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BAS Programmes
....Administration
....Antarctic Funding Initiative Projects
....Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005)
........Antarctic Biodiversity - Past, Present and Future
........Antarctic Climate Processes
........Antarctica in the Dynamic Global Plate System
........Dynamics and Management of Ocean Ecosystems
........Geospace Atmosphere Transfer Functions
........Global Interactions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
........Life at the Edge - Stresses and Thresholds
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....BAS Corporate
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........Atmosphere, Ice and Climate
........Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation
........Ecosystems
........Geology and Geophysics
........Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate
........Palaeo-Environments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change
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........Antarctic Climate and the Earth System
........Biodiversity, Functions, Limits and Adaptation from Molecules to Ecosystems
........Climate and Chemistry - Forcings and Phasings in the Earth System
........DISCOVERY 2010 - Integrating Southern Ocean Ecosystems into the Earth System
........Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System
........Greenhouse to Icehouse. Evolution of the Antarctic Cryosphere and Palaeoenvironment
........Long-Term Monitoring and Survey (MAGIC - Mapping and Geographic Information Centre)
........Long-Term Monitoring and Survey – Biological Sciences Division
........Long-Term Monitoring and Survey – Geosciences Division
........Long-Term Monitoring and Survey – Physical Sciences Division
........Natural Complexity Programme
........Sun Earth Connections
....Independent Projects
....Other
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....Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - )
........Chemistry and Past Climate
........Climate
........Ecosystems
........Environmental Change and Evolution
........Ice Sheets
........Polar Oceans
....Pre 2000 programme
....Well Found Laboratory
BGS Programmes
....Administration
....Chemical and Biological Hazards
....Digital Geoscience Spatial Model
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....Groundwater Management
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....Marine, Coastal and Hydrocarbons
....NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory
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....Physical Hazards
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....Sustainable and Renewable Energy
BGS Programmes 2008
....Climate change
....Earth hazards and systems
....Energy
....Environment and Health
....Environmental Geoscience Baselines
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BGS Programmes 2009
....Climate change
....Earth hazards and systems
....Energy
....Environment and Health
....Environmental Geoscience Baselines
....Geological Survey of Northern Ireland
....Geology and Landscape England
....Geology and Landscape Scotland
....Geology and Landscape Wales
....Groundwater science
....Head of Science Policy in Europe, and Grantsmanship
....IT Infrastructure
....Information Delivery
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....Information Products
....International Business Development
....Laboratory Operations
....Land use and development
....Marine Geoscience
....Minerals and waste
....NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory
....Publications
....Spatial Geoscience Technologies
....Training
....UK Business Development
BGS Programmes 2010
....BGS Corporate
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....Earth hazards and systems
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....Geology and Landscape (Scotland)
....Geology and Landscape (Wales)
....Geoscience Technologies
....Groundwater Science
....Information and Knowledge Exchange (Information Management)
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....Information and Knowledge Exchange (Knowledge Exchange)
....Land Use, Planning and Development
....Marine Geoscience
....Minerals and waste
....NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory
....Science Facilities
CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications
....Administration
....Biodiversity
........BD01 Conservation and Restoration of Biodiversity
............BD01.1 Distributions and abundance of taxa
............BD01.2 Trends and drivers of change among taxa
............BD01.3 Population and community processes
............BD01.4 Management of species and ecosystems
........BD02 An Integrated Framework for the Sustainable Management of Biological Introductions - Alien Species and Emerging Diseases
............BD02.1 Pathways of entry and traits of successful biological introductions
............BD02.2 Species and ecosystem vulnerability to invasions
............BD02.3 Drivers, impacts and management of invasions
........BD03 The Genetic Basis of Ecological Function
