Science

BIGF enables science across all NERC science areas and across all disciplines - atmosphere, earth, earth observation, marine, polar, science-based archaeology and terrestrial & freshwater.

Here, and above, are recent examples of BIGF-supported research projects:

• Boulby Geoscience Project.
• Coastal Observation Project in the Holderness and Spurn areas of East Yorkshire.
• Cold air pooling over complex terrain.
• Densification of the European Permanent GNSS Network for ionospheric studies.
• E-GVAP - the EUMETNET GPS water vapour programme.
• European scale velocity field from permanent GNSS data.
• iNsight (Innovative Navigation using new GNSS Signals with Hybridised Technologies).
• Ionospheric research using TEC over Europe.
• Tidal deformation of the Earth owing to the Moon, Sun, and loading effect of ocean tides.
• Physical properties and behaviour of UK rocks and soils.
• Predicting salmonid population ecology from individual fish responses to environmental change.
• Supply of Newlyn to the EUREF Permanent Network.
• The creation of a map of current vertical land movements in the UK, based on absolute gravity and CGPS.
• The THESEUS project (EU FP-7) - coastal flooding risk and options for mitigation in Europe.
• Towards a global ambiguity resolved precise point solution and time series.
• Woodland bird habitat modelling with integrated remotely sensed data.

and recent examples of resultant refereed papers:

• Correlated errors in GPS position time series: Implications for velocity estimates.
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 2011.
• Non-tidal ocean loading effects on geodetic GPS heights.
  Geophysical Research Letters, 2011.
• Global sea level rise and its relation to the terrestrial reference frame definition.
  Journal of Geodesy, 2010.
• Identifying the behavioural characteristics of clay cliffs using intensive and geotechnical numerical monitoring.
  Geomorphology, 2010.
• Land motion estimates from GPS at tide gauges: a geophysical evaluation.
  Geophysical Journal International, 2010.
• Crustal motions in Great Britain: Evidence from continuous GPS, absolute gravity and Holocene sea-level data.
  Geophysical Journal International, 2009.
• Glacial isostatic adjustment of the British Isles: New constraints from GPS measurements of the crustal motion.
  Geophysical Journal International, 2009.