Professor Zoe Shipton
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
Engineering the subsurface is critical to reaching net zero: underpinning new clean energy (geothermal, offshore wind); enabling large-scale energy storage (pumped storage hydropower; thermal storage, compressed air, hydrogen); and providing safe long-term storage of waste (geological disposal of CO2, radioactive waste disposal). My research spans fundamental geoscience research on subsurface processes, understanding geological and interpretational uncertainties, through to the social science of communicating these geological concepts & uncertainties, and demonstrating novel technologies through in-ground experiments. To help achieve the large-scale changes in our energy system and society that are needed to meet - and ideally exceed - our net zero targets, I work in close collaboration between academia, industry, government and civil society across a wide range of disciplines.
Prize And Awards
Publications
- Validating the application of cyclic hydraulic pressure pulses to reduce breakdown pressure in granite
- Kendrick Jackie Evan, Lamur Anthony, Mouli-Castillo Julien, Lightbody Alexander, Fraser-Harris Andrew, Edlmann Katriona, McDermott Christopher Ian, Shipton Zoe Kai
- iScience (2024)
- Using subtle variations in groundwater geochemistry to identify the proximity of individual geological structures : a case study from the Grimsel Test Site (Switzerland)
- Stillings M, Shipton ZK, Lord RA, Lunn RJ
- Geoenergy Vol 2 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1144/geoenergy2024-005
- Fingerprinting dissolved organic compounds : a potential tool for identifying the surface infiltration environments of meteoric groundwaters
- Stillings M, Lunn RJ, Shipton ZK, Lord RA, Thompson S, Knapp M
- Geoenergy Vol 2 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1144/geoenergy2023-036
- Cyclical hydraulic pressure pulses reduce breakdown pressure and initiate staged fracture growth in PMMA
- Mouli-Castillo Julien, Kendrick Jackie E, Lightbody Alexander, Fraser-Harris Andrew, Edlmann Katriona, McDermott Christopher Ian, Shipton Zoe Kai
- Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources Vol 10 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-024-00739-z
- Unravelling multiple thermotectonic events accommodated by the Highland Boundary Fault : insights from K–Ar dating
- McKay Lucy, Kemp Simon J, Leslie Graham A, Todd Andrew, Shipton Zoe K, Lunn Rebecca J, Booth John
- Journal of Structural Geology Vol 179 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.105030
- Rate-dependence of the compressive and tensile strength of granites
- Kendrick Jackie E, Lamur Anthony, Mouli-Castillo Julien, Fraser-Harris Andrew P, Lightbody Alexander, Edlmann Katriona, McDermott Christopher, Shipton Zoe
- Advances in Geosciences Vol 62, pp. 11-19 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-62-11-2023
Professional Activities
- A series of fortuitous events: Capture of carbon dioxide by milling of silicate minerals
- Speaker
- 29/1/2024
- Fault architecture in the Port Campbell Embayment, Otway Basin (Vic, Australia)
- Contributor
- 10/1/2024
- European Geoscience Union (EGU) 2020
- Speaker
- 6/5/2020
- European Geoscience Union (EGU) 2020
- Speaker
- 6/5/2020
- European Geoscience Union (EGU) 2020
- Speaker
- 5/5/2020
- Fracking Bad Language
- Contributor
- 30/1/2020
Projects
- Mechanochemical processing of silicate rocks for direct carbon capture (MACO2)
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Giesekam, Jannik (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator) Stillings, Mark (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- Understanding the rock fatigue mechanisms in underground hydrogen storage FUSE (Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund)
- Yang, Shangtong (Principal Investigator) Lunn, Rebecca (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
- Unlocking the Economic Opportunity of Minewater Geothermal Resources in Scotland-PhD support
- Shipton, Zoe (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- GigaWattHour Subsurface Thermal Energy storAge: Engineered structures and legacy Mine shafts: STEaM
- Shipton, Zoe (Principal Investigator) Burnside, Neil (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Yang, Shangtong (Co-investigator) Johnson, Gareth (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2022 - 12-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Deeming, Katherine
- Shipton, Zoe (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator) Deeming, Katherine (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2025
- Heat Flow in Complex Minewater Geothermal Systems (Studentship 2) – Digital Twin for Integration of Minewater Resources into Engineering Systems (“Studentship”)
- Burnside, Neil (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Zoe
Shipton
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: zoe.shipton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3183