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Geography, Geology and the Environment

Sami Ullah in £2.5m UK Research Council Grant

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Posted on 11 June 2012

Dr Sami Ullah is part of a successful consortium grant titled "Analysis and simulation of long-term/large-scale interactions of C, N and P in UK land, freshwater and atmosphere".

This consortium project, worth £2.5 million, is a joint project of eight national institutes including Keele, NERC's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster, British Geological Survey, Liverpool University, University of Lancaster, University College London, Rothamsted Research and James Hutton Institute.

Out of the total £2.5 million grant from NERC, £270,868 is directly awarded to Keele to investigate the impact of landscape position and land use type on soil denitrification rates (sequential reduction of mineral nitrogen to N2O and N2 gases) in the Ribble and Conwy River watersheds in UK. Dr Ullah says that in a global change and food security context, mineral nitrogen as a fertilizer and as a water and air pollutant have significant ecological and socio-economic implications. Therefore, knowing the impacts of fertilizers and land use changes on soils nitrogen pools and fluxes with the atmosphere through denitrification at landscape scale is of critical importance to fill in data gaps for simulating long-term and large-scale nitrogen budgets together with that of C and P in the UK. 

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