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

• 5 Not started
• 150 Active
• 1656 Finished

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• IAA Proposal

  Tudhope, A.

  NERC

  1/11/13 → 30/09/16

  Project: Research

• 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

• Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland

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

  ESRC

  1/11/13 → 31/10/18

  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%

• 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%

• 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%

• 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%

• The nature and dynamics of ice stream beds: assessing their role in ice-sheet stability

  Bingham, R.

  1/10/13 → 30/09/17

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • glaciers 100%
  • Ice Cover 89%
  • Ice 69%
  • Islands 62%
  • ice 56%

• Assessing bacterial symbionts in the Foraminifera (Clare Bird)

  Darling, K.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/13 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

• Pathways: Biosocial influences on health

  Dibben, C.

  Other

  1/10/13 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Chair of the Scientific Evaluation Panel (SEP)

  Kroon, D.

  EU other

  1/10/13 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

• CCAFS - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

  Ryan, C.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/10/13 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• Long-Lived Radionuclides in the Surface Environment (LO-RISE)- Mechanistic Studies of Speciation, Environmental Transport and Transfer

  Graham, M. & Uhrin, D.

  NERC

  1/10/13 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

  • Four-Dimensional NMR 100%
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy 81%
  • Isotopes 65%
  • Laser Desorption 61%
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance 61%

• Rethinking Environment and Development in an Era of global Norms: An Exploration of Forests and Water in Nepal, Sudan and Uganda

  Fisher, J.

  Other

  1/10/13 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic forests

  Meir, P.

  Other

  1/10/13 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

• 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%

• The supply of iron from shelf sediments to the ocean

  Geibert, W.

  NERC

  1/10/13 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

  • Trace elements 100%
  • lessons learned 91%
  • Cycling 91%
  • trace elements 87%
  • Ocean 82%

• BIODIVERSITY AND LAND-USE IMPACTS ON TROPICAL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION (BALI)

  Meir, P. & Williams, M.

  NERC

  1/10/13 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

  • Forests 100%
  • Soil 80%
  • Carbon 52%
  • Temperature 52%
  • soil heating 42%

• Administrative Data Service

  Dibben, C.

  Other

  1/10/13 → 31/07/18

  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

• 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%

• Constraining the topographic signature of erosion rates and processes using high resolution topography

  Mudd, S.

  Non-EU other

  23/09/13 → 22/09/17

  Project: Research

  • erosion rate 100%
  • hillslope 78%
  • denudation 60%
  • erosion 56%
  • power law 50%

• DiSECCS: Diagnostic Seismic toolbox for the Efficient Control of CO2 Storage

  Chapman, M.

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

  11/09/13 → 10/03/17

  Project: Research

  • bulk modulus 100%
  • Bulk Modulus 93%
  • rocks 83%
  • immiscible fluid 81%
  • Capillarity 80%

• Caring for the Future Through Ancestral Time: Engaging the Cultural and Spiritual Presence of the Past to Promote a Sustainable Future

  Northcott, M., Bomberg, E., Brady, E., Chick, M., Ginn, F. & Phemister, P.

  AHRC

  5/09/13 → 4/09/16

  Project: Research

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 100%
  • climate 87%
  • citizenship 72%
  • mobilization 70%
  • Anthropocene 62%

• Kenchreai Quarry Landscapes

  Hayward, C., Morgan, C., Trainor, C., Kourtessi-Philippakis, G. & Pitt, R.

  1/09/13 → …

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • Quarry 100%
  • Early Modern Times 52%
  • Limestone 49%
  • Roman Period 44%
  • Ancient Greece 42%

• Mapping Edinburgh's Social History (MESH): A Capital Digital Resource

  Withers, C.

  AHRC

  1/09/13 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

• Understanding genesis of HREE deposits through Experimental and Spectroscopic measurements and atomistic Simulations (REEXSS)

  Ngwenya, B., Bromiley, G., Butler, I., Harley, S., Kirstein, L. & Saunders, K.

