Legacy Waste in the Coastal Zone project website now live
Our NERC-funded project ‘Legacy Waste in the Coastal Zone’ now has a website. Please visit it here and keeping checking for new updates.
Research news
Postdoc available LiFT: Lithium for Future Technology
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in the NERC consortium project LiFT: Lithium for Future Technology (https://twitter.com/Li4FutureTech). This NERC funded post is available 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2023. The project aims to better understand the Earth… Continue Reading
Lithium for Future Technology
We have just been awarded a NERC highlight topic grant for ‘Lithium for Future Technology’. This is a consortium led by the British Geological Survey with many academic and industrial partners. The project will research how to ensure a sustainable… Continue Reading
PhD available – The influence of subsurface microbiology on geoenergy systems
A geoenergy renaissance is required for a low carbon economy and energy security of supply. Geoenergy systems that have been proposed include disused coal workings for district heating (see image below, https://www.ukgeos.ac.uk/) granites for geothermal electricity and combined energy and… Continue Reading
PhD available – Natural biogeochemistry of lithium: resource formation, biorecovery and environmental impacts
Lithium will power our low-carbon future. It is essential for lightweight batteries used to store renewable energy and power electric cars. There are three main sources of lithium: geothermal brines found in granite bedrock, brines sourced from salt lakes (see… Continue Reading
NEMO video release
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
Fungi and bacteria naturally cleaning up pollution from former mining activities
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
First NEMO project paper from our group published
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
New paper on arsenic mobility and bacterial diversity out in STOTEN
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
First paper out from NERC Legacy Waste in the Coastal Zone project
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