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Queen's New Year Honours congratulations
New animation about inspiring scientists
Biggest emerging issues in biodiversity for 2019
NERC Impact Awards 2018: Winners impact our world
Giant 'Earth' artwork shines a light on our environment
NERC research on 1.5°C global warming informs IPCC report
NERC Management Board - Membership vacancy
Queen's New Year Honours 2019 congratulationsPlanet Earth Planet Earth RSS feed Planet Earth email newsletter
Loch Ness trees to help Scotland's carbon store
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Horizon 2020 grant holders - Have you submitted your details to UKRI's portal?
16 Jan 2019
UK organisations holding grants from Horizon 2020, the European Union's flagship programme for research and innovation, need to submit information about them into a UK Research & Innovation portal designed to capture basic details about the grants.
Announcement of Opportunity: UK Geoenergy Observatories training opportunities - Activity 2 ideas workshop
2019
14 Jan 2019
NERC invites applications from PhD students and early career researchers to participate in an ideas workshop, to be held at the National Railway Museum in York on 27 February 2019.
Highlight topics - Fifth round
2019
14 Jan 2019
NERC invites proposals for the fifth round of highlight topics, a route for funding strategic research.
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