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
• 162 Active
• 1641 Finished

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• Residue Seaweed ex-Alginate production as an Enhanced Biochar

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Pathways: Biosocial influences on health

  Dibben, C.

  Other

  1/10/13 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Wind Risk Forecasting for Brazilian Forest Investment

  Patenaude, G.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Assessment of off-gassing on storage of biomass char products produced by microwave induced pyrolysis

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• NCEO - Carbon

  Williams, M.

  NERC

  1/04/08 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

  • data assimilation 100%
  • leaf area index 96%
  • carbon 86%
  • aboveground biomass 81%
  • carbon cycle 74%

• Case Studies for the development of a forest specific isk toolbox for investment

  Patenaude, G., Williams, M., Woodhouse, I. & Davies, S.

  NERC

  22/10/13 → 21/04/15

  Project: Research

  • Eucalyptus globulus 100%
  • pest 93%
  • woodlands 81%
  • woodland 77%
  • pests 60%

• Knowledge transfer seminar on Indian megacities: developing effective environmental mitigation strategies

  Palmer, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/15 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

• VOLANTE

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/10 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

  • land use 100%
  • land 58%
  • quality of life 31%
  • citizen 28%
  • science 22%

• UK/BRAZIL RESEARCH NETWORK FOR AN AMAZONIAN CARBON OBSERVATORY

  Palmer, P.

  NERC

  1/05/12 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

• ECO2 : ECO2 - SubSealed CO2 Storage: Impact on marine Ecosystems

  Shackley, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/05/11 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

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  • Social sciences 100%
  • leakage 91%
  • social science 87%
  • public 79%
  • Carbon Dioxide 62%

• Edinburgh Sabbatical Fellowship

  Brady, E.

  1/01/15 → 30/05/15

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • Philosophical History 100%
  • Fellowship 81%
  • Edinburgh 77%
  • Aesthetics 77%
  • Nature 43%

• Smart City and Sustainable Island Accelerator (SCSIA)

  Kerr, A.

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

  1/09/13 → 31/05/15

  Project: Research

• TESTING OF GEOPHYSICAL MONITORING TECHNIQUES USING NUMERICAL LEAKAGE SIMULATIONS

  Ziolkowski, A.

  Other

  1/06/12 → 31/05/15

  Project: Research

• Carbon Capture and storage MSc Sponsorship

  Wilkinson, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/06/10 → 31/05/15

  Project: Research

• Environmental Data Use for Determining the Temporal Carbon Flow Consequences of Biomass for Energy

  Williams, M.

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

  1/04/14 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Leverhulme Visiting Professorship application for Eric Steig

  Tudhope, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/08/14 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• ESPA Directorate's 2014-2015 Annual Report

  Keane, A.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  24/11/14 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Interspace Edinburgh - a new platform for co-operation and collaboration between incubator services and business support providers

  Kerr, A.

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

  21/11/13 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• National Biofuels Resource Centre

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/12 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• wikiRivers ¿ Exploiting Digital Technologies for the effective communication of River Water Levels

  Ioris, A.

  Other

  1/09/12 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Biofuel Development Fund Award for work onbehalf of UAN Scotland

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/15 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Biofuel Development Fund Award for work onbehalf of Matthew Algie.

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/15 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Fluid-Net: Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group

  Viola, I. M., Reese, J., Hoskins, P., Vanneste, J., Leimkuhler, B., Berera, A., Morozov, A., Haszeldine, S., Tett, S. & Bethune, I.

  30/06/14 → 30/06/15

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Boltzmann equation 100%
  • Flow of gases 67%
  • continuums 43%
  • Flow rate 42%
  • Carbon nanotubes 42%

• Where We are not: the contribution of disconnection division and exclusion to imaginative (im)mobility

  Brady, E.

  Other

  1/10/14 → 30/07/15

  Project: Research

• Tracing CO2 from pipeline to to subsurface storage sites

  Gilfillan, S.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/10 → 31/07/15

  Project: Research

  • gas transport 100%
  • Pipeline 93%
  • Pipelines 60%
  • Natural Gas 60%
  • Natural gas 55%

• Data Assimilation Projects - Interfacing EO Data with Atmospheric and Land Surface Models

  Palmer, P.

  Other

  1/01/12 → 31/07/15

  Project: Research

• A Differential Absorption LiDAR for Measurement of Greenhouse Gases

  Moncrieff, J.

  STFC

  1/10/13 → 31/07/15

  Project: Research

  • differential absorption lidar 100%
  • Optical radar 88%
  • Optical parametric oscillators 73%
  • parametric amplifiers 65%
  • greenhouses 61%

• ANF: Academic Networking Fund - Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

  Farrier, D., Patrizio, A., Bastian, M. & Ginn, F.

