Applied Carbon Management (Dumfries campus)

Work Placements

Work Placements in past years have included:

• Forestry Commission (Northern Research Station, Edinburgh; Alice Holt, Surrey): Deadwood and soil carbon; Calculating the carbon impacts of establishing a wind farm on forested land and building of forest roads on peatlands; Deadwood in oak forests and its role in carbon storage; An assessment of the carbon stored in deadwood in UK forestry.
• Crichton Carbon Centre: A comparison of embodied carbon associated with the windows of a pre 1919 house and a comparably sized contemporary property; Assessment of the potential role of biochar as a carbon sink.
• Friends of the Earth, Carbon Accountability Project: Carbon disclosure in the energy sector
• Natural Power: Extreme wind analysis of wind turbines; A validation study of the vortex wind model.
• Moffat CAN: Domestic energy assessments
• Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH: Research on the strategic orientation of the Indonesian climate change trust fund towards mitigation of climate change in the energy sector of Indonesia.
• Scottish Agricultural College: An investigation into the factors affecting laser methane detector measurements under outdoor conditions; An indicative study of the environmental, social and economic implications of alternative slurry use.
• Amey: Improving the sustainability of road maintenance and construction.
• Oceana: Comparison of the offshore oil drilling and offshore wind industries in the USA (Deepwater Horizon and Cape Wind).
• Scottish Government (REAS, Climate Change and Adaptation Team, Facilities and Estates Services): REEIO, REAP and the Scottish Government; an evaluation of EIO base models designed for policy analysis; Government on-line sustainability performance information exchange (GOLSPIE): improved environmental data management systems for the Scottish public sector; Domestic energy efficiency policies: an analysis of the practicalities of implementing Smart Meter and Domestic Energy Efficiency measures (CERT and CESP); Interconnected infrastructure systems: a joined-up approach to building climate change resilience.
• School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: An investigation into the viability and benefits of on-site woodfuel production to heat the Rutherford and McCowan building, Crichton Campus, Dumfries; An investigation into the extent of wood with lower initial moisture content contributing to energy reduction at conventional kilns.
• Sustainable Energy Technology and Innovation Centre Limited: Assessment of the reduction in energy use from a non-domestic building undergoing low carbon refurbishment; Assessment of renewable energy technologies for a low carbon refurbishment project at the energy technology centre.
• Estates and Buildings, University of Glasgow: Improving energy efficiency of existing buildings - a study from a sustainable building perspective; The Greenhouse Gas Inventory of the University of Glasgow.
• Scottish and Southern Energy: Overcoming the challenges of obtaining consents for wind development in the UK - the SSE approach.
• Pinneys of Annan: Improving energy efficiency in the food manufacturing sector: a case study of a refrigeration compressor variable speed drive retrofit project.
• Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde: Carbon audit of a tidal energy device and the potential for material substitution.
• Nestle Professional: A review of waste management alternatives in seven Nestle UK factories.
• School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow: Investigation into the viability and benefits of the proposed Horticulture Peat Levy policy in the UK.
• Transition Town Helensburgh: Carbon footprint of households in the Transition Town Helensburgh and estimations for Argyll and Bute.
• Buccleuch Estates: Development of a toolkit for the assessment of environmental impacts of land-use change projects for Buccleuch Estates.
• Scottish Agricultural College: Carbon footprint assessment of two contrasting dairy systems.
• Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER)/Adaptation Scotland: working on a project for the Scottish Government relating to the impacts of climate change
• Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Caerlaverock: Practical habitat management work and ecological surveys of birds, natterjack toads, butterflies, moths etc.