Position: PhD Researcher

Address: Environmental Research Institute,
Castle Street,Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0)1847 889587

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890014

E-mail: Emma.cochrane@thurso.uhi.ac.uk

Joined ERI: October 2003

Background:

• Oct 2003 – Present: PhD: Novel solutions for the remediation of contaminated water, Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, UHI Millennium Institute.
  
  
• March 2002 – Oct 2003: Analytical Chemist, Severn Trent Laboratories, Wastewater.
  
  
• Sep 1998 – July 2001: BSc (Hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology (2.1), University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  
  
• Final Year Honours Project: Land use effects on the water chemistry and microbiology of the River Ystwyth
  
  
• Sep 1996 – June 1998: A’ level Chemistry, Biology, Geography and General Studies, Stourport-on-Severn Sixth-form College.

Research Interests:

• The use of bio-sorbents in the remediation of contaminated water
  

• Environmental waste management
  

• Land use effects on water chemistry
  
  

Selected Publications:

• E. L. Cochrane, S. Lu, S. W. Gibb and I. Villaescusa, A comparison of low-cost biosorbents and commercial sorbents for the removal of copper from aqueous media, Journal of Hazardous Materials (2006). Article in press

Selected Presentations:

• 3rd-5th November 2004, UHI postgraduate conference, Oban: Novel solutions for the remediation of contaminated water.
  
  
• 15th-18th December 2004, Bari Italy: 5th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry: Low cost biosorbent materials for the removal of copper from aqueous solutions.

Supervisory projects:

• November to December 2003: part of the support team for CFAI student.
  ‘Comparison of copper adsorption by seaweed, Fucus serratus and Ascophyllum nodosum: kinetic and isotherm study’.
  
  
• May to August 2003: supervisor for student from the Institut Supérieur de Technologie de Vendée.
  ‘The removal of copper using natural materials’.
  ‘The remediation of soils contaminated with copper’.
  
  
• May to September 2004: part of the support team for student from University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany.
  ‘Removal of zinc by crab carapace in batch and fixed-bed column’.
  
  
• September to October 2004: supervisor for CFAI student.
  ‘Column studies to assess the desorption of copper from crab carapace’.

Professional Membership:

• Affiliate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  
  
• Postgraduate member of the International Water Association.
  

Other Information:

• President of the UHI Mountaineering and Hillwalking Club 2004 – Present.
  
  
• BSAC Club Diver.
  
  
• Nominated First Aider

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