GENIE:Projects

completed
GENIE  (7 partner institutions) 2003-2006 £1,379,111 PI: Paul Valdes, University of Bristol NER/T/S/2002/00220

GENIEfy (5 partner institutions) 2006-2009 £1,363,400 PI: Tim Lenton, University of East Anglia NE/C515904/1

The probability of rapid climate change (3 partner institutions) 2004 - 2007 £211,599 PI: Peter Challenor, NOCS NER/T/S/2002/00450

NERC
"QUEST Deglaciation: Climate and Biogeochemical Cycles during the last deglaciation"
 * NERC (QUEST) Directed Grant (2006-2010) £1,142,232
 * NE/D001846/1 PI: Paul Valdes (Bristol)
 * Using GENIE-2 to investigate uncertainties in FAMOUS model runs of the last deglaciation

"Quaternary QUEST: Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change"
 * NERC (QUEST) Directed Grant (2006-2009) £1,018,939
 * NE/E007600/1 PI: Tim Lenton (UEA)
 * Using GENIE as the core resource for modelling the last glacial-interglacial cycle wrt to CO2 concentrations

"Dynamics of the Earth System and the Ice-Core Record (DESIRE)"
 * NERC (QUEST) Directed Grant (2007-2010) £1,666,269
 * NE/E007600/1 PI: Eric Wolff (BAS)
 * Using GENIE to simulate climate over the full EPICA timeframe

"Feedbacks QUEST: Quantifying biogeochemical feedbacks on climate change"
 * NERC (QUEST) Directed Grant (2007 - 2010) £459,686
 * NE/F001657/1 PI: Tim Lenton (UEA)
 * Using GENIE to quantify medium- and long-term biogeochemical feedbacks on global climate

"Detecting and classifying bifurcations in the climate system"
 * NERC Standard Grant (2008 -2011) £275,896
 * NE/F005474/1 PI: Tim Lenton (UEA)

"ASSESSMENT OF CADMIUM ISOTOPES AS A PALEOCLIMATE PROXY"
 * NERC Small grant (2009-2011) £23,205
 * NE/G008973/1 PI: Mark Rehkamper (Imperial)
 * Involves adding 114Cd as a tracer to GENIE and modelling intepretation of observations.

"Past records of ocean acidification - the Palaeogene hyperthermals"
 * NERC Standard grant (2009-2011) £174,263
 * NE/F017383/1 PI: Daniela Schmidt (Bristol)
 * Using GENIE to interpret proxies for past ocean acidification and environmental change.

"Testing and modelling a transient episode of ocean acidification prior to the Eocene-Oligocene onset of the Cenozoic "ice house""
 * NERC Standard grant (2009-2011) £310,922
 * NE/G003270/1 PI: Heiko Pälike (NOCS)
 * Using GENIE to look at the E-O.

other
"BIoGeochemistry in a high CO2 World (BIGCOW): Lessons from the Ocean Anoxic Events" Developing the marine Fe cycle and ocean-sediment interactions in GENIE and applying it to assessing the nature and possible causes of Ocean Anoxic Events.
 * Marie Curie Fellowship
 * PI: Andy Ridgwell (Bristol)

"Using deep-sea corals to test the role of the deep Southern Ocean in regulating atmospheric CO2" Leverhulme Trust PI: Derek Vance (Bristol) Using GENIE to assess glacial ocean CO2 storage and radiocarbon age.

"Modelling the importance of labile iron in iceberg sediment to CO2 draw down in the Southern Ocean." Leverhulme Trust PI: Martyn Tranter (Bristol) Extending the sources of iron in GENIE and assessing the modern, past and future important of iceburg transport of iron to the Southern Ocean.