Resilient Climate and Ecosystems
Living systems and a stable climate underpin our food, health, materials, and security, and both are under growing strain. We can build the precise knowledge and tools to deeply understand and safely navigate these tightly coupled systems and radically expand our options to secure resilient ecosystems and a flourishing planet.
Opportunity seeds
Within opportunity spaces, but outside the direct scope of our programmes, ARIA funds opportunity seeds: flexible funding of up to an initial £500k for speculative and ambitious research aligned to the opportunity space.
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Explore Sarah and Gemma's opportunity seed projects
From sensors that fingerprint methane emissions to measuring ocean mixing by combining seismic reflection + hydrographic data, in this portfolio we're funding an array of projects across individual research teams, universities and start ups to maximise the chance of breakthroughs.
See where the opportunity lies – read Sarah and Gemma's perspective.
Earth Compress
Alberto Arribas Herranz, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) + Jacqueline Campbell, Asterisk Labs
Unlocking the potential to quantify spacecraft pollution from space-based broadband imagers
Eloise Marais, University College London
Unlocking Ground-Breaking Observations of Antarctic Mixing With Legacy Data
Kathryn Gunn, University of Southampton
Self-degrading Environmental Exploration Drones
Iganzio Maria Viola, University of Edinburgh
Photonics for Portable Isotopologue and PPT Sensing
Peter Nisbet-Jones, Twin Paradox Labs; Christopher Bridges, University of Surrey
Distributed Photovoltaic Neural Networks for Environmental Monitoring
Andrea Di Falco, University of St Andrews
Creator spotlight: Earth Compress
The Earth Compress project evolved out of Clouds Decoded – a £500k opportunity seed.
Acknowledging the importance of this work, the project has since received a seed boost of £7m to address a critical research bottleneck.
Antarctic Explorations: Where does glacial meltwater go?
Laura Cimoli, University of Cambridge
REMM: REthinking Methane Measurement
Jane Hodgkinson, Cranfield University
Next-CAM
Ronald Clark, University of Oxford
Persistent Monitoring of Climate Variables Using High Altitude Pseudo Satellites
Steve Tate, Voltitude
Rapid Development of a Mass-manufacturable SWIR Hyperspectral Camera
Sam Hornett, Living Optic
WAVECLIM
Serge Guillas, University College London