Identification

Title

Metal Speciation And Bioavailability For Risk Assessment And Remediation.

Abstract

The full title of this project is" Studies into metal speciation and bioavailability to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas" and is funded by NERC under the URGENT thematic programme form 1998-2001. The project is being undertaken by a consortium of workers from the Imperial College, University of Nottingham, and the British Geological Survey. Innovative collaborative and multi-disciplinary research will be applied to the interpretation of urban geochemical maps and associated meta-datasets to assist decision making by local authorities in the redevelopment of brownfield sites. Source apportionment, speciation and bioavailability of potentially toxic heavy metals will be studied at representative conurbations in the UK Midlands region. Scanning electron microscopy, chemical extractions and soil solution and vegetable analysis, will be integrated with high precision isotopic analyses of Pb and other potential toxic metals in this study. The results will be available as maps in GIS format to provide a generic decision support system for quantitative health risk assessment.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/environmental-modelling/

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480233

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

NERC Urgent Grant GST/02/2251. Database is currently under construction, but updates will be dependent on individual researchers. Iain Thornton, leads researcher of consortium, Environmental Geochemistry Research Group, Imperial College. Data will also be available on a Nottingham University based web site under construction by Neil Crout, Patchy distribution within Nottingham and Wolverhampton city boundaries, corresponding to brownfield sites that have been identified as having high metal levels, and that are available for sampling. For each type of chemical analyses that is carried out on a sample, procedures for sampling and preparation have been standardised across all research groups.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Minerals

Geochemistry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.2065

East bounding longitude

-1.0831

North bounding latitude

53.0174

South bounding latitude

52.5433

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

NOTTINGHAM [id=157332]

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

WOLVERHAMPTON [id=157951]

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1998

End position

2001

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1998

Frequency of update

irregular

Quality and validity

Lineage

This dataset is generated entirely from the URGENT project "Studies into metal speciation and bioavailability to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas", which was begun in October 1998 and will run for 2.5 years.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

MAPS/GIS

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

0115 936 3143

facsimile number

0115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

0115 936 3143

facsimile number

0115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

0115 936 3143

facsimile number

0115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 115 936 3100

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-12-01

Metadata language