Organisation Outline:
The Environmental and Soil Science department within the School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences (SAFS) is committed to research towards the creation
of sustainable urban, peri-urban and rural environments. This covers many areas of science including biogeochemistry, waste management, soil science,
hydrology, forestry, plant physiology and ecology, mathematical modelling, economics, agronomy and sociology. Specific areas within the research programme
include: Waste, pollution and health; Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Ecosystem restoration; Root research; Polar environments; Modelling; Economics;
Plant ecophysiology; Soil Science.
The Environmental Inorganic Chemistry research group within the Department of Chemistry works on the regeneration of contaminated land, the study of natural
ecosystems and selective ion removal. They are studying new encapsulation and stabilisation processes for the treatment of tar pits and also radionuclei
contaminated soil. The project is centred on the development of new E-clays to be used in conjunction with cementatious technology to trap toxic chemicals
within an inorganic matrix. Another project is demonstrating an innovative method for the sustainable ecological and environmental restoration of disused
waste slate tips and other non-toxic quarries to a semi-natural condition. Other research includes the study of metal transport in the environment and the
use of derivatised water soluble polymers for reversible and selective removal of metal ions from solution.
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