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Collaborative Working

CEH works with a wide range of different partners. Here are some examples of the projects in which we are involved:

ABACUS (Arctic Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales)
AcaciaGum (innovative management of Acacia senegal trees to improve resource productivity and gum-arabic production in arid and semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa)
ACCENT (Atmospheric Composition Change: The European Network of Excellence)
ACES (Aerosol Coupling in the Earth System; a part of NERC-directed research programme APPRAISE – Aerosol Properties, Processes And InfluenceS on the Earth's climate)
Acid Waters Monitoring Network
ALANIS Methane: Atmosphere Land Interaction Study - Wetland Dynamics and CH4 Emissions
APIS (Air Pollution Information System)
ALTER-Net (A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network)
AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis)
Amazonica (Amazon Integrated Carbon Analysis)
ATLANTIS (collective public-sector action to support improved water management)
Biological Records Centre
CARA (Coordinated Ammonia Research Activities)
CarboAfrica
Carbo-Biocrop: (understanding the processes determining soil carbon balance under perennial bioenergy crops)
ChREAM: (Catchment hydrology, Resources, Economics And Management –
integrated modelling of WFD impacts upon rural land use and farm incomes)
Committee on Air Pollution Effects Research
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
- EMEP supersite – contributing pollutant concentration and flux data to an international evaluation of long-range transmission of air pollutants in Europe
- EMEP4UK – application of EMEP model to UK.
- ICP Vegetation – Europe-wide assessment of impacts of air pollutants on vegetation
- Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen – Europe-wide integration of nitrogen effects research and policy
COST 729 (assessing and managing nitrogen fluxes in the atmosphere-biosphere system in Europe)
Countryside Survey
Cyanobacteria and human health
DAISIE (Delivering Alien Invasive Species for Europe)
DBIF (Database of British Insects and their Food Plants)
Earthwatch
ECN (UK Environmental Change Network)
EDCAT (Endocrine Disruption in CATchments)
EDPHiS (Environmental Determinants of Public Health in Scotland)
Ecosystem Land Use Modelling and Soil Carbon GHG Flux Trial (ELUM)
Erica (Environmental Risk from Ionising Contaminants: Assessment and Management)
Euraqua (European Network of Freshwater Research Organisations)
Euro-limpacs / REFRESH (Evaluating the impacts of global change on European freshwater ecosystems)
European Procedures for Flood Frequency Estimation (FloodFreq)
EVOLTREE (Evolution of trees as drivers of terrestrial biodiversity)
EVOp (pilot Environmental Virtual Observatory)
Farmcat (testing the impacts of landscape situation and training given to farmers on the successful delivery of agri-environment schemes)
Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE)
FOREAIM (bridging restoration and multi-functionality in degraded forest landscape of Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands)
Genomic Standards Consortium(an international working body promoting mechanisms which standardise the description of genomes and the exchange and integration of genomic data)

INCREASE (an EU Infrastructure project linking climate change ecosystem experiments across Europe)
INI (International Nitrogen Initiative) Europe (developing knowledge, technologies and solutions for the optimum use and production of nitrogen in Europe)
Intercafe (interdisciplinary initiative to reduce pan-European cormorant-fisheries conflicts)
Joint Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research
JULES (Joint UK Land Environment Simulator)
LOCAR (Lowland Catchment Research programme)
Millennium (does the magnitude and rate of 20th century climate change exceed the natural variability of the European climate over the last millennium?)
NanoFATE (Nanoparticle Fate Assessment and Toxicity in the Environment)
National Biodiversity Network and NBN Gateway
National River Flow Archive
National Water Archive
Natural Capital Initiative (partnership between CEH, the Society of Biology, and the British Ecological Society)
Natural Hazards Partnership
Nature's Calendar
NCEO (Earth Observation for Climate Programme)
NEBC (NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre)
Nitrogen in Europe (European Science Foundation)
NitroEurope IP (integrated European research into the nitrogen cycle)
NoMiracle (NOvel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of CumuLative stressors in Europe)
NSINK (sources, sinks and impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Arctic)
OP3 (Oxidant and Particle Photochemical Processes
above a South-East Asian tropical rain forest)
OpenMI-Life: The Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) provides a standard which facilitates the linking of simulation models of environmental and socio-economic processes
Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme (long-term, national monitoring scheme quantifying the concentrations of contaminants in the livers and eggs of selected species of predatory and fish-eating birds in Britain)
Radiological protection of the environment - sharing knowledge
QESM (QUEST Earth System Model)
QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System; and CCMAP - Climate-Carbon Modelling, Assimilation and Prediction; and QUERCC - Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System)
ROBIN - Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change mitigation
RoTAP (Review of Transboundary Air Pollution)
SCAIL (Simple Calculation of Ammonia Impact Limits)
SCENES (water scenarios for Europe and neighbouring states)
Seed Source (developing best practice for seed sourcing of planted and natural regeneration in the neotropics)
SEPA Agricultural Best Management Practices
TROBIT (Tropical Biomes in Transition)
UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
UK Ladybird Survey
UK Pollutant Deposition
UKREATE (UK Research on the Eutrophication and Acidification of Terrestrial Ecosystems)
WADES (Wider Assessment of Drought effects on Ecosystem Services)
WATCH (Water and Global Change – an EU-funded project coordinated by CEH which brings research communities together to study the global water cycle)
WISER (Water bodies in Europe: integrated systems to assess ecological status and recovery)
XEROCHORE (a support action aimed at assisting in the development of a European Drought Policy in accordance with the EU-Water Framework Directive)

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