NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: R. Hager
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £79,677
Social environment and indirect genetic effects on life history and behavioural traits in mammals
Award winner: R.G. Hilton
Institution: Durham University
Value: £76,936
The role of physical erosion in the weathering of fossil-organic carbon: an investigation using the trace element rhenium
Award winner: R.A. Jenner
Institution: Natural History Museum
Value: £58,971
Comparative venom transcriptomics of centipedes: evolutionary diversification of a key ecological adaptation
Award winner: T. Mock
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £38,472
Functional adaptation of diatoms to environmental conditions in sea ice of the Southern Ocean
Award winner: B. Williams
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £74,401
Emergent diversity of an ecologically important parasite group
Award winner: J. Biggs
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £69,3
Active development of continental rifts: wide-swath interferometry in East Africa
Award winner: J.A. Constantine
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £74,977
Oxbow persistence as aquatic floodplain habitat: deciphering the processes responsible for the initial open-water volume inherited by oxbow lakes
Award winner: C.J. Lissenberg
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £69,921
Reactive-melt migration in the lower oceanic crust and its implications for the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: S.T. Buckland
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £1,035,861
National Centre for Statistical Ecology - beyond 2010
Award winner: V. Falko
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £15,600
Quantum phenomena in low-dimensional materials and nanostructures
Award winner: J.H. Smart
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £9,593
Project management on the Cern ATLAS experiment
Award winner: G.D. Love
Institution: Durham University
Value: £506,510
Beating hearts at high resolution: adaptive high-resolution selective- plane illumination microscopy
Award winner: D. Henderson
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £70,430
Beating hearts at high resolution: adaptive high-resolution selective- plane illumination microscopy
Award winner: P.J. Bouchard
Institution: The Open University
Value: £317,859
JOINT: an Indo-UK collaboration in joining technologies
Award winner: R. Collier
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £112,424
Accelerated introgression of host-plant resistance to carrot rust fly into elite carrot varieties by means of modern techniques for resistance
Award winner: B. Garraway
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £721,174
Devices based on entanglement in cold arrays of trapped atoms
Award winner: S.W. Boyd
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £424,754
Tuned-deformation response to unsteady fluid loading
Award winner: R. Ray
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £2,570
Protecting the malting and brewing quality of UK barley cultivars through effective FHB disease-control strategies
Award winner: D.D. Cameron
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £238,544
Inducing novel broad-spectrum disease resistance in wheat
IN DETAIL
Award winner: D.A. Ham
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £59,8
Automated adjoints: how much do we really know about the source of the Indian Ocean tsunami?
Employing the use of automatic code generation, which formulates data into an efficient computer code, and efficient graphical-processing units, Dr Ham aims to dramatically reduce both developer effort and the incidence of code bugs to produce a model of the 2004 tsunami that can be used to conduct the missing sensitivity analysis of a number of published source scenarios. This will allow him to find out how much is known about the disaster's causes.