Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/E00170X/1
Biogeochemical & Microbial analyses of deep saline hotwater aquifer in the Weardale granite
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor I Head, Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PL Younger, University of Glasgow, School of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor DAC Manning, Newcastle University, Sch of Natural & Environmental Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Earth Resources
- Hydrogeology
- Abstract:
- Opportunities to sample relatively undisturbed deep subsurface microbial communities rarely arise. This outline for an Urgency proposal relates to one such rare opportunity to sample a deep hot, saline aquifer in Eastgate, Weardale, and conduct microbiological and geochemical analyses on the samples. This will provide both fundamental data on the microbiota of a rarely explored environment and geochemical data that will provide clues to the source of the hot water and hence other potential areas for geothermal energy recovery, which could be contribute to the UK's renewable energy portfolio. Analysis of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes will be used to identify the source of the deep groundwater, chemical analysis will define the geochemical environment and process measurements coupled with analysis of the bacterial and archaeal communities will provide information on what supports the deep biosphere in this deep, hot saline aquifer.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/E00170X/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants (FEC)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Urgency
This grant award has a total value of £51,259
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £8,983 | £17,035 | £7,048 | £5,786 | £11,641 | £767 |
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