SAXON geese bones and magnetic fields out in space will both come under the closer scrutiny of researchers thanks to £3.3 million of new grants to the University of York.
Grants ranging from £500 to £360,000 have been awarded to 51 research projects across different departments at the university.
The biggest research grant of £361,586 over four years was secured by Dr David Orr and Dr Ian Mann of the Physics department to study the Earth's space environment through nine magnetic observatories across Northern Europe.
The observatories are operated by the University of York as a national facility and are known as SAMNET.
The research, funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, will study the way the solar wind causes electric currents to flow in the upper atmosphere.
Another grant, £17,930 from English Heritage, has gone to Dr Keith Dobney of the Environmental Archaeology Department to identify Saxon geese bones from their ancient DNA.
Other grants came from groups as varied as the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Norfolk County Council and Yorkshire Cancer Research.
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