Open CASE awards 2006
University: University of Leeds
Department: School of Earth and Environment
CASE Partner: BP Exploration
Project Details : Time-lapse seismic attenuation as a tool for monitoring
oil & gas production and geological CO2 sequestration
University: University of Bristol
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Project Details : Using microearthquakes to monitor stress patterns in reservoirs.
University: University of Bristol
Department: School of Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: CEFAS
Project Details : Environmental and host factors influencing disease pathology
in Discocotyle infections of trout
University: Imperial College, London
Department: Physics
CASE Partner: BP
Project Details : Towards a physical understanding of the probability distributions
of key climate variables
University: University of Exeter
Department: School of Biosciences
CASE Partner: Forest Research
Project Details : Influence of climate change on microbial population dynamics
and function in relation to carbon cycling in forest soils.
University: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Geology
CASE Partner: CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Project Details : The effect of water soluble organic compounds on cloud
condensation nucli studied using the new technique of Raman
laser tweezers
University: The University of Sheffield
Department: Applied Mathematics
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Details : Spectral partitioning for assimilation of radar wave data
into wave models
University: University of Glasgow
Department: Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute
of Biomedical and Life Sciences
CASE Partner: National Trust for Scotland
Project Details : The impact of predator-prey interactions on conservation
strategies for seabirds
University: Durham University
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: BP
Project Details : Rhenium and Platinum Group Element geochemistry of crude
oil - Geochronologic constraints of hydrocarbon generation
and migration, and oil fingerprinting in worldwide petroleum
systems.
University: University of Plymouth
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Details : The community ecology of rain forest termites: how do
soil quality and assemblage structure influence spatial distribution?
University: The University of York
Department: Biology
CASE Partner: The Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Science
Project Details : Individual-based models of stock assessment and fisheries
management: quantifying the importance of space and uncertainty
in ecosystem based approaches
University: University of Leeds
Department: School of Earth and Environment
CASE Partner: BP Exploration
Project Details : Stratal controls on the compressional deformation of turbidite
sequences
University: University of Leeds
Department: University Interdisciplinary Institute for Earth, Energy
and Environment
CASE Partner: BP
Project Details : Development of predictive fracture permeability to aid
effective hydrocarbon resource management
University: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: School of Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Carbon8 Technologies Ltd
Project Details : Development of suitable growing media for effective green
roofs
University: University of Sussex
Department: Biology and Environmental Science
CASE Partner: Scottish Crop Research Institute
Project Details : Does mother know best? Host selection by above-ground
insect herbivores for their below-ground offspring
University: The University of Nottingham
Department: School of Biology
CASE Partner: RSPB
Project Details : Metapopulation conservation in dynamic, successional landscapes.
University: The University of Edinburgh
Department: School of GeoSciences
CASE Partner: Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Project Details : Optimal Monitoring of Dynamic Subsurface Targets
University: University of Leeds
Department: School of Earth and Environment
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Details : Quantifying the chemical 'indirect effect' of aerosols
on the climate system within a composition - climate model
University: University of Aberdeen
Department: School of Biological Sciences (Plant & Soil Science)
CASE Partner: SerCon Ltd
Project Details : A new approach for determining N2O production
in soil during nitrifier denitrification
University: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Geology
CASE Partner: BP Exploration
Project Details : Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the South Caspian Sea
deepwater fold belts
University: University of Bristol
Department: School of Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Marine Biological Association
Project Details : Perception, response and adaptation of fucoid embryos
to environmental stress: Roles in recruitment, survival and
distribution patterns.
University: University College London
Department: Geomatic Engineering
CASE Partner: Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
Project Details : New cloud products from (A)ATSR(2) by fusing stereo photogrammetry
and Optimal Estimation for improving the detection of global
climate change from changing cloud-top height distributions
after validation using ground-based radar
University: The University of Reading
Department: School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Details : Correlated observation errors in data assimilation
University: Queen Mary University of London
Department: School of Biological & Chemical Sciences
CASE Partner: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
Project Details : Conduits of contamination to contemporary food webs from
an organotin legacy
University: The University of Reading
Department: Meteorology
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Details : Boundary layer processes in mid-latitude cyclones
University: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Geology
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Details : Corals and Climate Change in the Cenozoic: A Case Study
Based on the Staghorn Coral Acropora
University: The University of Sheffield
Department: Civil & Structural Engineering
CASE Partner: Yorkshire Water Services
Project Details : Risks to groundwater supplies of drinking water from pesticides
University: Durham University
Department: Department of Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Statoil (UK) Ltd
Project Details : The architecture, growth and tectonic significance of
transfer zones on the NE Atlantic margin
University: The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Department: Institute of Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Details : Phylogeography of the European Schizoporellidae: a combined
morphological, molecular and palaeontological approach in
an important family of fouling bryozoans
University: University College London
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Agip KCO
Project Details : Caspian Sea Ice Dynamics
University: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Geography
CASE Partner: Natural History Museum
Project Details : The Evolution and Palaeoecology of the Woolly Rhinoceros
(Coelodonta antiquitatis)
University: The University of Liverpool
Department: Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
CASE Partner: Statoil UK Ltd
Project Details : Post-breakup uplift of the continental hinterland of volcanic
rifted margins
University: Lancaster University
Department: Department of Environmental Science
CASE Partner: Remedios Ltd
Project Details : Improving biopile performance for the bioremediation of
contaminated land
University: University of East Anglia
Department: School of Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Plymouth Marine
Project Details : Applications Ltd Role of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and related
compounds in the development and searching behaviour of marine
copepods