............BD03.1 Molecular ecology
............BD03.2 Ecology of host parasite interactions
............BD03.3 Molecular evolution and bioinformatics
........CC01A Detection and Attribution of Change in UK and European Ecosystems
............CC01.1 Environmental Change Network (ECN)
............CC01.3 UK Phenology Network
............CC01.4 Isle of May Long-Term Study
........SE01A Sustainable Monitoring and Management of Land Resources
............SE01.1 An Improved Land Cover Map (LCM)
............SE01.2 Countryside Survey 2007
............SE01.3 Land Use Change
....Biogeochemistry
........BG01 Measuring and modelling trace gas, aerosol and carbon
............BG01.1 UK nitrogen and sulphur compounds
............BG01.2 Carbon
............BG01.3 Nitroeurope NEU advanced flux network, fluxes pools and budgets
............BG01.4 Metals
............BG01.5 Aerosols
........BG02 Recovery from acidification and eutrophication
............BG02.1 Linking Nitrogen Deposition and Biodiversity
............BG02.2 Critical Loads
........BG03 Quantifying the growing threat to plant and human health from ground level ozone
............BG03.1 Field Studies of Ozone Effects on Semi-Natural Vegetation
............BG03.2 Measuring and Modelling Ozone Exchange and effects at country scales
........CC01B Land-surface Feedbacks in the Climate System
............CC01.5 Datasets for land-surface science
............CC01.6 Development of the Joint Unified Land Exchange Scheme (JULES) land-surface model
............CC01.7 Land carbon cycle feedbacks on climate change
............CC01.8 Land-surface feedbacks through energy and water cycles
........SE01B Sustainable Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Management of Chemicals
............SE01.4 Monitoring and predicting the distribution of chemicals in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
............SE01.5 Exposure, Effects and Managing Risks of Chemicals
....Ecology & Hydrology Funding Initiative (EHFI)
....Environmental Informatics
....Other
....Water
........CC01A Detection and Attribution of Change in UK and European Ecosystems
............CC01.2 Lake Ecosystems
........WA01 Water extremes
............WA01.1 New methodologies to quantify floods, flows and droughts
............WA01.2 New methodologies to solve the ungauged site problem
............WA01.3 Quantification of uncertainties, trends and risk of extremes
............WA01.4 Ecological responses to extremes
........WA02 Quantifying processes that link water quality and quantity, biota and physical environment
............WA02.1 Hydrological processes
............WA02.2 Hydrochemical and sediment processes
............WA02.3 Physico-chemical processes and effects on freshwater biot
............WA02.4 Biological interactions
........WA03 Developing strategic data and knowledge at a catchment scale to enable the wiser management of the water environment
............WA03.1 Development and operation of the freshwaters data collections
............WA03.2 Long term monitoring
............WA03.3 Catchment scale modelling and assessment
CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012
....Biodiversity
........BD Topic 1 - Observations, Patterns, and Predictions for Biodiversity
............BD - 1.1 - Standards for data collection, quality, management and integration ...
............BD - 1.2 - Data collection systems to record and assess changes ...
............BD - 1.3 - Long-term/large-scale monitoring and experiments ...
............BD - 1.4 - Quantify and model interactions to determine impacts ...
........BD Topic 2 - Ecological Processes in the Environment
............BD - 2.1 - Interactions ... structure ecosystems and their functioning
............BD - 2.2 - Quantify the impact of invasive species, pathogens ...
............BD - 2.3 - Identify indicators and traits of ecosystem status ...
............BD - 2.4 - Estimate the impact of the main drivers and pressures on biodiversity ...
........BD Topic 3 - Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Environment
............BD - 3.1 - Develop methods to quantify the link between biodiversity ..
............BD - 3.2 - Develop and test practical measures to ameliorate the effects ...
............BD - 3.3 - Develop integrated environmental assessments and modelling ...
............BD - 3.4 - Provide science-based advice ...
....Biogeochemistry
........BGC Topic 1 - Monitoring and Interpretation of Biogeochemical and Climate Changes
............BGC - 1.1 - Monitor concentrations, fluxes, physico-chemical forms of current and emerging pollutants ...
............BGC - 1.2 - Manage, assimilate and integrate long-term datasets ...
............BGC - 1.3 - Quantify & attribute changes in biogeochemiical cycles ...
............BGC - 1.4 - Develop innovative, effective methods for monitoring fluxes, exposure and effects
........BGC Topic 2 - Biogeochemistry and Climate System Processes
............BGC - 2.1 - Quantify & model processes that control the emission, fate and bioavailability of pollutants
............BGC - 2.2 - Measure and model surface atmosphere exchanges of energy ...
