Bristol Water Rock Interaction Group

The Bristol Water Rock Interaction Group (BWRIG) is an interdepartmental collective, hosted in the School of Earth Sciences that focuses on understanding the physical and biogeochemical controls on flow, heat and solute transport and water-rock interactions.

We are working on developing a predictive understanding of the nature and distribution of products in various groundwater system along with oil and gas reservoirs.  Field case studies of hydrogeological and biogeochemistcal systems are used to constrain reactive transport models to understand the evolution of key rock properties and the geochemistry of the fluids in the system.  This novel approach has provided new insights into subsurface system behaviours, from fluid flow, solute transport and reactions, to interpretation of geophysical signals.