Springboard Proposals to date

Dec 2008

  1. SEAMEX – PhD funding for Mark Wemyss supported by HIE
  2. Supergen Marine 1 – PhD funding for John Ruscoe supported by EPSRC
  3. Proposal to SNH on acoustic disturbance from marine renewables devices – unsuccessful.
  4. Total – PhD funding for Emmanuel Osalusi into the combined effects of waves and tidal currents
  5. Total Fondation – support for investigations into the passive acoustic monitoring of diving seabirds.
  6. OIC support for MREDS core research programme
  7. HIE support for MREDS core research programme
  8. DTI - Preliminary Design Assessment: SRTT, its moorings, model tests and environmental parameters. DTI/EPSRC funded study jointly with Scotrenewables.
  9. SRDG – enabling research capacity building for Workpackage 5 of MREDS - £1m from the Scottish Funding Council
  10. EU FP7 Project MESMA – jointly with 18 European Institutes – successful, award due in January 2009
  11. EPSRC – investigations of unsteady flow over rotors, jointly with the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde
  12. Supergen Marine 2 – PhD funding for Bob Beharie supported by EPSRC
  13. Supergen Marine 2 – HIE support for inclusion of PhD studentships within UHI Millennium Institute in the Supergen Doctoral Training Programme
  14. Esme Fairburn – Community Benefits from Renewables Projects – unsuccessful
  15. EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Marine Renewables – led by Edinburgh University – unsuccessful.