Faculty of Natural Sciences

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Synergistic global change impacts on belowground biodiversity and carbon stocks in mountain ecosystems.
PI: Dr Arthur Broadbent
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

SenseH2O: a scalable, integrated systems-based approach to monitoring water quality from headwaters to river outlets
PI: Professor Peter Hunter
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Hydro Nation Chair
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Scottish Water

Optimizing intervention strategies via social prescribing as a means of encouraging and enabling healthy and sustainable dietary behaviours in individuals from low-income families
PI: Professor Julia Allan
Funded by: Scottish Government

Achieving Ecological Resilient Dynamism for the European food system through consumer-driven policies, socio-ecological challenges, biodiversity, data-driven policy, sustainable futures
PI: Professor Nils Bunnefeld
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon Europe)

3D interactive lineup identification
PI: Dr Anna Bobak
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

KTP - Keep Scotland Beautiful Knowledge Transfer Partnership
PI: Professor Peter Hunter
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation and Keep Scotland Beautiful

New SEWeb for a Digital Future
PI: Professor Peter Hunter
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency

EXPOWER: EXPOnential Analysis EmPOWERing Innovation
PI: Dr Wen-shin Lee
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Maximising synergies of Ecological Restoration in a Landscape context: INnovation, upscaling and transformation
PI: Professor Peter Hunter
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate
PI: Dr Ian Jones
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Radiological Habits Surveys
PI: Professor David Copplestone
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency

The Beacon Project: Using Biodiversity and Energy justice to resolve Conflicts between Sustainable Development Goals
PI: Dr Isabel Jones
Funded by: Medical Research Council

Restoring Resilient Ecosystems
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

AQUAculture Infrastructures For EXCELlence In European Fish Research 3
PI: Professor Sonia Rey Planellas
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Emerging mycoforestry technology for carbon-negative food production
PI: Professor Alistair Jump
Funded by: Innovate UK

NSF-GEO-NERC: How important are sea-level feedbacks in stabilizing marine-based ice streams?
PI: Dr Tom Bradwell
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Agency, Rationality, and Epistemic Defeat
PI: Dr Giacomo Melis
Funded by: Medical Research Council

ESA_CCI_ESpyrakos Baseline
PI: Professor Evangelos Spyrakos
Funded by: European Space Agency

Stabilisation of pyrogenic carbon in tropical grasslands (SPECTRAL)
PI: Professor Jens-Arne Subke
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Developing a skill-based pedagogical framework for sustainability
PI: Mr Neil McDonald
Funded by: The British Ecological Society

Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council

Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their EnvironmentS
PI: Professor Richard Quilliam
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Sources, impacts and solutions for plastics in South East Asia coastal environments
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

The evolution of female mating systems: tracing the origins and tracking the consequences
PI: Dr Rebecca Boulton
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

International School on SAR Polarimetry: From Theory to Applications (2024)
PI: Dr Armando Marino
Funded by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Effect of swimming training in smolt; A Basic Study
PI: Professor Amaya Albalat
Funded by: The Research Council of Norway

ESA ExoMars Rover Guest Investigator Application: The role of Fe-C interactions in global processes on Earth and Mars
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Funded by: UK Space Agency

Freshwater cage farming in a changing world
PI: Professor Trevor Telfer
Funded by: Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre

Phage-based shelf-life extension of langoustines-Next Steps
PI: Professor Amaya Albalat
Funded by: Centre for Enviroment, Fisheries & Aquaculture

GCRF TRADE, Development and the Environment (TRADE) Hub
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Disentangling the palaeoproxy challenge for the Humboldt Current System and beyond
PI: Dr Clare Bird
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

How evolution affects me
PI: Dr Rebecca Boulton
Funded by: The British Ecological Society

Secondment to Atlantic Salmon Trust
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Atlantic Salmon Trust

Learning to adapt to an uncertain future: linking genes, trees, people and processes for more resilient treescapes
PI: Dr Daniel Chapman
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Land sharing vs. land sparing: new insights from ecological-economic modelling
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

