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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• Improved utilisation of liquid pyrolysis co-products in anaerobic digestion systems

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  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

• 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

• SAREDD - An operational service providing reliable forest degradation information using satellite radar data

  Mitchard, E.

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

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• 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%

• ATLAS - a Trans-Atlantic Assessment and Deep-Water Ecosystem-Based Spatial Management Plan for Europe

  Vad, J.

  1/04/14 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

  • Petroleum 100%
  • soaking 88%
  • dispersant 88%
  • Porifera 82%
  • sponge 75%

• Residue Seaweed ex-Alginate production as an Enhanced Biochar

  Masek, O.

  Other

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  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%

• Forest Height from X-Band Radar DSMs

  Woodhouse, I.

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

  19/03/14 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

• Understanding Silurian paleogeography and stratigraphy of central Europe across the TTZ

  Tait, J.

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

  19/03/14 → 31/12/14

  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%

• Global Monitoring of Soil Carbon from Space

  Lehmann, C.

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

  1/03/14 → 30/11/14

  Project: Research

• BRUS¿ The end-Cretaceous extinction and Paleogene recovery of mammals: evolution during a period of intense environmental change

  Brusatte, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/03/14 → 28/02/18

  Project: Research

  • dinosaur 100%
  • Cretaceous 60%
  • Jurassic 37%
  • reptile 34%
  • phylogeny 27%

• MIRECOL - Remediation and mitigation of CO2 leakage (RTD)

  Wilkinson, M. & Haszeldine, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/03/14 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

• Final synthesis of 30 years study of the faunas of Swedish Cambrian Alum Shale

  Clarkson, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/14 → 1/04/14

  Project: Research

• Global Development Academy Research and Teaching Grant (£800)

  Wilson, M.

  1/03/14 → 1/07/14

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Technical presentations 100%
  • Marketing 77%
  • Teaching 70%

• 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%

• EUFAR2 - European Facility for Airborne Research in Environmental and Geo-sciences

  Wade, T.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/14 → 31/01/18

  Project: Research

• 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%

• Urban Big Data Project ¿ Business and Local Government Data Research Centres

  Dibben, C.

  Other

  6/01/14 → 5/01/19

  Project: Research

• Causes of Climate Change - Learning about the climate system from the observed record

  Hegerl, G.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gases 100%
  • Climate 87%
  • climate 53%
  • Climate Change 53%
  • Aerosols 49%

• KTP No KTP009256 between the University of Edinburgh and Selex ES Limited

  Woodhouse, I.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Hydrocarbon reservoir analytics using high-frequency pressure data

  Main, I.

  NERC

  1/01/14 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• EUCLEIA¿ EUropean CLimate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution

  Tett, S. & Hegerl, G.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

  • surrogate method 100%
  • cold 82%
  • winter 71%
  • climate change 68%
  • skewness 21%

• IMPRESSIONS Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (RTD)

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

  • land use change 100%
  • Land Use 47%
  • ecosystem services 39%
  • climate change 38%
  • Bottom-up 36%

• Laser Ablation Micro-analysis for Trace Elements and Isotopes in Geosciences

  Geibert, W., Ganeshram, R. & Tudhope, A.

  NERC

  1/01/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• KTP No KTP009256 between the University of Edinburgh and Selex ES Limited

  Woodhouse, I. & Mulgrew, B.

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

  1/01/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• A CT-Based Study of the Neuroanatomy of Extinct Marine Crocodylomorphs (Thalattosuchia): How Were Brains and Senses Changed during the Transition to a Sea-Dwelling Lifestyle?

  Brusatte, S.

  UK-based charities

  10/12/13 → 9/12/14

  Project: Research

  • Dinosaurs 100%
  • sinuses 65%
  • anatomy 59%
  • Jurassic period 55%
  • Jurassic 47%

• A model for standardised pest and disease risk assessment of UK forests for carbon buffer and insurance purposes

  Patenaude, G. & Davies, S.

  NERC

  1/12/13 → 31/05/14

  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%

• Transformation of CSEM data for determination of resistivities by seismic data processing methods.

  Ziolkowski, A.

  NERC

  1/12/13 → 30/11/14

  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

• ACES: Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands

  Patenaude, G., Fisher, J., Meir, P., Metzger, M. J. & Ryan, C.

  NERC

  30/11/13 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

  • Charcoal 100%
  • charcoal 88%
  • Mozambique 86%
  • income 71%
  • ecosystem service 59%

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

  Reid, J. & Dibben, C.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • Scotland 100%
  • Pupil 73%
  • pupil 71%
  • Education 54%
  • Scottish School 52%

• LUC4C - Land use change: assessing the net climate forcing, and options for climate change mitigation and adaptation

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/13 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

  • land use 100%
  • land cover 92%
  • land use change 84%
  • uncertainty 78%
  • animal product 69%

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

  Gayle, V. & Dibben, C.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • social science 100%
  • Social sciences 87%
  • Social Sciences 57%
  • Code Sharing 44%
  • Administrative Data 33%

• 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%

• IMPRESSIONS Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (MGT)

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • land use change 100%
  • Land Use 47%
  • ecosystem services 39%
  • climate change 38%
  • Bottom-up 36%

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

  Dibben, C.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • Poverty 100%
  • Logistic Regression 43%
  • Social Exclusion 40%
  • Survey Data 40%
  • Labour Market 35%

• Extension for the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland from 2012 to 2017

  Dibben, C.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• 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%

• LUC4C¿¿ Land use change: assessing the net climate forcing, and options for climate change mitigation and adaptation

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/13 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

  • land management 100%
  • Food Supply 99%
  • atmospheric carbon dioxide 95%
  • land use 77%
  • climate change 66%

• IMPRESSIONS Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (OTHER)

  Rounsevell, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • land use change 100%
  • Land Use 47%
  • ecosystem services 39%
  • climate change 38%
  • Bottom-up 36%

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

  Laurie, G., Dibben, C. & McVie, S.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • data protection 100%
  • public interest 85%
  • governance 82%
  • Ethical Issues 73%
  • social science 55%

• University of Edinburgh/SUERC project - Applying natural tracer technologies in the environmental monitoring of unconventional gas extraction

  Gilfillan, S.

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

  1/11/13 → 31/10/14

  Project: Research

• iSTAR-C: Dynamical control on the response of Pine Island

  Bingham, R.

  NERC

  1/11/13 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

  • glaciers 100%
  • Antarctica 83%
  • Antarctic regions 70%
  • ice 64%
  • ice stream 62%

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

  Iannelli, C., Dibben, C. & Taylor, J.

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research