The Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University, is an interdisciplinary world-leading engineering centre, inspiring and delivering innovation for the wider deployment of technologies needed to meet necessary carbon targets.  The RCCS occupies over 600 m², across 15 separate and interlinked laboratories, with dedicated high-end analytical research instruments and many bespoke in-house designed systems & rigs for advanced research and process development.  The RCCS’s...

Purpose

The purpose of the Easter Bush Farm Platform is to study the impacts of agricultural practices on atmospheric composition and greenhouse gas emissions.  Agriculture can produce large volumes of pollutants and greenhouse gases in the form of nitrogen and carbon compounds, which have adverse effects on climate, environment, economy and health.  The Farm Platform enables scientists to monitor the effects of agricultural practices such as ploughing, silage production, fertiliser use and...

The National Archives (TNA) is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales, making available to the public a vast collection of historical records dating back over 1,000 years and including the UK Government Web Archive and legislation.gov.uk. Our goal is to be an archive for everyone, and we are taking an entrepreneurial, disruptive, and inclusive approach to reaching this aim. One important sector we serve is research, and as a UKRI Independent Research Organisation, we...

The Library and Archives of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is Scotland's national reference collection for specialist botanical and horticultural resources, and is one of this country's largest research libraries.

The Library holds over one million items – books, journals, original artworks, maps and much more. The Archives hold RBGE's historic records (e.g. correspondence, collecting records, photographs, etc) as well as those of individuals and organisations with a connection to the...

The Geotechnical and Geophysical Properties and Processes Laboratory (GGPPL) undertakes research on the properties and behaviour of soils and soft (weak) rocks  for applications such as: surface and subsurface buildings and infrastructure engineering; railway embankment assessments; and characterising shallow geohazard processes including landslides, shrink-swell soils, collapsible soils and compressible soils.  

In addition to standard geotechnical testing equipment for soils and rocks, the...

The Station has been open since 1991 when it was established and financed by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).  It is leased from Kings Bay a/s (a Norwegian Company) by NERC and currently delivered and operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with support from the NERC Arctic Office. It sits as one of fourteen internationally operated stations that form part of this unique northernmost research community.

The Station provides excellent facilities and accommodation for...

UH HPC provides high-performance computing facilities to research staff and students at UH and to a community of collaborators nationally and internationally, including externally funded consortia such as LOFAR-UK and WEAVE. It aims to facilitate both medium-scale HPC requirements (with around 6,000 compute cores) and high-throughput data processing (with around 3 PB of attached fast storage). Applications include computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, 'big...

Purpose

The purpose of the Heathland Climate Change Experiment at Clocaenog is to determine the impacts of drought or warming on upland ecosystems and soils, which can be an important source or sink for greenhouse gases.  This experiment platform has run for more than 20 years and provides an important wet, carbon-rich site for EU and global networks.

Capabilities

The Heathland Climate Change Experiment consists of a total of 9 experimental plots: 3 untreated controls, 3 drought and 3 warming...

We offer access to state-of-the-art spectrometers for photoelectron spectroscopy in our main laboratory based at the Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH).

Together with our partner hubs offering specialist analysis at Cardiff University, UCL and the University of Manchester, the Harwell XPS service provides access to a wider range of XPS analysis methods than previously available to UK academia and industry, including:

• XPS and UPS
• Angle Resolved XPS (ARXPS)
• XPS Imaging
• Ion Scattering...

Purpose

The purpose of the UKCEH Soil Bank is to preserve and store soil samples from nationally important surveys and experiments, which can then be used for further analysis and research.  It contains soils from across England, Scotland and Wales, including samples from key global studies, with the majority of samples linked to an array of existing soil, vegetation, habitat and climate data.

Capabilities

The Soil Bank houses air-dried and frozen soil samples, and is equipped with: extensive...