School of Geosciences

Projects

Projects per year 1983 2001 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2027

• 4 Not started
• 151 Active
• 1655 Finished

Projects per year

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• How were the first stable continents formed?

  Hastie, A.

  NERC

  1/10/12 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

  • tonalite 100%
  • plate tectonics 91%
  • oceanic crust 85%
  • continental crust 82%
  • continent 69%

• Airborne Geophysical Investigations of basal conditions at flow transitions of outlet glaciers on teh Greenland Ice Sheet

  Siegert, M. & Nienow, P.

  NERC

  1/10/10 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• Interferometric analysis of Earthquake data (Elizabeth Entwhistle)

  Curtis, A.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/10/10 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• Peatland responses to Fire: The consequnces to Vegetation gas balance

  Williams, M.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/10 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• Insect faunas associated with the earliest human settlement of Northern Norway

  Panagiotakopulu, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/13 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• How does the Earth's crust grow at divergent plate boundaries? A unique opportunity in Afar.

  Whaler, K.

  NERC

  1/03/07 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

  • magma 100%
  • magma chamber 65%
  • Ethiopia 51%
  • crusts 31%
  • mid-ocean ridge 29%

• IODP-MI CHAIR OR THE PROPOSAL EVALUATON PANEL

  Kroon, D.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

  • Maldives 100%
  • eolian deposit 75%
  • Indian Ocean 73%
  • dust 61%
  • aridity 11%

• Satellite magnetrometry & the new ESA SWARM constellation

  Whaler, K.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/10/09 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

  • orthogonal functions 100%
  • empirical orthogonal function analysis 76%
  • magnetic field 58%
  • solar cycles 52%
  • solar cycle 48%

• Role of extensional fault growth and linkage

  Underhill, J.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/08 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• Investigating melt and runoff from a Greenland outlet galacier

  Nienow, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/12 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

• NERC British Antarctic Survey Core Programme: Ice Sheets

  Vaughan, D. G. & Bingham, R.

  1/04/09 → 30/09/13

  Project: Project from a former institution

  • Antarctica 100%
  • ice sheet 94%
  • Antarctic regions 78%
  • glaciers 61%
  • glacier 59%

• Hydraulics and sediment deformation

  Boulton, G.

  NERC

  1/05/09 → 11/10/13

  Project: Research

• CLIMSAVE - Vunerability in Europe

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/10 → 31/10/13

  Project: Research

  • climate change impact 100%
  • impact assessment 99%
  • climate change 28%
  • socioeconomics 26%
  • economic sector 20%

• UK CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE COMMUNITY NETWORK

  Haszeldine, S.

  EPSRC

  1/11/09 → 31/10/13

  Project: Research

• Debating the Politics of Temporary Migrant Labour: a transnational exchange

  Johnston, C.

  15/11/12 → 14/11/13

  Project: Project from a former institution

  • theater 100%
  • migrant 54%
  • Philippines 47%
  • Child domestic workers 46%
  • social science 35%

• Commonwealth Scholarship - Dr Sajjad Ahmad

  Kroon, D.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/09/13 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• Tectonic development of Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic Palaeotethy in the E. Mediterranean (Karakaya Complex, NW Turkey)

  Robertson, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/13 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• Artist in Residence - Ms Jennie Speirs Grant

  Cooper, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/13 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• UK National Ecosystem Assessment (Work Package 5)

  Brady, E.

  Other

  1/05/12 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• TAGTEC (Technical Aspects of Gas Turbine Emissions with Capture)

  Lucquiaud, M. & Graham, C.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/12/10 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• ASTR

  Merchant, C.

  EU other

  15/06/09 → 30/11/13

  Project: Research

• NERC Project: Holocene Ice Sheet Thinning in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica

  Bentley, M. & Hein, A.

  1/11/09 → 1/12/13

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • ice sheet 100%
  • Antarctica 92%
  • Holocene 82%
  • nunatak 77%
  • mountain 69%

• SiteChar: SiteChar - Social characterisation for CO2 capture and storage projects

  Shackley, S.

  10/01/11 → 2/12/13

  Project: Non-Funded Commission or Consultancy work

  File

  • moral hazard 100%
  • citizen 87%
  • witness 68%
  • interview 61%
  • climate change 61%

• BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON SOIL RESPIRATION AND ITS CLIMATIC RESPONSE ACROSS A LARGE TROPICAL ELEVATION GRADIENT

  Meir, P.

  NERC

  1/06/11 → 16/12/13

  Project: Research

  • tropical forests 100%
  • montane forest 78%
  • montane forests 73%
  • soil 71%
  • tropical forest 71%

• LastMill: Causes of change in European mean and extreme climate over the past 500 years

  Hegerl, G., Schurer, A. & Tett, S.

  NERC

  1/10/10 → 20/12/13

  Project: Research

  • volcanic eruption 100%
  • volcanic eruptions 98%
  • climate 98%
  • volcanology 95%
  • warming 72%

• Seismic interpretation of offshore Ivory Coast, W Africa

  Underhill, J.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/04/13 → 30/12/13

  Project: Research

• SRC Centres Proposal led by the University of Surrey: 'UK Collaborative Research Centre on Sustainability and Behaviour'

  Allen, S.

