Current Research
Below are some of the CIRRE research projects. For further information on any project please use the link in the table 'click here for pdf' which will provide you with full projects details and the project summary/abstract.
| Grant Title: | Using systematic review methodology to establish an evidence base for implementation of the Environment Agency Wales Climate Change Strategy |
| Investigators: | Professor AS Pullin, Bangor University; Dr P Dennis, Aberystwyth University; Professor G Edwards-Jones, Bangor University; Professor DL Godbold, Bangor University; Dr JR Healey, Bangor University; Professor DL Jones, Bangor University; Professor CJ Thomas, Aberystwyth University |
| Project Value: | £160,902 |
| Funder: | NERC |
| Start Date: | 14 April 2008 |
| End Date: | 13 April 2011 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Capacity building for carbon- and biodiversity-based payments for ecosystem services in the Peruvian Amazon |
| Investigators: | Dr T Baker, University of Leeds; Dr D Del-Castillo, Research Inst of the Peruvian Amazon; Dr JR Healey, Bangor University; Dr J Jones, Bangor University |
| Project Value: | £70,557 |
| Funder: | NERC |
| Start Date: | 1 December 2008 |
| End Date: | 31 May 2009 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Integrating local and scientific knowledge in conservation management in Nicaragua - scoping study. |
| Investigators: | Fergus Sinclair, Bangor University; John Healey, Bangor University Julia Jones, Bangor University |
| Project Value: | £2,100 |
| Funder: | Darwin Initiative |
| Start Date: | 7 January 2007 |
| End Date: | |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Implementing an evidence-based framework to support decision making in biodiversity conservation |
| Investigators: | Professor AS Pullin, Bangor University; Professor AH Fitter, University of York; Professor WJ Sutherland, University of Cambridge; Professor A.R. Watkinson, University of East Anglia; Dr RM White, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
| Project Value: | £80,373 |
| Funder: | NERC |
| Start Date: | 1 September 2007 |
| End Date: | 31 May 2009 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions |
| Investigators: | Professor Jamie Newbold, Aberystwyth University; James Gibbons, Bangor University |
| Project Value: | £746,495 |
| Funder: | Defra |
| Start Date: | 2007 |
| End Date: | 2010 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | REDNEX: Reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants. |
| Investigators: | Professor Jamie Newbold, Aberystwyth University |
| Project Value: | £453,000 |
| Funder: | EU |
| Start Date: | 7 January 2008 |
| End Date: | 30 June 2013 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Rates, patterns and divergence time among the Bryozoa |
| Investigators: | Dr DTJ Littlewood, The Natural History Museum; Dr JS Porter, Aberystwyth University; Dr P Taylor, The Natural History Museum |
| Project Value: | £284,357 |
| Funder: | NERC |
| Start Date: | 13 October 2007 |
| End Date: | 12 October 2010 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |
| Grant Title: | Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming systems (BIOBIO) |
| Investigators: | Felix Herzog Reckenholtz, Switzerland; Peter Dennis, Aberystwyth; Mariecia Fraser, Aberystwyth; Nic Lampkin, Aberystwyth; Heather McCalman, Aberystwyth |
| Project Value: | €3,920.000 |
| Funder: | EU |
| Start Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| End Date: | 31 August 2012 |
| Project Summary: | click here for pdf |