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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• NSFPLR-NERC: GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites)

  Bingham, R.

  NERC

  1/10/18 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

  • Antarctic Regions 100%
  • Antarctic regions 96%
  • climate 85%
  • Ice 82%
  • Oceans and Seas 78%

• Resolving Fingerprints of Unconventional Gas Resources and Methane Rich Groundwaters in the UK

  Gilfillan, S.

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

  1/10/18 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

• International Ocean Drilling Project Forum Chair

  Kroon, D.

  Non-EU other

  1/10/18 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• CCI+ PHASE 1 - NEW ECVS ¿ Snow; Item No. 17.155.04

  Essery, R.

  EU other

  26/09/18 → 25/09/21

  Project: Research

• Brain evolution and the rise of mammals after the dinosaur extinction

  Brusatte, S.

  EU government bodies

  10/09/18 → 9/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Semicircular Canals 100%
  • Sciuridae 89%
  • mammals 89%
  • inner ear 89%
  • Eutheria 88%

• IoT for Transport and Mobility Demonstrator

  Murray-Rust, D.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Noble gas geochemistry: CO2 source and fluid organization

  Gilfillan, S.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Atmospheric Composition Change Through an Isotopic Lens

  Arnold, T.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Poverty in rural Africa and its relationships with environmental resources and ecosystem services

  Watmough, G.

  EU other

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• The role of coralliths in coral reef recovery and expansion

  Hennige, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin

  Mitchard, E.

  NERC

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • peatland 100%
  • dome 92%
  • peat 89%
  • basin 47%
  • ICESat 44%

• Evaluation, Quantification and Identification of Pathways and Targets for the assessment of Shale Gas RISK (EQUIPT4RISK)

  Gilfillan, S. & McDermott, C.

  NERC

  1/09/18 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

  • carbon sequestration 100%
  • isotope 40%
  • station 30%
  • carbon 30%
  • gas 27%

• NSFPLR-NERC: Processes, drivers, predictions: Modeling the response of Thwaites Glacier over the next century using ice/ocean coupled models

  Goldberg, D. & Gourmelen, N.

  NERC

  1/09/18 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • glaciers 100%
  • Antarctic regions 88%
  • glacier 73%
  • ice 64%
  • land ice 57%

• The Shaping of the Global Conservation Agenda

  Fisher, J.

  Non-EU other

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Trees outside forests: using remote sensing to understand ecological and social landscape change in Africa

  Ryan, C.

  Non-EU other

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• NSFGEO-NERC: Transforming understanding of paleomagnetic recording: Insights from experimental observations and numerical predictions

  Williams, W.

  NERC

  1/09/18 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Magnetization 100%
  • remanence 96%
  • Magnetic Domain 83%
  • Remanence 82%
  • magnetic recording 80%

• Quantifying the effects of development projects on biodiversity conservation in West Africa

  Keane, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Future proofing strategies FOr RESilient transport networks against Extreme Events

  Mudd, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/09/18 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Controls on ice shelf thinning around the Antarctica and Greenland Ice Sheets

  Gourmelen, N.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Autonomous Devices for a Future of Distributed Energy Generation (£14.5K University of Edinburgh Challenge Investment Fund)

  Pschetz, L., Kerr, A. & Speed, C.

  1/08/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Autism Throughout The Lifespan: Physical Health And Wellbeing

  Crompton, C., Fletcher-Watson, S., Russon, T. & Stirland, L.

  UK-based charities

  1/08/18 → 1/04/20

  Project: Research

• Aerosols and regional climate dynamics

  Bollasina, M.

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

  1/07/18 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

  • aerosol 100%
  • emission control 79%
  • hydroxyl radical 78%
  • climate effect 78%
  • energy use 76%

• Native grass pasture management to feed people and protect forests

  Lehmann, C.

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

  1/07/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Climate KIC 2018/19: Edinburgh & South East City Deal Procurement Pathfinder 1

  Kerr, A.

  EU government bodies

  1/07/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• To estimate of the impact of a reduction in tobacco retailer availability

  Shortt, N. & Pearce, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

  • nicotine 100%
  • Tobacco 99%
  • equity 84%
  • Pharmacy 15%
  • sales 14%

• RICHES: Regional Impacts of Chinese Heat and Humidity Extremes on Society

  Tett, S. & Feng, Z.

  ESRC

  1/07/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gases 100%
  • greenhouses 79%
  • heat wave 66%
  • warming 44%
  • Northern Hemisphere 38%

• Granular flow rheology; the key to understanding the exceptional mobility of pyroclastic density currents

  Calder, E. & Naylor, M.

