Loughborough University is a top-ten rated university in England for research intensity (REF2014) and an outstanding 66% of the work of Loughborough’s academic staff who were eligible to be submitted to the REF was judged as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, compared to a national average figure of 43%. In choosing Loughborough for your research, you’ll work alongside academics who are leaders in their field. You will benefit from comprehensive support and guidance from our Doctoral College, including tailored careers advice, to help you succeed in your research and future career. The estimated total contemporary global dust load is 2000 Tg yr-1 with minerogenic aerosols affecting climate and global biogeochemical cycles, impacting terrestrial and marine environments as well as the atmosphere and cryosphere. Understanding the “dust-cycle” - which includes dust uplift, atmospheric residence time and deposition – is therefore essential for understanding the Earth’s environmental system. Recently sources of dust in the high latitudes (≥50°N and ≥40°S) have been identified as making a substantial contribution to the global dust budget, however measurements of dust flux outside the sub-tropical low latitudes are rare (Bullard et al. 2016). The aim of this PhD is to quantify dust flux, and its key environmental drivers, around the western margins of the Greenland ice sheet. Such data are vital for improving the accuracy of global dust models at high latitudes. The PhD will include fieldwork in West Greenland to measure vertical dust flux from actively eroding surfaces and a full suite of micrometeorological variables and dust deposition rates. The field datasets will be used to evaluate and then constrain existing dust models.