Announcement of Opportunity: Soil Security

Closing date for proposals: 16:00 on 9 August 2016

NERC is inviting proposals under the Soil Security programme for research projects costing between £150k and £250k (80% full economic cost), and of up to 24 months' duration.

The projects will complement the existing portfolio of research and address the goals of the programme to seek an improved and predictive understanding of:

• the ability of soils to perform multiple functions in different contexts and at different scales, and
• their ability to resist, recover and adapt to perturbations, such as those caused by land use change and extreme climatic events.

The Soil Security programme is a NERC-led five-year research programme, with support from the Scottish Government, the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). 

More information about this opportunity can be found here.