Externally funded research

We are expanding our enhanced weathering research with large-scale UK field trials, public engagement and knowledge transfer and building links with other carbon sequestration programmes.

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Future Leaders Fellowship

LC3M Research Associate, Dr. Maria Val Martin, has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship by the funding body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); a prestigious funding scheme that aims to develop a strong supply of talented individuals to boost research and innovation across the UK.

This funding will launch the first UK integrated study into the environmental risks associated with large-scale deployment of land-based strategies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.


Greenhouse gas removal with UK agriculture via enhanced rock weathering

UK ERW GGR Demonstrator logo, featuring a circular blue arrow arising from a pile of crushed rocks and returning to earth amidst crops and grassland.

In 2021, Professor Beerling and LC3M Co-Is were awarded a new £4.7M UK collaborative Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrator grant funded through UKRI and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The Demonstrator builds on the success and leading reputations of LC3M researchers and aims to assist the UK Government in getting to Net Zero by 2050. It marks a major expansion of our programme and involves our social scientists, earth system modellers and geochemists.

Field sites:

  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Plynlimon experimental catchments (mid-Wales)
  • Rothamsted Research grassland experimental platform in North Wyke, Devon
  • Rothamsted Research cutting-edge arable research facility in Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Research team:

  • Professor David Beerling, University of 91Ö±²¥
  • , UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • , UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • , Rothamsted Research
  • , Rothamsted Research
  • , University of Southampton
  • , National Oceanography Centre
  • , University of Oxford
  • , University of Cardiff
  • , University of Cardiff
  • , University of Aberdeen
  • , Heriot-Watt University
  • , University of Leeds

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