List of past projects

RECENT AND CURRENT SUPPORT (~15 million Euros since 2005):

2018-2022 550,000 Euros (~$680,000) GECO – Cleaner geothermal energy. (Bergur Sigfsson, Coordinator) European Commission.

2017-2021 800,000 Euros (~$1,000,000) SCIENCE 4 CLEAN ENERGY (Alberto Storto, Coordinator) – Learning how to control the chemistry and mechanics of the subsurface. European Commission.

2017-2021 400,000 Euros (~$500,000) CARBFIX2 (Edda Aradottir, Coordinator)– Further developments in carbon storage in basalts. European Commission.

2016-2020: 750,000 Euros (~$900,000) European Initial Training Network: ‘METAL-AID (Susan Stipp, Coordinator) European Commission.

2016-2018: 200,000 Euros (~250,000 Euros) DRY-MIN – Mineral weathering in undersaturated soils. European Commission.

2013-2017 700,000 Euros (~$900,000) European Initial Training Network: ‘ISO—NOSE’ (Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Coordinator) European Commission.

2012-2016: 3,900,000 Euros (~$5,000,000) European Initial Training Network: ‘CO2-REACT’ (Eric OELKERS Coordinator) European Commission.

2012-2015: 429,000 Euros (~$570 000) European Initial Training Network: ‘MINSC’ (Liane Benning Coordinator) European Commission.

2012-2015: 240,000 Euros (~$300,000) European Initial Training Network: ‘MET-TRANS’ (Don Portcelli, coordinator) European Commission.

2011-2014: 320 000 Euros (~$440 000) CARBFIX:Carbon sequestration in Basalts. European Commission Coordinated Action.

2011-2015 600,000 Euros (~$730,000) Petrobras ‘Water-CO₂ rock interaction’

2010-2012: 100,000 Euors (~$140,000) Larfarge Cement Water-CO₂ rock interaction

2008-2011: 350,000 Euros (~$420,000) European Research and Training Network: ‘DELTA-MIN’ European Commission.

2007-2010: $500,000 STATOIL: Precipitation rates of clay minerals and secondary oil recovery.

2007-2010 3,150,000 Euros (~$3,900,000.) European Research and Training Network: ‘MIN-GRO’ European Commission.

2005-2009 2,200,000 Euros (~$2,700,000.) European Early Stage Research Network: ‘Mineral Surface Reactivity’ European Commission. 12/05-11/09

2004-2006 $80,000 Quantifying the dissolution mechanism of clay minerals. Petroleum Research Fund.

2003-2005 20,000 Euros (~$26,000.) (with E. Vasalimi Jones and M. Hodson) Characterization of the dissolution and precipitation rates and mechanisms of phosphate minerals. Alliance Program.

2002-2006 100,000 Euros (~$130,000) Quantifying the dissolution rates of the major rock forming minerals. PROGRAM ECODEV.

2002-2005 80,000 Euros ‘Experimental investigation of the dissolution rates of phosphate minerals and their applicability to radioactive waste storage’. French Atomic Regulatory Agency (CEA).

2000-2004 1,250,000 Euros ($~1.500,000) European Research and Training Network: The dissolution and precipitation rates and mechanisms of solid solutions. European Commission

1999-2002 80,000 FF (~$13,000. with F. Poitrassion) ‘Experimental investigation of the dissolution rates of metal phosphate minerals’. FORPRO (supported by the French Nuclear Power Authority

1999-2002 40,000 FF (~$8,000) ‘Experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of aqueous flouride on metal transport and mineral dissolution’, Institute Francaise du Petrole.

1998 60,000 Euros (~$12,000; with S. Gislason) European Research Conference ‘Fluids in the Crust’ Crete Greece.

1995-1997 100,000 British Pounds (~$190,000; with V. Ragnarsdottir and D. Sherman) EXAFS studies of aqueous complexation at high temperatures. Daresbury Synchrotron Laboratory, 1/95-6/97.

1991-2000 $300,000. Permeability and porosity prediction in silicic sedimentary basins. STATOIL, Stavanger, Norway.