Biological and Environmental Sciences

Projects related to Biological and Environmental Sciences

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Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Mesolithic Orkney evidence from Stronsay
PI: Dr Eileen Tisdall
Funded by: Orkney College
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Further Development of River Macrophyte WFD Tool - River Variability Module
PI: Professor Nigel Willby
Funded by: Environment Agency
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Strategies to manage toxic cyanobacterial blooms in lakes: remote sensing, modelling and cost benefit analysis
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Human Impact of Cyanobactira in the fresh water environment.
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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The Nature, distribution and significance of carbon soils.
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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A late glacial to modern palaeoenvironmental history for the Dounreay site area, reconstructed from a peat core from the Shebster Basin
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Funded by: British Geological Survey
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Evolutionary Responses to Multiple Human-Induced Stresses
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Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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The Immune System and Senescence: Why do we age?
PI: Professor Matthew Tinsley
Funded by: Royal Society
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A Functional Perspective on Long Term Changes in Macrophyte Communities in British Lakes
PI: Professor Nigel Willby
Funded by: Broads Authority, Environment Agency and Natural England
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Sustaining a great Ape Health Program in Lope National Park Gabon
PI: Ms Kathryn Jeffery
Funded by: U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
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Biocomplexity in the dry valleys
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Funded by: Royal Society
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Development of a landscape model for the control of Rhododendron ponticum
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Becca Banks Project
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Funded by: Archaeology Limited
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ABACUS Arctic biosphere-atmosphere coupling across multiple scales
PI: Professor Philip Wookey
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Papar Project
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Support for radiometric data processing for UKSHS
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Environment Agency
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Peat erosion and the management of peatland habitats.
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Funded by: The James Hutton Institute
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The timing of glacial/ interglacial environmental changes and climatic inferences from Fuego Patagonia South America
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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The use of Chironomidae larvae to define Holocene environmental change
PI: Dr Eileen Tisdall
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Evaluation of WWF African Bushmeat Initiative, West Central and East Africa
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: WWF International
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NERC Blue Skies studentship
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Investigating the relationship between concentrations of od beta/gamma emitting radionuclides in the Ribble estuary sediments and consequential doses to people on house boats
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: SKM Enviros
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Biocomplexity in the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Development of a National Strategy for Management of Bushmeat use in Gabon
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: Wildlife Conservation Society
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Biocomplexity in the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
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Funded by: Royal Society
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The Influence of farming practices on bat populations within agricultural landscapes
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: People's Trust for Endangered Species / Mammals
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The Influence of farming practices on bat populations within agricultural Landscapes
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Reconstructing the Ecology of Lakes Impacted by Catchment Change and Eutrophic Episodes: Restoring Good Ecological Status in large shallow lakes
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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Palaeoenvironmental study of early Holocene human settlement on Stronsay, Orkney
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Funded by: Orkney College
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Palaeoenvironmental analysis of soil samples from Hadrian's Wall Vallum
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Funded by: C F A Archaeology Ltd
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The Ring of Brodgar Excavation.
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Funded by: Orkney College
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New Zealand as a Noah's Ark for the extinct UK bumblebee (Bombus subteranneus)
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Climate Change, Land Management and Erosion in the organic and Organo-mineral soils in Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Funded by: The James Hutton Institute
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Aquatic microbial metagenomics & biogeochemical cycles
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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The Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) project: the hinterland (phase 2)
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Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Investigations at Pinkie.
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Funded by: C F A Archaeology Ltd
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Iron Limitation: a Genomics and Proteomics Approach
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Darwin Initiative
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
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Landscape heterogeneity, soil ecology & environmental change : the Scottish Highlands & the Scandes Mountains as model study systems
PI: Professor Philip Wookey
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Blue Skies PhD Support Student: Ben Pears
PI: Professor Donald Davidson
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Metagenomic analysis of marine carbon-and nitrogen-fixers and their contribution to new production
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Specialist advice to help develop a Research project on Scotland's Ecological Footprint
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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Eurosoil 2008.
PI: Professor Clare Wilson
Funded by: Royal Society
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AHRC Study Visit
PI: Valerie Dufeu
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Soil organic carbon and mineral stabilisation in paddy soils : field sampling in Sri Lanka
PI: Professor Clare Wilson
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Modern Human settlement in tropical South Asia: Micromorphology and microstratigraphy of two late Pleistocene - early Holocene rockshelter sites in SW Sri
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Funded by: The British Academy
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International Congress of Entomology 2008.
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Funded by: Royal Society
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International Congress of Entomology
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Funded by: Royal Society
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The impact of waste disposal from the late Medieval Burghs on local soils
PI: Professor Donald Davidson
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Development of soil microbial communities in volcanic soils- diversity and decomposition functions on chronosequences
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Welcome to the Sahel.
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Funded by: Higher Education Academy
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Sediment Mobility in the Lunan Catchment
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency
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Effects of habit fragmentation of the Population of Rare Bumblebees
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Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Studentship - Research based monitoring of the channel morphology & stream ecology of the River Nith rediversion at House of Water Open Coast Coal Site near New Cumnock,
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Funded by: Scottish Coal Ltd
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Reproductive Ecology of Arctic Insects
PI: Professor Matthew Tinsley
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Provision of a multiple discharge effect water treatment plant sampling project
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: SKM Enviros
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