Rory Doherty – Lecturer
Contact Details:
Room 01.027, David Keir Building
Environmental Engineering Research Centre
School of Planning Architecture & Civil Engineering
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Belfast BT9 5AG
Tel.: +44 28 9097 4746
Fax: +44 28 9066 3754
E-mail: r.doherty@qub.ac.uk
Degrees:
2002 PhD Environmental Engineering
QUB
1996 MSc Environmental Biogeochemistry
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1994 BSc Geology
QUB
Other professional activities
2009 Member of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (MCIWM)
2008 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) - QUB
2008 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Contaminated Land Remediation Design and Technology - Sustainable remediation technologies, PRBs , Ex-situ chemical oxidation methods, Microbial Fuel Cells
Site Investigation Strategies - Correct sampling and decision making, sampling theories - representative sampling, large scale sampling - TELLUS project and TOS
Contaminant Biogeochemistry - Microbial architecture of contaminant plumes
Environmental Forensics - Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of PAHs
Biogeophysics - Optimise / monitor insitu remediation of groundwater . Monitoring of subsurface microbial environments
Hazardous Waste - Landfill remediation or decision making tools at the design stage Sustainable Design
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Teaching Interests:
Postgraduate (MSc / MEng) level
CIV8011 (20 CATS) Computer Modelling of Contaminant Transport (using Visual Modflow, Landsim / GasSim & Excel)
CIV8037 (10 CATS) Contaminated Land II – Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment (Environmental Agency pub R&D 20), Options Appraisal & Remediation
CIV8039 (10 CATS) Sustainable Waste Management
Undergraduate (BEng) level
CIV3007 (10 CATS) Design 3 - Environmental Design (Groundwater management strategies)
New module development CIV8037 & CIV8039 are new modules for 08-09
CIV3007 Environmental Design Project introduced for 07-08
Administrative Responsibilities:
Subject assessor for the MSSc WBL (Occupational Safety and Health)
Faculty Representative - Major Incident Team
Faculty Representative - Hazardous Materials Group
School Health & Safety representative
EERC Health & Safety representative
Lab Manager
CIWEM school representative
Module Co-ordinator for CIV8011 - Computer Modelling of Contaminant Transport
Module Co-ordinator for CIV8037 - Contaminated Land II
Module Co-ordinator for CIV8039 - Waste management
Successfull PhD Supervision
David Hiroz - 2008 An Investigation into the Applicability of Theory of Sampling to Environmental Sampling Programmes
Antoine Assal - 2009 Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of PAHs for Environmental Forensics Studies of contaminated land
Postgraduate Students – PhD as primary supervisor
Blathnaid Mc Polin Microbial Fuel Cells and Contaminated Land
PhD as co-supervisor
Claire Burns Sustainable Groundwater Management in Urban Fringe Areas
Funding
2007 - 2009 £202,976 Rotating Chemical Oxidation System for ex situ treatment of contaminated soils –Technology Strategy Board programme – Partner companies, Alpha Environmental, Pera, Shanks
2007 - 2008 £15,000 Sustainable Remediation Technologies QUESTOR Centre
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Journals
Davis, C. A., L. D. Slater, B. Kulessa, A. S. Ferguson, E. A. Atekwana, R. Doherty, and R. Kalin (2010), Self-potential signatures associated with an injection experiment at an in situ biological permeable reactive barrier, Near Surface Geophysics, 3-14, doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2010034.
Doherty, R., B. Kulessa, A. S. Ferguson, M. J. Larkin, L. A. Kulakov, and R. M. Kalin (2010), A microbial fuel cell in contaminated ground delineated by electrical self-potential and normalized induced polarization data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, G00G08, doi:10.1029/2009JG001131. [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JG001131
Doherty, R., D. H. Phillips, K. L. McGeough, K. P. Walsh, and R. M. Kalin (2006), Development of modified flyash as a permeable reactive barrier medium for a former manufactured gas plant site, Northern Ireland, Environmental Geology, 50(1), 37-46, doi:10.1007/s00254-005-0170-4. [online] Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s00254-005-0170-4 (Accessed 10 June 2011)
Ferguson, A. S., R. Doherty, M. J. Larkin, R. M. Kalin, and V. Irvine (2003), Toxicity Assessment of a Former Manufactured Gas Plant, New York, (October 2002), 21-30, doi:10.1007/s00128-003-0125-y.
Ferguson, A. S., W. E. Huang, K. A. Lawson, R. Doherty, O. Gibert, and K. W. Dickson (2007), Microbial analysis of soil and groundwater from a gasworks site and comparison with a sequenced biological reactive barrier remediation process, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 102, 1227-1238, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03398.x.
Gibert, O., A. S. Ferguson, R. M. Kalin, R. Doherty, K. W. Dickson, K. L. McGeough, J. Robinson, and R. Thomas (2007), Performance of a sequential reactive barrier for bioremediation of coal tar contaminated groundwater., Environmental science & technology, 41(19), 6795-801. [online] Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17969697
Ntarlagiannis, D., R. Doherty, and K. H. Williams (2010), Spectral-induced polarization signatures of abiotic FeS precipitation, , 75(4).
