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46 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £9,091,520   

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A coupled climate-vegetation-mammal-human model for simulating Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor AM Lister, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor S Sitch, University of Exeter, Geography
Co-Investigator:
Professor P Valdes, University of Bristol, Geographical Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Oct 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
Value:
£602,680
NERC Reference:
NE/P002536/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant






COG3: The geology, geometallurgy and geomicrobiology of cobalt resources leading to new product streams

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor R Herrington, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr P Schofield, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 May 2015 - 31 Oct 2019
Value:
£468,522
NERC Reference:
NE/M011488/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Minerals


Cataclysmic eruptions in densely populated areas: the ticking eruptive clock at Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico).

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr C Petrone, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr J Prytulak, Durham University, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
23 Feb 2015 - 22 Aug 2018
Value:
£188,481
NERC Reference:
NE/M014584/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant - NI

Closing the temporal gap: ecological responses to past extinction events

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor RJ Twitchett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr S Stukins, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr WD Pearse, Imperial College London, Life Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Nov 2022 - 31 Jan 2024
Value:
£80,648
NERC Reference:
NE/X013022/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Exploring the frontiers

Comparing land-based and deep-sea rock and fossil records of microplankton to test for bias in diversity patterns through time

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr A B Smith, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr JR Young, University College London, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
2 Mar 2009 - 1 Sep 2011
Value:
£214,041
NERC Reference:
NE/F016905/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant





Dinosaur/plant interactions: testing co-evolutionary patterns over geological timescales

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor P Barrett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr P Kenrick, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr M Penn, The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
3 Apr 2006 - 2 Dec 2008
Value:
£101,661
NERC Reference:
NE/C002865/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Environmental factors in human evolution and dispersals in the Upper Pleistocene of the western Mediterranean.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor NE Barton, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor REM Hedges, University of Oxford, School of Archaeology
Co-Investigator:
Professor CB Stringer, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor K Willis, University of Oxford, Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor TC Atkinson, University College London, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Split Award
Period of Award:
5 May 2004 - 4 Apr 2008
Value:
£11,098
NERC Reference:
NER/T/S/2002/00703
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
EFCHED

Fluorescence properties of fossil peridinioid & gonyaulacoid cysts: a key to the development and evolution of heterotrophy in fossil dinoflagellates

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr S Feist-Burkhardt, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Sep 2003 - 30 Sep 2004
Value:
£39,542
NERC Reference:
NER/M/S/2003/00066
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
New Investigators Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
New Investigators

From arc magmas to ores (FAMOS): A mineral systems approach

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor JJ Wilkinson, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr C Petrone, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor R Herrington, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor R Seltmann, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr RN Armstrong, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr P Schofield, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 May 2017 - 31 Dec 2022
Value:
£721,989
NERC Reference:
NE/P017452/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Highlights

Global and local effects of long-term environmental change: a turtle's eye view

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor P Barrett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr KG Johnson, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Mar 2013 - 31 Aug 2016
Value:
£271,908
NERC Reference:
NE/J020613/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant



LiFT - Lithium for Future Technology

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor R Herrington, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr RN Armstrong, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr A Dolgopolova, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor R Seltmann, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Split Award
Period of Award:
14 Nov 2020 - 28 Feb 2024
Value:
£307,530
NERC Reference:
NE/V007068/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Highlights



Origin of the avian respiratory system: a CT-study of postcranial pneumaticity in basal archosaurs

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor P Barrett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr DJ Gower, The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Jul 2008 - 28 Feb 2009
Value:
£64,266
NERC Reference:
NE/F009933/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Small Grants

Pleistocene to Holocene extinction dynamics of Northern Eurasian megafauna, in relation to human activity and environmental change

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor AM Lister, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor C Gamble, University of Southampton, Faculty of Humanities
Co-Investigator:
Professor B Huntley, Durham University, Biosciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor AJ Stuart, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Jul 2007 - 28 Feb 2009
Value:
£226,928
NERC Reference:
NE/D003105/2
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant







Rates, patterns and divergence times among the Bryozoa: integrating fossil, molecular and morphological data

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr DTJ Littlewood, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr P Taylor, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor JS Porter, Heriot-Watt University, Sch of Energy, Geosci, Infrast & Society
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
13 Oct 2007 - 12 Mar 2011
Value:
£284,357
NERC Reference:
NE/E015298/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Reef refugia out of the shadows: dynamics of marginal coral reef ecosystems over the past 30 million years in the Coral Triangle

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr KG Johnson, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr N Cooper, The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor C Perry, University of Exeter, Geography
Co-Investigator:
Dr S Sosdian, Cardiff University, Sch of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2018 - 31 Mar 2021
Value:
£496,431
NERC Reference:
NE/R011044/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Scientific and technological innovation from mineral geonomics - a dual source microfocus single-crystal diffractometer for UK geoscience

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr P Schofield, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr CA Kirk, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Chemistry
Co-Investigator:
Dr RN Armstrong, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr J Najorka, The Natural History Museum, Core Research Laboratories
Co-Investigator:
Dr AR Thomson, University College London, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor R Herrington, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr M Welch, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr T Reddyhoff, Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering
Co-Investigator:
Professor MP Smith, University of Brighton, Sch of Applied Sciences (SAS)
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
4 Jul 2022 - 31 Mar 2024
Value:
£671,224
NERC Reference:
NE/X005992/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Capital
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Capital Call







The evolution of Chalk Sea ecosystems: biodiversity, resilience and ecological function in a warming world

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor RJ Twitchett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr C Underwood, Birkbeck College, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Jul 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
Value:
£388,046
NERC Reference:
NE/X015300/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Event/Action
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Active
Programme:
Pushing the Frontiers

The evolution of modern marine ecosystems: environmental controls on their structure and function

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor RJ Twitchett, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor G Price, University of Plymouth, Sch of Geog Earth & Environ Sciences
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
27 Jun 2014 - 31 Dec 2015
Value:
£52,784
NERC Reference:
NE/I005641/2
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Life and Planet

The geological history of deep-sea colonization by irregular echinoids.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr A B Smith, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr DTJ Littlewood, The Natural History Museum, Science Directorate
Grant held at:
The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Period of Award:
19 Mar 2001 - 18 Jun 2004
Value:
£143,376
NERC Reference:
NER/A/S/2000/00383
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant


46 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £9,091,520   

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