{"id":20492,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/akhurst-maxine\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:28:01","slug":"akhurst-maxine","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/akhurst-maxine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Maxine Akhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Skills &amp; qualifications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-5\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Maxine Akhurst&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2008 \u2013 ongoing : Lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary CCS and CO2 storage research projects<\/li>\n<li>2000 \u20132004 : Deputy programme manager, Integrated Geoscience Surveys North<\/li>\n<li>1998 \u20132014 : Project leader, research, survey and 3D modelling, Midland Valley of Scotland<\/li>\n<li>1994 \u20131997 : Project leader, multi-contractor commissioned research<\/li>\n<li>1991 \u20131999 : Survey geologist, Southern Uplands geological survey<\/li>\n<li>1989 \u20131991 : Sedimentologist, Marine Geology, BGS Edinburgh<\/li>\n<li>1988 : PhD University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Geology<\/li>\n<li>1984 : MSc University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Geology<\/li>\n<li>1980 : BSc University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Geology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Carbon Capture and Storage<\/li>\n<li>Application of numerical methods to palaeontological collections<\/li>\n<li>Architecture of geological survey data<\/li>\n<li>Applied geology of the Midland Valley of Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Southern Uplands sedimentological and structural evolution<\/li>\n<li>Contourite and turbidite sedimentology<\/li>\n<li>Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2017 \u20132020 : UK case study leader, UK- and EU-funded ELEGANCY hydrogen and CCS project<\/li>\n<li>2017 \u20132020 : Work Package Leader for Large-scale storage networks, UK- and EU-funded ALIGN-CCUS industrial CCS project<\/li>\n<li>2016 : Data champion for BGS-hosted UK CCS Research Centre Data and Information Archive<\/li>\n<li>2016 : Scientific lead for development of the CO2Stored, UK National CO2 storage database<\/li>\n<li>2013 \u20132015 : &#8216;GlaciStore&#8217; bid for IODP scientific drilling of overburden to North Sea CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage strata, UK-Norway consortium<\/li>\n<li>2013 \u2013 ongoing : CO2MultiStore Project, reducing the risks to the operation of a multi-user CO<sub>2<\/sub> store.<\/li>\n<li>2011 \u20132015 : QICS offshore CO<sub>2<\/sub> release project, site investigation, drilling, seismic monitoring and knowledge exchange.<\/li>\n<li>2011 \u20132013 : SiteChar, &#8216;Risk assessment-led characterisation and dry-run permit application for CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage in the Captain Sandstone.<\/li>\n<li>2009 \u20132011 : Project Leader, \u2018Progressing Scotland\u2019s CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage opportunities\u2019 2008 \u20132009 : Project leader, \u2018Opportunities for CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage around Scotland\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>2008 \u20132009 : Project leader, \u2018Opportunities for CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage around Scotland\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Published outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/1333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Dr Maxine Akhurst<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nKey papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2015: Akhurst, M, Hannis, S, Quinn, M, Shi, J-Q, Koenen, M, Delprat-Jannaud, F, Lecomte, J-C, Bossie-Codreanu, D, Nagy, S, Klimkowski, L, Gei, D, Pluymaekers, M, and Long, D. Risk assessment-led characterisation of the SiteChar UK North Sea site for the geological storage of CO<sub>2<\/sub>. Oil &amp; Gas Science and Technology-Revue d&#8217;IFP Energies nouvelles, accepted for publication.<\/li>\n<li>2015 : F Delprat-Jannaud, J Pearce , M AKHURST , C Nielsen , F Neele, A Lothe , V Volpi , S Brunsting and O Vinck\u00e9. 2015. SiteChar &#8211; Methodology for a fit-for-purpose assessment of CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage sites in Europe. Oil &amp; Gas Science and Technology-Revue d&#8217;IFP Energies nouvelles, accepted for publication.<\/li>\n<li>2015 : Nepveu, M, Neele, F, Delprat-Jannaud F, Akhurst, M, Vinck\u00e9, O, Volpi, V, Lothe, A, Brunsting, S, Pearce, J, Battani, A, Baroni, A, Garcia, B, Hofstee, C, and Wollenweber, J. 2015. CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage feasibility: a workflow for site characterisation. <em>Oil &amp; Gas Science and Technology-Revue d&#8217;IFP Energies nouvelles<\/em>, accepted for publication.