Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/F/S/2001/00302
Mass spectrometry for organic analyses in environmental and petroleum biogeochemistry.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr DM Jones, Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor I Head, Newcastle University, Sch of Natural & Environmental Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Marine
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Palaeobiology
- Earth Resources
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Palaeoenvironments
- Abstract:
- The new instrumentation will greatly extend and renew the analytical capacity of the Institute, providing the ability to develop new research themes and to take new directions within ongoing research areas, including the three outlined. Lipids related to bacterially synthesised hopanoids occur in the geological record as markers of ancient bacterial populations and geological processes. The new equipment will be used to test the origin and input of functionalised hopanoids to sediments, and identify products of diagenetic reactions in the sedimentary column, thus defining the specific palaeoenvironmental information preserved in these molecular records. In-reservoir biodegradation of petroleum is of major economic importance, yet its mechanisms remain poorly understood. The new equipment will be used to identify metabolite compounds produced during anaerobic biodegradation to constrain the roles of various bacteria and test whether oil provides nutrient nitrogen for the degrading bacterial biomass. The evolution of land plants had one of the most dramatic effects on carbon dioxide palaeolevels of any process occurring within the past 550 Ma yet the influence of fungal activity on this process is unknown. The new instrumentation will be used in the identification of unequivocal molecular markers to investigate the contribution of fungi to early terrestrial ecosystems.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/F/S/2001/00302
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- JREI Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- JREI
This grant award has a total value of £52,850
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Equipment |
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| £52,850 |
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