............BGC - 2.3 - Determine land-climate feedback processes to improve climate model predictions
............BGC - 2.4 - Develop model frameworks to predict future impact of environmental drivers ...
........BGC Topic 3 - Managing Threats to Environment and Health
............BGC - 3.1 - Develop temporally and spatially explicit risk assessment tools ...
............BGC - 3.2 - Provide the evidence base for setting Environment Quality Standards ...
............BGC - 3.3 - Deliver effective advice, models and applied science ...
............BGC - 3.4 - Produce models, maps, databases and inventories to assess compliance ...
....EHFI
....EIDC Topic 1 - Providing Access to Coordinated Data Resources and Informatics Tools
........EIDC - 1.1 - Develop a framework to ensure quality, security and reusability of CEH & NERC data
........EIDC - 1.2 - Describe and curate CEH information resources and integrate key data holdings
........EIDC - 1.3 - Provide access to CEH's key data and information assets ...
........EIDC - 1.4 - Advance informatics research to meet CEH data and information needs ...
....Unallocated
....Water
........WA Topic 1 - Variability and Change in Water Systems
............WA - 1.1 - Continued long term monitoring and integrated observation of freshwater systems
............WA - 1.2 - Quantify variability and departures from natural historical variability in water quality ...
............WA - 1.3 - Model, attribute and predict impacts of climate and land cover change on hydrological and freshwater systems
............WA - 1.4 - Management and dissemination of freshwaters data
........WA Topic 2 - Ecohydrological Processes
............WA - 2.1 - Identify and quantify sources, fluxes and pathways of water, chemicals ...
............WA - 2.2 - Integrate the effect of urban and rural land use on the ecohydrological functioning of a landscape mosaic
............WA - 2.3 - Assess the responses of river, lake and wetland ecosystems to ecohydrological drivers
............WA - 2.4 - Quantify the importance of food web structure and trophic interactions ...
........WA Topic 3 - Science for Water Management
............WA - 3.1 - Develop next generation methods for river flow frequency estimation and forecasting
............WA - 3.2 - Assessment of available water resources in a changing world ...
............WA - 3.3 - Better represent hydrological and biogeochemical processes in Earth System Models
............WA - 3.4 - Develop novel and improved methods to enable the sustainable management of freshwaters and wetlands
NOC Programmes
....Adding Value
....Corporate
....Data
....Digital Ocean
....Mapping
....Marine Geoscience
....Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
....Marine Renewables: Knowledge Exchange Programme
....Marine Systems Modelling
....Modelling
....Ocean BioGeosciences
....Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems
....Ocean Processes
....Ocean Technology and Engineering
....Platforms
....Sustained Observing
....Technology
Oceans 2025
....Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
....Climate, ocean circulation and sea level
....Continental margins and deep oceans
....Health and Human impacts
....Integration of sustained observations
....Marine biogeochemical cycles
....Next generation ocean prediction systems
....Shelf and coastal processes
....Sustainable marine resources
....Technology development
Other/Admin
POL Programmes
....Administration
....Modelling and observation systems for shelf seas
........Advanced numerical model developments
........Total system science integrating model and measurement
....Other
....Sea-level, bottom pressure and space geodesy
........Changes in global and regional sea/land levels
........Continuous ocean monitoring methods
........Sea level variability and extremes
....Shallow coastal seas - function and impacts of change
........Function of shallow sea systems at whole-shelf scale
........Process experiments at small scale

A Pre-2012 Programme
BAS Programmes 2012
....Chemistry and past climate
....Climate
....Ecosystem
....Environmental Change & Evolution
....Ice sheets
....Organisational
....Polar Oceans
BAS Programmes 2015
....AI Lab (2022-)
....Atmosphere, Ice and Climate
....Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation
....Ecosystems
....Geology and Geophysics (-2020)
....Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate
....Organisational
