Centre for the Environment

Current NERC Grants

table of current projects funded by NERC
 Project Title Project Lead
Voices of Indigenous Amazonia: historical processes of socio-biodiversity in the face of the challenges of the Anthropocene Marco Raczka
Migratory behaviour and the persistence of ecotypes Andrew Maccoll
Quantifying the impact of climate change on arctic wetland methane emissions Sofie Sjogersten
Greenland Ice Sheet and sea-level response under climate change from AD 1600 to 2100 Richard Wilkinson
Improving Modelling approaches to assess climate change-related THresholds  and Ecological Range SHIfts  in the Earth's Peatland ecosystems David Large
UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub Suzanne McGowan
CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin Sofie Sjogersten
Realised hypothetical phenotypes and the adaptive value of Batesian mimicry Tom Reader

Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes of Rivers (CASTOR)

Hannah O'Regan
Solar irradiance and vegetation dynamics  at the K/Pg boundary. Barry Lomax
NERC - Cross-disciplinary research for Discovery Science. FY22-23 Neil Crout
Sampling the Environment: model and design-based sampling and data analysis Murray Lark
GB Coasts Nicholas Dodd

Co-creating and applying a theory of change for biodiversity credits - towards a nature-positive future

Richard Field

Societal Driven Research to Improve Environmental Health in Riparian Zones

Helen West
RAL Space CEOI Facility Enhancement project - Calibration and Testing of Magnetic Components in thermal vacuum Mark Fromhold
Virus sequencing of museum mammal specimens to define environmental and anthropogenic drivers of virus ecology and to understand disease outbreaks. Jonathan Ball

British Isles continuous GNSS Facility (BIGF) for FY 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22, 22/23

Richard Bingley
How does land management influence FIreREsilience and carbon fate in BLANKET bogs? David Large

GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub

Arabella Fraser
Developing a statistical methodology for the assessment and management of peatlands (StAMP) David Large
NERC-NSFGEO C-FORCE: Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks from Response to Carbon Emissions Colin Snape
An integrated assessment of UK Shale resource distribution based on fundamental analyses of shale mechanical & fluid properties Veerle Vandeginste
Páramo water proposal David Large
Tropical wetland methane emissions - processes and predictions: TropMethane Sofie Sjogersten
Knowledge Exchange Fellowship to bring biodiversity science expertise to developing the first biodiversity credit standard Richard Field
Next-Gen CT for environmental sciences Sacha Mooney

Development of novel genetic tools for studying dinoflagellates and coral bleaching

Ellen Nisbet
Job share Knowledge Exchange Fellowship: Regenerative agriculture for sustainable plantation ecosystems Nicholas Girkin

Environmental and ecological drivers of tropical peatland methane dynamics across spatial scales

Nicholas Girkin
Developing a new co-designed decision support tool for biodiversity credits and investment Richard Field
Soil survival and re-emergence: the continued threat of plague Steve Atkinson

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