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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• Perturbation of the Earth System at the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition and the resilience of the biosphere

  Wood, R.

  NERC

  9/01/17 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • explosions 100%
  • fossils 88%
  • explosion 81%
  • Ediacaran 80%
  • metazoan 77%

• Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management (SMFM)

  Ryan, C., Mitchard, E. & Woodhouse, I.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  9/01/17 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Climate Launchpad 2017

  Craig, E.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Edinburgh City Region Innovation Ecosystem Development

  Kerr, A. & Craig, E.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• She sees sea beasties on the seashore

  Hennige, S.

  NERC

  1/01/17 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

• Advanced technologies for efficient crop management: A participatory approach with application at farm scale

  Williams, M. & MacArthur, A.

  BBSRC

  1/01/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • leaf area index 100%
  • Chlorophyll 98%
  • empirical models 80%
  • Triticum 77%
  • growth and development 72%

• Scotland's Jurassic Park: Illuminating a dark period in the evolution of dinosaurs and other terrestrial vertebrates

  Brusatte, S.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• UK & Ireland Start-up Accelerator Programme

  Craig, E.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Air pollution, pollen, asthma and hay fever and their interactive effect on cognitive development: environment & health date linkage feasibility study

  Doherty, R.

  NERC

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Lightning: An invisible driver of tree mortality in the tropics?

  Mitchard, E.

  NERC

  1/01/17 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Production without medicalisation: a pilot intervention in global protein production, ESRC

  Hinchliffe, S., Tyler, C., Srinivasan, K., Rahman, M. & Syed, A.

  1/01/17 → 1/01/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • medicalization 100%
  • grant 67%

• Working-class environmentalisms in the age of transnational markets

  Srinivasan, K. & Bickerstaff, K.

  Learned Societies

  12/12/16 → 11/12/19

  Project: Research

• A soil moisture and crop yield diagnostic system for sub-Saharan Africa

  Williams, M.

  UK-based charities

  5/12/16 → 4/12/18

  Project: Research

• 509001NEC05629 CWI-MULTI CUSTOMER-TFRN and INMS LISBON Meeting Support

  Howard, C.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/16 → 30/06/17

  Project: Research

• Improving Predictive Asthma Algorithms with Modeled Environment Data for Scotland

  Dibben, C.

  NERC

  1/12/16 → 31/08/18

  Project: Research

• Prospective Aftershock Forecasting of the Norcia 2016 Earthquake sequence, central Apennines Italy

  Naylor, M., Main, I. & McCloskey, J.

  NERC

  1/12/16 → 28/02/18

  Project: Research

• International Partnership Programme - Forests 2020

  Mitchard, E., Williams, M. & van der Horst, D.

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

  1/12/16 → 29/05/20

  Project: Research

  • tropical forest 100%
  • aboveground biomass 67%
  • PALSAR 65%
  • climate 48%
  • gross primary productivity 47%

• The multi-year impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the carbon cycle of tropical forests

  Meir, P.

  NERC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• Land-use Intensification in forest-agriculture frontier landscapes: effects on ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

  Ryan, C. & Fisher, J.

  NERC

  1/12/16 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

  • agricultural intensification 100%
  • ecosystem services 80%
  • ecosystem service 67%
  • food provisioning 42%
  • well-being 33%

• Environmental determinants of IVF treatment

  Clemens, T., Dibben, C. & Doherty, R.

  NERC

  1/12/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Process analysis, observations and modelling ¿¿¿ Integrated solutions for cleaner air for Delhi

  Doherty, R.

  NERC

  14/11/16 → 13/11/20

  Project: Research

• INSITE: Data Initiative

  Roberts, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/11/16 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

• Fiona Clubb - Modelling the impact of future climate change on flood risk in Scotland

  Mudd, S.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

  • marshlands 100%
  • digital elevation models 94%
  • delineation 85%
  • valleys 74%
  • sediments 73%

• Dynamic Flood Topographies in the Terai, Nepal; community perception and resilience

  Attal, M., Gourmelen, N., Mudd, S., Ruwanpura, K. & Sinclair, H.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research

• Real-time Aftershock Forecasting in Turkey (RAFT)

  McCloskey, J.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

  • earthquakes 100%
  • forecasting 94%
  • aftershock 86%
  • Turkey 60%
  • earthquake 53%

• Communication with Hazard Maps in Central America: A multidisciplinary science-media-community network (HazMap_CA)

  Calder, E. & Cupples, J.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

  • Resilience 100%
  • resilience 79%
  • Discourse 68%
  • Catastrophe 56%
  • Guatemala 50%

• Open Fellowship Application: Providing information on natural disturbance risks to forests to enhance risk management in the forest sector

  Davies, S.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Appraisal of Network Connectivity between North Sea subsea oil and gas platforms

  Henry, L. & Roberts, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/11/16 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Research for Emergency Aftershock Response (GCRF-REAR)

  Naylor, M., Main, I. & McCloskey, J.

