Oliver Warr
Appointment
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2025-2027
Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration
About
My research investigates how novel scientific approaches quantifying and integrating ‘time and rates’ can be harnessed to mitigate climate change and sustainably and equitably manage resources. By understanding how quickly natural fluids (e.g. water, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium) move and migrate underground we can develop safe, effective strategies to meet modern societal needs. Key examples include understanding what makes a site suitable for safe underground storage of carbon dioxide, to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions, developing tactics for long-term managing groundwater resources, and developing helium and hydrogen exploration strategies which are critical to meet future medical, industrial, energy and research demands.
Awards
- Excellence in Review award, Elsevier, 2022
Relevant Publications
- Warr, O., Smith, N.J.T., and Sherwood Lollar, B. (2023) Hydrogeochronology: Resetting the timestamp for subsurface groundwaters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 348, 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.03.017
- Warr, O., Ballentine, C.J., Onstott, T.C., Nisson, D.M., Kieft, T.L., Hillegonds, D.J. and Sherwood Lollar, B. (2022) 86Kr excess and other noble gases identify a billion-year-old radiogenically-enriched groundwater system. Nature Communications 13, 3768. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31412-2
- Warr, O., Song, M., and Sherwood Lollar, B. (2023) The application of Monte Carlo modelling to quantify in situ hydrogen and associated element production in the deep subsurface. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 387. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1150740