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Recovering value from waste agricultural plastics from the Scottish vegetable and soft fruit industry. Sep 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2017
The project aims to add value to agricultural plastic waste, by utilising pyrolysis (an emerging plastic conversion technology) to enable successful conversion to fuel, energy or platform chemicals. This will offer multiple benefits to the industry,... Read More about Recovering value from waste agricultural plastics from the Scottish vegetable and soft fruit industry..

UFHRD Research Honorarium Jun 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2017
Addressing the Business Support and Training Needs of Minority Ethnic Group (MEG) Family-run Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Scotland

The study proposes an in-depth exploration of the business support and training needs of Minority Ethnic Gr... Read More about UFHRD Research Honorarium.

Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance Apr 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017
Long-duration recorders are commercially available for week-scale terrestrial sound monitoring, but expensive and large, thus difficult to disguise in colonies. We have an active collaboration with the Soundtags group at St Andrews who have co-develo... Read More about Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance.

Innovative Lighting Solutions for Smart Textile Production

Innovative Lighting Solutions for Smart Textile Production Jan 25, 2017 - Aug 24, 2017
The project will develop specialised lighting systems appropriate for lighting woven optical fibre, develop lighting capacity as an integrated component, and advance large scale commercial manufacture of smart textiles in Scotland.

Oral Infestation Challenge Jun 20, 2016 - Aug 5, 2016
Live Atlantic salmon will be experimentally infested with live anisakis simplex. The experiment will run for 35 days, and at certain sampling points, salmon will be euthanised and blood will be taken. This will then be used for cytometric analyses of... Read More about Oral Infestation Challenge.

Exploring the causes of Red Vent Syndrome in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from coastal waters around Scotland Jul 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2017
This research will make direct comparisons of ?13C and ?15N isotope values from muscle tissue between populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) returning to the North, East and West coasts of Scotland. This work will investigate whether returning... Read More about Exploring the causes of Red Vent Syndrome in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from coastal waters around Scotland.

The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition. Aug 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
The project will work with a new PhD student who is collecting regular samples of juvenile fish from the Vanga mangrove forest in southern Kenya. The work will focus on two areas:
1) Describing the metazoan parasite fauna of the mangrove fish commun... Read More about The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition..

IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein Mar 27, 2017 - Apr 26, 2018
This project aims to investigate the first phase to manufacture chemicals from starch waste, namely acetone, butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and/or D-amino acid oxidase. Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) will test the use of waste derived glucose fee... Read More about IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein.