Two announcements regarding NERC’s Energy Security & Innovation Observing System for the Subsurface Project

1. Call for science ideas: Energy Security & Innovation Observing System for the Subsurface project

Closing date: 16:00 on 30 October 2015

NERC invites the UK energy and Earth science community to submit high-level ideas for the science capability and capacity requirements of the Energy Security & Innovation Observing System for the Subsurface (ESIOS) project.

ESIOS will establish world-leading knowledge that will be applicable to a wide range of energy technologies, both within the UK and internationally. ESIOS will provide national science facilities for:

1. Monitoring and observing - answering questions on how subsurface energy technologies interact with the environment.
2. Independent scientific evidence - answering questions on new and established energy supply and storage technology, increasing efficiency and environmental sustainability.

Full information on the call is available here.
If you have any queries, please contact: esiosscience@nerc.ac.uk.

2. Energy Security & Innovation Observing System for the Subsurface project town hall meeting

22 October 2015 (Thursday)

British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG
Registration closes 2 October 2015

NERC is holding a town hall meeting for the Energy Security & Innovation Observing System for the Subsurface (ESIOS) project on Thursday 22 October 2015. We invite the UK energy and Earth science community, and others with an interest in the ESIOS project, to attend to help us develop science ideas for the ESIOS project

The following broad themes, as well as ideas from participants, will be discussed at the town hall meeting:

• Subsurface fluid flow, heat, biological material (biofilms), geodynamics, geophysics, etc.
• Subsurface energy technology sectors, such as geothermal, carbon capture and storage, shale gas, energy storage, etc.
• Environmental impacts on groundwater, soils, carbon cycle, etc.

To register for the town hall meeting please complete the online registration form here.