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
• 157 Active
• 1646 Finished

Projects per year

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• Assessment of three Wavelengths for Forests

  Nichol, C. & Patenaude, G.

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

  9/02/15 → 31/10/15

  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%

• Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems (ARIES)

  Harrison, G., Chick, J., Essery, R., Kerr, A. & Venugopal, V.

  EPSRC

  1/11/11 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research

  • Climate change 100%
  • Electricity 79%
  • Wind power 78%
  • wind power 70%
  • Distributed power generation 61%

• Perilous life at the xeric edge: Drought-induced tree mortality in the mediterranean

  Mencuccini, M. & Meir, P.

  NERC

  1/08/11 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research

  • Droughts 100%
  • Xylem 98%
  • Pinus sylvestris 81%
  • Phloem 67%
  • drought 56%

• Research Data Spring: Collaboration for Research Enhancement by Active Metadata (CREAM)

  Mineter, M. & Hagdorn, M.

  Other

  30/03/15 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research

• R&Dialogue - Research and Civil Society Dialogue towards a low-carbon society

  Shackley, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/06/12 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• Linking root water uptake and water use efficiency to tropical tree mortality risk during drought

  Rowland, L.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/15 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• Global-scale modelling of atmosphere-biosphere exchange and interactions between air quality and climate change

  Stevenson, D.

  NERC

  12/09/11 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

• Environmental Impacts of CO2 storage: Offshore

  Wilkinson, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• INTEGRATED NON-CO2 GREENHOUSE GAS OBSERVATION SYSTEM

  Moncrieff, J.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Optical radar 100%
  • Optical parametric oscillators 82%
  • differential absorption lidar 56%
  • Carbon dioxide 49%
  • Aerosols 48%

• INTEGRATED NON-CO2 GREENHOUSE GAS OBSERVATION SYSTEM

  Moncrieff, J.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Optical radar 100%
  • Optical parametric oscillators 82%
  • differential absorption lidar 56%
  • Carbon dioxide 49%
  • Aerosols 48%

• UKCCSRC: Flexible CCS Network Development (FleCCSnet)

  Lucquiaud, M., Chalmers, H., Haszeldine, S., Lucquiaud, M. & Naylor, M.

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

  1/10/13 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Carbon capture 100%
  • Pipeline 79%
  • Pipelines 63%
  • Polyamines 56%
  • Porous carbon 53%

• Climate History Controls Future Landslide Hazard

  Mudd, S.

  NERC

  17/11/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • hillslope 100%
  • erosion 96%
  • erosion rate 90%
  • rivers 82%
  • curvature 79%

• Recycling tree nursery materials into new growing media and glasshouse heating via pyrolysis

  Sohi, S.

  UK-based charities

  9/11/15 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• UKCCSRC - The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre

  Haszeldine, S. & Shackley, S.

  EPSRC

  1/04/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Springs (water) 100%
  • geothermometry 79%
  • Isotopes 73%
  • spring water 70%
  • oxygen isotope 57%

• INTEGRATED NON-CO2 GREENHOUSE GAS OBSERVATION SYSTEM

  Moncrieff, J.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Optical radar 100%
  • Optical parametric oscillators 82%
  • differential absorption lidar 56%
  • Carbon dioxide 49%
  • Aerosols 48%

• Using Optimisation Algorithms to tune Climate Models (OptClim)

  Tett, S.

  NERC

  1/04/14 → 15/01/16

  Project: Research

  • climate modeling 100%
  • Climate models 89%
  • Derivative-free Optimization 86%
  • Climate Models 85%
  • Derivative-free Methods 77%

• Fault seal controls on storage capacity

  Haszeldine, S.

  EPSRC

  1/09/13 → 15/01/16

  Project: Research

• Real-time forecasts of eruptions at Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador

  Bell, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/15 → 31/01/16

  Project: Research

  • Ecuador 100%
  • volcanoes 75%
  • earthquakes 51%
  • seismicity 48%
  • volcano 44%

• Carbon Cycling Linkages of Permafrost Systems (CYCLOPS)

  Williams, M. & Essery, R.

  NERC

  1/08/12 → 31/01/16

  Project: Research

  • permafrost 100%
  • Permafrost 98%
  • Soil 73%
  • carbon 67%
  • tundra 64%

• Land-Use Learning Labs (LULLs)

  Brown, C.

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

  1/12/14 → 29/02/16

  Project: Research

• Effect of in-situ stress field on elastic radiation from underground explosive sources

  Ziolkowski, A.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/12 → 29/02/16

  Project: Research

• Characterisation of Near - Field Eyja fjallajokull plume and its Long range influence

  Palmer, P.

  NERC

  1/04/11 → 29/02/16

  Project: Research

• Investigation of the Southern Methane Anomaly: causes, implications, and relevance to past global events

  Grace, J.

  Other

  1/03/13 → 29/02/16

  Project: Research

• The development of a UK calibrated Solar insolation model to inform Solar site identification in the UK and Solar PV performance forecasting.

