Scoping Our Planet
Our understanding of the Earth system is limited by serious measurement and modelling gaps that lead to unacceptable uncertainties in weather and climate predictions. By cultivating frontier technologies, from measurement platforms to artificial intelligence models, we can fill these gaps and generate actionable knowledge to serve society in diverse and so far impossible ways.
Opportunity seeds
Outside the scope of programmes and with budgets of up to £500k, these opportunity seeds support ambitious research aligned to the Scoping Our Planet opportunity space.
From sensors that fingerprint methane emissions to measuring ocean mixing by combining seismic reflection + hydrographic data, we're funding an array of projects across individual research teams, universities and start ups to maximise the chance of breakthroughs.
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
This opportunity space is part of our rolling seed call experiment – see what's in scope for opportunity seeds in this space by reading the original call for proposals and apply at the link below.