....Palaeo-Environments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change
....Polar Oceans
....Space Weather and Atmosphere
BGS Programmes 2012
....Climate Change
....Corporate
....Earth Hazards and Systems
....Energy Science
....Geology and Landscape
....Geoscience Technologies
....Groundwater Science
....Information and Knowledge Exchange
....Land Use and Development
....Marine Geoscience
....Minerals & Waste
....Science Facilities
BGS Programmes 2013
....BGS Corporate
....Climate & Landscape Change
....Earth Hazards & Observatories
....Energy & Marine Geoscience
....Engineering Geology
....Environmental Modelling
....Geo-Information & Systems
....Geology & Regional Geophysics
....Geoscience Products & Services
....Groundwater
....Informatics
....Laboratories
....Minerals & Waste
....NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL)
BGS Programmes 2016
....Corporate
....Earth Hazards & Observatories
....Energy & Marine
....Energy Systems & Basin Analysis
....Engineering Geology
....Geoanalytics & Modelling
....Geology & Regional Geophysics
....Groundwater
....Informatics
....Land, Soil & Coast
....Marine
....Minerals & Waste
....NIGL
BGS Programmes 2018
....Earth Hazards & Observatories
....Energy Systems & Basin Analysis
....Engineering Geology & Infrastructure
....Geoanalytics & Modelling
....Groundwater
....Informatics
....Marine Geoscience
....Minerals & Waste
....NIGL
BGS Programmes 2020
....Decarbonisation & resource management
....Digital
....Environmental change, adaptation & resilience
....Global geoscience
....Multihazards & resilience
....National geoscience
....Operations
....Partnership & Innovation
....SSG Corporate
CEH Programmes 2012
....Biodiversity
....Biogeochemistry
....Corporate
....Environmental Information Data Centre
....Water
CEH Science Areas 2013-
....Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
....Ecological Processes & Resilience
....Environmental Informatics
....Monitoring & Observation Systems
....Natural Capital
....Natural Hazards
....Pollution & Environmental Risk
....Soil
....Sustainable Land Management
....Water Resources
NOC Mission Networks
....Biodiversity
....Climate
....Hazards & Pollution
....NOC in the Arctic
....Sustainable Marine Economy
NOC Programmes
....BODC
....Digital Ocean
....Innovation and Impact
....Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems
....Marine Geoscience
....Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
....Marine Renewables - Knowledge Exchange Programme
....Marine Systems Modelling
....Ocean BioGeosciences
....Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems
....Ocean Technology and Engineering
....Corporate (closed 2013)
....Data (closed 2013)
....Mapping (closed 2013)
....Modelling (closed 2013)
....Ocean Processes (closed 2013)
....Platforms (closed 2013)
....Sustained Observing (closed 2013)
....Technology (closed 2013)
NOC Research Groups 2025
....Biological Carbon Cycles
....Coastal Ocean
....Data Services
....Global Climate
....Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems
....Marine Biogeochemistry
....Marine Ecosystem Processes
....Marine-Geoscience
....Ocean Modelling
....Ocean Technology and Engineering
....Ocean-shelf-processes
....Open Ocean Physics
....Scientific and Technical Specialist
....Seafloor Ecosystems
....Software Engineering and AI
....Strategic Science
UKCEH and CEH Science Areas 2017-24 (Lead Area only)
....Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects
....Biodiversity
....Hydro-climate Risks
....Pollution
....Soils and Land Use
....Water Resources
....Unaffiliated
UKCEH Science Areas 2025- (Lead Area only)
....Biodiversity and Land Use
....Environmental Pressures and Responses
....Land-Atmosphere Interactions
....National Capability and Digital Research
....Water and Climate Science
....Unaffiliated

Biological Carbon Cycles
Coastal Ocean
Data Services
Digital Ocean
Global Climate
Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems
Marine Biogeochemistry
Marine Ecosystem Processes
Marine Geoscience (Closed)
Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
Marine Systems Modelling
Marine-Geoscience
Ocean BioGeosciences
Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems
Ocean Modelling
Ocean Technology and Engineering
Ocean-shelf-processes
Open Ocean Physics
Other
Scientific and Technical Specialist
Seafloor Ecosystems
Software Engineering and AI
Strategic Science