Zhang, C., D. Ntarlagiannis, L. Slater, and R. Doherty (2010), Monitoring microbial sulfate reduction in porous media using multipurpose electrodes, J. Geophys. Res., 115, G00G09, doi:10.1029/2009JG001157. [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JG001157
Book Chapters
Kalin R.M., Doherty R.: CIRIA remediation case study: permeable reactive barriers. In Non-Biological Methods For The Assessment And Remediation Of Contaminated Land – Case Studies. Edited by Barr D, Bardos RP, Nathaniel CP. Classic House, London: CIRIA Press ISBN 0 86017 588 X; 2003:113-121
Doherty, R., Ofterdinger, U.S., Yang, Y., Dickson K., & Kalin, R.M. (2003) Observed and modelled hydraulic aquifer response to slurry wall installation at the former Gasworks Site, Portadown (Northern Ireland, U.K.) in Simon, F.G., Meggyes, T. and McDonald, C.M. eds, Advanced groundwater remediation: Active and Passive Technologies, Thomas Telford Press, ISBN 0 7277 3121 1 Chapter 15).
Doherty R., Kalin R.M., Walsh K.P., (2001) Quadrant Validation with Acceptable Error (QVAE), Modification of the Adaptive Sampling Approach to Site Investigation using Quadrant Validation Methodology. In: Prospects and Limits of Natural Attenuation at Tar Oil Contaminated Sites DECHEMA ISBN 3-89746-029-7
Conferences
Singh K. P., Doherty R., Elliot T., Ntarlagiannis D. (2009) Geoelectical Responses Associated with Activity of SRB in a Simplified Winogradsky column EGU General Assembly 2009 Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 11, EGU2009-1967
Assal, A. Doherty R. Dickson K.W. Kalin, R. (2008) Environmental Forensics : Compound Specific Isotope Analysis Of PAHs. Study Of A Former Coal Tar Plant American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco
Singh K.P., Doherty R., Elliot T., Ntarlagiannis D.(2008) SP and IP Monitoring of Biogeochemical Evolution Activity of SRBs in a Simplified Winogradsky Column AGU Chapman conference on Biogeophysics, Portland, ME, USA
Zhang C., Slater L., Ntarlagiannis D., Singh K., Doherty R.,(2008) A Comparison of Electrodic Signals and Self-potential Signals in Microbial Induced Sulphate Reducing Environments AGU Chapman conference on Biogeophysics, Portland, ME, USA
Reid R, Ntarlagiannis D, Doherty R, Binley A. (2008) Geoelectrical signatures of microbial activity: A laboratory tank investigation American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
Earls G., Young M., Smyth D., Beamish D., Jones D., Scheib C., Doherty R.,(2008) The Tellus project - an integrated environmental survey of Northern Ireland International Geological Congress Olso
Doherty R. (2007) The Geochemistry of Soils in Greater Belfast TELLUS Conference W5 Belfast - invited presentation
Doherty R, Moore S., Ntarlagiannis D., Singh K (2007) Self Potential as a method of monitoring the effectiveness of insitu remediation technologies American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting San Francisco
Singh K, Doherty R, Ntarlagiannis D. Elliot T., (2007) Electrical Potentials Associated with Microbial Activity in a Winogradsky Column American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting San Francisco
Zhang C, Slater L, Ntarlagiannis D, Singh K, Doherty R (2007) Electrical Potential Source Mechanisms in Microbial Induced Sulphate Reducing Environments American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting San Francisco
Hiroz D., Kalin R.M., Doherty R., Smyth D.,(2007) The Use of Gy’s ‘Theory of Sampling’ To Optimise Environmental Sampling Programs TELLUS Conference W5 Belfast
Assal A., Doherty R., Kalin R.M., (2007) Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of PAHs for Environmental Forensics of contaminated land. The environmental in a legal & regulatory context - Environmental Forensics: a new frontier
Hiroz D., Kalin R.M., Doherty R., Smyth D., (2007) The Application of Sampling Theory To Environmental Sampling Programs The environmental in a legal & regulatory context - Environmental Forensics: a new frontier
Kulessa B., Kalin R.M., Doherty R., Phillips D.H., (2006) Self-Potential (SP) and Active Electrical Geophysical Assessment of Bioremediation at a Contaminated Gasworks Plant, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract NS34A-04 INVITED
Davis C.A., Ferguson A.S., Kulessa B., Slater L., Doherty R., Graber J ,Dickson K.W.; Atekwana, E.A., Kalin R.M (2006) Self Potential Signatures Associated with In-situ Biogeochemical Processes in a Biological Permeable Reactive Barrier, Portadown, Northern Ireland Geological Society of America
Thompson R., Doherty R., (2005) A multiple technology remediation strategy to remediate an oil spill around an existing property, CABERNET 2005: The international conference on managing urban land
