Projects

Opportunities to work with or as part of the Greenhouse Gas Research Group will be posted here:

Students wishing to pursue a Masters by Research program are encouraged to contact Dr Dave Lowry or Prof Euan Nisbet to discuss project options.

Ongoing Projects
    Fugitive methane emissions from the gas distribution system:
                 (southern North Sea and UK midstream to downstream delivery)
    Environmental baseline monitoring associated with shale gas development
    New methodologies for methane removal from the atmosphere
    MEMO2 (MEthane goes MObile: MEasurement and MOdelling)
    The Global Methane Budget (MOYA)

Past Projects
NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) Funded Projects
    2015-2017 Methane Emissions in Kuwait and their Isotopic Signature
    2014-2014 Quantifying the uncertainty associated with predicting csg production impacts
                       (for the cotton research and development corporation)
    2015-2017 Methane at the edge: jointly developing state-of-the-art high-precision methods
                       (to understand atmospheric methane emission)
    2013-2016 Investigation of the southern methane anomaly: causes, implications,
                       and relevance to past global events
    2013-2014 Oxidation of methane by landfill cover soils
    2011-2015 Is the Arctic Methane Budget Changing? (NERC)
    2011-2016 MAMM – Methane and other Greenhouse Gases in the Arctic: Measurements,
                       Process Studies and Modelling. (NERC)
    2008-2013 Southern Ocean CO2
    2008-2011 Arctic Methane
    2007-2011 Arctic Hydrates

EC Funded
    2011-2015 InGOS (EU)
    2007-2011 GeoMan
    2007-2011 IMECC
    2006-2009 Eurohydros

Other Funded Projects
    2013 Methane oxidation by Landfill covered soils.
                         (With NPL Analytical Science Division and RHUL -DEFRA funded project)
    2011 Methane oxidation by landfill cover soils
                         (Funded by the National Physics Laboratory in conjunction with DEFRA)