Projects (93)

Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities Nov 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2024
The opening of Siemens new £310m offshore wind (OSW) turbine blade factory in Hull is a milestone for the industry. It coincides with increased investment in operations and maintenance activities to service the increasing capacity of OSW farms, espec... Read More about Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities.

How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth? Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2025
Seafloor flows called turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth (submarine fans). They flushglobally significant amounts of sediment, organic carbon, nutrients and fresher-water into the deep ocean, and affect itsoxygen leve... Read More about How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth?.

Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres Jan 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2022
Cooling systems for Computing & Data Centres consume 30% to 40% of energy delivered into the centre spaces, while electricity use in CDCs represents 1.3% of the world total energy consumption. The traditional vapour compression cooling systems for CD... Read More about Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres.

Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements Jan 11, 2017 - Mar 31, 2019
Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements

Green Port Growth Programme funding, matched by University and other public/private funds, to engage internationally leading experts in offshore wind to bring their knowledge, experi... Read More about Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements.

Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found Jun 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020
A guided walk around the area associated with Hubert Nicholson’s East Coast novel Sunk Island (1956) focusing on specific geographical features and including readings from the novel, followed by a ‘Yorkshire Tea’ in Holy Trinity Church and a rehears... Read More about Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found.

Combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, storm Surge & high Tide on estuarine infrastructure Nov 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2018
UK estuaries are at risk from combination flooding. Sea-level rise and predicted changes to UK storm patterns (affecting both surge and river flows) will alter the joint probability of multiple hazard events, making previous understanding of risk, an... Read More about Combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, storm Surge & high Tide on estuarine infrastructure.

Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650 Sep 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2017
This project explores popular geographical imaginations, asking how ordinary people in medieval and early modern England thought about, experienced and themselves sought to shape the world around them. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, ar... Read More about Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650.

H2020 RI - HYDRALAB-PLUS Aug 31, 2015 - Aug 31, 2019
HYDRALAB is an advanced community that specializes in experimental hydraulic research. We would like to call our project, for which we have written this proposal, HYDRALAB+ (pronunciation: hydralab plus) because we will go beyond what we have achieve... Read More about H2020 RI - HYDRALAB-PLUS.

Speech Rehabilitation from Articulator Movement (SRAM) Jan 1, 2016 - Sep 30, 2018

Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding (Project SINATRA) Sep 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2019
Project SINATRA responds to the NERC call for research on flooding from intense rainfall (FFIR) with a programme of focused research designed to advance general scientific understanding of the processes determining the probability, incidence, and imp... Read More about Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding (Project SINATRA).

Collaborative Research Agreement relating to Long-term Morphodynamics and Sedimentation of the Holderness Coast and Humber Estuary Feb 25, 2015 - Feb 28, 2018

Long-term Morphodynamics and Sedimentation of the Holderness Coast and Humber Estuary Feb 25, 2015 - Feb 24, 2018

Gendering the commons Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2022
Interest in the politics of land and property has undergone a recent resurgence with commons celebrated as models for sustainable living and a politics of inclusion. Yet whilst scholars recognise that commons were never public spaces open to all, the... Read More about Gendering the commons.

Implementing Measures For Sustainable Estuaries Oct 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2023
Building on previous EU funded projects, IMMERSE aims, through a series of research strands, to deliver: a range of practical solutions to key areas of estuairne management (e.g. methods for compensating habitat loss, reduction in tidal amplitude fro... Read More about Implementing Measures For Sustainable Estuaries.

Supergen Hub 2017 - Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Jul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2023

Quantifying sediment fluxes from acoustic Doppler current profilers Mar 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2021
Calibration of the Environment Agency's ADCP units and back calculation of historical suspended sediment loads for selected sites.

Nooksack River Log Jam Surveys Jul 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2021
The Nooksack River early Chinook populations have diminished substantially from historic levels and are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Habitat degradation is considered the leasing cause for he decline of salmon populati... Read More about Nooksack River Log Jam Surveys.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2027
The move to cleaner economic growth is one of the greatest industrial opportunities of our time; a key industrial challenge for the 21st Century is to secure a resilient renewable energy supply. The offshore wind (OSW) industry underpins UK solutions... Read More about The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment.

Evaluation of TurbineGRID Feb 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2019
The purpose of “Evaluation of TurbineGRID: Digital Twin of the ORE Catapult Levenmouth Turbine” is to allow an evaluation of this simulation tool in a manner consistent with previous studies on other similar numerical modelling tools.

Developing a Global Listening Network for Turbidity Currents and Seafloor Processes Apr 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2024
Our overall aim is to make fundamental step-changes in understanding of seafloor processes and hazards by developing and demonstrating novel sensor systems, which can form widespread and long-term listening networks. These low-cost and energy-efficie... Read More about Developing a Global Listening Network for Turbidity Currents and Seafloor Processes.