  NERC

  1/06/18 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

• Climate KIC 2018/19: CLP finals

  Craig, E.

  EU government bodies

  1/06/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Climate KIC 2018/19: FEED-X

  Kerr, A.

  EU government bodies

  1/06/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Subsurface Evaluation of Carbon capture and storage and Unconventional Risk

  Shackley, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/06/18 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

• CCI+ PHASE 1 - NEW ECVS (BIOMASS)

  Ryan, C. & Mitchard, E.

  EU other

  1/06/18 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

  • aboveground biomass 100%
  • uncertainty 92%
  • standard deviation 20%
  • forest resource assessment 10%
  • forest inventory 10%

• REUSE: Reusing IFAD Data to Understand Socio-ecological systems (REUSE): Are IFAD data suitable for investigating the relationships between rural livelihoods and environmental change?

  Watmough, G.

  1/06/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • household survey 100%
  • project 84%
  • household 66%
  • malnutrition 54%
  • hunger 54%

• Diagnosis, data assimilation and decision-making systems for precision management of water and nitrogen in the Southern China

  Williams, M.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Spirulina Production as a Scalable, Decentralized and Low Environmental Impact Food Source

  Gathorne-Hardy, A.

  UK-based charities

  29/04/18 → 29/04/20

  Project: Research

• Can new technologies shift global power geometries? An agricultural trade workshop with Caribbean partners in Edinburgh (£14,860, International Research and Partnership Fund)

  Pschetz, L., Wilson, M. & Symons, K.

  2/04/18 → 30/06/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Jamaica 100%
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 70%
  • agricultural trade 61%
  • environmental markets 61%
  • market access 54%

• Climate KIC 2018/19: Financing Sustainable Cities (UK & Ireland)

  Kerr, A.

  EU government bodies

  2/04/18 → 2/09/18

  Project: Research

• Production and characterization of biochar from food and waste prod.

  Masek, O.

  EU other

  1/04/18 → 31/08/18

  Project: Research

• Capturing the landscape-context of long-term records of tundra vegetation change

  Myers-Smith, I.

  NERC

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Silvi International Limited Funding for Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (Susan Davies)

  Davies, S.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/04/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Extension for the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland (LSCS) from 2018 to 2020

  Dibben, C., Clemens, T. & Feng, Z.

  ESRC

  1/04/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• HDR UK

  Dibben, C.

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

  1/04/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Industry-Academia Partnership Programme (Thailand), Spirulina Production as a Scalable, Decentralised and Low Environmental Impact Food Source (Awarded by Royal Academy of Engineering (IAPP1\100146), Industry-Academia Partnership Programme (Thailand), Awarded £49,950)

  Sawangwan, T., Shah, S., Myers, R., Huang, H., Worauaychai, N., Lau, S., Gathorne-Hardy, A., Correia Semiao, A., Noon-Song, E. & Dortkardes, M.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• To assess the level of exposure to tobacco retailing in children already vulnerable to smoking behaviours (Project 2)

  Shortt, N. & Pearce, J.

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

  1/04/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Geographic Information Systems 100%
  • Scotland 86%
  • nicotine 71%
  • Tobacco 71%
  • Child 32%

• ION MICROPROBE FACILITY (IMF)

  Harley, S., Craven, J. & Kirstein, L.

  NERC

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Comparative Study on Integration of Health and Social Care in China and Scotland

  Feng, Z.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/18 → 30/11/21

  Project: Research

• UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand

  van der Horst, D.

  EPSRC

  1/04/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Leveraging routinely collected and linked research data to study the causes and consequences of common mental disorders

  Dibben, C.

  MRC

  31/03/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Neuroticism 100%
  • neuroticism 92%
  • diagnostic 71%
  • Depression 55%
  • Genome-Wide Association Study 32%

• Visualizing Sugaropolis: Interdisciplinary Recreations of Greenock's Transnational Past

  Wilson, M., Bond, E. & Sloan, R.

  Learned Societies

  31/03/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • food and luxury products industry 100%
  • interdisciplinary research 86%
  • recreation 83%
  • museum 75%
  • schoolchild 70%

• Dynamic triggering and criticality: earthquake interactions during unrest at Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos Islands

  Bell, A.

  NERC

  12/03/18 → 18/04/19

  Project: Research

  • volcanoes 100%
  • volcanic eruptions 85%
  • volcano 58%
  • calderas 44%
  • tremors 36%

• Advanced Hybrid Method for Pore-Scale Simulation of Shale Gas Flows

  McDermott, C.

  Non-EU other

  1/03/18 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research