School of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2006 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2029

• 20 Active
• 171 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  LA:TRACE: A New Laser Ablation–LIBS Chemical Imaging and Isotopic facility

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI), Mikhail, S. (CoI), Rae, J. W. B. (CoI), Steele, R. C. J. (CoI), Savage, P. S. (CoI), Burke, A. (CoI), Bridgestock, L. (CoI), Stueeken, E. E. (CoI) & White, R. W. (CoI)

  NERC

  11/02/25 → 20/02/26

  Project: Standard

• Timing of LCT Pegmatites in the Namibian Damara Belt 

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  NERC

  14/01/25 → 14/01/26

  Project: Standard

• Investigating the pollutant influx in urban water bodies of Dhaka, Bangladesh over the last two centuries

  Srivastava, A. (PI) & Kinnaird, T. C. (CoI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/01/25 → 31/07/25

  Project: Standard

• Paragenesis of the Arcadia lithium pegmatite district (Eastern limb of Harare Greenstone belt, Archean Zimbabwe craton): fingerprinting volatile evolution through apatite geochemistry

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  NERC

  9/12/24 → 9/12/26

  Project: Standard

  • Greenstone Belt 100%
  • Craton 100%
  • Geochemistry 100%
  • Zimbabwe 100%
  • Calcium Phosphate 100%

• MSP habitability signatures using PanCam: Multiscale spectral characterisation of habitability signatures using PanCam and Enfys

  Cousins, C. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  30/09/24 → 29/03/28

  Project: Studentship

• Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological investigation of the exotic influences of the Solent Area: key to the south and refuge to the north

  Kinnaird, T. C. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  2/05/24 → 1/05/27

  Project: Standard

• Global theory for Extreme Land Temp: GLOBAL-EX: A GLOBAL theory for EXtreme temperatures in a changing climate

  Byrne, M. P. (PI)

  UK Research and Innovation

  1/04/24 → 31/03/29

  Project: Standard

• New Foraminiferal Proxies for Cenozoic: New Foraminiferal Proxies for Cenozoic Seawater Chemistry (ForSea)

  Rae, J. W. B. (PI)

  NERC

  16/02/24 → 15/08/28

  Project: Standard

• Timescales of magmatic-hydrothermal tin mineralization in the Cornubian ore-field

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  NERC

  12/01/24 → 12/01/26

  Project: Standard

• FORCE-VOL: UKRI-Norway: Figuring Out how to Reconstruct Common Era forcing of climate by VOLcanoes with novel data and modelling approaches (FORCE-VOL)

  Burke, A. (PI)

  NERC

  1/10/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Standard

• Taking Earth's volcanic pulse: Taking Earth's volcanic pulse: understanding global volcanic hazards by unlocking the ice core archive

  Hutchison, W. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/10/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Standard

  • Ice Core 100%
  • Core Analysis 100%
  • Tephra 100%

• Critical Metals in Late Archean Granite: Testing a new concept for critical metal enrichment in Late Archean granites

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/09/23 → 31/08/26

  Project: Standard

  • Cassiterite 100%
  • Crustal Evolution 100%
  • Peridotite 66%
  • Source Rock 66%
  • Accessory Mineral 66%

• Breaking Earth's Thermostat: Breaking Earth’s thermostat: how do super-greenhouse climates occur?

  Jurikova, H. (PI) & Jurikova, H. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/09/23 → 31/08/26

  Project: Fellowship

  • Boron Isotope 100%
  • Isotopic Composition 74%
  • Solution and Solubility 64%
  • Northern Hemisphere 59%
  • Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry 59%

• Hawaiian Drowned Reefs: Hawaiian Drowned Reefs: Climate variability and coral reef response to environmental change in the sub-tropical Pacific over the last 500 ky

  Allison, N. (PI)

  NERC

  1/09/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Standard

• Impacts of sea ice melt: NSFGEO-NERC: Impacts of sea ice melt and anthropogenic emissions on biogenic sulfur aerosol as measured in a central Greenland ice core

  Burke, A. (PI)

