Projects
Finding and fixing gas leaks: Using urban waterways to halt the global rise in methane emissions
UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to Dr Josh Dean and hosted by the University of Bristol. This £1.5 million project will address fundamental gaps in our ability to accurately measure methane emissions. It will provide tangible solutions to detect methane leaks and prevent their emission to the atmosphere.
We have recently hired two postdocs on this project, please check out our Research Team for more info.
We have recently hired two postdocs on this project, please check out our Research Team for more info.
The project outcomes will be delivered as a toolbox for research, industry and policy end-users, including:
- techniques to quantify methane emissions at the city-scale
- a freely available reference database with unprecedented information to identify methane origins using isotopes coupled to geochemical and microbial signatures
- bioindicators and bioremediation strategies to detect and reduce human-driven methane emissions to the atmosphere.
Project partners
- Prof Bob Hilton, University of Oxford
- Dr John Pohlman, United State Geological Survey
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Venice
- Picarro/Amiston
- Radboud University
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.
- University of Birmingham
- University of Manchester
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Utrecht University
- UK Canal and River Trust
- UK Environment Agency
CONFLUENCE - Disentangling the role of rivers as greenhouse gas conduits
UK Research and Innovation - Natural Environment Research Council funded project awarded to Dr Josh Dean (PI, University of Bristol), Prof Chris Evans (Co-I, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), and Prof Bob Hilton (Co-I, University of Oxford); additional funding provided by the National Environmental Isotope Facility. This £140,000 seedcorn project aims to build complimentary networks of novel techniques, sites and data as a foundation for disentangling the role of rivers as greenhouse gas conduits within the terrestrial-aquatic-atmosphere continuum. For example, where do river carbon emissions come from and what will be their importance to the global carbon cycle under predicted climate change?
This project includes a scoping study funded by the the National Environmental Isotope Facility: Do peatland wildfires change the age of
carbon released into rivers? This scoping study focuses on fieldwork in the Flow Country and on the Isle of Lewis in the north of Scotland looking at the C-14 age of carbon exported by rivers and streams following peatland wildfires in 2019 (Flow Country) and 2022 (Isle of Lewis).
Project partners
carbon released into rivers? This scoping study focuses on fieldwork in the Flow Country and on the Isle of Lewis in the north of Scotland looking at the C-14 age of carbon exported by rivers and streams following peatland wildfires in 2019 (Flow Country) and 2022 (Isle of Lewis).
Project partners
- Prof David Bastviken - Linköping University, Sweden
- Prof Emily Bernhardt - Duke University, USA
- Dr Valier Galy - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- Dr Robert Spencer - Florida State University, USA
- Dr Suzanne Tank - University of Alberta, Canada
- Dr Jorien Vonk - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Dr Marcus Wallin - Swedish Unviersity of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
The Enigma of the Soil Hydrogen Sink Variability [ELGAR]
UK Research and Innovation - Natural Environment Research Council funded project, led by Dr Eiko Nemitz (PI, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).
This £1.1 million project addresses Topic B ("Addressing the role of the terrestrial hydrogen sink") of NERC's "Environmental response to hydrogen emissions" programme. The aim of this project is to better understand the soil hydrogen (H2) sink using a combination of laboratory-based experiments and field observations. These measurements will enable us to quantify the magnitude of the H2 soil sink and how it responds to the most important controlling drivers for the major soil types, landuse types and climates. These comprehensive findings, from the experimental work, will be synthesised into a processbased model for incorporation into global atmospheric H2 modelling systems.
More details and job opportunities to come...
This £1.1 million project addresses Topic B ("Addressing the role of the terrestrial hydrogen sink") of NERC's "Environmental response to hydrogen emissions" programme. The aim of this project is to better understand the soil hydrogen (H2) sink using a combination of laboratory-based experiments and field observations. These measurements will enable us to quantify the magnitude of the H2 soil sink and how it responds to the most important controlling drivers for the major soil types, landuse types and climates. These comprehensive findings, from the experimental work, will be synthesised into a processbased model for incorporation into global atmospheric H2 modelling systems.
More details and job opportunities to come...