| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R03099/01 |
| Title: |
Platform Grant: Questor Centre Environmental Engineering For Contaminated Land & Groundwater |
| Principal Investigator: |
Kalin, Professor B |
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| Department: |
Sch Planning Architecture and Civil Eng |
| Organisation: |
Queen's University of Belfast |
| Scheme: |
Platform Grants (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 2001 |
Ends: |
31 January 2005 |
Value (£): |
420,987
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Assess/Remediate Contamination |
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| Environment |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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The proposed Platform Grant support would be used for strategic support for:1. Advanced knowledge-based enhanced Monitored Natural Attenuation and Permeable Reactive Barrier strategies such that they are cost-effective for the wider industrial community, including simplifying and reducing the costs of investigation and monitoring methods (abiotic and microbial) including the potential for application of these risk-based approaches in developing countries (Dr Walsh).2. Advancing environmental tracers to increase fundamental understanding of gas phase and biogeochemical processes in the unsaturated/saturated zone, and use this understanding to predict and mathematically model fate and transport processes in the subsurface (Dr Elliot).3. Advancing our fundamental understanding of natural abundance stable isotope biogeochemistry, how variation in the contaminated environment provides knowledge about microbial ecology, and how these tools can be used to better understand Natural Attenuation and biogeochemistry of the unsaturated zone (Prof Kalin).4. Parallel with themes 1,2 & 3, DR Larkin's group will continue to advance our understanding of the molecular biochemistry factors that determine the biodegradation of pollutants by complex microbial populations, and to develop rapid methods of identifying these factors at field sites.
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http://www.qub.ac.uk |