Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/R009368/1
Improving understanding of veterinary medicine degradation and fate in manures and anaerobic digestion plants
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor P Kay, University of Leeds, Sch of Geography
- Grant held at:
- University of Leeds, Sch of Geography
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Pollution/pollution control
- Earth & environmental
- Biodegradation
- Diffuse pollution
- Pollutant budgets
- Pollutant pathways
- Pollutant transport
- Soil pollution
- Waste disposal
- Water pollution
- Pollution
- Bioremediation
- Diffuse pollution
- Soil contamination
- Soil pollution
- Water quality
- Soil science
- Water Quality
- Abstract:
- The presence of veterinary medicines in the environment has been investigated since the late 1990's (Halling-Sorensen et al., 1998) although we still know very little about their environmental fate (Grant et al., 2012; Slana and Sollner Dollenc, 2013; Jechalke et al., 2014). This is important as the Veterinary Medicines Directive necessitates that veterinary medicines are assessed for environmental risk and appropriate measures are put in place to mitigate against suspected negative environmental impacts. The central hypothesis that the project will test is that with an improved understanding of veterinary medicine degradation pathways we can mitigate environmental impacts by adopting the use of particular management options. These may include manure storage, use of on-farm anearobic digestors, and avoidance of compounds with the longest half-lives. Specific work packages will investigate the effect of manure type on degradation rates, the influence of manure storage facilities including on-farm anaerobic digestion on veterinary medicine fate, and the effect of manure application method.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/R009368/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- NPIF Allocation
This training grant award has a total value of £88,429
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Fees | Total - Student Stipend | Total - RTSG |
|---|---|---|
| £17,295 | £60,135 | £11,000 |
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