  NERC

  31/08/23 → 30/08/26

  Project: Standard

• Characterising Hydrothermal Nutrient: Characterizing hydrothermal nutrient fluxes to define the limits on ancient life

  Stueeken, E. E. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/04/23 → 31/03/26

  Project: Standard

  • Early Earth 100%
  • Nitrogen Cycle 100%
  • Nitrogen 15 83%
  • Greenstone Belt 66%
  • Canada 66%

• CO2 and climate change: CO2 and climate change: deciphering the role of the high-latitude oceans

  MacGilchrist, G. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  17/09/22 → 16/09/26

  Project: Standard

  • Ice Sheet 100%
  • Southern Ocean 91%
  • Deep Water 56%
  • Continental Shelf 50%
  • Heat Supply 50%

• Fire and Ice : Constraining the Volcanic: Fire and ice: constraining the volcanic forcing of climate through sulfur isotopes in ice cores

  Burke, A. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/07/22 → 30/06/26

  Project: Standard

  • Ice Core 100%
  • Tephra 77%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 33%
  • Electron Probes 33%
  • Core Analysis 33%

• Solving the Oligocene icehouse conundrum: Solving the Oligocene icehouse conundrum

  Rae, J. W. B. (PI)

  NERC

  5/01/22 → 4/01/27

  Project: Standard

• Did hydrothermal vents push the frontier: Did hydrothermal vents push the frontiers of habitability on the early Earth?

  Stueeken, E. E. (PI)

  NERC

  1/04/21 → 31/03/25

  Project: Standard

  • Nitrogen 15 100%
  • Early Earth 72%
  • Sedimentary Rock 64%
  • Water Column 60%
  • Nitrogen Cycle 60%
• Finished

  Ba Speciation in Coral Aragonite

  Finch, A. A. (PI) & Allison, N. (CoI)

  EPSRC

  9/11/24 → 12/11/24

  Project: Standard

  • Research Facility 100%
  • Aragonite 100%

• EOI: Bridging Extraterrestrial: EOI:Bridging Extraterrestrial and Cultural Landscapes

  Cousins, C. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/09/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Standard

• Futurescaping Mars: Future scaping Mars

  Mikhail, S. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/09/23 → 28/02/24

  Project: Standard

• EIA for Fire in the Earth - Evaluation: EIA for Fire in the Earth - evaluation across sectors

  Bates, C. R. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/09/23 → 28/02/24

  Project: Standard

• Linking into Southern African critical metals exploration

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  University of St Andrews

  1/06/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Standard

  • Africans 100%

• Deconvolving Fluorescence: Deconvolving Fluorescence and Raman for Smart Mineral Sorting

  Finch, A. A. (PI)

  NERC

  1/03/23 → 31/03/23

  Project: Standard

• Carbon negative prawns: Carbon negative prawns: sustainable protein and CO2 sink

  Rae, J. W. B. (PI)

  NERC

  1/03/23 → 31/03/23

  Project: Standard

• Volcanic climate Forcing and Eastern Med: Volcanic Climate Forcing and Eastern Mediterranean Changes in the 420s BCE

  Post, R. (PI), Burke, A. (CoI) & Hutchison, W. (CoI)

  NERC

  1/01/23 → 31/01/23

  Project: Standard

• Connectivity Communication Norse Orkney: Connectivity and Communication in Norse Orkney

  Bates, C. R. (PI)

  1/09/22 → 31/08/24

  Project: Standard

• Fire in The Earth: Fire in The Earth

  McCarthy, W. (PI)

  Science & Technology Facilities Council

  1/07/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Standard

• Visit by Dr Jessica Tierney of the Unive: Visit by Dr Jessica Tierney of the University of Arizona

  Rae, J. W. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society of Edinburgh

  18/05/22 → 1/06/22

  Project: Standard

• How do biomolecules alter Biominerals: How do biomolecules alter the material properties of biominerals?

