PhD in ‘Pure’ Sciences

Quantifying water movement through karstic limestone catchments is challenging due to marked variability in water flow in space and time./nThe project aims to develop means of determining flow distributions in three dimensions in a karstic limestone catchment, and how these distributions vary in time./nThe approach will involve both field and numerical modelling experimentation on a research catchment in the Carboniferous Limestone of the English Peak District, with access to a large, deep limestone quarry and unusually extensive datasets collected over decades./nAccess will be provided to ground-probing radar, hydrogeological field chemical and hydraulic testing equipment, drones, photogrammetry software, and specialist groundwater flow software./nThe researcher will be supported by a purposely large supervisory team. Location: Birmingham; research catchment: Carboniferous Limestone of the English Peak District.