NERC: Climate consequences of rapid ocean changes

27/04/2023

18/05/2023

Apply for funding for a joint UK-US project to improve understanding of the Atlantic Meridional Overturing Circulation (AMOC) and improve climate change projections across the North Atlantic region. The US-UK Climate Consequences of Rapid Ocean Changes (CCROC) programme will take advantage of a decade of coincident observations from Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) and Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) observing systems. This will deliver enhanced understanding of the AMOC and improve projections of future climate change throughout the North Atlantic region. The FEC for a project will be up to £625,000 for the UK component. NERC will fund 80% of FEC for most UK costs, with some exceptions (see ‘what we will not fund’ heading). The US component or proposals will be funded under the lead agency agreement and costs will be limited to $625,000 per project.

Climate Change & Global Warming; Freshwater Ecology & Limnology; Marine & Estuarine Ecology; Oceanography; Ocean Waves & Currents; Water Pollution, Regulation & Control

The principal investigator on the proposal must reside in the UK and be employed by an eligible UK research organisation: higher education institution research council institute recognised independent research organisation public sector research establishment catapults.