Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/P02016X/1
Techniques and protocols in sediment core description, analysis, data visualisation and interpretation.
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Dr S E MacLachlan, NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), Science and Technology
- Grant held at:
- NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), Science and Technology
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Science Topics:
- Geohazards
- Palaeoenvironments
- Quaternary Science
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Abstract:
- The course will deliver comprehensive training for environmental science-based PhD students working with sediment cores. Specifically, the training will provide guidance on sample collection and analysis using best-practise laboratory techniques and protocols through to robust data visualisation and interpretation. The course will be delivered as a collaborative venture between the British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF) and the University of Southampton, both based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). BOSCORF is the UK's national deep-sea sediment core repository and offers a unique setting for this course. BOSCORF provides a set of unique, strategic services to the UK's scientific community including advanced non-destructive core logging and analysis facilities that are amongst the best in Europe. The highly specialised skills of BOSCORF staff are routinely used to train early career scientists and postgraduate students in sediment-based laboratory techniques and protocols through to data visualisation and interpretation. The University of Southampton (UoS), School of Ocean and Earth Science hosts state-of-the-art sediment dynamics research laboratories and instrumentation, including a suite of experimental research flumes, a dedicated particle size analysis laboratory and field sampling equipment, which will be extensively utilised in the training. The course will thus provide participants with essential transferable skills necessary for their research in the environmental sciences encompassed by the NERC mission.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/P02016X/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £23,140
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £23,140 |
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