  NERC

  1/09/13 → 31/05/14

  Project: Research

• PhD Studentship - Radar Signal Processing for Wide Area Change Detection

  Woodhouse, I.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/13 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

• The policy challenges of tobacco control: Implications for public and global health

  Collin, J., Amos, A., Hill, S., Pearce, J. & Rooke, C.

  ESRC

  1/09/13 → 30/11/16

  Project: Research

  • Pandemics 100%
  • Health Policy 95%
  • nicotine 89%
  • Industry 86%
  • Tobacco Industry 85%

• Mapping Edinburgh's Social History (MESH): A Capital Digital Resource

  Rodger, R., Morris, B. & Withers, C.

  AHRC

  1/09/13 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

  • Social History 100%
  • Edinburgh 72%

• The geomorphology of Viking and medieval harbours in the North Atlantic

  Dugmore, A.

  EU other

  1/09/13 → 31/10/16

  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

• 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%

• Fault seal controls on storage capacity

  Haszeldine, S.

  EPSRC

  1/09/13 → 15/01/16

  Project: Research

• 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

• TEDDINET: network of (Build) TEDDI projects

  van der Horst, D. & Staddon, S.

  EPSRC

  1/09/13 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

  • energy 100%
  • Social sciences 73%
  • energy shortage 44%
  • literacy 38%
  • transdisciplinary 31%

• Investigating controls on flow variability in Greenland's tidewater glaciers: the impact of runoff on fjord circulation and termini melt rates

  Nienow, P.

  NERC

  1/09/13 → 31/08/16

  Project: Research

  • tidewater glacier 100%
  • fjord 83%
  • melt 49%
  • glaciers 45%
  • melting 43%

• Investigation of the impacts and fate of nitrogen deposition in forest canopies and soils

  Mencuccini, M.

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

  1/09/13 → 31/08/14

  Project: Research

• 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

• CRYOTOP CRYOSAT-2 GLACIER AND ICE SHEET MARGINS TOPOGRAPHY THEME 3

  Gourmelen, N.

  Other

  1/08/13 → 31/07/17

  Project: Research

  • land ice 100%
  • ice 81%
  • ice mapping 79%
  • ice shelf 67%
  • Antarctica 66%

• Use of seismic anistropy to characterise shale gas reservoirs

  Chapman, M.

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

  1/08/13 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

• Visiting Professorship - Professor Nils Olsen

  Whaler, K.

  UK-based charities

  1/08/13 → 31/07/14

  Project: Research

  • observatory 100%
  • observatories 99%
  • secular variations 93%
  • secular variation 72%
  • Flow 70%

• PG Cert Climate Change Management (DEI). £56,000, Distance Education Initiative, University of Edinburgh

  Reay, D.

  1/07/13 → 30/06/14

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • climate change 100%
  • education 72%

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

  Panagiotakopulu, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/13 → 30/09/13

  Project: Research

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

  Stuart, N.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• Isotopic characterisation of nutrient dynamics and UCDW behaviour in the west Antarctic Peninsula sea ice environment

  Henley, S.

  NERC

  15/06/13 → 14/06/18

  Project: Research

  • peninsulas 85%
  • nutrient 61%
  • ocean 57%
  • ecosystems 56%
  • sea ice 55%

• Warning Signals for Critical Transitions - EAGER Subaward #1249313

  Newton, A.

  Non-EU other

  13/06/13 → 3/07/16

  Project: Research

• Integrating in situ and Earth Observation measurements with a chemistry transport model to quantify the influence of boreal biomass burning on tropospheric oxidant chemistry

  Palmer, P.

  Other

  1/06/13 → 31/08/13

  Project: Research

• Palaeoneurology and sensory systems in Devonian lungfish: morphological diversity or conservatism in the neurological system?

  Challands, T.

  UK-based charities

  1/06/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

• The role of winter motion in controlling the dynamic stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet

  Nienow, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/06/13 → 31/05/14

  Project: Research