  Allison, N. (PI)

  NERC

  1/02/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Standard

• Carbon Capture, Use, and Sequestration: Carbon Capture, Use, and Sequestration with Accelerated Weathering of Limestone

  Burke, A. (PI)

  NERC

  14/12/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Standard

• Rob Wilson NERC-NSF: NSFGEO-NERC: Understanding Trans-Hemispheric Modes of Climate Variability: A Novel Tree-Ring Data Transect spanning the Himalaya to the Southern Ocean

  Wilson, R. (PI)

  NERC

  1/11/21 → 31/10/24

  Project: Standard

  • Earlywood 100%
  • Latewood 100%
  • Climate Data 60%
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 40%

• Reimagining Tanzania’s Townscape Heritag: Reimagining Tanzania’s Townscape Heritage

  Bates, C. R. (PI)

  NERC

  1/11/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Standard

• New analytical capabilities for understa: New analytical capabilities for understanding CO2 change ing CO2 change and biominireal formation

  Rae, J. W. B. (PI) & Jurikova, H. (CoPI)

  The Royal Society of Edinburgh

  1/10/21 → 30/09/23

  Project: Standard

• Cultural Protection Fund: Digital Cultural Heritage in East Africa

  Bates, C. R. (PI)

  British Council

  1/09/21 → 28/02/22

  Project: Standard

• StAGE: St Andrews LA-ICPMS Refurbishment: StAGE: St Andrews LA-ICPMS Refurbishment Project

  Gardiner, N. J. (PI)

  1/07/21 → 30/06/24

  Project: Standard

• The role of calcareous biomolecules in the dissolution of coral reef skeletons: a material science approach

  Allison, N. (PI)

  Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland

  1/06/21 → 30/11/21

  Project: Standard

• Unlocking the C and N budget of the Ear: Unlocking the C and N budget of the Earth

  Mikhail, S. (PI)

  NERC

  1/05/21 → 30/04/24

  Project: Standard

• Microbial carbon and nitrogen fixation: Microbial carbon and nitrogen fixation on early Mars and sequestration of geochemical biosignatures

  Cousins, C. R. (PI)

  NERC

  1/04/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Standard

• Quantifying lightning-derived NOx gas: Quantifying lightning-derived NOx gas production in planetary atmospheres

  Stueeken, E. E. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  31/03/21 → 30/03/22

  Project: Standard

  • Lightning 100%
  • Early Earth 46%
  • Carbon Dioxide 40%
  • Atmospheric Chemistry 33%
  • Extrasolar Planet 33%

• StA-CEES: St Andrews Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (StA-CEES)

  Byrne, M. P. (PI)

  1/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard

• Searching for Quantum Minerals: Searching for Quantum Minerals: Natural Templates for Advanced Technologies leading a Net-Zero

  Raub, T. D. (PI)

  31/12/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

  • Elementary Excitation 100%
  • Quasiparticle 100%
  • Surface (Surface Science) 100%
  • Anisotropy 33%
  • Tomography 33%

• Fife Cultural Coastal Zone: the Fife Sustainable Natural and Cultural Coastal Zone - a blueprint for the sustainability of communities & the protection of natural & cultural heritage

  Bates, C. R. (PI), Kinnaird, T. C. (CoI) & Srivastava, A. (Researcher)

  1/12/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Probing the deep subsurface in SE Brazil: Probing the deep subsurface for life-related signatures in extreme environments: new insights from two underground gold mines in SE Brazil

  de Assis Magalhaes, N. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Building cap. - low-level environment: Building capacity for low-level environmental radioactivity measurements in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Kinnaird, T. C. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/11/20 → 1/03/21

  Project: Standard

• A new automated sample preparation: A new automated sample preparation instrument to enhance lab efficiency under COVID-19 social distancing regulations

  Burke, A. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Standard

• Method development .. Organic molecules: Method development for characterisation of organic molecules produced in exoplanetary lightning reactions and hydrothermal vents

  Stueeken, E. E. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/01/21

  Project: Standard

• Palaeo-landscape reconstruction of Neoli: Palaeo-landscape reconstruction of Neolithic Drenovac and its environs in the middle Morava valley, Serbia

  Kinnaird, T. C. (PI)

  The British Academy

  1/10/20 → 30/09/21

  Project: Standard