CLEANGAIN: Improved welfare and delousing of farmed cleaner fish
PI: Dr Adam Brooker
Funded by: Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre and Loch Duart Ltd

Digital Health: Optimuscle - Improving health outcomes through the optimisation of muscle function
PI: Dr Wendy Maltinsky
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

The impact of age at school entry on cognitive and academic attainment
PI: Dr Eva Rafetseder
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

An archaeological investigation into the collapse of Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka
PI: Professor Ian Simpson
Funded by: Australian Research Council

On-organ sensing for bowel monitoring - a bottom up approach
PI: Dr Wendy Maltinsky
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

OP Validation of operational indicators of consciousness in tropical prawns (Penaeus vannamei)
PI: Professor Amaya Albalat
Funded by: Open Philanthropy

From bats to bees: effects of artificial electromagnetic fields on biodiversity
PI: Dr Jeremy Froidevaux
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

CCUS Futures: exploring workforce imaginaries to improve organisational learning
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation

Changing Coasts, Connecting Communities with their Heritage
PI: Dr Clare Wilson
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: survival, persistence and ecology of microbial communities in the 'Plastisphere'.
PI: Professor Richard Quilliam
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Water scenarios - For Copernicus Exploitation (Water-FORCE)
PI: Professor Evangelos Spyrakos
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Multimodal data analysis for monitoring invasive aquatic weeds in India
PI: Dr Savi Maharaj
Funded by: Royal Academy of Engineering

Illustrating adventurous play
PI: Dr Lily FitzGibbon
Funded by: Froebel Trust

ENVRI-FAIR
PI: Professor Evangelos Spyrakos
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Co-production of an intervention promoting preconception health and reducing childhood obesity in deprived areas of Scotland
PI: Dr Sinead Currie
Funded by: Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity

Copernicus Evolution – Research for Transitional-water Observations
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Vaccines against AMR in Aquaculture
PI: Professor Margaret Crumlish
Funded by: International Development Research Centre

The Australian Buzz Bus: Expedition to find out why some bees, but not others, can buzz-pollinate
PI:
Funded by: National Geographic Society

Integrated risk mapping and targetted snail control to support schistosomiasis elimination in Brazil and Cote d'Ivoire under future climate change
PI: Professor Rachel Norman
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

From field and farm to flyway: management of geese in new landscapes
PI: Professor Nils Bunnefeld
Funded by: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

ForeSight: Predicting and monitoring drought-linked forest growth decline across Europe
PI: Professor Alistair Jump
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Development of a rapid molecular tool for the identification of fouling epibionts in Blue Mussel farms
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Funded by: Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre

Advancing exponential analysis: high-resolution information from sparse and regularly sampled data
PI: Dr Wen-shin Lee
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust

Assessing the impact of mammalian herbivory on the long-term ecological value of woodland creation sites’
PI: Dr Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor
Funded by: Woodland Trust

Offshore Aquaculture
PI: Professor Sonia Rey Planellas
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions (Tupumue)
PI: Dr Heather Price
Funded by: Medical Research Council

Landscape and Waterscapes in Asia. Monsoon, Climate Anomalies and Social Dynamics in Medieval India
PI: Professor Ian Simpson
Funded by: The Agence Nationale de la Recherche / French National Research Agency (ANR)

Developing Deep Science Laboratories from the Shale Gas Legacy
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Assessing the potential for selection and improvement of red seaweed affected by increasing water temperatures in Tanzania
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Funded by: Innovate UK

Towards a sustainable solution for aquafeed: using live yellow mealworm larvae grown on pre-consumer wastes for tilapia culture in Malawi
PI: Dr Amina Moss
Funded by: Innovate UK

Integrating demographic modelling and ethnoecological practices to support sustainable management of non-timber forest products in Nepal
PI: Professor Alistair Jump
Funded by: Royal Society

Using camera traps to quantify the effect of deer on woodland restoration
PI: Dr Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor
Funded by: British Deer Society

