Nicholas Ashmore

Institution: University of Edinburgh

Theme: Atmosphere, Oceans & Climate: the fluid Earth

Department / group: Department of Geosciences

Institution URL: https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Personal URL: N/A

Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f_wLw24AAAAJ&hl=en

Research interests:

Climate change mitigation. Contaminant hydrogeology. Numerical modelling. Multiphase flow. Geo-energy. Carbon capture and storage.

Career history:

Doctor of Philosophy, Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh 2021 – 2025
Master of Applied Science, Civil Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada 2018 – 2020
Bachelor of Applied Science, Civil Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada 2014 – 2018

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Western University, RESTORE Research Group 2016, 2017
Environmental Consultant, Part-time Contract, GSI Environmental, Austin TX 2020-2021

Active research projects:

Predicting the fate and transport of CO2 in carbon storage reservoir overburden

Recent publications:

Ashmore, N. A., Van De Ven, C. J., Molofsky, L. J., & Mumford, K. G. (2022). Calculation of gas ratios for use in stray gas migration investigation and characterization. Groundwater, 60(3), 312-317.