Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2017
Enhancing Productivity and Resource Conservation by Eliminating Inefficiency of Thai Rice Farmers: A Zero Inefficiency Stochastic Frontier Approach, J Liu, S Rahman, S Sriboonchitta, and A Wiboonpongse
Biotic and environmental dynamics through the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover, Jonathan P. Tennant, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Mark D. Sutton, and Gregory D. Price
Numerical modeling of tidal notch sequences on rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Basin, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, M. Kázmér, and K. Reicherter
The petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry of the large Fen Carbonatite Complex (Norway) REE-Nb resource, C Marien, AH Dijkstra, and C Wilkins
Eurasian ice-sheet dynamics and sensitivity to subglacial hydrology, E Gudlaugsson, A Humbert, K Andreassen, and et al
Mechanism of adsorption of actives onto microporous functionalised calcium carbonate (FCC), G. Peter Matthews, Charlotte L. Levy, Giuliano M. Laudone, Samuel Beckett, Andrew Turner, Joachim Schoelkopf, and Patrick A.C. Gane
Interpreting flash flood palaeoflow parameters from antidunes and gravel lenses: An example from Montserrat, West Indies, Melanie J. Froude, Jan Alexander, Jenni Barclay, and Paul Cole
A new IUGS Commission for Geoheritage: The ‘ICG’, KN Page and D Pereira
Ash aggregation during the 11 February 2010 partial dome collapse of the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, C. Bonadonna, F. A. Burns, L. Pioli, P. D. Cole, and A. Stinton
Estimating bedload transport rates in a gravel-bed river using seismic impact plates: Model development and application, PJ Soar and PW Downs
Radiocarbon dating of a multi-phase passage tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow., R Schulting, A Sheridan, A McClatchie, and et al
The Bothnian Sea ice stream: early Holocene retreat dynamics of the south-central Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, SL Greenwood, CC Clason, J Nyberg, M Jakobsson, and P Holmlund
Mineral assemblages and textures of granite-hosted veins in the Hemerdon W–Sn deposit: constraints from scanning electron microscope chemical X-ray mapping, C Wilkins, B Jeffery, J Speer, AH Dijkstra, and J McFarlane
Rural change in the context of globalization : examining theoretical issues, F Da Silva Machado
Event satisfaction and behavioural intentions: examining the impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games on participation in sport, Graham Brown, Stephen Essex, Guy Assaker, and Andrew Smith
Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Role of Capital in South Asia (1980–2013), A Anik, S Rahman, and J Sarker
KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016, Angus Atkinson, Simeon L. Hill, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Volker Siegel, Ricardo Anadon, Sanae Chiba, Kendra L. Daly, Rod Downie, Sophie Fielding, Peter Fretwell, Laura Gerrish, Graham W. Hosie, Mark J. Jessopp, So Kawaguchi, Bjørn A. Krafft, Valerie Loeb, Jun Nishikawa, Helen J. Peat, Christian S. Reiss, Robin M. Ross, Langdon B. Quetin, Katrin Schmidt, Deborah K. Steinberg, Roshni C. Subramaniam, Geraint A. Tarling, and Peter Ward
Hydrothermal cooling of the ocean crust: Insights from ODP Hole 1256D, Michelle Harris, Rosalind M. Coggon, Martin Wood, Christopher E. Smith-Duque, Timothy J. Henstock, and Damon A.H. Teagle
Distributions of the Arctic sea ice biomarker proxy IP25 and two phytoplanktonic biomarkers in surface sediments from West Svalbard, Lukas Smik and Simon T. Belt
Rural Citizenship, D Richardson and RB Yarwood
Crude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries, Nichola Harmer
Class Type Separation of the Polar and Apolar Components of Petroleum, Steven J. Rowland, William J. Robson, Paul A. Sutton, Paul McCormack, and Neil P. Chilcott
Examining student's night-time activity spaces: identities, performances and transformations, Mark Holton
Particulate phases are key in controlling dissolved iron concentrations in the (sub)tropical North Atlantic, Angela Milne, Christian Schlosser, Bronwyn D. Wake, Eric P. Achterberg, Rosie Chance, Alex R. Baker, Alex Forryan, and Maeve C. Lohan
Biomarker-based H-Print quantifies the composition of mixed sympagic and pelagic algae consumed by Artemia sp., Thomas A. Brown and Simon T. Belt
Creep of mafic dykes infiltrated by melt in the lower continental crust (Seiland Igneous Province, Norway), Alessandrini G Degli, L. Menegon, N. Malaspina, A. H. Dijkstra, and M. W. Anderson
Drivers of Production and Efficiency of Onion Cultivation in Bangladesh, AR Anik, MA Salam, and S Rahman