  Woodhouse, I.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations, UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/09/15 → 29/02/16

  Project: Research

• Callidus Services Limited

  Challands, T.

  26/03/14 → 26/03/16

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • sensory system 100%
  • tetrapod 84%
  • brain 62%
  • fossil 50%
  • services 43%

• Biochar sponsorship

  Masek, O.

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

  1/09/14 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Worthy Cause Payment - Climate Conservations project

  Kerr, A.

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

  1/11/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• International Partnership Space Programme

  Williams, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/06/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Worthy Cause Payment

  Kerr, A.

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

  1/04/13 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• A new approach to West Antarctic ice sheet evolution using blue ice moraines on nunataks

  Sugden, D. & Hein, A.

  NERC

  1/02/12 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

  • ice 100%
  • moraine 82%
  • Antarctica 73%
  • ice sheet 62%
  • glacial drift 53%

• CENTRE OF EXPERTISE CLIMATE CHANGE DIRECTORATE

  Kerr, A.

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

  1/04/11 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Miombo Landcover Change

  Ryan, C.

  Other

  20/02/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Role of Microporosity and Wettability on Fluid Flow in Carbonates (MICRO - WET)

  Wood, R.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  10/12/10 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

  • Carbonates 100%
  • carbonate 58%
  • Multiphase flow 56%
  • multiphase flow 55%
  • Wetting 53%

• Spatial Mapping for Staple Food Production and Forests in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

  Ryan, C.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/16 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

• Assessing bacterial symbionts in the Foraminifera (Clare Bird)

  Darling, K.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/13 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

• Streamlining monitoring for smallholder and community PES - Assessing monitoring in smallholder and community carbon projects in Mexico and Uganda

  Ryan, C. & Fisher, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/11/13 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

  • Payments for Ecosystem Services 100%
  • smallholder 76%
  • Smallholders 72%
  • Carbon 67%
  • ecosystem service 55%

• Air pollution and weather related health impacts: Methodological Study

  Doherty, R., Pearce, J. & Stevenson, D.

  NERC

  1/06/11 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

  • nitrogen dioxide 100%
  • Air Pollution 66%
  • Nitrogen Dioxide 64%
  • Climate Change 63%
  • health 62%

• Mobility, Mood and Place: a user-centred approach to design of built environments to make mobility easy, enjoyable and meaningful for older people

  Pearce, J. & Shortt, N.

  EPSRC

  1/09/13 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

  • mood 100%
  • freelancer 73%
  • Land use planning 66%
  • social media 40%
  • Healthcare 40%

• Applying natural tracer technologies in the environmental monitoring of unconventional gas extraction

  Gilfillan, S. & Haszeldine, S.

  NERC

  15/11/13 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

  • Hydraulic fracturing 100%
  • Wastewater 89%
  • hydraulic fracturing 81%
  • viability 78%
  • Methane 66%

• PANACEA: predicting and monitoring the long term behaviour of CO2 injected in deep geological formations

  Edlmann, K.

  6/02/12 → 7/05/16

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

• Ms Hongyu Yi - A modern "toolkit" for analyzing evolution of functional traits

  Brusatte, S.

  UK-based charities

  31/05/14 → 30/05/16

  Project: Research

• Alcohol and Tobacco Environments in Scotland: Impact grant

  Shortt, N.

  1/10/14 → 9/06/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • nicotine 100%
  • Tobacco 99%
  • smoking 65%
  • Scotland 55%
  • alcohol 53%

• NCEO Mission Support Award - PhD Studentship funding contribution Palmer, P. Professor

  Palmer, P.

  Other

  1/01/13 → 30/06/16

  Project: Research

• MISTRA-SWECIA Climate impacts and Adaptation

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU other

  1/01/08 → 30/06/16

  Project: Research

• Warning Signals for Critical Transitions - EAGER Subaward #1249313

  Newton, A.

  Non-EU other

  13/06/13 → 3/07/16

  Project: Research

• Fingerprinting captured CO2 using natural tracers: Determining CO2 fate and proving ownership

  Gilfillan, S. & Haszeldine, S.

  EPSRC

  1/12/13 → 30/07/16

  Project: Research

  • noble gas 100%
  • Noble Gas Atom 98%
  • Inert gases 89%
  • Isotopes 67%
  • carbon sequestration 65%

• Geographies of Media Convergence: Spaces of Democracy, Connectivity and the Reconfiguration of Cultural Citizenship NZ$800,000

  Cupples, J. & Glynn, K.

  1/02/14 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • citizenship 100%
  • entertainment 62%
  • television 53%
  • New Zealand 53%
  • geography 47%

• Statistical reservoir Modelling User lead

  Main, I.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/02/15 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

• Long-term variability of sediment delivery to the Gangetic Plains measured using cosmogenic nuclides

  Sinclair, H.

  UK-based charities

  1/08/14 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research