Centre for Earth & Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change (CEEREC)       

Research within the Centre for Earth & Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change (CEEREC) is focused on quantifying and modelling contemporary earth and ecosystem responses to recent and projected near-future environmental and climatic change, and on the interpretation of records of past climatic and environmental change within a range of terrestrial and marine environments. Research within the Centre is highly multi-disciplinary and international in its extent. Our on-going externally funded research programmes involves work not only in the UK, but also across Europe, and within North and South America, the Caribbean region, Africa, Australia and SE Asia. Our research is supported through a wide range of funding agencies and environmental organisations including; The Natural Environment Research Council, European Union, The Leverhulme Trust, The Royal Society, Defra, Joint Natural Conservancy Council, and The Environment Agency, and external partner organisations such as United Utilities, BG Group, NE England Zoological Society and The Loro Parque Foundation.

CEEREC research is focused around the following thematic areas:

Applied Ecology and Conservation

Drylands and Environmental Change

Geochronology Research

Sediment Geochemistry

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry

Tropical Costal and Marine Geoscience

Current major international research initiatives coordinated through CEEREC include:

PEATBOG: Pollution, Precipitation and Temperature Impacts on Peatland Biodiversity and Biogeochemistry

REEForm: Reef and reef landform responses to climatic and environmental change

ReefBudget: Developing rapid budget assessment protocols for coral reefs

Recent grants

Publications

For further information about CEEREC please contact

Prof Chris Perry
Department of Environmental & Geographical Sciences

E-mail:c.t.perry@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 6210
Facsimile: 0161 247 6318

Manchester Metropolitan University
Chester Street
Manchester, M1 5GD

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