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One of these initiatives includes an award of £2·8m to a consortium of institutes led by Heriot-Watt University to host a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT).
The centre will focus on creating a highly skilled workforce with expertise that can be used across the wider energy and environment sectors, as well as filling skills gaps in the oil and gas sector. This will equip the industry with the skills needed to reduce the environmental impact of oil and gas extraction.
The consortium includes world-leading institutes in this field, such as Imperial College London, the universities of Aberdeen, Durham, Manchester and Oxford, and the British Geological Survey (BGS).
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The DTPs will support 1200 PhD students across the 15 partnerships. This means at least 240 new students will begin training every year for five years, with the opportunity for partners to co-fund, boosting the number of studentships available.
The fifteen partnerships include collaborations between 38 UK higher education institutions and 280 partner organisations, including businesses, policy-makers, and public and third sector organisations, such as Unilever, Scottish Water, and The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
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Based in Edinburgh, the Sir Charles Lyell Centre will be one of Europe's leading centres for research and expertise in the earth and marine sciences.
Jointly funded by UK and Scottish funders, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and Heriot-Watt University, The Sir Charles Lyell Centre will promote innovative research at the core of geoscience, marine ecology, computing, mathematics and engineering.
The Lyell Centre will create a world-leading research cluster bringing science and technology together to tackle major issues of natural resource and energy supply in a responsible and sustainable way.
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The interactive exhibits include a 3D augmented reality sandbox, tsunami safety demonstrations and a 2708 gallon pool that will allow visitors to pilot an underwater ‘Remotely Operated Vehicle’ (ROV). All visitors are encouraged to engage with our scientists, they’re keen to share knowledge and inspire excitement for the Earth Sciences. They also promise there’s no such thing as a stupid question!
The groundbreaking G-BASE project has employed hundreds of volunteers and BGS staff to collect over 500,000 geochemical samples from 120,000 locations between the Shetland Islands and Land’s End.
This high-resolution information has been used to find gold, identify sources of dangerous radon gas and is fundamental to dealing with current societal impacts of environmental change such as water pollution and contaminated land.
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This upgrade improves access to information contained in CO2 Stored on storage sites under the UK seabed, enabling users to find out about storage locations, their characteristics and their storage capacity. Through search and display functions the data can be sorted in a number of ways, including by:
- geological formation
- name of hydrocarbon (oil or gas) production area
- key attributes about the geological storage such as porosity, injectivity, fracture pressures and storage risks
This is the latest step in a five year development programme providing definitive access to the data for industry, government and others interested in the prospects of storing CO2 around the UK. Launched in June 2013, plans for the second year of development are underway. Further dialogue with users from industry, academia and government will take place shortly to better understand their needs and identify further development opportunities. Additional feedback can be provided through www.co2stored.co.uk.
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