Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, DSI - Environment, Earth Science, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, Understanding a changing planet
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Adaptation Pathways (Our Future Coast Work Package 4)
01/05/2025 → 30/04/2026
Research
Co-creation of volcanic hazard maps: from science to services
01/03/2025 → 28/02/2026
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Tracing the lost component of Himalayan glacier meltwater (LOSTMELT)
01/03/2025 → 28/02/2026
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DSI: 5D Antarctica (5DAIS)
27/11/2024 → 26/11/2027
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Suture zones that stitch together Antarctic ice shelves (ICESTITCH)
01/09/2024 → 31/08/2026
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Reimagining research practices: towards a sustainable, ethical and inclusive future
01/05/2024 → 30/04/2026
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Envision DTP: Volcanic fertilisation of tropical forest biomes (Chris Bengt)
01/10/2023 → 31/03/2027
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KTP with Thames Water Utilities Ltd
01/09/2023 → 30/09/2025
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KTP with Thames Water Utilities Ltd
01/09/2023 → 30/09/2025
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Austrian Science Fund. The subglacial speleothem archive. International Collaborator
01/08/2023 → 01/08/2025
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Plan Nacional, Ministerio de ciencia e innovacion. Understanding past, present and future environmental scenarios in the southern Iberian peninsula. Overseas collaborator
01/08/2023 → 01/08/2025
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METALLICA: MEltwater release of heavy meTALs from gLacIer to ocean in a Changing Arctic
01/07/2023 → 30/06/2026
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E3: Coastal Nature Lab
24/04/2023 → 31/08/2024
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Tracing generation, migration and accumulation mechanisms of natural gas resources with noble gases in the Tarim Basin, China
31/03/2023 → 30/09/2025
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Establishing a new palaeothermometer from the speleothem archive of phosphate oxygen isotopes
01/01/2023 → 30/06/2024
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Mapping Soils in Montserrat
21/12/2022 → 24/03/2023
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Analysis on all series noble gas component and isotopes in Dengying Formation
01/12/2022 → 30/11/2024
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FLF: Flow and fragmentation of melts and magmas: developing a unified view through experimental, numerical and field investigations
01/12/2022 → 30/11/2026
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Quantifying the combined nutrient enrichment, pathogenic, and ecotoxicological impacts of livestock farming on UK rivers
01/11/2022 → 16/07/2026
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Fragmentation and flow of gas-particle mixtures in volcanic systems
01/10/2022 → 30/04/2026
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Impact of the Plio-Pleistocene transition on provenance and sediment routing from the Himalaya to the deep-sea Bengal Fan
01/10/2022 → 30/06/2027
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Unravelling the internal dynamics of pyroclastic density currents
01/10/2022 → 31/10/2023
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NI: Pyroclastic Density Current Partnership (PDCP): A global partnership to align numerical models and experimental techniques
30/09/2022 → 31/03/2023
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Eco-geomorphological evolution of nascent saltmarshes on a hard engineered coastline
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2022
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Eco-geomorphological evolution of nascent saltmarshes on a hard engineered coastline
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2022
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WYR024: ECO-CoBS Coastal Buffer Strips
15/10/2021 → 30/03/2022
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E3: Morecambe Bay Timescapes; Engaging Young People in Visualising Coastal Futures
01/09/2021 → 30/03/2022
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IMPROVE : Innovative Multi-disciPlinary European Research training netwOrk on VolcanoEs
01/09/2021 → 31/08/2025
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Electrical imaging of potato crop irrigation
01/07/2021 → 31/08/2021
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The microbiology of Pooles cavern, UK
18/03/2021 → 18/03/2022
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Analysis on all series noble gas component and isotopes
19/11/2020 → 31/05/2023
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Runoff - Aerial Artificial Intelligence Land Use mapping Demonstrator
01/11/2020 → 30/10/2021
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Quantifying the impact of 3D effects on 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography data at Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick (Globalink: John Ball)
01/10/2020 → 30/06/2022
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Electrical imaging of surfactant transport in soils
01/02/2020 → 28/02/2021
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Detecting soil degradation and restoration through a novel coupled sensor and machine learning framework
31/01/2020 → 16/09/2024
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Tracing Environmental Impacts Associated with Shale Gas Production with Novel Integration of Isotopologue Thermometry and Noble Gases
