Olivia M. Email & Phone Number

Geochemist within the UK & Ireland Mine Water Team at WSP with consultancy experience in the mining, water, environmental, and nuclear waste sector, working towards chartership with the Geological Society.Key areas of expertise lie in the prediction of mining contamination, remediation and closure of tailings and/or waste rock, geochemical modelling using PHREEQC to understand the impact of mining on groundwater, geochemical software tools for solving problems in aqueous geochemistry and hydrogeochemistry and using programming tools such as Python for efficient and effective data analysis and interpretation.Olivia has a keen interest in modelling and has experience of contaminant transport modelling in groundwater systems using PFLOTRAN for the nuclear waste industry and of modelling water systems in GoldSim. She has contributed to a wide variety of geochemical projects within the mining, nuclear waste, contaminated land, and water treatment sectors for projects based within the UK and internationally.Olivia has a PhD which focused on assessing the risk of groundwater contamination from shale gas migration in onshore hydraulic fracturing both in Canada and the UK. She consequently has a keen interest and holistic understanding of subsurface extraction and injection techniques and their impacts on groundwater.Geochemistry | Geochemical Modelling | Hydrogeochemistry | Mine Water | Nuclear Waste | PHREEQC | Python | GoldSim | PLFLOTRAN | Geo-data science | Porewater & Groundwater Chemistry | Subsurface Reactive Transport