RIVER BASIN PROCESSES & MANAGEMENT: PROJECTS
The cluster performs both pure and applied research and generally secures over £2M of new grant awards each year.
The cluster forms part of the water@leeds group.
The cluster has R&D Framework partnerships with:
- Yorkshire Water
- Countryside Council for Wales
- Dinsdale Moorland Services
In addition to this the group also undertakes research funded by government research councils, NGOs, industry and other organisations across the world.
Example current projects include:
Baird, A., Chapman, P., and Holden, J. (2010 – 2014) Evaluating the role of peatland drain blocking in methane emissions. Defra, £1.06M.
Holden, J. Termansen, M., Chapman, P., Kirkby, M., Reed, M., Hubacek, K., Prell, C., Burt, T., and Irvine, B.
(2009 – 2010) Sustainable uplands: communicating and learning to live with change. ESRC, £95,000 http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~lecmsr/sustainableuplands/
Brown, L., Holden, J., and Palmer, S. (2009-2012) EMBER (Effects of moorland burning on the ecohydrology of river basins). NERC, £643,517 http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/ember.html
Reed, M. Hubacek, Dougill A., Holden, J. and Kirkby, M. J., with other EU partners. Desertification, mitigation and remediation of land (DESIRE). EU, €8M http://www.desire-project.eu/
Holden, J., Slack, R., Lightfoot, S., Beharry-Borg, N., Kay, P., and van Alstine, J. (2009 – 2011) ACCWA - Approaching Climate Change for Water Resource Adaptation. WUN, £59,482 http://www.wun.ac.uk/research/accwa or www.accwa.net
McDonald, A. T. in collaboration with colleagues across the UK (2010-2012) NERC Virtual Observatory. NERC, £334,519 (total grant value is ~£2.5M)
Some other recently awarded grants are listed below. Values listed are just the values of the grant awarded to the cluster; many of the grants may be larger than stated where there are external collaborators.
