E4 brings together key partners across the UK, that provide National Capability. Image Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) CEH is the UK's Centre of Excellence for research in land and freshwater environmental sciences. CEH’s Supervisors specialise in a wide range of disciplines, working in multi-skilled teams offering a unique breadth of experience and knowledge. Student’s benefit from diverse laboratory facilities, field sites and datasets to support their research. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Image British Geological Survey (BGS) The British Geological Survey is a world-leading geological survey. It focuses on public-good science for government, and research to understand earth and environmental processes. It is the UK's premier provider of objective and authoritative geoscientific data, information and knowledge. The BGS provides expert research services in all areas of geoscience. British Geological Survey Image National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) is a world leading research centre dedicated to the advancement of atmospheric science, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). With an annual budget of £15M NCAS carries out research in air pollution, climate and high-impact weather, and long-term global changes in atmospheric composition and climate, and provides the UK community with state-of-the-art technologies for observing and modelling the atmosphere. These include a research aircraft, advanced ground-based observational facilities, computer modelling and support, and facilities for storing and analysing data. We play a significant and influential role in many international science programmes and provide the UK with advice, leadership and national capability in atmospheric science. National Centre for Atmospheric Science Image National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) The NCEO is a NERC research centre with more than 80 scientists distributed across leading UK universities and research organisations. With an income of over £8 million per year, we provide the UK with core expertise in Earth Observation science, data sets and merging techniques, and model evaluation to underpin Earth System research and the UK’s international contribution to environmental science. Our scientists work strategically with space agencies, play significant roles in mission planning, and generate internationally-recognised data products from 20 different satellite instruments. Our scientists publish more than 300 research articles every year and contribute to major environmental science reports. National Centre for Earth Observation Image NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) The NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility provides access to high-level genomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics provision through its four nodes. NBAF offers the very latest, class-leading technologies, including next-generation sequencing (Illumina and Pacific Biosciences), SNP genotyping, and high resolution MS and NMR metabolomic platforms. Applications include de novo sequencing, metagenomics, epigenetics, sequence-capture, sequencing-based genotyping and expression profiling (RNAseq, oligoarrays and NanoString). NBAF also supports metabolomics, medium-scale genotyping, bioinformatics and advanced data analysis techniques (genome and transcriptome assembly and annotation, expression analysis, etc.). NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility Image Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) RBGE brings expertise in biodiversity and distribution of plants and fungi, taxonomy, floristics, biogeography, population biology, conservation genetics, species distribution modelling. It has 5% of the world plant species (13.5K species) in cultivation and 3 million preserved herbarium specimens. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Image Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland This article was published on 2024-02-26
