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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? Heating buildings in the UK accounts for around 20% of the country’s total carbon emissions. In a recent PoliticsHome article in The House Magazine, Fleur Loveridge discusses the need for strategic investments in technologies like heat pumps and district heating to ensure a sustainable future while minimising infrastructure costs. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:  · Why the cheapest capital costs are not always the most sustainable options. · The importance of adopting a place-based approach and taking advantage of local heat resources. · Heat networks and shared ground heat exchange systems as steps to revolutionise heating homes and buildings. · The importance of local and regional planning processes to facilitate change. Read the article in full 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2Q6c5aG

We had the great pleasure of collaborating with the British Geological Survey (BGS) this month. Joe Kelly attended the BGS opening event of the new UK Geoenergy Observatory #UKGEOS in Cheshire on Tuesday, 8th October. The event showcased the facilities and ongoing research in #geothermal energy at the site. As part of the #SmartRes project, Joe Kelly and fellow University of Leeds researchers will conduct experiments at the Observatory in the coming months. Learn more about the SmartRes project 👉 https://lnkd.in/d9tRTkzG Following the visit, Emma Bramham, Fleur Loveridge, Joe Kelly, Simon Rees, Arka Dyuti Sarkar, David Barns, Sjoerd de Ridder, and Charlotte Botter welcomed Dr Mike Spence from the BGS #UKGEOS at the University of Leeds. They showed Dr Spence the Living Lab for Net Zero and the GeoCoDA core analysis labs. He expressed interest in the physical cores from below campus and offered helpful suggestions for Arka Dyuti Sarkar's modelling work on the subsurface thermal system. Dr Spence and the geothermal group discussed opportunities for future collaboration and the potential for #UKGEOS complementary research at the Geothermal Campus labs. This presents avenues for the Living Lab to add to the growing body of work into characterising UK aquifers and their potential for geothermal energy. To learn about the Living Lab for Net Zero 👉https://lnkd.in/eb2TZSwz

'Buried blue carbon is good carbon'. That was the title of Prof Natasha Barlow's presentation at the Science Foo Camp (#SciFoo) in Cambridge this summer. In this talk, Prof Barlow explores the role blue carbon stores play in the global carbon cycle and their potential as nature-based solutions to the climate crisis. She highlights the importance of balancing the need to develope a green economy whilst protecting naturally stored carbon. Listen to the talk here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/drPUPQRT ✏ and let us know what you think in the comments.

One of the founding members of our management board, Prof Natasha Barlow, will take part in a two-day field trip organised by the QRA Engineering Group, Glacial Landsystems Working Group and Engineering Group of the Geological Society (EGGS). The meeting will take place on the Yorkshire Coast between 24-27 October. It will focus on the imprint of the North Sea lobe of the LGM ice sheet, its effects on offshore engineering associated with the #energy #transition, and the impacts of glacial sediments on erosion and cliff instability at the coast. Led by Natasha Barlow, Paul Fish, Jonathan Lee, Mark Lee and Dave Roberts, the trip will attract a broad range of university researchers and engineering practitioners who are working on glacial sediments, sea-level change and cliff instability in glaciated environments.  #Geology #Engineering #EnergyTransition #AcademicResearch #IndustryCollaboration  

The University of Leeds and Jacobs recently hosted #NWS at the School of Earth and Environment and LEMAS laboratories. The tour of the laboratories included the Wolfson Laboratory (Quentin Fisher), the Leeds Electron Microscopy And Spectroscopy Centre (Richard Walshaw), the Geosolutions Leeds geomechanics laboratory (David Healy), and the engineering geology teaching and research laboratories (Bill Murphy, Mark Thomas, Mark Hildyard, and Chrysothemis Paraskevopoulou). In addition to the laboratory visits, the current University of Leeds and #RSO affiliate PhD students Thomas Berry and Amanda N. presented updates on their research on the self-sealing of mudstones and the impact of thermal loading on mudstones, respectively. Andrew Wiseall Nuclear Waste Services David Eastwell CGeol Helen Reeves Amy Nettleship Sam Allshorn

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Colin Sayers from the University of Houston for a day at the School of Earth and Environment. Professor Sayers had a chance to talk to some of our colleagues, including Adam Booth, Mark Hildyard, Quentin Fisher, and David Healy, who showed him the department. He also delivered an insightful talk on "Rock physics-based characterization of microcracks and fractures in crystalline rocks of interest as geothermal reservoirs". The presentation was based on his latest research (links below) and discussed data from the Utah FORGE project that measured P- and S-wave velocities using sonic logging in a granitic geothermal reservoir (data available at https://lnkd.in/gpgdCs-A). If you're curious about Prof Sayers' work, check out the publications below:  🔗 https://lnkd.in/dhx9YTDu 🔗https://lnkd.in/dCe8M3RD We're grateful for the opportunity to connect and learn from his expertise!

👀 Looking to start your week with an insightful read? We've got you covered. 📖 Read the latest PoliticsHome article authored by our colleague Fleur Loveridge in The House Magazine👉 https://lnkd.in/e2Q6c5aG. The article focuses on the importance of decarbonising heating to meet the UK's climate goals and the need for strategic investments in heating infrastructure to ensure a sustainable future while minimising costs. Let us know what you think in the comments! ✏

We're excited to share that our colleague Emma Bramham attended last week's Subsurface Heat Geospatial Platform Workshop, hosted by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the British Geological Survey in London. 🤝 The workshop brought together key people from industry, the public sector and academia. 🗨️ The discussions centred around the design of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Subsurface Heat Geospatial Platform for Geothermal Information. The platform is set to facilitate early-stage assessments of the feasibility of #geothermal technologies in the UK. #GeothermalEnergy #Sustainability #Collaboration

We’re excited to share highlights from the recent MISSION-CCS Network Wide Training Workshop at the DTU - Technical University of Denmark. 🌍 The event brought together representatives from four academic institutions, including Geosolutions Leeds, and 12 industry partners. 👋 Our colleague, Prof Richard Barker FiCorr, started the workshop by welcoming the new doctoral candidate researchers and discussing the importance of their professional development for MISSION-CCS. 💭 There were insightful talks from Wood, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and the University of Leeds on the global status of carbon capture and storage (CCS), the challenges and opportunities in this area, and the analytical methods for studying material degradation in CCS systems. 🤝 A dedicated session on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion explored some exciting ideas for embedding ED&I principles into the MISSION-CCS Network. 💻 Prof Harvey Thompson assigned an exciting exercise to the doctoral candidate researchers focusing on Python programming for flow modelling and optimisation. #CarbonCaptureStorage #MISSIONCCS #ResearchInnovation #Sustainability #CCS

We're excited to invite you to Prof Natasha Barlow's inaugural lecture next week! 📅 Date: 14th October 🕛 Time: 6pm - 7pm 📍 Location: Michael Sadler RBLT (LG.X04), University of Leeds The lecture is free and open to the public. It is an opportunity to learn about Prof. Barlow's academic journey and her research. 👉 Book your place 👉 https://lnkd.in/deR9uu36 Prof Natasha Barlow is a founding member of Geosolutions Leeds management board and Professor of Environmental Change. Her research focuses on past, present and future environmental change, particularly understanding of the rates and mechanisms of sea-level change, alongside improving predictions of long-term future coastal response and ice-sheet mass balance. She is currently PI on the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant RISeR project; and Co-PI of a Joint Industrial Partnership in geoscience and offshore wind. She is also a member of the QRA Engineering Group committee and (PAGES) Past Global Changes Scientific Steering Committee. Join us in celebrating her achievements and contributions to the field!