  1/08/14 → 31/07/15

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • project 100%
  • teaching 99%
  • environmental fund 89%
  • networking 56%

• For capacity-building events during the 2014-15: Institute of Academic Development Researcher-Led Networking Fund, FRIED Network (GBP 2,000)

  Knight, C., Skafida, V., Wilson, M., Darmon, I. & Fletcher, I.

  1/08/14 → 31/07/15

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• CO2 storage in early Palaeogene and Neogene hydrogeological systems in the North Sea.

  Wilkinson, M. & Haszeldine, S.

  EPSRC

  1/02/13 → 14/08/15

  Project: Research

• Ochre and Biochair: Technologies for phosphorous recovery and use

  Heal, K.

  Non-EU other

  1/09/12 → 30/08/15

  Project: Research

  • biochar 100%
  • Phosphorus 88%
  • Phosphorus(.) 65%
  • Fertilizer 57%
  • Fertilizers 53%

• Study of Removal of Organic Contaminants from Gasification Waste Wasters

  Shackley, S. & Correia Semiao, A.

  30/03/15 → 30/08/15

  Project: Non-Funded Commission or Consultancy work

• Impacts of Nitrogen deposition on frost Carbon cycle

  Mencuccini, M., Heal, K. & Moncrieff, J.

  NERC

  1/06/09 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

  • Picea sitchensis 100%
  • water use efficiency 60%
  • canopy 54%
  • Photosynthesis 48%
  • plantation 48%

• ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY IN THE EARTH SCIENCES (ACITES) NETWORK

  Stevenson, D.

  NERC

  1/03/13 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

  • ozone precursor 100%
  • tropospheric ozone 89%
  • ozone 63%
  • air quality 61%
  • nitrate 53%

• tmospheric Wind Evaluation using Spectroscopic Observations of Millimetrewave Emission (AWESOME)

  Pumphrey, H.

  NERC

  31/05/14 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

• Impact of Changing Climate and Sediment Supply on Coastal Wetland Survival

  Mudd, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/14 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

  • marsh 100%
  • marshlands 94%
  • saltmarsh 73%
  • salts 52%
  • platforms 49%

• Research Network for Surface Temperature (Earthtemp)

  Matthiesen, S.

  Other

  1/09/12 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

• Review of International Approaches to Domestic Energy Efficiency

  Kerr, A.

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

  1/04/15 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Explosive Silicic Eruptions in Iceland: from Vents to Peat Bogs

  Stevenson, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/10 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Tree communities, airborne remote sensing and ecosystem function: new connections through a traits framework applied to a tropical elevation gradient

  Meir, P.

  NERC

  1/10/12 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Peatland responses to fire: the consequences to vegetation and greenhouse gas balance

  Moncrieff, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/11 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• ECLAIRE - Effect of Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems

  Reay, D.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Research Technician (Forest GHG Fluxes)

  Clement, R.

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

  1/10/13 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Historical Geographies of the Prime Meridian

  Withers, C.

  Learned Societies

  1/04/15 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• NERC Project: A new approach to West Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution using blue-ice moraines on nunataks

  Sugden, D., Hein, A., Woodward, J. & Dunning, S.

  1/03/12 → 1/10/15

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • moraine 100%
  • ice sheet 86%
  • ice 62%
  • Pleistocene 61%
  • Hemisphere 49%

• The Terra-correlator: A computing facility for massive re

  Main, I.

  NERC

  14/11/13 → 14/10/15

  Project: Research

  • e-Science 100%
  • Python 51%
  • Infrastructure 49%
  • Scientific Computing 47%
  • Natural sciences computing 45%

• Global Environment and Society Academy Innovation Initiative Fund (GBP 500)

  Wilson, M.

  5/10/15 → 16/10/15

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • food 100%
  • food provisioning 81%
  • innovation 41%
  • student 40%
  • stakeholder 39%

• Calving Glacier Survey using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  Hulton, N.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/15 → 30/10/15

  Project: Research

• A differential absorption LiDAR for multi-species greenhouse gas detection

  Moncrieff, J.

  NERC

  1/05/14 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research

  • differential absorption lidar 100%
  • greenhouses 98%
  • parametric amplifiers 74%
  • receivers 59%
  • telescopes 53%

• Advanced computing architecture to support the estimation and reporting of UK GHG emissions

  Palmer, P.

  Other

  1/11/13 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research

  • methane 100%
  • trend 39%
  • inversion 36%
  • atmospheric transport 30%
  • monitoring 13%