Ecosystem Land Use Modelling & Soil C Flux Trial (ELUM)
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Dr Niall McNamara, Lead Coordinator
Ecosystem Land Use Modelling & Soil C Flux Trial (ELUM)
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) is pleased to be leading this seven-member consortium project funded and commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The aim of the £3.28m project, entitled "Ecosystem Land Use Modelling & Soil Carbon GHG Flux Trial" (ELUM), is to produce a framework for predicting the sustainability of bioenergy deployment across the UK, but with many of the outcomes also applicable internationally.
This project is unique in combining a large number of field studies (ca. 100) with state-of-the-art process models, to facilitate the mapping of the UK bioenergy carbon opportunity up to 2050. All data and models that will be produced will eventually be made freely available to researchers and the wider community. Also, our process models will be derived into user friendly meta-models for direct use by policymakers, land planners, and industry.
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The Lead Co-ordinator is Dr Niall McNamara and the Deputy is Dr Jon Finch at CEH.
The Lead Investigators for each organisation are: Professor Iain Donnison (Aberystwyth University); Professor Phil Ineson (University of York); Dr Mike Perks (Forest Research); Dr Saran Sohi (University of Edinburgh); Professor Pete Smith (University of Aberdeen) and Professor Gail Taylor (University of Southampton).
The Project Manager is Jonathan Oxley (Energy Technologies Institute, currently based at CEH's Lancaster site).
