ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH
• Award winner: Jill Clayton-Smith
• Institution: Central Manchester University Hospital
• Value: £124,917
Learning disabilities: identifying the causes
• Award winner: Guy Whiteley
• Institution: St George's, University of London
• Value: £159,170
Pre-eclampsia: why do cells in the placenta die?
• Award winner: Phillip Bennett
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £167,347
Preterm labour prevention and protecting the baby's brain
• Award winner: Jonna Kuntsi
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £194,528
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) study
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
• Award winner: T.T. Thordarson
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £51,551
Mapping and sampling of the tephra fallout from the continuing eruption that began on 14 April at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, southern Iceland
• Award winner: D. Petley
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £51,868
Seismically induced mass movements in the Sierra Cucapá and Sierra el Mayor, northern Mexico
• Award winner: A. Rietbrock
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £82,965
Post-seismic investigation of the February 2010 Chile earthquake: relaxation processes and the relationship of seismic and aseismic activity
• Award winner: P. Delmelle
• Institution: University of York
• Value: £28,759
Environmental hazards of fluoride in volcanic ash from the ongoing Eyjafjallajökull eruption, Iceland
• Award winner: C.J. Horwell
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £30,152
Rapid assessment of the potential health hazard of ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland
• Award winner: I. Shennan
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £51,729
Sediment signatures of the 2010 Chile Mw 8.8 earthquake
• Award winner: C.S. Cockell
• Institution: The Open University
• Value: £51,515
Establishment of a biological monitoring site on the Eyjafjallajökull fissure, Iceland
IN DETAIL
• Award winner: Chris Turney
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value £26,710
Unique slices of time: salvaging New Zealand sub-fossil kauri (Agathis australis) that span the termination of the last glacial period.
Having previously recovered four sub-fossil trees that fell within the last glacial period from Towai in New Zealand, researchers on this project will seek to salvage and archive the kauri species of evergreen tree currently at risk of extinction in the region. With an ongoing drought resulting in greatly depleted water levels in the Northland territory, it is hoped that salvaging the ancient kauri will be of immense benefit to the scientific community, allowing researchers to be able to effectively archive an annual record of the changing atmospheric radiocarbon and previous climatic conditions in the area.