The Centre For Water Research
PhD Topics
 
[+] Physical Limnology

  1. Boundary Water Exchange in a Stratified Lake
  2. Flushing Lake Embayments with Mechanical Mixers
  3. Interaction of Vertical Mixing and Horizontal Gravitational Transport in Polymictic Tropic Lakes
  4. Vertical Mixing in Very Deep Lakes

[+] Hydrobiology

  1. Using a Controlled Lagrangian Drogue to Document Plankton Patchiness

[+] Sustainability

  1. Influence of Wealth Inequity of the Index of Sustainable Functionality
  2. Is there an optimum per capita GDP?

[+] The Social Context of Natural Resource Management

  1. Costs and benefits of local control and management of water and land resources, compared with nationalisation or corporatisation.
  2. Rethinking globalisation: from corporatisation to `thinking globally and acting locally`
  3. The role of local communities in responding to climate change and peak oil.
  4. Urbanisation and environmental awareness