ESRG academic networks

Amazonica (Amazon Integrated Carbon Analysis; Susan Waldron)

  • A collaboration between organisations in the UK, USA and Brazil; the UK part is funded by a NERC consortium grant. It aims to quantify the carbon balance of the Amazon Basin.

BANDD (Biogeochemical Application in Nuclear Disposal and Decommissioning; Vernon Phoenix)

  • An EPSRC consortium of 7 UK organisations who are pioneering microbial technologies to tackle contamination in nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal.

BRITICE-CHRONO (Derek Fabel)

A NERC consortium of 10 UK organisations whose goals are to understand evolution of the collapsing British-Irish Ice Sheet.

CLAD (Carbon Landscapes and Drainage; Susan Waldron).

  • A NERC-funded knowledge transfer network addressing carbon storage and loss from peatlands.

FRACS (Daniel Koehn)

  • A consortium of 9 academic institutions funded by the German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science that advises industry partners on the fluid flow characteristics of heterogeneous, fractured and resealed reservoirs.

 

ESRG training and collaboration networks

Centre for Sensor & Imaging Systems Innovation Centre

  • A University of Glasgow-led national facility to support university-industry collaboration in sensor technology

Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas

  • A NERC-funded centre that will specialises in the doctoral research training of highly skilled people to support the oil and gas sector in collaboration with partners from industry

FlowTrans (Daniel Koehn)

  • A Marie Curie Initial Training Network of 8 universities with 6 industry partners whose goals are to train researchers to understand flow in transforming porous media.

IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership

  • A NERC-funded collaboration between the universities of Glasgow, Durham, Newcastle, Stirling and St Andrews for PhD student training in NERC science

Oil and Gas innovation centre

  • A national facility to support university-industry collaboration in oil and gas exploration

VMRC (Volcanic Margins Research Consortium; Brian Bell and David Brown)

  • A network of 6 UK organisations providing the petroleum industry with training and research expertise relevant to resource exploration at volcanic margins.