01/12/2019 → 30/11/2022
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Groundwater nitrogen capture in the stalagmite record
01/11/2019 → 01/11/2022
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ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/12/2021
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Predicting geotechnical behaviour to hydraulic fracturing
01/04/2019 → 30/10/2019
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R4AsH : Radar-supported Next-Generation Forecasting of Volcanic Ash Hazard
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2024
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The application of stable and noble gas isotopes in modelling the accumulation mechanisms, occurrence types and origins of shale gas in the Sichuan and Ordos basins, China - Jamie Beagle
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2020
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GCRF Hub: Living Deltas
13/02/2019 → 30/09/2024
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MIDST-CZ: Maximising Impact by Decision Support Tools for sustainable soil and water through UK-China Critical Zone science
01/01/2019 → 31/03/2022
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ENVISION: Fracking magma: field and experimental investigation of hydrofracture in volcanic systems - Student: Holly Unwin
01/10/2018 → 30/11/2022
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Geophysical Monitoring of the Integrity of Water-retaining Earth Structures (John Ball)
01/10/2018 → 31/12/2022
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MSI: Protecting playgrounds
01/10/2018 → 30/09/2019
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Protecting playgrounds
01/10/2018 → 30/06/2021
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Understanding the origin, evolution and migration of coalbed methane in Qinshui and Erdos Basins, China
01/06/2018 → 31/12/2022
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Identifying and Evaluating New Environmental Risk Factors for Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Neurological Diseases through Innovative Approaches to Population-Based Exposure Assessment
02/04/2018 → 01/12/2020
Other
Eden Demonstration Test Catchments Phase 3
01/04/2018 → 31/05/2025
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Identifying and Evaluating New Environmental Risk Factors for Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Neurological Diseases through Innovative Approaches to Population-Based Exposure Assessment
01/04/2018 → 31/12/2020
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Predicting geotechnical behaviour to hydraulic fracturing, using multivariate geochemistry, sediment fabric and down-hole log data
01/04/2018 → 30/09/2018
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Applications of precision farming technologies to enhance rotations
01/03/2018 → 31/03/2022
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Indoor Particulate Matter and Personal Mitigation in Guangzhou, China
01/08/2017 → 01/08/2021
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Testing the 'megadrought' hypothesis : the timing, cause and impacts of climate change in equatorial Africa.
01/06/2017 → 31/05/2021
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Improving Air Quality, Energy Efficiency, Well-Being and Productivity in Private and Public Buildings
01/02/2017 → 01/03/2020
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Brake Dust Emissions
01/01/2017 → 30/04/2022
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New Zealand Catalyst grant: Magma geothermal energy
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2019
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Volcanic Valves: The permeability of tuffisites
29/03/2016 → 28/03/2020
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Forecasting river levels utilising non stationarity
01/01/2016 → …
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Case Studentship with BGS (Paul McLachlan)
01/10/2015 → 30/09/2019
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RAPID 2G Magenetometer with Field Tumbling Capability
01/12/2014 → 01/12/2018
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Chappell - CWC Extension Grant
01/10/2014 → 31/03/2015
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Resilience of Artificial Gravel Beach and Implications for Coastal Management
01/10/2014 → 30/09/2015
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Sediment source tracing, the Tamar basin
03/03/2014 → …
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Magnetic particles in human brains
03/02/2014 → …
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Controls on Soil Carbon Export revealed by Novel Tracers on multiple timescales
01/10/2013 → 30/09/2016
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Quantifying the methane flux from beneath an Icelandic glacier
30/09/2013 → 30/09/2016
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Understanding Katla; Iceland's Notorious and Restless Volcano: Lessons from 1918
01/07/2013 → 31/03/2016
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Piloting a Cost-Effective Framework for Monitoring Soil Erosion in England and Wales
01/06/2013 → 31/05/2016
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Algal Interactions with Freshwater Mussels in the River Ehen
22/03/2013 → 31/03/2020
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FP7: iTECC Investigating Tectonism Erosion Climate Couplings
01/01/2013 → 30/06/2017
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The of Lateral Exchange in Modulating the Seaward Flux of CNP
01/10/2012 → 31/12/2015
