Research projects

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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin	NERC	1 September 2018	31 August 2023
TreeMORT: Redefining the carbon sink capacity of global forests: The driving role of tree mortality	EU Horizon 2020	1 February 2018	31 January 2023
Understanding the Importance of Liana Dominance for Tropical Forest Health	Australian Research Council	1 January 2018	31 December 2022
Transitions to resilience and sustainability through UK dairy systems and supply chain innovation	BBSRC	1 January 2018	31 December 2021
Solar treatment of biomass for power generation using carbon slurries in hybrid renewable energy systems (ACERA)	Royal Society-DFID	15 June 2016	30 September 2021
E FUNDIA	EU Horizon 2020	1 August 2018	31 July 2021
Solar treatment of biomass for power generation	Royal Society	15 June 2016	14 June 2021
CCI Biomass	European Space Agency	1 June 2018	31 May 2021
Creating Resilient Sustainable Micro-Grids through Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (CRESUM-HYRES)	EPSRC	1 May 2018	30 April 2021
Towards an Indian observatory of tropical forest response to climate change	NERC	1 March 2018	28 February 2021
Forest Observation System	European Space Agency	1 January 2018	31 December 2020
RAINFOR: The Amazon Forest Inventory Network	Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	1 January 2000	31 December 2020
Carbon Storage in Amazonian Peatlands: Distribution and Dynamics	NERC	1 December 2017	30 November 2020
Testing novel isotope approaches to reconstruct past precipitation regimes in the Amazon	NERC	1 October 2018	30 September 2020
Facilitating the tropical forest carbon sink: The evolution and function of symbiotic N2 fixation	NERC	1 September 2015	31 August 2020
ASICA	EU Horizon 2020	1 September 2015	31 August 2020
The Global Methane Budget (MOYA)	NERC	1 May 2016	30 April 2020
Impacts of Changes in Land Cover on Ecosystem Function and Climate in Brazil	Royal Society	31 March 2018	30 March 2020
SEOSAW: A Socio-Ecological Observatory for the Southern African Woodlands	NERC	1 February 2017	31 January 2020
Do past fires explain current carbon dynamics of Amazonian forests?	NERC	1 December 2016	30 November 2019

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
TREMOR: Mechanisms and consequences of increasing TREe MORtality in Amazonian rainforests.		1 October 2015	1 September 2019
Nordeste	NERC	1 April 2016	31 August 2019
SPARC	Global Environment Facility	1 May 2016	31 May 2019
Sustainable gas pathways for Brazil; from microcosm to macrocosm	NERC	1 May 2016	30 April 2019
AM-TRAN	British Council	1 April 2017	31 March 2019
Determining the Resilience of Logged Dipterocarp Forests to El Niño Drought	British Council	1 April 2017	31 March 2019
Promoting biodiversity in sustainable oil-palm landscapes for West African smallholders	DEFRA - Darwin Initiative	1 April 2016	31 March 2019
MonANPeru: Monitoring Protected Areas in Peru to Increase Forest Resilience to Climate Change.		1 November 2016	1 October 2018
ECOFOR: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic forests	NERC	1 October 2013	30 September 2018
T-FORCES: Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System	European Research Council (ERC)	1 July 2012	30 June 2018
GEM-TRAIT: The Global Ecosystems Monitoring and Trait Study	European Research Council (ERC)	1 May 2013	30 April 2018
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Changes in the Amazon Hydrological Cycle	RCUK	1 January 2015	31 December 2017
The Amazon hydrological cycle: past, present and future	NERC	17 January 2014	31 December 2017
History or Ecology? Untangling the Drivers of Diversification in the Tropics.	Leverhulme Trust	1 July 2015	1 June 2017
Energy gardens for small-scale farmers in Nepal: Institutions, species and technology	ESRC/N8	1 October 2013	31 March 2015