Research students

This page lists our current research students alphabetically by name and provides the title of the project they are undertaking.

If you are interested studying for a PhD or MPhil research degree in the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, please email Sally Wells bss073@bangor.ac.uk in the first instance.

Surname	First Names	Research Topic
ACKERMANN	Kathrin	Nitrogen dynamics in northern European forest ecosystems
ADAM	Hassin Nouri Rhouma	E.Coli 0157 as a major source of haemolytic syndrome; prevalence within livestock and its reduction within animals' waste
AHMED	Iftekhar Uddin	Carbon storage and organic matter dynamics in the soils of pure and mixed-species plantations of birch (Betula pendula), alder (Alnus glutinos) and beech (Fagus sylvatica)
AL-HEJAILI	Jalal	Using municipal waste water on wheat
ALI	Abbas Hassan	Improvement of management and utilization of Borassus aethiopum in the Nuba Mountains, western Sudan
AL-JUBOORI	Raad	Barley breeding and environmental effects
AL-SOUL	Adnan	To be decided
ANTHONY	Rosemary Virginia Elizabeth	Carbon storage in orchards and amenity plantings
APPLEBY	Andrew	Biochar: A novel way to offset greenhouse gas emissions
ASHADUZZAMAN	Md	Physicomechanical and decay resistance properties of bio-resin modified wood
BAKHTIARI	Fatemeh	To be decided
BAUTISTA SOLIS	Pavel	Are we learning? Constructing and strengthening local people's capacities and making sound decisions to recuperate degraded pasturelands in Central America
BOLOM-TON	Fausto	Drivers of change in ecosystem services offered by tropical montane forest in Chiapas, Mexico: a functional ecology approach.
CERDAN CABRERA	Carlos Roberto	Trade-offs among coffee yield and ecosystem services in a range of different agroforestry systems in Central America
CHANDIO	Mushtaque Ahmed	Do trees grown under elevated atmospheric C02 increase P and change microbial population structure?
CHINANGWA	Linda Lindizqaru	Effectiveness of Community Forest management Programmes
CHUBB	Timothy	Exploding the community: Uncovering the material and the temporal
CLARK	Joanna Ruth	The adaptation of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) to climate change
DAUNCEY	Alexander James	Forestry policy analysis
DAYE	Desalegn Dessisa	Sustaining and restoring bio-cultural diversity of indigenous sacred sites in Southern Ethiopia.
DIMITRIOU	Athanasios	The durability of glued joints made from modified wood for exterior exposure
EL YAAGUBI	Fathi	Effects of salinity on soil in the Gafara Plain area - Tripoli - Libya
ESQUIVEL	Maria Jimena Sheik	Tree litter functional diversity effects on nutrient cycling and productivity in tropical pasturelands
FORD	Hilary	Biodiversity and ecosystem services in semi-natural systems
GADEKAR	Kumarsukhadeo Prakash	Effects of conversion of natural forest to plantation for bidiesel on carbon sequestration and below ground biodiversity in India
GEBEHEYU	Fassil	Challenges and prospects of Environmental Education in Ethiopia: with the particular case study in Mekdela woreda, Amhara region
GLANVILLE	Helen Catherine	Resource partitioning in terrestrial ecosystems: solving the below-ground carbon budget
GONZALEZ-HERNANDEZ	Cliserio	Provision of ecosystem services from coffee plantations in Central America
GOUDE	Peter James	Pathogen surface characteristics and transport through catchments
GWYTHER	Ceri Louise	Microbial community development during the biodigestion of fallen stock
HADJIMICHAEL	Maria	Economic and social impacts of the European Community fisheries legislation on fishers: the north/south divide
HOENIG	Stephen Dirk	Bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil and substrates
HORRELL	Henry	The effect of the Agri-Environment root crops prescription on soil quality and vulnerability to erosion
JONES	Anna	Identifying and costing climate mitigation options for sheep farmers in England and Wales
KADIR	Rozaini	Wood extractives as natural preservatives against termites and fungi
KEERIO	Mazhar Din	Breeding and genetics of spring barley
LAGHARI	Anisa Begum	Dissolved organic nitrogen dynamics in the rhizosphere
LAHMER	Rabya Abdulkader	Antimicrobial activity of chitosan-incorporated packaging materials upon Escherichia coli O157:H7 in foods
MAGTHAB	Ebtsam Abaas	Microbial transformation of peptides in soil
MAMUYA	Betty Waized	Economics analysis of organic farming for export of fresh fruits and vegetables from Tanzania
MANONGI	Freddy Safieli	The impact of culture and religion on natural resource management in East Africa
MARELLA	Venkara	Estimating below ground carbon
McGOVERN	Stephanie Theresa	Do trees grown under elevated atmospheric C02 increase P and change microbial population structure?
MERZAEI HEYDARI	Mohammad	Phosphorus dynamics in barley
MILLS	Robert Thomas Edmund	The interactive effects of climate change and nitrogen deposition on carbon rich upland heathlands
MISRAN	Suffian	Treated particleboard from Acacia hybrid
MORALES	Lucia	Characterizing forest degradation for inclusion in REDD+ schemes: incorporating natural forest disturbance regimes for monitoring of carbon stocks.
MUJALDE	Santosh	Weed competition in grain legumes
NOPONEN	Martin Raimo Andreas	Carbon and socio-economic performance of coffee agroforestry systems in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
NYONGESA	Moses Wabomba	Investigating the potential evolution & response of the Irish population of Phythophthora infestans to novel sources of blight resistance in experimental & commercial potato
PAGELLA	Timothy Francis	Participatory development and use of landscape visualization tools in flood risk management
PAUL	Robert Myers	Composting of woodchip- and straw-based livestock bedding
RAHMAN	Syed	Increasing Tree Cover in Agricultural Landscapes: What is the Trade-off amongst Different Ecosystem Services?
RICHMAN	Nadia	River dolphins, fish and fisheries in Bangladesh: evaluating trends in mortality and indicator status
SALAMATU	Fada	Changes in savanna vegetation in Nigeria
SARKISSIAN	Arbi	Factors affecting changes in vegetation in Lebanon
SMITH	Pamela	A proposal to investigate the role of effectively-interpreted heritage assets as a driver for urban regeneration in an historic town and develop an active model for implementation
SMITH	Peter	Forest ecosystem biogeochemical cycling under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide
SOOMRO	Zaheer Ahmed	Nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems, with particular reference to dissolved organic nitrogen
ST. JOHN	Freya Anna Victoria	Social costs of protected area management
TAFT	Helen	Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing economic and environmental sustainability in the horticultural sector
THOMAS	Rhodri	An economic and life cycle analysis of established and novel recovery route for ligno-cellulosic waste
VAN BARSEL	Susie	The effect of drought and warming on carbon balance and plant species change
WALSH	John	Anaerobic digestion: its potential to improve the economic and environmental performance of organic farming
WEILAND	Peter	The effects of atmospheric ozone on trees in a changing climate
WIELAND	Deborah	Illegal logging past and present
WILLIAMS	Sophie	Implementing the global strategy for plant conservation
WINTERBOURN	Ben	Viral contamination of marine water and the threat to human health
WOISO	Dino Andrew	Improved management and utilization of Sclerocarya birrea
YORK	Elizabeth Heather	Evaluating farmer perceptions to the environmental cost of local versus overseas food production
ZAMAH SHARI	Nur Hajar	Assessing the capacity of virgin jungle (VJRs) in the recovery of commercial timber species in regulated forest