rock weathering (ERW) schemes alters river ecology, and whether ERW results in additional ions passing through a river to final storage in the ocean.

Biological Influence on Future Ocean Storage of Carbon PARTITRICS - NERC funded

The PARTITRICS project aims to improve understanding of the processes that affect the rate and depth of respiration in sinking particles.

Carbon sequestration by Antarctic krill and salps A WWF funded project

Investigating how much carbon krill and salps store in the Southern Ocean, including larval stages, moults, carcasses, migrations, as well as faecal pellets.