A5101945276- CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Geological formations and processes
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Water resources management and optimization
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Plant and animal studies
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
James Hutton Institute
2016-2025
University of Edinburgh
2015-2024
Natural History Museum
2004-2020
Edinburgh College
2020
Timber Institute
2019
Newcastle University
2006-2017
Rothamsted Research
2017
City University of New York
2014
University of Glasgow
1992-2005
University of Leicester
1990-2003
This article identifies and discusses the scientific challenges of hydrogen storage in porous media for safe efficient large-scale energy to enable a global economy.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) can help nations meet their Paris CO2 reduction commitments cost-effectively. However, lack of confidence in geologic security remains a barrier to CCS implementation. Here we present numerical program that calculates leakage the atmosphere over 10,000 years. This combines quantitative estimates geological subsurface retention, surface leakage. We calculate realistically well-regulated regions with moderate well densities has 50% probability below 0.0008% per...
The geological storage of hydrogen is necessary to enable the successful transition a economy and achieve net-zero emissions targets. Comprehensive investigations must be undertaken for each site ensure their long-term suitability functionality. As such, systematic infrastructure potential risks large-scale established. Herein, we conducted over 250 batch reaction experiments with different types reservoir sandstones under conditions representative subsurface, reflecting expected time scales...
Nature Based Solutions (NBS) for water resources management have potential to mitigate climate change impacts, including more frequent flooding and droughts.Successful uptake requires knowledge on the effects of NBS type design high low flows.The cost-benefits impacts these yield are also essential.Here, we used a modelling framework explore two common types (Runoff Attenuation Features [RAFs] tree planting), both varying in design, specifically location scale.Data from an upland Scottish...
Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and ecosystem restoration are often conflated, but cannot be assumed to identical. Understanding choosing between different framings is important. It affects our ambitions for reinvigorating natural systems, the range of actors resources that can drawn on achieve them, every part how interventions planned, delivered appraised. To explore differences relationships concepts we focus freshwater catchment management initiatives, points relevant initiatives focused...
Elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 are implicated in global warming. Mitigation this requires capture from fossil fuel power sources and storage subsurface aquifers or depleted hydrocarbon fields. Demonstration projects financial analysis suggest that is technologically feasible. must retained below ground for 104 y into the future to enable surface carbon cycle reduce levels. To provide robust predictions performance disposal sites at required timescale, one approach study natural...
Research Article| January 01, 2009 Long-term performance of a mudrock seal in natural CO2 storage Jiemin Lu; Lu 1School GeoSciences, The University Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Scotland *Current address: Bureau Economic Geology, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School Geosciences, Texas at Austin, 78758, USA; E-mail: jiemin.lu@beg.utexas.edu Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Mark Wilkinson; Wilkinson R. Stuart Haszeldine; Haszeldine Anthony E. Fallick 2Scottish...
Geochemical models of CO 2 injection into reservoir sandstones often predict the growth minerals that will permanently store in solid form, and experiments record significant fluctuations porewater chemistry on a short time scale.Yet proportion reaction may be small, even over geological scales.A southern North Sea (UK) gas accumulation with high natural content (c.50 %) forms analogue to engineered storage, provides calibration point for computer -rock reaction.In site, carbonate mineral...
Abstract On 5–6th September 2008, prolonged rainfall in the north east of England resulted flooding many towns. Belford lies within this region and has a history flooding, but on occasion, was minimal. Numerous houses businesses are at risk traditional flood defence measures not considered to be cost effective. In year before storm, series runoff attenuation features had been developed catchment (∼6 km 2 ) as part Farm Integrated Runoff Management plans. Water‐level data from stream pilot...
Abstract Hydrological catchments today are largely the product of human activity. They have been engineered. The negative impacts some this engineering such as deforestation and agriculture intensification need to be addressed but solution is not simply a matter doing opposite, for example through afforestation or moving less‐intensive farming. We propose catchment systems (CSE) approach that utilizes expands on existing catchment‐based approaches, combining interventions work with mimic...
Diffuse pollution, globally affecting water quality by delivery of sediment, nutrients, pathogens and agro-chemicals from farmland, often has dominant flowpaths connecting to discrete channel points, where field-edge mitigation can be optimally targeted. Accurate representation field convergent flow paths (CFPs) inform decisions on riparian planning. For three fields in Wexford, Ireland, we combined literature, catchment data, field-survey spatial data methods derive sediment P exports...
River woodlands can play a critical role in supporting healthy and biodiverse riverscapes, providing essential ecosystem services such as flood mitigation, drought resilience, carbon storage, biodiversity. In Scotland, 50% of national riparian length is designated degraded, which underscores the urgency restoring conserving river woodlands. These ecosystems are pivotal addressing twin crises biodiversity loss climate change while local resilience livelihoods. However, creation conservation...