The College was involved in two pilot schemes for NERC for which we received £270k for projects and activities running until March 2015.
The objectives for the NERC Impact Acceleration Account were to:
- Strengthen interaction between NERC-funded science and the user community, primarily businesses, to accelerate and amplify the impact of NERC science.
- Support strategic level, cross-project impact activities that help enable impact to be achieved in a more effective and timely manner.
The following projects were supported through the NERC Impact Acceleration Account:
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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Dr James Rosindell | Life Sciences | Development for the ‘OneZoom’ Data Visualisation Engine. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Professor EJ Milner-Gulland | Life Sciences | User Engagement with the Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment Initiative |
Dr Markus Perkmann | Business School | A study to understand the drivers and systems that generate impact from NERC funded research |
Dr Dominik Weiss | Earth Sciences & Engineering | Development of a prototype filter for the selective removal of arsenate from contaminated household water supplies. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Dr Rob Ewers | Life Sciences | Internet radio for crowd-sourced rainforest biodiversity monitoring. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Professor Vincent Savolainen | Life Sciences | Development of a new houseplant variety: red-stemmed palms for the Asian market |
Professor Alfried Vogler | Life Sciences | Environmental DNA to test for the presence of endangered species. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
Professor EJ Milner-Gulland | Life Sciences | Measuring the outcomes of corporate biodiversity strategies |
Professor Steven Schwartz | Physics | Imperial Space Lab 2014 |
Dr Simon Buckle | Grantham Institute | Briefing Paper on “Conservation, Biodiversity and Climate Change” |