The NEMO video describing what we are doing in the project has been launched. There is a short version and a long version. Watch it to know more this initiative studying how to reduce mine waste, transforming a “problem” into… Continue Reading
I am from a small town in Wales called Llandovery. After doing my undergraduate I found this amazing PhD opportunity at Cornwall. I have visited Cornwall several times and love the area. My favourite thing about Cornwall is definitely the… Continue Reading
In a secluded corner of the Mendip Hills can be found a nature reserve with a surprising history of ancient Roman mining, an 1863 lawsuit for environmental pollution, a major cave system beneath the surface and now the focus of… Continue Reading
Carmen Falagan, David Dew and Karen Hudson-Edwards are co-authors on the newly published paper ‘Bioleaching to reprocess sulfidic polymetallic primary mining residues: Determination of metal leaching mechanisms’ that is published open access in Hydrometallurgy. This is the first paper for… Continue Reading
Karen Hudson-Edwards has a new publication in Science of the Total Environment with her Chinese colleagues Wenxu Li and Jing Liu, entitled ‘Seasonable variations in arsenic mobility and bacterial diversity: The case study of Huangshui Creek, Shimen Realgar Mine, Hunan… Continue Reading
This September we welcome three new members to EM3. Dr Patrizia Onnis is joining us as a post-doctoral fellow on our NERC Legacy Wastes in the Coastal Zone project. Elin Jennings is starting her PhD on the same project. Lisa… Continue Reading
The first paper for our NERC Legacy Wastes in the Coastal Zone project, ‘Legacy iron and steel wastes in the UK: Extent, resource potential, and management futures’ is out in the Journal of Geochemical Exploration. It is full open access… Continue Reading
Characteristics and mechanisms of Pb(II) sorption onto Fe-rich waste water treatment residue (WTR): A potential sustainable Pb immobilisation technology for soils A new paper co-authored by Karen Hudson Edwards. See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123433 for full details, and here are the highlights: Water treatment… Continue Reading
My name is Magalí Vilariño, I am a 23-year-old Argentinean, senior student of environmental engineering at University of Nacional San Martín (UNSAM), in Buenos Aires. On January 2020 I had the pleasure to spend 6 weeks as a visiting student… Continue Reading
PhD scholarships are available for excellent students from ‘high income’ Commonwealth countries. Do you fit the bill and have an interest in research on: the behaviour of metals in the environment, the interactions of metals with minerals and microbes, mine… Continue Reading