Sir David Anderson Bequest Award to visit National Geosequestration Laboratory

Sir David Anderson Bequest Award is a competitive internal award to be used in the field of Science and Engineering by either (a) inviting distinguished
persons from institutions in Europe or America to visit the University to take an active part in teaching and/or research or (b) to send University staff abroad to acquire knowledge which might not be available in this country.
I secured funding to visit the National Geosequestration Laboratory (NGL) – a partnership between Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), University of Western Australia and Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. NGL was awarded $48.4m (£26m) capital equipment funding in 2012 to develop a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to carbon storage research.
The bequest award funded a two month research visit in which I was based at the Australian Resources Research Centre, amongst CSIRO and NGL colleagues. My visit primarily aimed to pursue collaborative research on monitoring for CO2 leakage from geological carbon stores. This was to build on our existing collaborative work.

Funding for a two month research visit to the National Geosequestration Laboratory in Perth, Australia to work on environmental monitoring approaches and to strengthen collaboration between Strathclyde and CSIRO.