From fuel to pot: an interdisciplinary partnership to address the role of solid fuel use in food preparation in the household in Kenya and Malawi.
PI: Dr Isabelle Uny
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services and treatments
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Hydro-ecological consequences of beaver reintroduction
PI: Professor Nigel Willby
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Community pharmacy: Highlighting Alcohol use in Medication aPpointments (CHAMP-1) research programme
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Remembering to remember: What techniques can be used to improve prospective memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)?
PI:
Funded by: Academy of Medical Sciences

Investigating the potential of nutritional programming to improve the utilisation of sustainable feeds in aquaculture
PI: Dr Monica Betancor
Funded by: Biomar Ltd and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Identifying novel markers of concealed face recognition
PI: Dr Ailsa Millen
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes and community responses to shale gas: an integrated approach
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

AquaLeap: Innovation in Genetics and Breeding to Advance UK Aquaculture Production
PI:
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

ROBUST-SMOLT Impact of Early Life History in Freshwater Recirculation Aquaculture Systems on A. Salmon Robustness and Susceptibility to Disease at Sea
PI: Professor Herve Migaud
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Viral Haemorrhagic Fever: Modern Approaches for developing bedside Rapid Diagnostics
PI:
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

MAP Behaviour Change: Competency Based Training in Individual Level Support for Behaviour Change for Nurse-Leads in St Helena
PI: Professor Vivien Swanson
Funded by: The Burdett Trust for Nursing

EmFi - Emergency Finance
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Funded by: Algorand Foundation

Shake, quake or fake? Comparing BGS expected intensity modelling, felt reports, Twitter comments, and public perceptions
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Measuring medieval users' responses to manuscripts: new technological responses
PI: Dr Eileen Tisdall
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

The impact of COVID-19 Fear: evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery - a Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) study
PI: Dr Elaine Douglas
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation

Water and Fire: Understanding and reducing risk with 15 “Best Bets” for enhancing capacity for transformative adaptation with vulnerable township residents on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.
PI: Professor Derek McGhee
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Phage-based shelf-life extension of langoustines
PI: Professor Amaya Albalat
Funded by: Centre for Enviroment, Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Screening Permits for Ingestion Pathway Radiological Assessment Impacts Tool
PI: Professor David Copplestone
Funded by: Food Standards Agency

Individual Differences in Holistic processing
PI: Dr Stephen Langton
Funded by: Experimental Psychology Society

Assessing individual and local scale forest vulnerability to mortality from the 2019 extreme drought in Central Europe
PI: Professor Alistair Jump
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Multiscale Observation Networks for Optical Monitoring of Coastal Waters, Lakes and Estuaries
PI: Professor Peter Hunter
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre New Module Development
PI: Dr Anna Kirpichnikova
Funded by: Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre

An understanding of biomineralisation pathways is key to predict climate change impact on aquaculture
PI: Dr Susan Fitzer
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Efficacy testing of immersion and oral vaccines for Aeromonas hydrophila in Tilapia an Vietnamese catfish
PI: Dr Andrew Desbois
Funded by: International Veterinary Vaccinology Network

Impact of Net Cleaning and Sea Lice treatment upon Gill Health in Salmon
PI: Professor Simon MacKenzie
Funded by: The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund

Amplifying our students' voice: the co-production of undergraduate field courses (residential and non-residential) to address EDI
PI: Dr Martina Quaggiotto
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Developing a Theoretical understanding of non linearities in the food system and practical ideas to take advantage of them
PI: Professor Rachel Norman
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

ESA CNN - CCI LAKES + Consistency
PI: Professor Evangelos Spyrakos
Funded by: European Space Agency

Reporting UK Non-nuclear radioactive discharges as required under the convention for the protection of the marine environment of the NE Atlantic (the OSPAR convention)
PI: Professor David Copplestone
Funded by: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

MIDST-CZ Maximising Impact by Decision Support Tools for sustainable soil and water through UK-China Critical Zone science
PI: Professor David Oliver
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Enhancing Diversity to Overcome Resistance Evolution
PI: Professor Matthew Tinsley
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council