Personal statement
I joined the University in 2012 as Senior Lecturer in Engineering Geoscience, at title reflecting my broad interests in the application of engineering to societal challenges. My research and professional interests include the remediation of contaminated land, identifying sustainable sources of renewable energy and other ecosystem services, and the exploration for, exploitation and environmental impacts of geological resources.
My teaching duties include leading the "Energy Design Projects" for MEng & MSc Civil Engineering students
Professional activities
- Can non-agricultural, brownfield or contaminated land be used for sustainable bioenergy production
- Speaker
- 12/7/2021
- Beneficial use of river sediments as topsoil for passive carbon capture and storage during land restoration and energy crop production – A Net Zero management option
- Speaker
- 2/7/2021
- Results of long-term monitoring of a river sediment reuse and phyto-stabilisation trial using reed canarygrass
- Speaker
- 2/7/2021
- Beneficial use of river sediments as topsoil for passive carbon capture and storage during land restoration and energy crop production
- Speaker
- 10/2/2021
- SedNet Working Group on Sediments in the Circular Economy
- Organiser
- 15/4/2020
- Applied Sciences (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 7/4/2020
More professional activities
Projects
- ContaminatEd land Remediation through Energy crops for Soil Improvement to liquid fuels Strategies
- Lord, Richard (Principal Investigator) Torrance, Keith (Co-investigator) Nunn, Benjamin (Post Grad Student)
- Horizon 2020 project, addressing call *LC-SC3-RES-35-2020: Combined clean biofuel production and phytoremediation solutions from contaminated lands worldwide
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- Development of Framework for Sustainable Decommissioning by Utilising the expertise gained in Ship Recycling
- Turan, Osman (Principal Investigator) Beverland, Iain (Co-investigator) Kurt, Rafet (Co-investigator) Lord, Richard (Co-investigator) Phoenix, Vernon (Co-investigator) Gunbeyaz, Sefer Anil (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- Feasibility of phytoremediation on former mine sites, Derwent Reservoir catchment, NE England
- Lord, Richard (Principal Investigator)
- 18-Jan-2018 - 17-Jan-2021
- What happens to groundwater chemistry during fault slip: implications for rock friction (£1.2K)
- Stillings, Mark (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator) Lunn, Rebecca (Co-investigator) Lord, Richard (Co-investigator)
- Mimicking the pressure changes in groundwater during earthquakes. Changes in groundwater pressure can trigger precipitation and dissolution of minerals, changing water chemistry and fracture surfaces. This in turn can lead to changes in rock friction, potentially increasing the magnitude of future earthquakes.
- 31-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- Groundwater geochemistry changes during unloading due to reservoir drainage: Main study (£25K)
- Lord, Richard (Principal Investigator) Stillings, Mark (Post Grad Student) Lunn, Rebecca (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator) Boyce, Adrian J. (Co-investigator)
- Use of NERC Isotope Community Support Facility Application IP-1762-1117 (£25K)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- SURICATES Interreg NWE 462 - Sediment Uses as Resources in Circular And Territorial Economies.
- Lord, Richard (Principal Investigator) Bertram, Doug (Co-investigator) João, Elsa (Co-investigator) Zawdie, Girma (Co-investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
- €5.7M Interreg NWE Industrial Research Partnership
- 21-Jan-2017 - 21-Jan-2022
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Address
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James Weir Building
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