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Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

Durham Climate Change Network

Anthropology

  • Integrated Management of European Wetlands (IMEW)

Contact: Dr Sandra Bell

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

  • BICCO Net - the Biodiversity of Impacts of Climate Change Observation Network

  • Simulating range shifts of butterfly and bird species using linked climate-habitat-demographic models'. Grevillea Trust studentship (2010-2011)

  • ‘Creating a regional climate change indicator for biodiversity’. Grevillea Trust studentship (2010-2011)

  • ‘Creating a regional climate change indicator for biodiversity’. Grevillea Trust studentship (2010-2011)

  • ‘Climate change Impacts on birds in Asia’ (with BirdLife International). MacArthur Foundation funded project (2010-2012)

  • ‘Establishing BICCO-NET ‘The biodiversity impacts of climate change observation network’ (with British Trust for Ornithology) DEFRA funded project (2008-2011)

  • ‘Modelling species’ dynamic responses to environmental change in South Africa.’ Leverhulme funded project led by Brian Huntley and Stephen Willis at Durham (2010-2013)

  • ‘Implementing and monitoring an Adaptive Management Framework for climate change in the Albertine Rift, East Africa’. (with BirdLife International). MacArthur Foundation funded project (2010-2013)

  • ‘Impacts of climate change on reserve selection across Australia’. Distinguished Visiting Scientist Fellowship to Stephen Willis  to work with CSIRO (Australia’s national science agency) (2010-2012)

  • ‘Climate Change and Protected Areas in West Africa’. UNEP-GEF funded project (2010-2014)

  • ‘Impacts of climate change on Alpine ungulates’.  NERC funded studentship (2009-2012)

  • ‘Testing the role of assisted colonisation as a climate change adaptation using butterfly introductions as a model system’. (Ongoing research funded from various sources)

  • ‘The interacting roles of climate, habitat and population demographics in changes in ranges and abundance of UK deer’. Whitehead Trust funded studentship (2009-2012)

  • ‘The role of climate and predators in top-down versus bottom-up control of herbivore populations across Europe’. Durham Doctoral Studentship supervised by Phil Stephens and Stephen Willis

  • ‘Climate change impacts on a pan-European protected area network’. RSPB funded project

  • ‘Conservation in the face of climate change: developing an adaptive management framework across Africa’. MacArthur Foundation funded project

  • ‘Maintaining Africa’s Important Bird Area network in a changing climate’ RSPB funded project

Contact: Dr Stephen Willis

  • DART - Dynamic response of the forest–tundra ecotone to environmental change

  • Snow-Vegetation Interactions over Heterogeneous Landscapes (Climate Change in the Arctic)

  • A niche-modelling approach to understanding late-Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

  • Potential impacts of climatic change upon southern African birds

  • Modelling species’ dynamic responses to environmental change

  • Tipping Points: Mathematics, Metaphors and Meanings – Work Package 1: Rapid neoglacial-glacial transitions in the North Atlantic

  • Vegetation and environmental history of Finnmark since the last glaciation

  • Assessing recent dynamics of the northern limit of Scots Pine in Finnmark, north Norway

  • Ecological ‘Tipping Points’? – How invasion of a potential canopy dominant affects landscape-scale ecosystem patterns

Contact: Professor Brian Huntley

  • STEPPS (Snow in Tundra Environments: Patterns, Processes, and Scaling issues)

  • ABACUS Arctic-Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling at multiple scales

  • Towards improved estimation of carbon balance in a low-Arctic mire: a micrometeorological eddy covariance approach to methane flux characterization

  • National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO): Quantification of snow feedbacks in climate model

Contact: Dr Bob Baxter

Durham Business School

  • Climate change - impact of weather and other seasonal factors on stock returns

Contact: Professor David Barr

Earth Sciences

  • CO2 Injection for enhanced oil recovery

Contact: Professor Jon Gluyas

  • The Crown Estates project

Contact: Dr Kate Thatcher

  • Continental Shelf for CO2 Storage using 3D Seismic and Borehole Data

Contact: Miss Amy Clarke

  • HURRICANE Project: Reconstructing tropical cyclone activity in the Caribbean Basin

  • INSITE: Reconstructing the North Atlantic Oscillation using stalagites from Poland

  • GLIDE: Global Leaf Isoscape for the Environment

  • Numerical modelling of oxygen isotope ratios as climate proxies in cave calcites

Contact: Dr James Baldini

  • Deep saline aquifer storage of carbon dioxide

Contact: Mr Ben Hedley

  • Optimising the Use of Spent Oil Shale (including carbon sequestration); The Al Lajjun Deposit in Jordan

Contact: Miss Helen Foster

  • Modelling CO2 flow through subsurface faults

Contact: Miss Francesca Watson

  • Numerical modelling of carbon dioxide geostorage

Contact: Dr Simon Mathias

  • Numerical modelling of CO2-EOR

Contact: Mr Ghulam Sawar

  • Multiphysics modelling for geothermal energy

Contact: Miss Cath Hodgson

  • Reservoir simulation for storage of carbon dioxide

Contact: Mr Gerardo Gonzalez

  • One NE CCS project

Contact: Professor Richard Davies

School of Engineering and Computing Sciences

  • Living With Environmental Change Knowledge Exchange Systematic Review – Construction

  • Biological and Engineering Impacts of Climate Change on Slopes - Bionics

Contact: Dr David Toll

  • ROBUST: Regeneration of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology

Contacts: Dr Karen Johnson and Professor Clare Bambra

  • Supergen Wind Energy Technologies Consortium

Contact: Professor Peter Tavner

  • Investigating the Role of Energy Storage Systems in Smart Grids

Contact: Professor Janusz Bialek

  • Integration of renewable generation into electrical power systems

Contact: Dr Chris Dent

English Studies

  • Poetry and Climate Change

Contact: Matthew Griffiths

Geography

  • Transnational Climate Change Governance

  • Urban Transitions: Climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems

  • InCluESEV – Interdisciplinary Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability

Contact: Professor Harriet Bulkeley

  • Boulby Geoscience

Contact: Professor Dave Petley

  • Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)

Contact: Professor Sarah Curtis

  • Waste of the World

Contact: Professor Ray Hudson

  • Land and sea-level changes around Britain

Contact: Dr Jim Innes and Professor Ian Shennan

  • Landslide assessment and flood erosion risk from the North Yorkshire floods

Contact: Dr Jeff Warburton

  • Evaluating the recent and future climate change in the mountains of southern Siberia

  • Modelling climate change and water availability, Caucasus Mountains, Russia

  • Meltwater routing and ocean-cryosphere-atmosphere response

  • Modelling glacial response to climate change, Caucasus Mts, Russia

Contact: Dr Chris Stokes

  • Rivers of the Levant (evolution of river valleys and landscape in the Middle East in response to glacial–interglacial climatic fluctuation during the Quaternary)

    Project website: 'Rivers of the Levant'

  • Global fluvial archives (evolution of river valleys and landscape in response to glacial–interglacial climatic fluctuation during the Quaternary

    Project website: 'IGCP 449 & 518'

Contact: Dr David Bridgland

  • Long-term changes in rainfall, runoff and water quality

Contact: Professor Tim Burt

  • North Atlantic sea-level variability during the last half-millennium

Contact: Professor Antony Long

Mathematical Sciences

  • RAPID-RAPIT (Risk Analysis Probability and Impacts Team)

Contact: Professor Michael Goldstein