Xiaoming Cai, Lee Chapman and John Thornes have been awarded a NERC CASE Studentship for the project “Quantifying the influence of wind advection on urban heat island for an improvement of a climate change adaptation planning tool”. This project builds upon the existing partnership between the University and Birmingham City Council (the CASE partner), and in particular, the successfully completed project BUCCANEER (Birmingham Urban Climate Change Adaptation with Neighbourhood Estimates of Environmental Risk). The BUCCANEER project has won the award for Environmental Sustainability at the prestigious Lord Stafford awards in 2012.