Scottish Pine Project (2006-present)

This project is also multifaceted, aiming to reconstruct past summer temperatures in the Scottish Highlands from tree-rings for the last 8000 years. As a research group, we are also interested in long term changes in woodland dynamics and the interaction of man and the forested Scottish environment. The RELiC project above is related to the SPP.

Millennium Project (2006-2010)

The Millennium project is a multidisciplinary consortium of more than 38 partners from 16 European countries bringing together historians, chemists, physicists, biologists, geographers, climate modellers and geologists in a multi-disciplinary effort to reconstruct the climate of Europe over the last 1000 years using historical documents ranging from ships logs, church annals and harvest records, and natural archives such as tree rings, insect and plant remains from lakes and peat bogs, ice cores and sea shells. Reconstructing the climate of the past is important because it will allow us to say whether the warming seen in recent years is really unusual.

SOAP: (2002-2006)
Simulations, Observations & Palæoclimatic data: climate variability over the last 500 years

SO&P was a research project funded by the European Union and led by Tim Osborn and Keith Briffa at UEA's Climatic Research Unit. The project aimed to simulate the climate of the last 500 years, develop improved reconstructions of the real climate over this period, and compare the two to provide an important test of the climate models and provide improved estimates of natural climate variability.