Fellowship awards
Full details of fellowships can be found on our on-line Research Grants and Fellowships application - Grants on the Web. This provides information about current Research Grants and Fellowships supported by NERC.
Please note that recent Grants and Fellowships will not appear on GOTW until they have actually started.
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All awards from the 1 November 2008 closing date are shown below:
Advanced Fellowship
6 applications to the value of £2,979,046 were funded.
Dr P Livermore
University of Leeds
A New Generation of Forward and Inverse Geodynamo Models
Dr D Fontaneto
Imperial College London
Disentangling ecological and evolutionary forces driving community composition
Dr B Wade
University of Leeds
Icehouse tropical climates and plankton evolution
Dr D Spracklen
University of Leeds
Impact of the biosphere on atmospheric aerosol and climate
Dr L Wingate
University of Cambridge
Linking the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere carbon and water cycles using oxygen isotopes.
Dr NRP Harris
University of Cambridge
The Role of Short-lived Species in the Tropical Atmosphere
Postdoctoral Fellowship
23 applications to the value of £6,377,721 were funded.
Dr E Tipper
University of Cambridge
4.4 billion years of maturation of the continental crust?
Dr A Vaks
University of Oxford
Asian paleoclimate reconstruction from Siberian and Mongolian speleothems
Dr GH Thomas
University of Bristol
Biotic interactions and the generation and organisation of biodiversity
Dr CN Lewis
University of Exeter
Broadcast Spawning into a Changing Marine Environment - Are Sperm the 'Weak Link' in a Marine Invertebrate's Life Cycle?
Dr SS Killen
University of Glasgow
Causes and consequences of the trade-off between compensatory growth and swim performance in teleost fish
Dr K Saunders
University of Bristol
Crystal forensics: constraining the timescales of magmatic processes leading to volcanic eruptions
Mr R Sayag
University of Cambridge
Dynamics and stability of marine ice sheets
Dr RJA Buggs
Queen Mary, University of London
Genomic patterns of introgression between hybridising birch species due to range shifts caused by climate change in the Scottish Highlands
Dr MR Robinson
University of Sheffield
Genotype-environment interactions across ecologically important environment gradients: linking classical and molecular genetics
Dr C A Rychert
University of Bristol
Global Imaging of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary using Scattered Waves
Dr D Costantini
University of Glasgow
Hormetic effects on the development of the oxidative state and of the oxidative stress response in zebra finches
Dr DJ Mayor
University of Aberdeen
Investigating how environmental change affects benthic biogeochemistry
Dr A Le Brocq
Durham University
Investigating the potential contribution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to future sea level change.
Dr SMV Gilfillan
University of Edinburgh
Investigating the role of natural tracers in subsurface CO2 storage and monitoring
Dr L Caricchi
University of Bristol
Mobilisation of magmatic mushes: an experimental study with implications for large-scale volcanic eruptions
Dr C Siebert
University of Oxford
Molybdenum and Chromium Isotope Behaviour during Weathering and Sedimentation: Tracing Changing Oxygen Levels in the Oceans
Dr MP Barkley
University of Edinburgh
Quantifying the Amazon Isoprene Budget: Reconciling top-down versus bottom-up emission estimates
Dr SA Henson
National Oceanography Centre
Role of phytoplankton community structure in determining the efficiency of the ocean's biological carbon pump
Dr N Bailey
University of St Andrews
Social Learning and Sexual Selection in Field Crickets
Dr N J Pressling
University of Southampton
Structural and magmatic evolution of the ocean crust from re-oriented IODP cores
Dr PR Haddrill
University of Edinburgh
The Ecology of Genome Evolution - Connecting Population Genetics and Reproductive Biology
Dr SP Mueller
University of Bristol
The flow dynamics of three-phase magmas: the coupling of rheology and permeability via bubble-particle interactions
Dr T Goldberg
Imperial College London
Understanding short term changes in seawater redox during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events using combined isotopic tracers
