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...

BGS Marine Operations is a marine engineering facility that provides sampling and sensing equipment to investigate seabed and sub-seabed geology and processes. The equipment includes 2 types of remote seafloor corer / drill:

• RD2: The BGS Remote Drill Two, RD2, is our most advanced seafloor robotic drilling and coring system. It can penetrate up to 50m below the seabed and operate down to water depths of 4000m. RD2 can drill and core a wide variety of lithologies ranging from consolidated...

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 University of Nottingham and University College London collaborate to lead the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre, which is the UK's Node within BBMRI-ERIC. The Centre is led from the Advanced Data Analysis Centre at the University of Nottingham and supported by a team at UCL. It's work is guided by an Advisory Committee of external members from academia, industry, medical funding bodies, and regulatory agencies. The Centre supports the work...

The UK Biochar Research Centre (UKBRC) undertakes disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on: (1) Biochar production and analysis of energy rich co-products; (2) The diverse potential applications of biochar; particularly as a beneficial soil amendment, as well as other uses; (3) The feasible development of Pyrolysis-Biochar systems and Life Cycle Assessments for sustainable resource management. The facility contains four major instruments for the pyrolysis and characterisation of biochar...

The biological mass spectrometry suite provides analytical expertise and practical support for academic (internal and external) and industrially funded research using high-end advanced analytical instrumentation. The facility has a range of liquid and gas chromatographs hyphenated with various mass spectrometers (LCMS and GCMS). Each instrument is dedicated to either proteomics (targeted, shotgun and non-labelled quantitation) or metabolomics (targeted/ untargeted metabolite profiling...

The Biomedical Imaging Unit is a joint University of Southampton (UoS)/ University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) facility for diagnostic and research microscopy. The BIU houses microscopes capable of 2-, 3- and 4D imaging (from brightfield microscopy through to confocal, light sheet, time lapse, virtual scanning, µCT, SEM, TEM & serial block face SEM) using a range of imaging sources (light, x-ray and electron). We are the only joint NHS/University imaging facility in the...

Biometrology - measuring biological systems to support the development of new bioproducts and services

NPL, as the UK's National Measurement Institute, is the prime deliverer of the UK Measurement Strategy. NPL is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available. For more than a century, NPL has developed and maintained the nation's primary measurement standards. These standards underpin an...

What it does: BioPilotsUK is a distributed infrastructure providing access to key hardware, skills and knowhow, for both industrial and academic R&D to aid innovation and de-risk the development of bio-based products and processes. Research Goals etc: • Provide simple-to-access responsive support to academia and businesses to accelerate innovative growth in the UK bioeconomy. • To assist UK industry realise potential investments in biobased research and innovation and bring new products to...

The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is a an open-access R&D centre, based at the University of York, working at the interface between academia and industry to convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable biorenewable products.