ARCHER is the UK National Supercomputing Service. It allows researchers to run calculations and simulations that require a large number of processing cores working in parallel. The computer demands for such simulations far exceed the computer power typically available to an institution like ours (e.g. a local cluster). ARCHER allows us to run ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere models that are at the cutting edge of the field. Generally, facilities like ARCHER enable the UK to be (and to remain)...

The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 350 institutions across the country, it is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support research. New descriptions are added every week, often representing collections being made available for the first time. Researchers can use the Hub to instantly scan the archival landscape and bring together diverse sources held in repositories across the country. The...

The ABSL is a flagship ~£17M investment by the University of Leeds (with an additional ~£1M of funding from the Wellcome Trust) in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) for structural molecular biology and biomedicine. It was formally opened in January 2017 by Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust.

We offer equipment access and expertise to researchers from our University and beyond, welcoming external users from academia and industry...

The AMF was established in April 2014, following a review of NCAS’s ground-based facilities and the service they provided to the community. Its remit is threefold: (i) to deploy instrumentation and provide a quality-controlled data product for field measurements; (ii) to provide underpinning laboratory facilities for calibration and experimentation; and (iii) to provide access to NCAS field sites for guest instrumentation. In 2018, under the direction of NERC, AMF merged with its sister facility...

Auchencorth Moss Atmospheric Observatory (AMo), is a research infrastructure sited on an ombrotrophic peatland at 270 m elevation in South East Scotland (55ᵒ47’36”N, 3°14’41” W), which is managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). It is used primarily to carry out research on atmospheric composition, surface-atmosphere exchange of pollutants and studies in carbon catchments.

The landscape of Auchencorth Moss was first used in 1994 to study fluxes of methane (CH₄) gas. In 1995...

The set of AAAI (Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure) services operated by Jisc provides a national framework for the management of access to RII resources across the UK. This framework includes authentication of an individual user of a RII; authorisation of that user to access RII resources; and, where appropriate, accounting for that use for charging or for auditing purposes (for instance where there are compliance implications such as those around access to sensitive...

ALSPAC is a multi-generational study that began as a pregnancy/birth cohort. In 1991 and 1992, 14,500 pregnant women living in and around Bristol were recruited into the study. Detailed data have been collected on these women and their partners (the original parents, known as G0) and their children (the index participants, G1). In recent years the study has also enrolled the children of the children (G2).

The overarching objective for ALSPAC is to maintain its position as the premier multi...

Hollin Hill Landslide Observatory, North Yorkshire At Hollin Hill a system of monitoring landslide movement has been developed by BGS by combining geomorphological mapping, terrestrial LiDAR and real-time monitoring with geophysics. Scientific research at this site has been designed to enable BGS to accurately monitor and eventually aid the forecasting of movement of the landslide. It brings together a combination of field surveying, geomorphological, geophysical, engineering and...

The Rock Mechanics and Physics Laboratory (RMPL) undertakes research on the physical properties and behaviour of rock specifically for: planning, design and construction within the civil engineering sector; extraction and storage within the energy sector; developing our understanding of near to surface to shallow crustal earth processes in order to help predict and mitigate the effects of small and large scale geohazards. The RMPL lab specialises in standard (ISRM and ASTM) and bespoke...

The BSU provides the high standards of animal welfare, veterinary and technical expertise along with specialist facilities that are essential for scientifically valid animal research. By managing the BSU on a multi-user basis it allows use of the facilities by the biomedical and veterinary research community at Nottingham plus access by commercial collaborators.Species held include, aquatics, rodents, rabbiits, poultry, pigs, sheep and cattle. BSU service licences are in place for the breeding...