Open CASE 2010
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Biosciences
CASE Partner: Scottish Crop Research Institute
Project Title: [AGRIFOOD] Trophic cascades in a changing climate - effects of elevated CO2 on breakdown of plant defences
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Biosciences
CASE Partner: Zoological Society London Institute of Zoology
Project Title: Landscape genetics, phylogeography and conservation of the okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Earth & Ocean Sciences
CASE Partner: Statoil
Project Title: [INSURANCE] Quantifying the risk of leakage of CO2 from subsurface storage sites
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Earth & Ocean Sciences
CASE Partner: National Museum Wales
Project Title: Trace metal geochemistry of brachiopod calcite: a new window to the past
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Engineering
CASE Partner: Sir William Halcrow & Partners
Project Title: [WATER] Development of an integrated hydro-environmental model for predicting dynamic bacterial fluxes from catchment to coast
HEI: Imperial College London
Department: Division of Biology
CASE Partner: Fauna & Flora International
Project Title: Landscape dynamics of the Ustiurt plateau under environmental and social change
HEI: Imperial College London
Department: Division of Epidemiology
CASE Partner: Zoological Society London Institute of Zoology
Project Title: Quantifying the population-level cost of amphibian chytridiomycosis in a changing montane ecosystem
HEI: Imperial College London
Department: Earth Science & Engineering
CASE Partner: BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd
Project Title: The influence of active salt tectonics on the development of Plio-Pleistocene deepwater slope channel and canyon systems, NE Gulf of Mexico
HEI: Imperial College London
Department: Earth Science & Engineering
CASE Partner: Severn Trent Water Ltd
Project Title: AS-sure: A new technology for delivering safe drinking water
HEI: Lancaster University
Department: Lancaster Environment Centre
CASE Partner: 3D Laser Mapping Ltd
Project Title: [ENVIRON] Quantifying lava flow dynamics with a very-long-range terrestrial laser scanner
HEI: NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Department: Hails
CASE Partner: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Project Title: Microbial community ecology of chronic respiratory infections
HEI: NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Department: Watt
CASE Partner: Scottish Crop Research Institute
Project Title: [AGRIFOOD] Biochar and bio-trophic carbon storage in temperate soils
HEI: Queen Mary, University of London
Department: School of Biological & Chemical Sciences
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Title: Linkage between saline lakes and their catchments under climate change
HEI: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: STFC - Laboratories
Project Title: Oxidation of organic monolayer films on atmospheric aerosol trapped in a laser tweezer traps: hygroscopic and kinetic studies
HEI: University of Aberdeen
Department: Institute of Biological Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Scottish Crop Research Institute
Project Title: [AGRIFOOD] Is denitrification by ammonia oxidising bacteria a response to nitrite toxicity?
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: National Physical Laboratory
Project Title: [ENVIRON] Quantifying particle number and specific surface area (SSA) of manufactured nanoparticles
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum Trading Company
Project Title: [WATER] Quantifying base-line titanium oxide manufactured nanoparticle concentrations in the aquatic environment
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Malvern Instruments Ltd
Project Title: [WATER] Manufactured nanoparticles: Assessing the mobility of a future class of contaminant in groundwaters
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Waterra (UK) Ltd
Project Title: Groundwater quality: Rigorous sampling and interpretation of long-screen wells
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Title: Ecological constraints on phenotypic evolution: a case study with Lake Malawi's 'prototype' cichlid fish
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Avon Wildlife Trust
Project Title: Predicting ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change in habitat and ecological networks: the impact of variation within species
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Wessex Water plc
Project Title: [WATER] Management and control of taste and odour problems associated with geosmin and 2-MIB in drinking water supplies
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Geographical Sciences
CASE Partner: Willis Limited
Project Title: [INSURANCE] and [WATER] Estimating uncertainty in future flood risk analysis for insurance and re-insurance markets
HEI: University of Cambridge
Department: Zoology
CASE Partner: Anglian Water Services Ltd
Project Title: [WATER] Cultivation of biological filters for the improvement of reservoir water quality and biodiversity
HEI: University of East Anglia
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Zoological Society London Institute of Zoology
Project Title: Evolution and diversification of ants
HEI: University of Essex
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Oil Plus Ltd
Project Title: Investigating the ecology, activity and interactions of microorganisms bioremediating aquatic ecosystems contaminated with recalcitrant compounds
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Biosciences
CASE Partner: Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA)
Project Title: Modelling disease, demography and dispersal in the Woodchester badger society
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Engineering Computer Science & Maths
CASE Partner: Willis Ltd
Project Title: [INSURANCE] Trends in extreme extratropical cyclones and non-indemnity insurance risk
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Geography
CASE Partner: Rothamsted Research
Project Title: Impacts of farm-scale ecosystem management on water quality in intensively managed grasslands
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Geography
CASE Partner: Oxfam GB
Project Title: Water rock glaciers and climate change in the dry Andes of Bolivia: implications for future water supplies
HEI: University of Leeds
Department: School of Geography
CASE Partner: Natural England
Project Title: Managing peatlands as carbon stores
HEI: University of Leicester
Department: Geology
CASE Partner: Scotgold Resources Ltd
Project Title: Development of a genetic model for targeting gold mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian
HEI: University of Reading
Department: School of Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Bartlett Tree Experts
Project Title: Using experimental evolution to create phage therapy agents to target the Horse Chestnut bleeding canker pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi
HEI: University of Sheffield
Department: Animal & Plant Sciences
CASE Partner: Zoological Society London Institute of Zoology
Project Title: Extinctions in ecological communities and the assessment of extinction risk
HEI: University of Sheffield
Department: Animal & Plant Sciences
CASE Partner: British Trust for Ornithology
Project Title: What mechanisms drive avian demographic and population responses to climatic change?
HEI: University of Warwick
Department: Warwick HRI
CASE Partner: Unilever Corporate Research
Project Title: Interactions between river bed morphology, water chemistry and microbial diversity and its impact on pollutant biodegradation
HEI: University of York
Department: Chemistry
CASE Partner: York Archaeological Trust
Project Title: Fading Star: understanding accelerated decay of wetland archaeology