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List of NERC research programmes
Research programmes
- Aerosol Properties, PRocesses And InfluenceS on the Earth's climate (APPRAISE)
- Analytical Science & Technology
- Arctic Research Programme
- Changing Water Cycle
- Depleted Uranium
- e-Science
- Ecosystems Services & Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)
- Environment & Human Health (EHH)
- Environmental Exposure & Health Initiative (EEHI)
- Environmental Nanoscience Initiative
- Environmental & Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases (ESEI)
- Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE)
- Joint Weather & Climate Research Programme
- Macronutrient Cycles
- Methane Network
- Oceans 2025
- Polluted Troposphere (PT)
- Post-Genomics & Proteomics (PGP)
- Quantifying & Understanding the Earth System (QUEST)
- Quantifying Uncertainty
- Rapid Climate Change (RAPID)
- RAPID-WATCH
- Storm Risk Mitigation through Improved Prediction & Impact Modelling
- Surface-Ocean/Lower-Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
- Sustainable Marine Bioresources
- Taxonomy & Systematics
- Technology Clusters
- Technology Proof of Concept
- UK Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (UKIODP)
- Urban Atmospheric Science
- Virtual Observatory
Other programmes
- Earth Observation Enabling Fund
- Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (GERB)
- High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS)
- UK Population Biology Network (UKPopNet)
Cross-council programmes
- Living With Environmental Change (LWEC)
A major interdisciplinary partnership to tackle environmental change - Basic Technology
- Rural Economy & Land Use (RELU)
- Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy (TSEC)
Completed programmes
Details of programmes which have completed are also available.
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