Joe Kelly
- Email: cnjjk@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Reducing the risk associated with shallow geothermal exploration and deployment in the UK
- Supervisor: Professor Fleur Loveridge, Dr Adam Booth, Professor Simon Rees
Profile
Following an MSc course in GeoEnergy at the University of Edinburgh, focussing on numerical modelling of geothermal systems, I spent a year as a research assistant in geothermal energy, under the Geosolutions Centre at the University of Leeds. This position, working on the development of the geothermal campus project and characterising the local subsurface, has led to an EPSRC-funded PhD, exploring variability of thermal transport in aquifers using distributed temperature sensing (DTS). This research uses data from both the University of Leeds campus, where a geothermal system is in development, and from two other sites across England that form part of the NERC-funded SmartRes project, with collaborators from the British Geological Survey, Imperial College London, and University of Manchester.
Research interests
I work within an interdisciplinary geothermal group under the Geosolutions Leeds Centre; geosolutions.leeds.ac.uk, x.com/geo_futures. Our team brings together engineers, geoscientists and social scientists to work towards overcoming the technical and non-technical barriers to geothermal energy development in the UK.
My particular focus is on the characterisation of shallow aquifers using a range of historic and primary data. My current research concerns the use of distributed thermal response tests to measure and model heat transport in fractured sedimentary aquifers.
Qualifications
- MSc Applied Geoscience (GeoEnergy) - University of Edinburgh
- BSc Applied Geology - University of Exeter (Camborne School of Mines)