Successful Proposals

The following proposals were successfully funded and will take place throughout 2017.

• ​Moving forward with forward models – synthesising past water tables from multiple peat cores - (PI) Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast
• ​Emulating the Isotope Response to Changes in the Geometry of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - (PI) Louise Sime, BAS
• ​A novel statistical approach for palaeoclimate spatial model-data comparison - (PI) Richard Wilkinson, University of Sheffield
• Searching for the deglaciation: spatio-temporal boundary condition uncertainty and its implications for understanding abrupt climate change - (PI) Daniel Williamson, University of Exeter
• Tackling uncertainty in rainfall projections with past changes - (PI) Peter Hopcroft, University of Bristol
• Automated tuning of Palaeoclimate records - (PI) Timothy Heaton, University of Sheffield

The assessment process was particularly difficult due to the overall high standard of proposals, the PEN would like to thank everyone who submitted.

Assessment Criteria

Proposals were ranked by a panel of Working Group Leaders and Steering Committee members. Applications were assessed according to the following criteria:

1. How well the proposal aligns with the goals of the network and the chosen working group(s).
2. Scientific quality of the project, including the appropriate use of statistical methodology.
3. How well the project furthers interactions between the different scientific areas of the network.
4. How relevant any outputs of the proposed project are to the network, and how likely it is that these outputs are achieved.

The proposals for each working group will be ranked according to these criteria and the top proposals for each group (up to the budget limit) will be funded.

Links

• Please visit the EPSRC guidelines pages for details regarding EPSRC funding
• To become a member of the PEN please visit this link, you can also become a member of the working group homepages: Models, Data, Comparisons, Forecasting.
• If you have any further questions please contact the PI Jochen Voss

Timeline

• 1 July 2016 - Call for Feasibility Study proposals announced.
• 30 September 2016 - Deadline for Feasibility Study proposals.
• 3 November 2016 - Announcement of successful proposals.
• 31 December 2016 - Finishing date for all Feasibility Studies.