  NERC

  1/11/16 → 1/11/17

  Project: Research

  • natural disaster 100%
  • resilience 91%
  • Earthquakes 91%
  • earthquake 70%
  • mortality 38%

• Coral pH regulation and climate change: using novel tissue cultures to assess the future of key habitat forming species

  Hennige, S.

  NERC

  18/10/16 → 17/10/18

  Project: Research

  • corals 100%
  • coral 99%
  • cold water 77%
  • reef 56%
  • reefs 53%

• REA Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial management plan for Europe

  Roberts, M.

  EU government bodies

  3/10/16 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

  • cold water 100%
  • coral 58%
  • coral reefs 57%
  • corals 53%
  • coral reef 49%

• Provision of Equipment, Training, Materials & Analysis for NERC CDT in Oil & Gas project

  Roberts, M.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  3/10/16 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

• Resilience of the UK food system to Global Shocks (RUGS)

  Alexander, P.

  BBSRC

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • land use 100%
  • food 94%
  • Agricultural land 71%
  • agricultural land 61%
  • animal products 54%

• UKCCSRC International Research Collaboration Fund - Call 4

  Papageorgiou, G.

  EPSRC

  1/10/16 → 31/01/17

  Project: Research

  • Polarity 100%
  • Reflection 97%
  • tuning 92%
  • Velocity 51%
  • curves 42%

• The Quest for Primary Magnetisation in Earth's Oldest Materials

  Williams, W.

  NERC

  1/10/16 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Magnetic Domain 100%
  • magnetic domains 67%
  • vortex 53%
  • particle size 32%
  • physics 25%

• GreenCarbon - Advanced Carbon Materials from Biowaste: Sustainable Pathways to Drive Innovative Green Technologies

  Masek, O.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/16 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • biochar 100%
  • Impurities 60%
  • Physisorption 52%
  • Feedstocks 51%
  • Phytotoxicity 45%

• Dr Lara M. Kalnins - Formation and evolution of isotropic and anisotropic strength in the oceanic lithosphere using frequency-domain and maximum-likelihood methods

  Tudhope, A. & Whaler, K.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/16 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Developing the NEXT suite of tools for setting Quantifiable Habitat Objectives: advancing our capabilities to set area-based ecosystem service values for salt marsh and sea grass habitat

  Tudhope, A.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/10/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• UKCCSRC International Research Collaboration Fund - Potsdam

  Scott, V.

  EPSRC

  5/09/16 → 10/09/16

  Project: Research

• Carbon cycling in African and Australian woodlands - interactions between climate, biodiversity and fire

  Williams, M.

  Other

  1/09/16 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

• cyberNABO 2.0: Building Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Interdisciplinary Research on the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic

  Newton, A.

  Non-EU other

  1/09/16 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

  • Community Building 100%
  • transdisciplinary 82%
  • infrastructure 53%
  • North Atlantic 37%
  • Research Synthesis 27%

• BBSRC Global Challenge Research Fund Impact Acceleration Account Award

  Williams, M.

  BBSRC

  1/09/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

• Development of ADMS Urban model for air quality in Beijing's urban haze cloud

  Doherty, R.

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/16 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Recovering value from waste agricultural plastics from the Scottish vegetable and soft fruit industry.

  Masek, O.

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

  1/09/16 → 30/06/17

  Project: Research

• iNEED (including Non-destructive Evaluation in Engineered Design)

  Curtis, A.

  EPSRC

  1/09/16 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Nondestructive examination 100%
  • Shape optimization 50%
  • Geometry 36%
  • Defects 32%
  • nondestructive testing 31%

• Dr Lorna Street - Plant nutrition as Earth System Science: understanding the links between plant nutrient gain and soil carbon storage.

  Williams, M. & Street, L.

  NERC

  1/09/16 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Tundra 100%
  • tundra soils 85%
  • rhizosphere 85%
  • permafrost 73%
  • tundra soil 72%

• Mapping social, cultural and political power in the North Caribbean of Nicaragua : A stakeholder analysis - Mapeo de actores en la Costa Caribe Norte de Nicaragua: Un análisis según el género y la identificación étnica y cultural, ESRC Impact Accelerator Account, £4700

  Cupples, J., Larios, I., Incer, G. & Lee, D.

  1/09/16 → 30/06/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Feasibility Project: better understanding the links between food production and deforestation in Africa ¿¿¿ Phase 2

  Ryan, C.

  UK-based charities

  29/08/16 → 30/11/16

  Project: Research

• Post orogenic sediment flux to continental margins: Miocene erosion and sediment yield from the Pyrenees

  Sinclair, H.

  EU other

  24/08/16 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • foreland basin 100%
  • mountain range 70%
  • sediment 52%
  • continental margin 51%
  • thrust 28%

• Investing in agroforestry options for forest restoration in Indonesia

  Keane, A.

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

  1/08/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research