Open CASE 2013
HEI: Birkbeck College
Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences
CASE Partner: CAFOD
Project Title: Living with mine waste: Developing a decision-making tool for reducing water contamination risk
HEI: Brunel University
Department: Experimental Techniques Centre
CASE Partner: Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA)
Project Title: [WATER] Assessing the fate of microplastics derived from industrial and domestic products in the waste water treatment process
HEI: Cardiff University
Department: School of Biosciences
CASE Partner: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Project Title: Tortoises as analogue species providing the ecosystem service of habitat restoration through grazing
HEI: Cranfield University
Department: School of Applied Sciences
CASE Partner: Severn Trent Water
Project Title: [WATER] Sediment-water interactions in natural and man-made environments: Assessing the impact of phosphorus removal from point-sources
HEI: Cranfield University
Department: School of Applied Sciences
CASE Partner: Tata Steel
Project Title: Mitigation of pollutant emissions from the steel industry
HEI: Heriot-Watt University
Department: School of Life Sciences
CASE Partner: Scottish Natural Heritage
Project Title: [ENERGY] Biogenic structures and their interactions with marine renewable energy developments and climate (sponsored by SNH)
HEI: Imperial College London
Department: Department of Mathematics
CASE Partner: The Natural History Museum
Project Title: [ENVIRONMENT] Automatic species identification
HEI: Newcastle University
Department: Marine Science & Technology
CASE Partner: Environment Systems Ltd
Project Title: [ECOSYSTEM/ENVIRONMENT] Object based approaches to identifying and monitoring marine ecosystem services using remotely sensed data
HEI: Royal Holloway, University of London
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: National Physical Laboratory
Project Title: [CLIMATE] Characterisation of bi-direflectance (BRDF) of sea-ice in response to deposited aerosol for the CAL/VAL of remote sensing products
HEI: University of Aberdeen
Department: Institute of Biological & Environmental Science
CASE Partner: Marine Scotland Science
Project Title: Potential ecological impacts of marine renewable devices on diving seabirds: Modelling foraging strategies in high energy environments
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Birmingham City Council
Project Title: Quantifying the influence of wind advection on urban heat island for an improvement of a climate change adaptation planning tool
HEI: University of Birmingham
Department: School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: Marine Science Scotland
Project Title: [WATER] River temperature sensitivity and response to drivers of change
HEI: University of Brighton
Department: School of Environment & Technology
CASE Partner: Environment Agency
Project Title: [WATER] [ENVIRONMENT] Developing a biomonitoring tool to identify and quantify the impacts of particulate matter in freshwater ecosystems
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Ecotricity
Project Title: [ECOSYSTEM] Evaluating methods to deter bats from approaching wind turbines
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Project Title: Assessing current and future impacts of invasive ants on ecosystem services
HEI: University of Bristol
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Title: Quantifying volcanic ash using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)
HEI: University of Cambridge
Department: Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Unilever UK
Project Title: Magma to ice-cream: The crystallisation of complex fluids
HEI: University of Essex
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Forest Research
Project Title: Spatio-temporal dynamics of microbial community structure and function across an afforestation chronosequence
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Engineering Computer Science & Maths
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Title: [ENVIRONMENT] [CLIMATE] Efficient data assimilation to correct non-Gaussian forecast errors in numerical weather prediction
HEI: University of Exeter
Department: Peninsula Medical School
CASE Partner: AquaProva Aquatic Water Services, AquaProva NLS Environment Agency
Project Title: Impact of sediment/water interactions on the microbiological quality of shellfish and bathing waters, a regulatory and public health perspective
HEI: University of Hull
Department: Biological Sciences
CASE Partner: Butterfly Conservation
Project Title: [ENVIRONMENT] Understanding the importance of moths as pollinators: an ecological network approach
HEI: University of Leeds
Department: School of Earth & Environment
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Title: [CLIMATE] Robust regional predictions of future rainfall changes for adaptation policy
HEI: University of Leeds
Department: School of Earth & Environment
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Title: Improved predictions of the Indian monsoon
HEI: University of Leicester
Department: Geology
CASE Partner: RPS Energy
Project Title: [ENERGY] Evaluating 3D sedimentary architecture as a fundamental control on geotechnical and physical properties (Dogger Bank Round 3 Windfarm zone)
HEI: University of Liverpool
Department: Institute of Integrative Biology
CASE Partner: Natural England
Project Title: [ECOSYSTEM] Landscape scale synergies between agri-environment schemes and protected sites
HEI: University of Liverpool
Department: Institute of Integrative Biology
CASE Partner: Zoological Society of London
Project Title: [CLIMATE] Understanding changes in the risk of zoonotic disease outbreaks as a result of climate change: Insights from a seasonal host-parasite system
HEI: University of Oxford
Department: Zoology
CASE Partner: CEFAS
Project Title: Are vulnerable marine ecosystems in the deep-sea associated with high species richness and enhanced ecosystem function?
HEI: University of Reading
Department: School of Agriculture Policy & Development
CASE Partner: Waitrose
Project Title: Ecosystem services in sustainable agriculture: Maximising productivity and environmental benefits
HEI: University of Reading
Department: Meteorology
CASE Partner: Forest Research
Project Title: Understanding the information content in diverse observations of forest carbon stocks and fluxes for data assimilation and modelling
HEI: University of Reading
Department: Meteorology
CASE Partner: Met Office
Project Title: The role of surface moisture exchange in urban climate: Modelling surface exchange of water in the Met Office/Reading Urban Surface-Exchange Scheme
HEI: University of Southampton
Department: Faculty of Engineering
CASE Partner: Environment Agency
Project Title: Quantifying fish response to acoustic bubbles in fresh and saline water: The pathway to effective "Scarefish" technology
HEI: University of Southampton
Department: School of Ocean & Earth Science
CASE Partner: Montserrat Volcano Observatory
Project Title: IODP a 4·5 million year record of arc volcanism in the Lesser Antilles
HEI: University of Southampton
Department: School of Ocean & Earth Sciences
CASE Partner: Neftext Petroleum Consultants Ltd
Project Title: Climate, glaciation and sediment burial across the Eocene to Oligocene transition: Testing sea level models, IODP Exp. 342 the Newfoundland Margin
HEI: University of Strathclyde
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
CASE Partner: AEA Technology
Project Title: Field evaluation and optimal deployment of portable air pollution measurement systems for assessment of human exposure to traffic-related air pollution
HEI: University of Sussex
Department: School of Global Studies
CASE Partner: Havant Borough Council
Project Title: [ENVIRONMENT] Measuring active layer depth to develop predictive models of mixed sediment beach response to wave energies
HEI: University of Stirling
Department: Biological & Environmental Sciences
CASE Partner: RSPB
Project Title: [AGRIFOOD] Are neonicotinoid seed dressings used on arable crops impacting on non-target herbivorous insects in arable field margins?
HEI: University of Warwick
Department: School of Life Sciences
CASE Partner: EBLEX
Project Title: [AGRIFOOD] The holy grail of footrot in sheep: Persistence of Dichelobacter nodosus, the causal agent of footrot in sheep
HEI: University of the West of England
Department: Institute of Biosensing Technology
CASE Partner: Chelsea Technologies Group
Project Title: The development of fluorescence sensing for monitoring microbial processes of freshwater systems