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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Monitoring Groundwater Contaminant Plumes using Airborne Geophysical Data |
| Research Area | EPA Water Pillar: Safe Water |
| Project Acronym | |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Ulrich Ofterdinger |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 54.5661384335217,-5.987548828125 |
| Lead Funding Entity | INTERREG |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 04/04/2013 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 27/09/2013 |
| Project Website (if any) | http://www.tellusborder.eu/Research/ |
| Links to other Web-based resources | http://www.tellusborder.eu/NR/rdonlyres/C183A5D1-A5C2-43B4-861F-880C502480FF/0/Wilson_et_al_plumes_postdoc.pdf? http://www.tellusborder.eu/NR/rdonlyres/A11295F7-DFE8-42B2-8C61-9FECB13498E2/0/MRobinson_TB_Poster.pdf |
| Project Keywords | Tellus Border, groundwater, contaminant plume, leachate, airborne electromagnetic, EM, geophysics, Northern Ireland |
| Project Abstract | Subsurface pollution plumes, originating from a variety of sources, pose a significant direct risk to water quality. Adequately capturing a groundwater contaminant plume with invasive monitoring installations can be prohibitively expensive. This research explores the incorporation of airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data into current assessment tools for the detection and monitoring of subsurface pollution plumes. The airborne data was collected within the scope of the original Tellus and subsequent EU-funded Tellus Border projects. |