  ESRC

  1/03/10 → 30/12/13

  Project: Research

  • lifestyle 100%
  • carbon 79%
  • project 73%
  • development policy 56%
  • social network 54%

• NE/J006521/1: IODP Survey of the "Shackleton sites" on the Southwest Iberian Margin

  Thomas, A. & Henderson, G. M.

  1/01/12 → 31/12/13

  Project: Project from a former institution

  • ice core 100%
  • ice 62%
  • ship 54%
  • drilling 47%
  • glacial-interglacial cycle 40%

• Volcanism in the artic circle

  Thordarson, T.

  Non-EU other

  1/10/07 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research

• Pisces Biochar Project Policy Innovation system for Clean energy Security

  Sohi, S.

  Other

  1/01/12 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research

• Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

  Merchant, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  6/10/10 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research

• Environmental impact of the Pre-Columbian 'geoglyph builders' in wester Amazonia

  Mayle, F.

  Non-EU other

  1/07/12 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research

• Synergistic Use of the Sentinel Missions for Estimating and Monitoring Land Surface Temperature (SEN4LST)

  Merchant, C.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  16/05/11 → 15/01/14

  Project: Research

• Quantifying the impact of boreal forest fires on tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using aircraft and satallites BORTAS

  Palmer, P.

  NERC

  1/06/08 → 19/01/14

  Project: Research

  • biomass burning 100%
  • plume 57%
  • forest fire 48%
  • nitrate 34%
  • Canada 28%

• Probing mechanisms behind speciation dependent toxicity of trace metals from contaminated soil by metal hyperaccumulating plants

  Ngwenya, B.

  17/01/14 → 21/01/14

  Project: Awarded Facility Time

  • zinc 100%
  • trace metal 59%
  • contaminated soil 55%
  • toxicity 45%
  • sulfate 43%

• Are tropical uplands regional hotspots for methane and nitrous oxide

  Meir, P.

  NERC

  1/03/10 → 31/01/14

  Project: Research

  • methane 100%
  • montane forest 54%
  • montane forests 53%
  • forest soils 39%
  • nitrous oxide 39%

• Quantifying and Monitoring Potential Ecosystem Impacts of Geological Carbon Storage

  Haszeldine, S.

  NERC

  1/08/10 → 31/01/14

  Project: Research

  • Carbon capture 100%
  • Brines 96%
  • trapping 77%
  • brine 72%
  • Permeability 65%

• PAGODA: Hydrological cycle understanding

  Hegerl, G. & Polson, D.

  NERC

  1/02/11 → 31/01/14

  Project: Research

  • land 100%
  • greenhouse gas 85%
  • arid region 79%
  • hydrological cycle 78%
  • climate models 75%

• Remote sensing of solar induced fluorescence photochemical reflectence index or carbon uptake in two contrasting forest eco-systems

  Nichol, C.

  NERC

  1/10/08 → 31/01/14

  Project: Research

  • light use efficiency 100%
  • reflectance 74%
  • index 36%
  • deciduous forest 31%
  • customs 31%

• Snow vegetation atmosphere interactions over heterogeneous landscapes

  Essery, R.

  NERC

  1/11/10 → 28/02/14

  Project: Research

  • snow 100%
  • photography 75%
  • canopy 69%
  • albedo 65%
  • lidar 62%

• Felsic rocks of the Cosmos Region

  Thordarson, T.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/09 → 28/02/14

  Project: Research

• SNOW AND AVALANCHE APPLICATIONS (SNAPS) - ADAPTATION OF SURFEX SOFTWARE

  Essery, R.

  Non-EU other

  21/01/12 → 1/03/14

  Project: Research

• Bacteria-metal co-localization, speciation and translocation in Brassica juncea plants: a combined fluorescence microscopy and XAS analysis

  Ngwenya, B.

  1/03/14 → 4/03/14

  Project: Awarded Facility Time

  • Rhizobium leguminosarum 100%
  • Brassica juncea 90%
  • Mustard Plant 87%
  • plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria 66%
  • bacteria 64%

• Long Term Atmospheric measurement and interpretation (of radioactively active trace gases)

  Moncrieff, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  17/03/11 → 16/03/14

  Project: Research

• SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering

  Tett, S.

  EPSRC

  1/10/10 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• DATA ASSIMILATION - COUPLED MODEL ASSIMILATION

  Merchant, C.

  Other

  1/04/12 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• CeLSIUS: Research Support Unit for the ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales

  Dibben, C.

  Other

  1/12/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• Mainstreaming Innovation: Integration of sustainable infrastructure into the existing built environment

  Heal, K.

  Other

  1/04/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• Mapping of urban green infrastructure in Malaysia, 1990-2010

  Stuart, N.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• BIOCHAR

  Shackley, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/09 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research