The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is set to reach double pre-industrial levels by about 2050. This increase would be much faster were it not for the uptake of CO2 into the upper ocean and the terrestrial biosphere. Currently 2-3 of every 10 molecules of CO2 released by human activity is taken up into existing terrestrial ecosystems. The degree to which this uptake will continue as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase, is not settled. Many of the most important processes...

The Bodleian Libraries mission is to provide an excellent service to support the learning, teaching and research objectives of the University of Oxford; and to develop and maintain access to Oxford's unique collections for the benefit of scholarship and society. The Bodleian has been collecting material for more than 400 years and currently holds more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals, and some 56,000 linear metres of outstanding special collections. These include rare books...

The lab is equipped to carry out the study of deep subsurface environments with a focus on astrobiology, planetary sciences and instrument testing. Its goals are to contribute to our understanding of deep subsurface biological, geological and geochemical processes and their roles in global processes. The lab has also been running a program for five yeas called MINAR (Mine Analog Research) bringing planetary scientists into Boulby to test instruments for the robotic exploration of space. It is...

The Bionanotechnology Facility is part of the University of Leeds’ Bragg Centre for Materials Research, which will open in 2019/20. The mission of the Bionanotechnology Facility is to be a leading centre for bionano engineering and physical sciences at the life science interface. The facility includes state-of-the art laboratories containing a range of equipment to underpin cutting-edge research in bionanotechnology, including a large suite of atomic force microscopes, confocal laser-scanning...

The Bragg centre for materials research is a hub of research excellence at the University of Leeds, specialising in all aspects of material science from design to characterisation. The centre spans 15 constituent schools, drawing a core membership from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) and has a physical presence in the WH Bragg building as the centrepiece connecting the Chemistry, Physics and Engineering disciplines on campus. The Bragg Centre marks a significant...

The Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) founded in 1985 is part of the Department of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen, Germany. ZARM is mainly concentrated on fundamental investigations of gravitational and space-related phenomena under conditions of weightlessness as well as questions and developments related to technologies for space. At ZARM over 100 scientists, engineers, and administrative staff as well as many students from different disciplines are...

The BrisSynBio Research and Innovation Infrastructure (RII) incorporates a distributed research infrastructure and capabilities that underpins the University of Bristol’s synthetic and engineering biology research endeavour. This includes:

BioSuite: Liquid-handling robots for cloning and assays, protein production, and protein crystallisation. 

700 NMR suite: provides high sensitivity NMR services for the routine characterisation of small molecules, peptides and proteins. 

BrisSynBio...

Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives (part of the Culture & Creative Industries division of Bristol City Council) is responsible for museum collections across the natural sciences, humanities and arts amounting to c.2million items and also for 11 miles of archive shelving at the Bristol Archives. The mission of the service is to be excellent, resilient, valued and inclusive. Geology, Eastern Art and City of Bristol collections are 'Designated' as of international importance. Geology collections...

BrUNEL is the UK's only Ultra high vacuum spectro microscopy suite for performing high resolution surface analysis of conductive crystalline and 2D/multilayer materials in both real space and momentum space using Energy filtered, photo electron emission microscopy and monochromatic high brightness light sources. It is a complementary laboratory facility to national synchrotron facilities allowing researchers to pre-analyse samples by imaging with high brightness, monochromated,VUV light imaging...

BRAMS is a new state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Bristol, created to enhance the UK capability for ¹⁴C analysis in the biogeochemical, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological sciences amongst other fields. We are home to a MICADAS accelerator mass spectrometer; one of the latest generation of ultra-compact, high-precision AMS instruments featuring a gas capable ion source for the rapid analysis of small samples. The BRAMS facility is equipped with a suite of...