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Ocean Acidification

Announcement of Opportunity for a carbonate chemistry laboratory

Closing date: 16:00 on 16 December 2009

Proposals are invited for a service of carbonate chemistry measurements as part of the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme. This £12m collaborative programme is a Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) accredited programme and is co-funded by NERC, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC).

This integrated strategic programme directly relates to the delivery of the NERC strategy (Earth System Science and Biodiversity science themes) and the UK government's Strategic Objectives with respect to adapting to, and mitigating, climate change and ensuring a healthy resilient, productive and diverse natural environment.

This call is for proposals to address deliverable seven of the programme - a service for carbonate chemistry measurements, to provide high quality carbonate chemistry measurements across the programme. Up to £385k is available for this call.

Eligibility for this programme includes the UK government departments' marine laboratories.

Please see the Announcement of Opportunity document below for full details.

Announcement of Opportunity (57KB)

The following documents should be read in conjunction with this call and can be found on the resources page:

• Science Plan
• Implementation Plan

For further information about this announcement of opportunity please contact:

Jessica Batchelor
Tel: 01793 442831