Resource recovery and remediation of alkaline wastes Aug 31, 2014 - Mar 31, 2019
This project addresses environmental problems and potential benefits posed by alkaline waste materials. These are generated in large quantities by many industrial processes around the world. The project will provide fundamental scientific understandi...
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Projects (25)
Determining the spatial controls on lacustrine ‘microbial’ carbonate facies May 1, 2013 - May 31, 2017
The challenge faced by BP is to predict the porosity and permeability of lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of Angola and Brazil. Key questions include 1) Is the spatial distribution of the porous and permeable framework facies controlled by the origin...
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Quantitative 3D remote digital compositional and structural characterisation of outcrops Jul 1, 2016 - Apr 30, 2017
This project aims to demonstrate the capability of a new type of field portable remote sensing instrument (the MicroFTS), developed by the applicants as part of a NERC funded project, integrated with a Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS), and ultrahigh r...
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Ecological response to environmental change in the Boreal Realm and the origins of three mass extinction events Aug 1, 2013 - Jan 31, 2020
Since the Cambrian Explosion of life on Earth, about 540 million years ago (Ma), ecosystems have been suffered repeated mass extinctions. There have been at least five major extinctions since then, most recently the famous event 65Ma, that wiped out...
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Volcanic and climatic impacts on Permian biota across Russian ecological zones Aug 1, 2015 - Jul 31, 2017
This project will reconstruct the Permian palaeoenvironmental history from field sites in Russia. The aim is to test the multiple effects of repeated episodes of “large igneous province” volcanism (which is linked to cooling, warming, oxygen depletio...
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Groundwater sustainability in central northern Africa Jan 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Proposal to the Farrington Hopkins Trust to investigate groundwater sustainability in central northern Africa
The Devonian Mass Extinctions: cataclysm or death by a thousand cuts? Nov 1, 2020 - Oct 31, 2024
NERC Standard Grant (January 2020 round) led by Sheffield. David Bond as Co-I, but on Sheffield's JeS form.
“Unpicking uncertainties in our interpretation of explosive eruptions: evidence from the Bronze Age Minoan eruption of Santorini" Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
A small solo research project involving fieldwork in Santorini and geochemical analysis at the University of Hull on the triped quad LA-ICP-MS
“Unpicking uncertainties in our interpretation of explosive eruptions: evidence from the Bronze Age Minoan eruption of Santorini" Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
A small solo research project involving fieldwork in Santorini and geochemical analysis at the University of Hull on the triped quad LA-ICP-MS. I was successful in two different grant applications to fund work on this project, so have set up a separa...
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Analysing the mobility of metals and Rare Earth Elements during deformation in calcite within the Flamborough Head Fault Zone Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
Dating faults and fractures can provide critical information on when faults moved and when and how fluid flowed through them. This is often critical information for the energy industry from determining maturity of many different types of reservoirs....
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When and Why does it Rain in the Desert: Utilising unique speleothem and dust records on the northern edge of the Sahara Apr 19, 2022 - Oct 25, 2025
Tropical semi-arid regions are key to understanding global climate telecommunications, and populations living in these areas are highly sensitive to climate change. An increase in aridity would result in serious famines, economic collapse, conflict a...
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Microplastics in the Ocean: Vertical transfer through intertidal food webs Jun 16, 2021 - Jul 15, 2021
This project aims to better understand the fate of microplastics (plastic fragments of < 5mm) in the marine environment. Microplastics (MP), have been found from highly urbanized areas to the remote Antarctic. It is starting to become clear that MPs...
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QR-GCRF 20.21.PPF13 - Strengthening Geoscience Education for Sustainable Development in Kenya May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2021
Geoscientists are fundamental to tackling many global challenges. Increasing resilience to environmental hazards (SDGs 1, 9, 11), access to clean water and safe sanitation (SDG 6), and the availability of renewable energy (SDG 7) requires an understa...
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Environmental change, evolution and extinction in the Triassic of northwest Pangaea Jun 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2024
This project examines “Environmental change, evolution and extinction in the Triassic of northwest Pangaea”. The Triassic period started unfavourably for life, with an unusually long and protracted recovery from the greatest biotic crisis in Earth h...
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Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula Jan 4, 2022 - Oct 3, 2023
The dominance of western Earth Sciences (i.e. geology and geosciences) discourses continues to (re)appropriate the contributions of the 'Other-indigenous' populations. At the end of the 18th century rocks, minerals and ores were considered part of th...
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GeoCoLab Dec 15, 2021 - May 31, 2022
The foundations of a discipline shape the way in which knowledge is created, by whom, for what, and dictate who is allowed to generate knowledge. Geoscience as an academic pursuit was born from colonialism, allowing for Western knowledge and scientis...
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Building solid ground for racial diversity in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences postgraduate research Dec 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022
There is a well-documented racial diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) subjects in the Global North, which leads to inequities in who does environmental research1,2. This project aims to increase participation and re...
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Barcoding Magmas: applying machine learning in zircon geochemistry to increase provenance accuracy Nov 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2024
Provenance studies analyse minerals in sedimentary successions to ascertain the source of that material in order to reconstruct past environments & climate as well as assessing the suitability of the sediment for resource exploration or carbon captur...
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NERC Researcher Engaged Academy Mar 15, 2022 - Jan 12, 2023
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Researcher Engage Academy is a 9-month online and experiential learning academy for environmental science researchers and project staff, either funded by NERC or working in research teams and/or institu...
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SmartLapilli - Royal Society International Exchange Nov 2, 2022 - Mar 2, 2023
Funding for visit the PELE flume at the University of Massey, NZ.