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The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA. Black vs. White Roofs: A Case Study in New York

Presentation / Conference
Susca, T., Gaffin, S., & Dell'Osso, G. R. (2010, June)
The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA. Black vs. White Roofs: A Case Study in New York. Presented at SEEP 2010. 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection, Bari, Italy
No abstract available.

Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs

Presentation / Conference
Susca, T., Gaffin, S. R., & Dell'Osso, G. R. (2010, June)
Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs. Presented at Urban Environmental Pollution 2010. Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
This paper attempts to evaluate the positive effects of vegetation with a multi-scale approach: an urban and a building scale. Monitoring the urban heat island in four areas o...

The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA Evaluation of Three Roofs

Presentation / Conference
Susca, T., Gaffin, S., & Dell'Osso, G. (2010, May)
The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA Evaluation of Three Roofs. Presented at CYCLE 2010. 4th Canadian Form on the Life Cycle Management of Products and Services, Montreal, Canada
No abstract available.

The Role of Human Resource Management in the Sustainable Workplace

Presentation / Conference
Bratton, A. (2010, February)
The Role of Human Resource Management in the Sustainable Workplace. Paper presented at Resilient Communities Dialogue: Strategies for a Sustainable Local Economy, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

A temperature and seasonal energy analysis of green, white, and black roofs

Report
Gaffin, S. R., Rosenzweig, C., Eichenbaum-Pikser, J., Khanbilvardi, R., & Susca, T. (2010)
A temperature and seasonal energy analysis of green, white, and black roofs. New York City, New York, USA: Columbia University
No abstract available. Report available - http://www.greengridroofs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Effective-R-value-of-Green-Roofs-Gaffin-et-al.p

The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA. Black vs. White Roofs: A Case Study in New York City

Conference Proceeding
Susca, T., Gaffin, S. R., & Dell'Osso, G. R. (2010)
The Contribution of the Albedo in LCA. Black vs. White Roofs: A Case Study in New York City. In Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (SEEP): Opportunities for Developing the Regional Economy in Europe
No abstract available.

Life Cycle Assessment dei solai di copertura: il contributo dell’albedo

Conference Proceeding
Susca, T., Gaffin, S. R., & Dell'Osso, G. R. (2010)
Life Cycle Assessment dei solai di copertura: il contributo dell’albedo. In Ricerche ISTeA per l’Ingegneria dell’Architettura
No abstract available.

Lettura critica del metodo LCA. Valutazione del sistema di relazioni tra isola di

Conference Proceeding
Susca, T. (2009)
Lettura critica del metodo LCA. Valutazione del sistema di relazioni tra isola di. In L'attività di ricerca nel dottorato (Atti Codat-Artec, atti della giornata di studio università degli studi di Messina, 18 novembre 2009)
No abstract available.

Development of a (Green) Roof Environmental Monitoring and Meteorological Network in New York City

Presentation / Conference
Gaffin, S., Khanbilvardi, R., Rosenzweig, C., & Susca, T. (2009, September)
Development of a (Green) Roof Environmental Monitoring and Meteorological Network in New York City. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands, Berkeley, California
No abstract available.

Development of a Green Roof Environmental Monitoring and Meteorological Network in New York City

Presentation / Conference
Gaffin, S., Khanbilvardi, R., Rosenzweig, C., & Susca, T. (2009, July)
Development of a Green Roof Environmental Monitoring and Meteorological Network in New York City. Presented at The 17th Annual New York State ReLeaf Conference. Greening the Big Apple: Forestry from the Streets, New York City, New York, USA
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Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

2023 - 2026
Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £49,277

Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound

2023 - 2025
Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound Herring helped to generate local income, identity, and societal change for centuries in Scotland, but their num...
Funder: Scottish Natural Heritage | Value: £27,906

Impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution

2023 - 2023
We were approached by Forestry Commission England (FCE) to consider addressing five key questions they had identified as being important in terms of impact of forestry on curlew over the next 5-10 yea...
Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £15,037

Exploring judgement and decision making noise in arboricultural risk assessment: What information do people use when making risk judgements, how does this influence decisions, and is this consistent a...

2022 - 2023
Aim: To explore the effect of “noise” on judgements that underpin tree risk assessment and how these affect decisions, to inform the development of a holistic tree risk assessment tool/measure/guideli...
Funder: Arboricultural Association | Value: £2,500

Holdfast: communities and blue carbon

2022 - 2023
Achieving the potential of Blue Carbon (BC) requires excellent communication with diverse audiences, in particular: 1) communities who live adjacent to, and often depend upon, BC ecosystems. 2) Invest...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £8,702

Methane-derived carbon in upland stream foodwebs: understanding the links

2022 - 2023
The work forms part of a SUPER-DTP funded PhD project. The present application relates to the use of stable isotope analysis to elucidate pathways for MDC incorporation in upland streams.
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

Building Standards - Research

2021 - 2022
The aim of the study is to investigate and assess the potential of remote verification inspection (RVI) techniques – specifically ‘live video feed’ - to satisfy reasonable enquiries in line with the r...
Funder: Built Environment - Smarter Transformation (formerly CSIC) | Value: £27,966

Wester Ross Herring Spawning Ecology

2020 - 2023
Historically, herring was abundant around the West of Scotland and of high importance to the local economy. Today, the estimated herring stock size in ICES area 6a is at near an all-time low. In March...
Funder: Skye & Lochalsh Rivers Trust | Value: £32,025

Microlanding - Symbiont transmission in early life stages of mangrove crabs

2019 - 2022
The 'Microlanding' project aims to unravel the nature, topological interactions, dynamics and functions of the bacterial symbionts associated with mangrove crabs' gills in relation to the evolution fr...
Funder: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Value: £174,144

CupClean - fast coffee cup cleaner

2019 - 2019
This project is to assist in the research of cleaning coffee cups to a standard acceptable for public use. The research will be used in the development of a product that can be installed in office sp...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,958