Projects

Natural attenuation

• Optimising enhanced groundwater bioremediation during pump and treatment intervention
• Predicting the natural attenuation of ethyl-tert-butyl ether (ETBE) in groundwater
• The environmental fate of resin-based dental restoratives

Restoration science and practice

• Enhancing bioremediation of soils contaminated with organic compounds and heavy metals
• Microbial fuel cells for enhanced in situ soil and groundwater bioremediation
• Electrokinetic-enhanced bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater
• Molecular biology approaches for the characterisation and the enhancement of PAH biodegradation in coke oven effluents

Biogeochemical processes

• More than Methane: Linking geomorphology and biogeochemistry to understand biogas emissions from two wetlands in Svalbard
• Microbial community dynamics across chemical interfaces and their role in bioremediation of plumes
• Microbial biofilm development and management in aircraft fuel systems

Catchment science and management

• Developing microbial and molecular fingerprinting of land drainage systems as a tool to achieve sustainable intensification

Closed projects

• LowPerm: understanding nutrient transport within permafrost landscapes
• Modelling fate and transport of radionuclides across biogeochemical interfaces within the Chemically Disturbed Zone around a deep geological waste disposal facility
• Microbial dynamics and biodegradation at the bioreactive fringe of contaminant plumes in groundwater
• Risks to groundwater supplies of drinking water from pesticides
• Bioavailability and biodegradation potential of hydrocarbons in polluted sites
• Advancing sustainable in situ remediation for contaminated land and groundwater (ADVOCATE Marie Curie ITN)
• BIGRAD: Biogeochemical gradients and radionuclide transport
• AQUAREHAB: Restoration of riverbank quality
• Risks to groundwater supplies of drinking water from pesticides
• Urban contaminant transfer dynamics in the River Don, South Yorkshire
• Source area bioremediation of DNAPL-contaminated sites (SABRE)
• Development of a novel in situ Aquifer Assessment Tool: The Dipole Flow and Reactive Tracer test
• Tracer tests in groundwater for assessment of pollutant behaviour
• Fluorescent imaging of permeable reactive barriers for remediation of radionuclide contaminated groundwater
• Metal-bacteria interactions at the mineral surface: modelling of the process and mechanistic implications
• Brownfield, flooding and climate change
• Natural attenuation of nitrogen compounds in the hyporheic zone
• Determining the intrinsic potential for MTBE degradation in the Chalk aquifer
• Site-specific hydrogeological studies to improve the understanding of risk assessment models for landfills
• Developing a methodology to predict quantitatively ammonium sorption in mineral landfill liners
• Processes controlling the natural attenuation of fuel hydrocarbons and MTBE in the Chalk aquifer
• Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification (INSPIRATION Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN)