Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/L002566/1
SCENARIO. Postgraduate centre in the SCience of the Environment: Natural and Anthropogenic pRocesses, Impacts and Opportunities
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Dr THM Stein, University of Reading, Meteorology
- Grant held at:
- University of Reading, Meteorology
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- The SCENARIO DTP will exploit the University of Reading's (UoR) strengths in environmental science, in partnership with the University of Surrey (UoS), the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), the NERC British Geological Survey (BGS), the Met Office, other public sector partners and industrial partners. It will also form partnerships with 3 leading universities in the USA and Germany. Its mission will be to deliver innovative and excellent training to develop individuals capable of playing a leading role in advancing quantitative environmental science, including the two-way interaction between environmental change and humankind, and in facilitating the exploitation of environmental science and engineering by a wide range of stakeholders beyond academia. Under the overarching theme of "environmental risk and sustainability" SCENARIO will provide postgraduate training ranging from in-depth underpinning science, to projects that explore and deepen links between disciplines. Projects will range from those that emphasise theory to those that focus on making and interpreting novel observations. SCENARIO aims to attract high-quality graduates from broader science, mathematics and engineering degrees and develop their environmental science skills by exploiting diverse training opportunities. SCENARIO will be led by the UoR Department of Meteorology which has a uniquely large concentration of researchers in atmospheric science within the UK university system and a strong record in postgraduate research training. Its foci are in weather, climate and earth observation science, but it is a multi-disciplinary environment including activity in oceanography, cryosphere, earth and terrestrial science, and space weather. Research embraces theory, lab and field measurements, exploitation of global datasets (including those from satellite observations) and advanced numerical modelling. The NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the NERC National Centre for Earth Observation have directorates within Meteorology, which greatly enhance supervisory skill and capacity. Meteorology also hosts a group of researchers from the Met Office. SCENARIO includes UoR's other environmental science strengths in: Maths and Statistics (data assimilation, numerical methods); Geography and Environmental Sciences (aquatic environments, soil science, palaeoclimate, biogeochemical cycles); Chemistry; Agriculture, Policy and Development (population ecology, biodioversity); Biological Sciences (ecology, environmental genomics); and Archaeology. Considerable interaction exists between UoR partners, which will intensify under SCENARIO, as advances in environmental science demand an increasingly multi-disciplinary perspective. UoS conducts high-quality NERC-relevant science in areas of great synergy to those of UoR. The partnership will enable new cross-disciplinary opportunities linking science with engineering and with policy, including: satellite applications, mathematics of data assimilation and biosystems, experimental fluid dynamics, water engineering, sustainability and links to environmental policy. CEH, BGS and UoR already work closely in areas related to hydrology, freshwater ecology, soil science and groundwater. The partnership will further exploit the many training opportunities spanning water in the environment and environmental pollution. CEH and BGS will broaden SCENARIO's multi-disciplinary scope and provide distinct environments for students, whether based at these institutes or visiting on short-term placement. The synergies between partners will create a training environment which will in itself be unique. It will ensure that students involved in underpinning disciplinary science have a broad view of wider scientific and stakeholder issues, and it will enable multi-disciplinary, and multi-site, research projects.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/L002566/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- DTP 2013
This training grant award has a total value of £5,598,055
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - DSA | Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - RTSG | Total - Student Stipend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £2,470 | £252,212 | £1,046,169 | £660,000 | £3,637,204 |
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