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Research

Environment based research within the School spans several areas and encompasses Marine Sciences, Environmental Microbiology, and Plant Productivity and Sustainable Agriculture. Embedded within and across these major research themes are several trans-disciplinary research centres and units including The Coral Reef Research Unit, The Centre for Environment and Society, and The Health, Exercise and Active Life Research Unit.

Active grant maintained research projects include:

Effect of light, CO2 and nutrient limitation on photosynthesis in marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria

NERC

2008

Regulation of isoprene production by coastal marine communities

NERC

2008

Response of E. huxleyi to a high CO2 world: assessing the extent of genetic diversity in the pattern of gene expression

NERC

2008

Simplifying the assessment and management of fisheries and other natural resources

NERC

2008

Elucidating signalling networks in plant stress responses

BBSRC

2008

Assistance in preparing the environmental management plan for the East Kolkata Wetlands

Asian Development Bank

2008

Investigation of planktonic feeding by lobsters

Colchester Oyster Fisheries Ltd

2008

Colne estuary conference 2nd Feb 2008

Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners

2008

Faecal contamination of Brightlingsea Creek

Environment Agency

2008

The impact of nanoparticles on hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities on marine environments

SGM

2008

The Coastal Ecology of the Seychelles

Earthwatch / Mitsubishi

2008

How Different are the Sciences?

Columbia University, NY

2008

The emerging bioeconomy and the possibility of sustainable economic growth

ESRC

2008

Care Farming in the UK : Evidence and Opportunities

Natural England and NCFI(UK)

2008

Research to determine the mental health and well-being effects of visiting LEAF farms in the UK

LEAF

2008

Iron Biogeochemistry in the High Latitude North Atlantic

NERC

2007

Towards commercial exploitation of transcription factor HSF3 from Arabidopsis for improved water productivity in an arable crop species

BBSRC

2007

Production, characterisation and novel roles of sea-ice diatom exopolymers (EPS)

NERC

2007

Solute stress in Pseudomonas putida

BBSRC

2007

Impact of nitrogen deposition on microbial communities in relation to nitrogen/carbon cycling in forest soils

Forestry Commission

2007

Ecotherapy: The mental health benefits of green exercise and green care

MIND

2007

Evaluating the impact of environmental volunteering on behaviours and attitudes to the environment

BTCV Cymru

2007

Green Lungs for the East of England

National Trust

2007

Outdoor airborne pathogens and human health in the UK NERC 2007

The mental health benefits of wilderness therapy

The Wilderness Foundation

2007

Analysis of transgenic tobacco plants with increased plastid transskelotase

BBSRC

2006

NANOCAP

EC

2006

The role of SBPase activity in C3 and C4 photosynthesis

Royal Society

2006

Degradation of dissolved complex polysaccarides in estuarine littoral zones.

NERC

2006

Is increased chemical complexity of extracellular polymeric substances related to increasing salinity in polar sea ice?

NERC

2006

Establishing which microorganisms of the nitrogen cycle are active in marine sediments

Nuffield Foundation

2006

A molecular analysis of the distribution of airborne microorganisms in a hospital environment

Wellcome

2006

Microbial degradation of toxic coal tars and coal tar-containing waste soils

Society for General Microbiology

2006

Development of antisense oligonucleotides - using dsrAB genes in Desulfovibrio desulfuricans as a model organism

OilPlus

2006

Part-time PhD Scholarship - Ecology of Native Oysters in the River Colne Estuary

Colchester Oyster Fisheries Ltd

2006

Diversity and ecological function of benthic nitrate reducing populations along an estuarine nitrate gradient.

EC

2006

Biogeochemical cycling of N in tropical coastal zones: Molecular microbial ecology of trace gas production

NERC

2006

Outdoor airborne pathogens and human health in the UK

NERC

2006

Communication for aquaculture development

DFID (AFGRP)

2006

Evaluation of 3 SRE interventions in Secondary schools in Tendring and Colchester

Tendering PCT

2006

Funding for studies on native Oysters in the Colne Estuary

Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners

2006

MANGROVE: mangrove ecosystems, communities and conflict: developing knowledge-based approaches to reconcile multiple demands

EC

2005

Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Initiative in Quest

NERC

2005

Biotransformation:product toxicity and cofactor regeneration

TNO/GBF national research centre for biotech

2005

A Countryside for Health and well-being: the health benefits of Green exercise

Countryside Recreation Network

2005