Examples of water@leeds projects
Examples of ongoing or recent water research projects are listed in the table below. More projects are currently in progress or due to start - details can be found on members websites which you can find via the members page.
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ACCWA: Approaching Climate Change for Water resource Adaptation |
2009 - 2012 |
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GoverNat: Multilevel Governance of Natural Resources: Tools & Processes for Water & Biodiversity Governance in Europe. |
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Improving Nutrient Management in the Ingbirchwood Catchment - NVZ & Beyond |
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Governat: Multilevel Governance of Natural Resources: Tools & Processes for Water & Biodiversity Governance in Europe, Marie Curie Research Training Network
An improved management of natural resources is one of the 7 key challenges towards a sustainable development of the EU, identified in 2006 by the European Council in the "Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy". GoverNat selects two major areas in this field of environmental policy-making, and contributes to improved policies in both, water and biodiversity. Biodiversity and water governance deal with safeguarding conditions for a sustainable life on earth, but also have direct influences on the quality of life of those living here. GoverNat brings together the latest ideas from economics, political science, law, sociology and philosophy to bear on four relevant interdisciplinary research fields: governance, participation, decision-support tools, and the evaluation, design, and implementation of governance schemes.
For more details follow the link.
Sustainable Uplands Management, RELU.
The aim of this project is to combine knowledge from local stakeholders, policy-makers and social and natural scientists to anticipate, monitor and sustainably manage rural change in UK uplands. The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Durham, Sheffield and Sussex together with the Moors for the Future partnership and Heather Trust. It is funded by the UK Government Research Councils with Defra and SEERAD, and has study sites in the Peak District National Park, Yorkshire Dales and Galloway, Scotland.
For more details follow the link.
Improving Nutrient Management in the Ingbirchwood Catchment:
NVZ & Beyond, Defra and Yorkshire Water.
This is a Defra Associate Catchment Sensitive Farming pilot project. We are working with farmers in the Ingbirchworth catchment, S. Yorks., to improve manure, slurry and fertilser management in order to reduce nutrient pollution of waterbodies. Water quality monitoring, risk mapping and source apportionment are being used to support the farm advice.
For more detailsfollow the link.
FlOODRESET: The influence of major FLOOD disturbance on River EcoSystem Evolution Trajectories in recently deglaciated terrain, NERC.
This 18-month NERC urgency project is examining the effects of an estimated 1 in 100 year flood event on freshwater ecosystem succession in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Our preliminary results suggest that the flood significantly changed stream topography, caused a decrease in odd year pink salmon runs from 11000 to 1000, and led to reduced numbers of benthic macroinvertebrates and meiofauna.
For more details follow the link.
DESIRE Project - Desertification Solutions, EU FP6.
Creeping desertification around the world affects more than 250 million people. A newly launched research project is working to fight the phenomenon with new conservation strategies.
Funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), the DESIRE project is international, bringing together 28 research institutes, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy-makers from around the world.
The aim of the £9 million project is to come up with alternative strategies for the use and protection of these vulnerable areas.
For more details follow the link.
WAND: Water Cycle Management for new Developments, EPSRC.
The aim of WaND (Water Cycle Management for New Developments) is to support the delivery of integrated, sustainable water management for new developments by provision of tools and guidelines for project design, implementation and management
For more details follow the link.
AMMA: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis, NERC and EU.
AMMA-UK is part of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA).
AMMA is a coordinated international project to improve our knowledge and understanding of the West African monsoon (WAM) and its variability with an emphasis on daily-to-interannual timescales. AMMA overarching aims are:
- To improve our understanding of the West African Monsoon and its influence on the physical, chemical and biological environment regionally and globally.
- To provide the underpinning science that relates climate variability to issues of health, water resources and food security and defining the relevant monitoring strategies.
- To ensure that the multidisciplinary research carried out in AMMA is effectively integrated with prediction and decision making activity.
For more details follow the link.
Development of Multibeam Echosounding for the quantitative monitoring of suspended sediment dynamics in aquatic environments, NERC.
This is a NERC Partnership Grant with RESON.
Successful environmental management is dependent upon an accurate, and ideally holistic, quantitative monitoring of processes operating within natural systems. Recent years have seen many advances in the successful monitoring of such processes involving techniques and methods that can provide detail and identify processes, and their changes, over relevant spatio-temporal scales; ideally these techniques should be non-intrusive and not affect the processes that are being monitored. In many aquatic environments, some of the most important physical processes involve the interactions of fluid flow and mobile sediment, with these interactions also having many implications for biochemical processes and nutrient exchanges. Such interactions between the turbulent flow field and transport of mobile particles encompass sediment transport both along the bed and in suspension. This interaction also has consequent implications for the form and nature of the bed itself, with a complex feedback existing between the bed morphology, turbulent fluid flow and sediment transport. Therefore, the effective monitoring of these processes are a prerequisite for improving understanding of morphological forms, the longer term evolution of landforms and thus development of appropriate environmental management strategies, in environments extending from rivers to estuaries to the shallow and deep marine realms.
For more details follow the link.
Mapping the Underworld: Knowledge and Data Integration, EPSRC.
Every year, in excess of four million holes are dug in the nation's roads to repair leaks, provide connecting services to new premises and to lay new cables and pipes. Although recently installed assets may have been well mapped, location data on older services can be very poor, in some cases even non existent (except perhaps knowing the location of the terminating points). Some of the holes are unnecessary (dug in the wrong place owing to insufficientor wrong data), some cause third party damage to other underground services (or even first party damage!). More importantly, there are also considerable indirect costs owing to disruption on the roads caused by works, waste, and pollution. This project will investigate the construction of a unified database of all the location data from the various various utilities. Constructing such a unified database will be a challenge owing to the current state of the records, which are frequently innacurate, incomplete and sometimes not available in digital form.
For more details follow the link.
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