Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/R012377/1
Industrial Geophysical Course for Environmental Geoscientists
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Dr JK Pringle, Keele University, Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Keele University, Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Earth & environmental
- Science-Based Archaeology
- Assess/Remediate Contamination
- Geohazards
- Pollution
- Abstract:
- This proposed industrial strategy training course will provide attending students and early career researchers with crucial commercial near surface geophysical skills that are critical for the commercial sector for the non-invasive assessment, characterisation, monitoring and mapping of sub-surface problems across the whole of the environmental, geotechnical and geosciences sectors. Unfortunately, there is little postgraduate-level and early career researchers provision for bespoke, practical-based, industry-focused multi-disciplinary training in these methods available to present UK PhD students & ECRs with no NERC ATSC courses on geophysics currently. This Industry-University co-led, 5-day residential course will equip attendees with the essential knowledge, understanding, and critical outdoor equipment familiarity and resulting data processing skills that the real-world commercial sector needs. Aimed at environmental/natural and geoscientists, with limited theoretical and practical experience of geophysics, it is specifically catering for PhD students (at all stages of their studies) and early career researchers who wish, or intend, to enter the industrial sector. The course is practical-based, using current commercial geophysical and survey equipment and data processing/integration software that will provide crucial skills come employment in the commercial sector. The course not only delivers technical training in geophysical methods but also provides commercial pragmatism for the whole procedure from tendering for contracts, through to designing and executing geophysical surveys, data processing and integration, through to interpretation and client technical reports. Instruction will also be given in GIS mapping software and advanced visualisation & inversion/modelling software to analyse and interpret their results. At the end of the course, participants will have gained critical field-based geophysical survey technical skills, project management, survey design, data processing and commercial nous required for the commercial sector. This course will enhance the quality and breadth of NERC-based PGR and ECR courses and their application to industry.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/R012377/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- NPIF Training
This training grant award has a total value of £45,150
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £45,150 |
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