ClimateChange@Hutton - the Environment
Scotland’s environment has developed over thousands of years, shaped by human and natural processes into a complex and interconnected set of systems. Climate change is fundamentally altering some of these systems, and the effects are beginning to be felt throughout every aspect of the environment. Our rich and varied ecosystems are changing dramatically and will continue to do so, and it is vital that we understand the trajectory of these changes.
The James Hutton Institute has many researchers studying different aspects of Scotland’s environment and how it is changing over time. From ecological studies monitoring changes to the populations of different species, to remote sensing surveys of the entire country’s changing landscape, we are monitoring how climate change’s complex and inter-related impacts are being felt across the country.
Contact Alison Hester for further information.
Research
- Science Departments
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Phytophthora infestans research
- Potato Cyst Nematodes
- Virus research
- Rhynchosporium on barley
- Bacterial Plant Pathogens
- Human and animal pathogens on plants
- Epidemiology and population biology
- Aphid-Plant Interactions
- Dundee Effector Consortium
- Integrated pest management
- Imaging Technologies
- Cereal genetics
- Potato genetics
- Soft fruit genetics, genomics and phenomics
- Abiotic stress research
- Staff and Students
- Alternative splicing and stress
- Ecological Sciences
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
- Natural products and food chemistry
- Environmental monitoring
- Automatic Weather Station - Invercauld
- Automatic Weather Station - Sourhope Farm
- Monitoring Data - Lunan
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Aboyne
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Coull
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Netherton
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Tarland Village
- Monitoring Data - Yetholm Mains, Bowmont Water
- Soil chemistry and mineralogy
- Biochemistry and hydrology
- Soil physics and characterisation
- Environmental Chemistry
- Isotope applications
- Analysis equipment
- Field sites and research platforms
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Staff
- Information and Computational Sciences
- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Research Facilities
- International
- Postgraduate study
- Research Partners
Areas of Interest
- Areas of Interest
- Centre for Human and Animal Pathogens in the Environment
- New Zealand Flatworm
- Water and food security
- National waters inventory Scotland
- Nutrient cycles
- Future scenarios for water resources
- Ecosystem services approaches
- Exploring ways for the application of ecosystem services approaches at the catchment level
- UNESCO Global Dialogue book
- Cost-effectiveness, disproportionality analysis and multiple benefits of the EU Water Framework Directive
- Payment for water ecosystem services
- Assessing and valuing peatland ecosystem services for sustainable management
- Valuing the impacts of ecosystem service interactions for policy effectiveness
- Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource Management Strategies
- Water resource monitoring
- Global Change - the local context
- Coastal Research and Consultancy
- Farmer led phosphorus sampling
- Hydropower resources research
- Improving water quality in Scotland
- URflood
- Septic tank system for on-site wastewater treatment
- Scenarios and land use futures
- Scottish Rivers Handbook
- Land manager attitudes and behaviours
- Soil forensics
- Realising Land's Potential stakeholder engagement events
- Community-based Management of Environmental challenges in Latin America
- OrkCEmP: Exploring ideas about Community in Orkney
- Vibrant Rural Communities workshop
- Biodiversity
- Land
- People
- Ecosystem services
- Research outputs
- Improving the plant
- Optimising soil conditions
- Root-soil interactions
- Soil diversity
- Integrated pest management
- Soil science