Using lake sediments to understand past and future changes in aquatic systems (PhD Environmental Geography)

这项研究将调查过去和未来气候变化对英国水生系统的环境影响。从高地到低地的湖泊样带沉积物岩心（英格兰）将提供一个长期数据集，为理解水生生态系统的自然变异性形成基线。这些数据将与工业革命以来的记录气候数据和过去三十年的环境监测数据相结合，以检查这些系统中的气候信号。结合对未来气候的新预测（2018年英国气候预测，UKCP18），本研究将填补气候变化对英国水体影响理解的重要空白，并有助于改善集水区的规划和管理。

This research will investigate the environmental consequences of past and future climate change on aquatic systems in England. Sediment cores from a transect of lakes from upland to lowland (England) will provide a long term dataset that will form a baseline for understanding the natural variability of aquatic ecosystems. These data will be combined with recorded climate data since the Industrial Revolution, and environmental monitoring from the last thirty years, to examine the climate signal in these systems. Combined with new projections of future climate (2018 UK climate projections, UKCP18) this research will fill an important gap in the understanding of the impact of climate change on English waterbodies, and contribute to improved catchment planning and management.