Projects

Our EFS students are working on six key projects at present:

EFS Projects

Lead

Barriers to acting now to protect the future

Prof Xavier Lambin

Addressing food security by controlling the risk of food poisoning: an exemplar case study of listeriosis in the Scottish smoked salmon industry

Dr Norval Strachan

Implications of achieving healthy and environmentally sustainable diets on the demands for future land use in Scotland

Robin Matthews (James Hutton Institute)

Rice: balancing sustainable agricultural production methods, cultivar diversity with nutrient content and contaminant

Dr Janet Kyle

Developing digital tools for Citizen Science: towards new ways of learning about the natural environment

Dr R. Van der Wal

Trophic Interactions, Turbulence and Sustainable Energy Extraction

Dr Beth Scott

 

We are also keen to develop the following research projects. If you are interested in one of these projects please contact the relevant supervisor.

Projects

Lead

Integrating land-use and molecular typing data to reveal landscape epidemiological processes: leptospirosis in wild rat populations as a case study

Dr Sandra Telfer

Transport disruptions associated with climate change: perceptions of risk and uncertainty

Dr Jillian Anable

Estuarine biogeochemistry in a changing hydrological environment

Dr Daniel J Mayor

Tapping into Waste Ammonium to Secure Sustainable Agriculture-Solid State Chemical Strategies for Nitrogen Regeneration

Prof Graeme Paton

Drivers and dynamics of multi-scale models for coupled systems

Dr David Lusseau

Re-thinking food security and food governance

Dr David Watts