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A Pilot Experiment on Rock Weathering in Permafrost

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The processes by which frost shatters rock are subject to controversy. The main objective of the proposed research is to develop a new methodology for experimentally...

Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

Data collected include: plant (shoot and root) biomass, a range of soil conditions including mycorrhizal abundance, microbial biomass carbon & nitrogen, soil extractable ammonia, soil...

Diffusion of water in silicate melts (NERC grant NE/N002954/1)

Water concentration as a function of position in silicates from diffusion couple experiments. Data can be used to determine diffusivity of water in the silicate melt. Also numerical model for...

Moth community and parasitoid data from a hedgerow cutting regime experiment in Cambridgeshire, England, 2011

This dataset contains moth species, parasitoid and resource provisioning data from a hedgerow experiment investigating the long-term effects of timing and frequency of cutting on resource provision...

Work Experience and Contextual Admissions at London's Higher Education Institutions

The GLA commissioned CFE Research to carry out qualitative research into: the provision of work experience and employability support for students at London’s Higher Education Institutions,...

High velocity friction experiments, Sumatra 2018 (NERC grant NE/P011268/1)

High velocity friction experiments. In this study, new samples recovered by IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) Exp. 362 from incoming Indian plate sediments will be used to investigate the...

Plagioclase chemistry and shape from experiments and samples from Mount St Helens, Washington, USA

Textural data and major element geochemical data for plagioclase crystallisation experiments. Data were collected 2020-2022. The aim of the experiments was to produce plagioclase crystals at a...

Elemental and isotopic data for timed exchange experiments between clay, mineral water and seawater

This dataset presents both isotopic and elemental data for a series of cation exchange experiments between mineral water, montmorillonite clay and seawater. These were a series of in-house...

CHIMNEY (JC152) geophysical data and rock physics experiments from Scanner Pockmark, North Sea (2017)

As part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Characterisation of major overburden leakage pathways above sub-seafloor CO2 storage reservoirs in the North Sea (CHIMNEY) project, a...

Foraminifera shell geochemistry and abundance counts (NERC Grant NE/N001621/1)

The dataset includes oxygen and carbon stable isotopes measured on multispecies planktonic foraminifera from 15 million years ago to the present, as well as trace elements ratio and abundance...

Carbon and nitrogen gas and leachate fluxes, soil and vegetation properties in oceanic-alpine ecosystems during a drought-rewetting mesocosm experiment

This dataset comprise biogeochemical data of Nardus stricta snowbed grassland and Empetrum nigrum heath during a controlled environment drought-rewetting mesocosm experiment. The mesocosms were...

Nitrogen isotopic composition of microbial biomass grown in the laboratory under N2-fixing conditions

Nitrogen isotopic composition of microbial biomass grown in the laboratory under N2-fixing conditions. Also included are meta-data that describe the experimental conditions. The conditions were...

Litterfall ant genus and abundance in a fertiliser experiment area in Central Amazon, 2018-2019

Data are presented showing litterfall ant species and abundance from a plot based fertilisation experiment. The experiment was carried out at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project...

Creep rig mechanical data from an olivine bicrystal experiment (NERC Grant NE/M000060/1)

Mechanical datasets of a creep rig experiment which quantified grain boundary sliding in an olivine bicrystal sample. A single test was performed for 4 x 104 s at a maximum temperature of 1400 °C....

Experiences of Food Insecurity amongst Older Londoners before and during COVID-19

Qualitative research with older Londoners undertaken by the GLA exploring: The causes of food insecurity and malnutrition amongst older Londoners, including the impact of coronavirus The...

Soil protozoa data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

This set of data describes protozoa abundance and diversity in samples taken at the Sourhope experimental site in 1999 and 2000 by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the University of...

NI 54: Parental experiences of services provided to disabled children

This publication sets out the main findings from the second national sample survey of parents of disabled children in England. This was conducted between July and November 2009 on the Department's...

Laboratory data from True Triaxial rock deformation experiments on Crab Orchard sandstone and Etna basalt samples

Raw data from True Triaxial rock deformation experiment is included in TDMS and csv format. The TDMS file is the raw LabView data logging file including the time series of the experiments, loads,...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi diversity data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

These data comprise arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi diversity data from Sourhope field experiment site. AM fungi are biotrophic symbionts colonizing the majority of land plants, and are of major...

Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

These data comprise culturable cell counts in different media from soil microbial analysis within a microcosm experiment investigating moisture perturbations on microbes, set up at the Centre for...