Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

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UERC was established to provide to the Universities of the Scottish Consortium collaborative access to expensive equipment and specialist expertise. This is a highly cost-effective way of adding value to their research, training and teaching activities. The main areas of strength are in geochemistry, radiochemistry and isotope biogeosciences and the Centre houses perhaps the most comprehensive suite of dating techniques available in the UK. Of the thirty or so national facilities operated by NERC, the Centre is host to five, viz. the Radiocarbon Facility (Environment), the Argon Isotope Facility, the East Kilbride node of the Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, the Isotope Community Support Facility and the Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility.

The SUERC collaborative model evolved out of 35 years of experience of the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre (SURRC); it is predicated on the individual research reputations of the academic staff, a high level of technician expertise and commitment, and a cadre of experienced postdoctoral research assistants and senior research fellows. Increasingly, inter-institutional, cross-disciplinary collaboration has formed the basis for funding initiatives in Scottish science (e.g. SAGES) and the SUERC experience has greatly informed and facilitated such developments.

The SUERC mission is to perform, stimulate and support high quality basic, applied and strategic research within and beyond the Scottish University community, and broadly in the Earth, Environmental and Biomedical Sciences. SUERC provides a focus in Scotland for high quality research through its own research programme and by assisting partner universities successfully to bid for and deliver research grants. Through teaching and training SUERC contributes to the future supply of highly able scientists. Commercial research and testing is a valuable source of additional income and frequently contributes to national welfare and security.

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