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Recent Grants & Fellowships

Current

2010-2011

Enhancing Water for Food: poverty reduction through improved management of ecosystem services for sustainable food production in sub-Saharan Africa
awarding body: Natural Environment Research Council (ESPA PPD, No. NE/I00386X/1)
PIs: Professor Nuwagaba (Makerere University) & Dr. R.G. Taylor (UCL)
amount awarded: £48K
2010-2011  Groundwater resilience to climate change in Africa
awarding body: Department for International Development (Ref. GA/09F/094)
PIs: Dr. A. MacDonald (BGS), R. Calow (ODI), Dr. R.G. Taylor (UCL) 
amount awarded: £284K 
2007-2010  Global-scale impacts of climate change: an integrated multi-sectoral assessment
awarding body: Natural Environment Research Council (QUEST Theme 3, No. NE/E001890/1)
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor, Dr. M. Todd, J. Thompson (UCL) (consortium led by Professor N. Arnell, Walker Institute, University of Reading)
amount awarded: £1750K (£177K to UCL) 

Completed

2007-2008 Hydrological implications of deglaciation in the Rwenzori Mountains of East Africa
awarding body: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Small Research Grants Programme with the Royal Geographical Society, Ref. 01/07)
PI: Dr. R. Taylor
amount awarded: £2.9K
2004-2005  Assessing the impacts of climate change and variability on water resources in Uganda: developing an integrated approach at the sub-regional scale
awarding body:  START Africa Small Grants Programme (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, World Climate Research Programme, International Human Dimensions Programme on global environmental change, project ref. 202 457 5859)
PIs: Dr. Charles Basalirwa (Makerere University), Dr. R. Taylor (UCL)
amount awarded: £12.5K
2003-2004 Climate change and the aquatic ecosystems of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
awarding body: Royal Geographical Society (co-winner Ralph Brown Award 2003)
PIs: Drs. R. Taylor, N. Rose, A.W. Mackay (UCL)
amount awarded: £7.5K
2002-2005 Assessing and Improving Sustainability of Urban Water Resources and Systems
awarding body: European Union (Ref. EVK1-CT-2002-00110-AISUWRS, subcontract from Surrey University)
PIs: Dr. Mathias Eiswirth (Universität Karlsruhe)
amount awarded: £1070K (£5K to UCL)
2004 Late Holocene changes in alpine vegetation of the Rwenzori Mountains
awarding body: The Royal Society (Study Visit Grant, Dr. I. Ssemmanda, Makerere University)
PIs: Drs. A.W. Mackay, R. Taylor (UCL)
2003 Climate change and the aquatic ecosystems of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
awarding body: The Royal Society (Study Visit Grant)
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor (UCL)
2001-2002 Canada-UK Millennium Fellowship
awarding body: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor (UCL)
amount awarded: £5K
2000-2002 Impact and sustainability of intensive groundwater abstraction from deeply weathered aquifer systems
awarding body: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Ref. PDF-230770-2000)
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor
amount awarded: £35K
1999 Contaminant transport in weathered crystalline rock aquifers
awarding body: Department for International Development (supplementary grant to ARGOSS project)
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor, Dr. M.H. Barrett (Surrey University), Dr. D. Macdonald (British Geological Survey), Dr. M. Nalubega (Makerere University
amount awarded: £15K
1994-1996 Sustainability and suitability of shallow groundwater development in the weathered overburden of Uganda
awarding body: International Development Research Centre Canada, Young Canadian Researcher's Award
PIs: Dr. R. Taylor
amount awarded: £6K