It's a pretty spectacular day when two 36-months NERC grants get funded! This means four postdoc positions will be advertised soon, two of which will be directly associated with 4DµCT in our group:
- One for the project "Enabling CO2 mineralisation through pore to field-scale tracking of carbonate precipitation: INCLUSION", led by Stuart Gilfillan. In this project I will lead a work package where we will use our new Heitt Mjölnir rig to identify the key controls on CO2 mineralisation at the pore scale and quantify the pore space evolution during the process by conducting the first time-resolved 4D imaging and quantification of grain-scale mineral dissolution and precipitation within basalts from a real-world engineered storage site, the CARBFIX project.
- One for "On the edge?", led by Ian Main, for which we will build on our existing rig Stor Mjölnir, which already combines imaging with acoustic emissions (AE). For this project, we will develop a new monster rig for 18 mm diameter samples that will have 6 AE sensors included (and doesn't have a name yet). In this project, we will explore critically stressed rocks and see how they react to systematic stress perturbations. I will lead and co-lead two work packages in this project related to the imaging side, mostly.
If you are interested in the imaging side of either of these topics, get in touch!