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Lead on LEC-SME linkage to Isoprime (Isotope ratio mass spectrometry manufacturers), incl. Centre for Global Eco-innovation funding
30/09/2012 → 30/09/2016
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Water Security - Feasibility Studies: Assessing the feasibility of using novel sub-micron, magnetic sorbent material for the removal of dissolved organic carbon from Blue Water
16/09/2012 → 15/03/2013
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Dalradian rock magnetic study: Northern Ireland
04/06/2012 → 05/05/2013
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Fabric of a Borderland Core
04/06/2012 → 03/06/2013
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magnetic susceptibilty as a proxy for identifying tropical soils affected by erosion, fire, drainage conditions & anthropogenic pollution
01/06/2012 → 31/01/2013
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Diversity in Upland Rivers for Ecosystem Service Sustainability - DURESS
01/05/2012 → 30/06/2016
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Differential scanning calorimetry
02/04/2012 → 31/03/2014
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An informatics based approach to monitoring glacier movement
01/01/2012 → …
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FP7: NEMOH: numerical, experimental & stochastic modelling of vOlcanic processes and hazards
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2015
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FP7: ROOTOPOWER: Empowering root targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural crops
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2015
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Determining the palaedrainage history of the Nile River: Investigating land-ocean atmosphere inter.
01/10/2011 → 30/09/2015
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Quantifying degassing-driven crystal growth in basaltic lavas
29/08/2011 → 28/08/2012
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NERC funded PhD studentship NE/I527953/1
01/01/2011 → 30/04/2015
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Fracture and Fluid Flow in Volcanic Conduits and Lava Domes
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2015
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High resolution isotope analysis of Iberian speleothem deposits
01/09/2010 → 30/03/2014
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Mapping & Sampling of the tephra fallout
20/06/2010 → 19/12/2010
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The Svalbard Exemplar of neoproterozoic glaciation
01/04/2010 → 30/04/2014
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New Cleveleys Argus Video System
01/10/2009 → 01/09/2013
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River capture in the easternmost himalaya
01/09/2009 → 30/06/2013
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Implications of groundwater surface water connectivity for nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone
01/01/2009 → 30/04/2012
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The effects of degassing and effusion rate fluctuations on the evolution of basaltic lava flow
01/01/2009 → 31/12/2012
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Goldschmidt Conference
13/07/2008 → 24/07/2008
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Sustainable regeneration: From evidence based urban futures to implementation
01/05/2008 → 30/04/2012
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The origin of sulphur isotopic variations in coral
01/04/2008 → 01/04/2009
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Within LEC, the Earth Science Group research activities span four main areas of expertise:
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The Volcanology research group at Lancaster investigates the processes that control hazardous volcanic activity. We have a wide range of expertise, spanning field measurement, experimentation, numerical modelling and geochemistry. Our current projects include characterisation of advancing basalt and rhyolite lava flows using imaging techniques, investigation of Strombolian eruptions using analogue experiments, the study of ash generation and transport in recent Icelandic eruptions, experimental degassing and crystallisation of magma, and both modelling and geochemical studies of volcano-ice interactions.
Our research in contemporary environmental processes aims to better understand the dynamics involved in glacial, coastal and fluvial systems, as well as studying atmospheric particulate pollution Our active projects employ a wide range of approaches ranging from remote sensing to magnetic and isotopic techniques.
Our research into sub-surface fluids involves studying the wide variety of fluids that are found in the Earth's crust. We have diverse projects ranging from looking at groundwater quality and flow to how hydrocarbon reservoirs form and evolve. We are actively engaged in analytical and modelling studies of natural CO2 in the subsurface, not only as a means to understand how safe carbon capture and storage is, but also as a way to identify how the crust and the atmosphere interact over geological time. We also have interests in the subsurface processes that occur during fracking.
We reconstruct palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates on a range of temporal and spatial scales. Our work includes determination of palaeogeographies and hinterland tectonics, and palaeoclimatic reconstruction and dating involving variety of approaches including the use of lake sediment records, stable isotopes, dendrochemistry and speleothems<, volcanic facies and degassing data and both palaeomagnetism and environmental magnetism.
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