Dr Keith Torrance

Research Fellow

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Personal statement

I joined the University of Strathclyde in 2019 as a research fellow to work on the SURICATES project under Dr. Richard Lord, investigating the beneficial reuse of dredged canal sediments. I also work part-time as a work-based learning advisor on the graduate apprenticeship program and teach CL989 isotope hydrology. My background is as an environmental scientist and chartered geologist, working within the environmental and mining sectors in North America and Europe over a career spanning 30 years. My interests are arsenic geochemistry, contaminated land management, contaminated sediment characterisation, contaminant geochemistry, environmental impact statements, groundwater hydrology, waste characterisation, environmental baseline studies for mining projects, and site remediation. Since 2012, I have been managing contaminated land projects in Arctic Alaska that are related to historical mining and oil & gas production.

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Prize And Awards

SEGH Fellow: Recipient; 4/7/2023
PMP: Recipient; 1/5/2016
PH: Recipient; 12/9/2015
EurGeol: Recipient; 20/2/2015
CGeol: Recipient; 4/4/2014
CPG: Recipient; 5/11/2013

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Publications

Baseline characterization of Pb-Zn-Cu-Cd-As mine soils using pXRF for phyto-stabilisation trials using Phalaris arundinacea: Torrance Keith, Nunn Benn, Lord Richard, Lapeche Valerie, Coftier Aline, Hamilton Alasdair, Lemiere Bruno; SEGH 2023 (2023)
Repurposing dredged canal sediment for topsoil at Bowling, Scotland: Torrance Keith, Lord Richard Alastair, Hamilton Alasdair, Berry Paul; Sustainability Vol 15 (2023); https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129261
Editorial : the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH): 50 years and beyond: Watts M J, Argyraki A, Barbieri M, Brown A, Button M, Finkelman R, Gibson G, Humphrey O, Huo X, Hursthouse A S, Kaninga B, Marinho Reis P, Middleton D R S, Morton-Bermea O, Nazarpour A, Olatunji A S, Osano O, Potgieter-Vermaak S, Prater C, Torrance K, Wong M H, Zhang C, Zia M; Environmental Geochemistry and Health Vol 45, pp. 1165-1171 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01192-7
A downscaled economic model validated and applied to sediment management projects in Ireland and Scotland: Harrington J, Sulivan R O', Hamilton A, Lord R, Torrance K, Wijdeveld A, Debuigne T, Masson E, Batel B; Journal of Soils and Sediments Vol 22, pp. 2900-2911 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-022-03267-z
The application of a downscaled economic model for sediment management projects in Ireland and The Netherlands: Harrington J, Wijdeveld A, Wensveen M, Hamilton A, Lord R, Torrance K, Debuigne T, Masson E, Batel B; Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2022 (2022)
ContaminatEd land remediation through energy crops for soil improvement to liquid biofuel strategies : [making sustainable biofuels on formerly contaminated land]: Nunn Benjamin, Lord Richard, Torrance Keith; All-Energy and Decarbonise 2022 (2022)

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Professional Activities

Towards net-zero sediment management of inland waterways – comparing embedded and embodied carbon emissions for dredging and reuse scenarios: Contributor; 7/9/2023
Social, Economic and Environmental Analyses for Sediment Reuse Applications: Contributor; 7/9/2023
Beneficial use of sediments for our future: compared pathways for taking profit of them as resources for new challenges: Contributor; 7/9/2023
Lessons from pilot-scale sediment reuse projects on the Scottish canal network.: Speaker; 6/9/2023
Beneficial Reuse Of Any Dredged Sediment Environmental Assessment Tool (BROADSEAT)- An open access tool for circular economy optioneering: Contributor; 6/9/2023
A mobile & continuous granulometric classification & dehydration pilot to improve sediment reuse strategies. Case studies & results interpretation: Contributor; 6/9/2023

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Projects

University of Strathclyde Centre for Sustainable Development, Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training for Sustainable Development: Lord, Richard (Principal Investigator) Torrance, Keith (Principal Investigator); 50% co-funding for PhD studentship bursary and stipend award (£37.6K) matching £37.6K from CERESiS H2020 project.; 01-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2026
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

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