<\/li>\n<li>2015 : Gruson, J-F, Serbutoviez, S, Delprat-Jannaud, F, Akhurst, M, Nielsen, C, Dalhoff, F, Bergmo, P, Bos, C, Volpi, V, and Iacobellis, S. 2015. Techno-economic assessment of four CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage sites. <em>Oil &amp; Gas Science and Technology-Revue d&#8217;IFP Energies nouvelles<\/em>, accepted for publication.<\/li>\n<li>2015 : Taylor, P, Stahl, H, Vardy, M E, Bull, J M, Akhurst, M, Hauton, C, James, R H, Lichtschlag, A, Long, D, Aleynik, D, Toberman, M, Naylor, M, Connelly, D, Smith, D, Sayer, M D J, Widdicombe, S, Wright, I C, and Blackford, J. 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijggc.2014.09.007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A novel sub-seabed CO<sub>2<\/sub> release experiment informing monitoring and impact assessment for geological carbon storage<\/a>. <em>International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>2014 : Blackford, J, Stahl, H, Bull, J, Berg\u00e8s, B, Cevatoglu, M, Lichtschlag, A, Connelly, D, James, R, Kita, J, Long, D, Naylor, M, Shitashima, K, Smith, D, Taylor, P, Wright, I, Akhurst, M, Chen, B, Gernon, T, Hauton, C, Hayashi, M, Kaieda, H, Leighton, T, Sato, T, Sayer, M, Suzumura, M, Tait, K, Vardy, M, White, P, and Widdicombe, S. 2014. Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage. <em>Nature Climate Change<\/em>, 4, 1011-1016<\/li>\n<li>2014 : Merritt, J W, Akhurst, M C, Wilkinson, I P, Riding, J B, Phillips, E R, Richard, Smith, A, Finlayson, A, and Dean, M T. 2014. The Late Pleistocene Afton Lodge Clay Formation, Ayrshire, Scotland: evidence for Early to Middle Devensian climatic changes and Late Devensian onshore ice flow and rafting from the Firth of Clyde. <em>Proceedings of the Geologists Association<\/em>, 125, 195-214.<\/li>\n<li>2012 : Jin, M, Mackay, E, Quinn, M F, Hitchen, K, and Akhurst, M C. 2012. Evaluation of the CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage capacity of the Captain Sandstone Formation. <em>Society of Petroleum Engineers<\/em>, 154539.<\/li>\n<li>2009 : Busby, J P, Akhurst, M C, and Walker, A S D. 2009. A high-resolution aeromagnetic dataset over central Ayrshire: insights into the concealed geology. <em>Scottish Journal of Geology<\/em>, v.45 (part 1), p 1-12.<\/li>\n<li>2008 : Stoker, M S, Golledge, N R, Phillips, E R, Wilkinson, I P, and Akhurst, M C. 2008. Lateglacial-Holocene shoreface progradation offshore Eastern Scotland: a response to climatic and coastal hydrographic change. <em>Boreas<\/em>, Vol. 83, 292-314.<\/li>\n<li>2002 : Akhurst, M C, Stow, D A V, and Stoker, M S. 2002. Late Quaternary glacigenic contourite, debris flow and turbidite process interaction. In Stow, D A V, Pudsey, C J, Howe, J A, and Faugeres, J-C. (editors.) Deep water contourite systems: modern drifts and ancient series, seismic and sedimentary characteristics. <em>Geological Society of London<\/em>, Memoirs 22, 73-84.<\/li>\n<li>2000 : Akhurst, M C, McMillian, A A, Stone, P, Kimbell, G S, and Merriman, R J. 2000 (for 2001). Silurian subduction-related assembly of fault-defined tracts at the Laurieston Fault, Southern Uplands accretionary terrane, Scotland, UK. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1998 : Akhurst, M C, Barnes, R P, Chadwick, R A, Millward, D, Norton, M G, Maddock, R H, Kimbell, and Milodowski, A E. 1998. Structural evolution of the Lake District Boundary Fault Zone in west Cumbria, UK. <em>Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society<\/em>, 52, 139-158. Akhurst, M C, and 24 others. 1997. The geology of the west Cumbria district. <em>Memoir of the British Geological Survey<\/em>, Sheets 28, 37 and 47 (England and Wales).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>CO<sub>2<\/sub> storage site screening, selection, appraisal, risk assessment and leader of storage site characterisation (multi-disciplinary modelling) to meet regulatory requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Geoscience data modelling<\/li>\n<li>Geoscience field survey and 3D computer modelling of bedrock and superficial deposits<\/li>\n<li>Leadership of multi-disciplinary geoscience research projects<br \/>\nSedimentology of turbidites and contourites<\/li>\n<li>Carbonate petrology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-5\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Professional associations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Member of Edinburgh Geological Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boards and committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directorate member of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":22434,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[178],"level":[],"location":[5],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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