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
• 156 Active
• 1649 Finished

Projects per year

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• 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%

• Go Far: Going Outdoors: Falls, Ageing & Resilience

  Pearce, J., Curl, A. & Aspinall, P.

  MRC

  1/02/12 → 31/01/13

  Project: Research

  • audit 100%
  • anxiety 59%
  • health 45%
  • disability 34%
  • indoor environment 32%

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

  Essery, R.

  Non-EU other

  21/01/12 → 1/03/14

  Project: Research

• ARM: Active reservoir management for improved Hydro-Carbon recovery

  Main, I.

  NERC

  16/01/12 → 30/06/13

  Project: Research

  • market research 100%
  • fluid injection 83%
  • hydrocarbon reservoir 73%
  • new technology 60%
  • trial 51%

• Climate-Smart Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa Project: Carbon Methodology Requirements

  Ryan, C.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  6/01/12 → 30/06/12

  Project: Research

• Improved quantification of forest health using multi scale remote sensing observations

  Nichol, C.

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

  1/01/12 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

• Pisces Biochar Project Policy Innovation system for Clean energy Security

  Sohi, S.

  Other

  1/01/12 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research

• Strategic Alliance Agreement

  Ziolkowski, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/12 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

• Mapping and geological understanding of released semi-regional 3D seismic surveys which are located in the Inner Moray Firth

  Underhill, J.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/12 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

• Mapping and geological understanding of released semi-regional 3D seismic surveys which are located in the Inner Moray Firth

  Underhill, J.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/12 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

• Injected in deep (PANACEA)

  McDermott, C.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/12 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

  • Site selection 100%
  • Mechanical stability 96%
  • Aquifers 95%
  • Pressure 91%
  • gas transport 91%

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

  Palmer, P.

  Other

  1/01/12 → 31/07/15

  Project: Research

• From Space Exploration to Scotland's Cold War: testing and contesting the world's first nuclear missile

  MacDonald, F.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/12 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research

• The controlling influence of the core and mantle on a habitable planet; Dynamic Earth Models (DEM)

  Tait, J.

  NERC

  1/01/12 → 30/06/12

  Project: Research

• 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%

• IEAGHG Key Messages : Key Messages for Communiation Needs for Key Stakeholders

  Shackley, S., Evar, B., Howell, R., Lucquiaud, M., Mabon, L., Markusson, N. & Scott, V.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/12/11 → 31/08/12

  Project: Research

  • public relations 100%
  • stakeholders 98%
  • information needs 40%
  • focus groups 37%
  • peers 35%

• UKOGL: The interpretation of regional seismic lines

  Underhill, J.

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

  1/12/11 → 31/07/12

  Project: Research

• Biodiversity Indexing Service

  Gunn, D.

  NERC

  1/11/11 → 31/01/12

  Project: Research

• Using satellite data to monitor REDD+ projects: Developing metodologies and error estimation for Africa

  Mitchard, E.

  NERC

  1/11/11 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

  • tropical forest 100%
  • carbon 77%
  • aboveground biomass 61%
  • backscatter 61%
  • remote sensing 58%

• 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%

• Enabling the emergence of Biochar as a carbon mitigation tool in the UK by creating a Biochar risk assessment framework (BRAF)

  Shackley, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/11/11 → 31/07/13

  Project: Research

• Research network for surface temperature

  Merchant, C.

  NERC

  3/10/11 → 2/10/14

  Project: Research

  • surface temperature 100%
  • complementarity 24%
  • need 21%
  • continent 16%
  • weather 14%

• 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%

• ESRC SCOTTISH DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  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%

• GEOCARBON

  Williams, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

  • biomass allocation 100%
  • carbon cycle 72%
  • residence time 64%
  • carbon 41%
  • leaf area 25%

• Studentship - Emma Dodd "Representing the Arctic in global surface temperature time-series of recent change"

  Merchant, C.

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

  1/10/11 → 30/09/14

  Project: Research

• SCOTTISH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Cultural Evolution 100%
  • Transformism 91%
  • Capacity Building 87%
  • citizenship 86%
  • Federal Republic of Germany 81%

• SCOTTISH ESRC DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE DTG 2011 ESRC - ES/J500136/1

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

  • space policy 100%
  • Space Policy 89%
  • Domination 75%
  • Innovation Policy 67%
  • Tourism 59%

• SCOTTISH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

• SCOTTISH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  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

• SCOTTSH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

• NCEO bridging support for Liang Feng

  Palmer, P.

  NERC

  1/10/11 → 31/01/12

  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%

• Wind Risk Forecasting for Brazilian Forest Investment

  Patenaude, G.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Environmental Impacts of CO2 storage: Offshore

  Wilkinson, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• SCOTTISH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Self-defense 100%
  • self-defense 98%
  • Vulnerability 78%
  • vulnerability 65%
  • moral philosophy 60%

• SCOTTISH ESRC DTC

  Pearce, J.

  ESRC

  1/10/11 → 2/10/21

  Project: Research

• phyBEHI: Physical built environments and health inequalities

  Pearce, J., Shortt, N., Richardson, E. & Tunstall, H.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/11 → 30/09/16

  Project: Research

  • Geographic Information Systems 100%
  • Health Inequalities 90%
  • mortality 88%
  • Income 87%
  • social inequality 80%

• Assessing the effects of Red Mud Pollution in a shallow Scottish Loch (Kinghorn Loch, Fife)

  Heal, K.

  NERC

  1/10/11 → 30/09/14

  Project: Research

  • mud 100%
  • arsenic 90%
  • pollution 76%
  • lake 68%
  • Arsenic 57%

• 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%

• Evalutaion and Prospectivity of Blocks 5 & 6, Offshore Cameroon

  Underhill, J.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/11 → 30/06/12

  Project: Research

• Generation of ARC-method coefficients for ATSR-1 and ATSR-2

  Merchant, C.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  15/09/11 → 15/12/11

  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

• AMAZALERT - Land use change in the Amazon

  Meir, P.

  EU government bodies

  1/09/11 → 30/11/14

  Project: Research

  • tropical forest 100%
  • rainforest 54%
  • carbon 52%
  • Simulator 51%
  • Hydraulics 49%

• 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

• Student: Nicholas Cowan

  Moncrieff, J.

  NERC

  1/09/11 → 31/08/14

  Project: Research

• REAKT: REAKT - Strategies and tools for Real Time Earthquake Risk Reduction

  Main, I.

  EU government bodies

  1/09/11 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research

  • earthquakes 100%
  • earthquake 93%
  • Sampling 67%
  • hazard 57%
  • Shape 52%

• Reconstructing magma storage and transport prior to giant icelandic fissure eruptions

  Thordarson, T.

  NERC

  1/09/11 → 31/08/13

  Project: Research