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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Impact of the Plio-Pleistocene transition on provenance and sediment routing from the Himalaya to the deep-sea Bengal Fan
01/10/2022 → 21/07/2026
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IMPROVE : Innovative Multi-disciPlinary European Research training netwOrk on VolcanoEs
01/09/2021 → 31/08/2025
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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FP7: iTECC Investigating Tectonism Erosion Climate Couplings
01/01/2013 → 30/06/2017
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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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FP7: NEMOH: numerical, experimental & stochastic modelling of vOlcanic processes and hazards
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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Fracture and Fluid Flow in Volcanic Conduits and Lava Domes
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2015
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Mapping & Sampling of the tephra fallout
20/06/2010 → 19/12/2010
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River capture in the easternmost himalaya
01/09/2009 → 30/06/2013
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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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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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