• Simon Quinn's profile

    London

    • What I do

      I started my PhD at UCL in May 2004. I completed an MA in Geological Sciences at Cambridge (1998) and then an MSc in Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources at UCL (2000). I worked for several years within environmental consultancy where he specialized in numerical groundwater resource modelling. Now I am undertaking research into the distribution and movement of radon gas and its progenies in chalk groundwaters.

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    • Interests

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    • Projects

      My current research concerns employing a new radiochemical approach to predict the transport properties of the Chalk aquifer.

      Monitoring the water for radon can be very useful as it behaves in many ways like a perfect, conservative natural tracer. In addition, as radon is continuously produced from the decay of uranium in the rock, it is not necessary to inject more and more tracer into the aquifer to monitor different locations.

      If we know the concentration of radon in the water and the concentration of uranium in the rock, we can use mathematical models to predict how easy it is for water to move and also how good the rock is at absorbing and releasing (i.e. ‘attenuating’) contaminants.

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