Stability of dissolved and soluble Fe(II) in shelf sediment pore waters and release to an oxic water column, JK Klar, WB Homoky, PJ Statham, AJ Birchill, and et al
Reciprocal elucidation: a student-led pedagogy in multidisciplinary undergraduate research conferences, H Walkington, J Hill, and PE Kneale
Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation, Geoff A. Wilson, Claire L. Kelly, Helen Briassoulis, Agostino Ferrara, Gianni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Vassilis Detsis, Michiel Curfs, Artemio Cerda, Ahmed El-Aich, Honghu Liu, Costas Kosmas, Concepción L. Alados, Anton Imeson, Ruta Landgrebe-Trinkunaite, Luca Salvati, Sandra Naumann, Hu Danwen, Theodoros Iosifides, Thanassis Kizos, Giuseppe Mancino, Angelo Nolè, Min Jiang, and Pingcang Zhang
Successional changes of epibiont fouling communities of the cultivated kelp Alaria esculenta: predictability and influences, AM Walls, MD Edwards, LB Firth, and MP Johnson
A substantial fraction of phytoplankton-derived DON is resistant to degradation by a metabolically versatile, widely distributed marine bacterium, L Polimene, D Clark, S Kimmance, and P McCormack
Subsequent biotic crises delayed marine recovery following the late Permian mass extinction event in northern Italy, William J. Foster, Silvia Danise, Gregory D. Price, and Richard J. Twitchett
A place for sharing: The emotional geographies of peer-sharing in UK University halls of residences, Mark Holton
Ecological risk assessments to guide decision-making: Methodology matters, GJ Piet, AM Knights, RH Jongbloed, and et al
Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in a short-lived seaway: Jurassic of the Western Interior, USA, S Danise and SM Holland
The cold climate geomorphology of the Eastern Cape Drakensberg: A reevaluation of past climatic conditions during the last glacial cycle in Southern Africa, S. C. Mills, T. T. Barrows, M. W. Telfer, and L. K. Fifield
Combined sea-level and climate controls on limestone formation, hiatuses and ammonite preservation in the Blue Lias Formation, South Britain (uppermost Triassic – Lower Jurassic), GRAHAM P WEEDON, HUGH C JENKYNS, and KEVIN N PAGE
The application of geomorphic indices in terrain analysis for ground engineering practice, M. R. Geach, M. Stokes, and A. Hart
Predicting copper speciation in estuarine waters – Is dissolved organic carbon a good proxy for the presence of organic ligands?, Sean D.W. Comber, Holly B.C. Pearson, Charlotte Braungardt, and Paul J. Worsfold
Bulk-carbonate and belemnite carbon-isotope records across the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary on the northern margin of Gondwana (Issouka, Middle Atlas, Morocco), Fatima Zahra Ait-Itto, Gregory D. Price, Addi A Ait, Driss Chafiki, and Imane Mannani
New multiproxy record of the Jenkyns Event (also known as the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event) from the Mecsek Mountains (Hungary): Differences, duration and drivers, Tamás Müller, Gregory D. Price, Dávid Bajnai, Anita Nyerges, Dóra Kesjár, Béla Raucsik, Andrea Varga, Katalin Judik, József Fekete, Zoltán May, and József Pálfy
Interplay between stress permutations and overpressure to cause strike-slip faulting during tectonic inversion, David C.P. Peacock, Enrico Tavarnelli, and Mark W. Anderson
An analysis of variable dissolution rates of sacrificial zinc anodes: a case study of the Hamble estuary, UK, Aldous B. Rees, Anthony Gallagher, Sean Comber, and Laurence A. Wright
A sense of the cycling environment: Felt experiences of infrastructure and atmospheres, Paul Simpson
A tale of two gyres: Contrasting distributions of dissolved cobalt and iron in the Atlantic Ocean during an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT-19), Rachel U. Shelley, Neil J. Wyatt, Glenn A. Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Paul J. Worsfold, and Maeve C. Lohan
Bedrock structural control on catchment scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco., Anne E. Mather, D Ventra, LE Clarke, and Martin Stokes
Cadmium, lead and bromine in beached microplastics., Andrew Turner and Angelo Massos
Communicating contested geoscience to the public: Moving from ‘matters of fact’ to ‘matters of concern’, Iain S. Stewart and Deirdre Lewis
Complexity confers stability: Climate variability, vegetation response and sand transport on longitudinal sand dunes in Australia’s deserts, Paul P. Hesse, Matt W. Telfer, and Will Farebrother
Coulomb stress transfer and fault interaction over millennia on non-planar active normal faults: the Mw 6.5–5.0 seismic sequence of 2016–2017, central Italy, Zoe K. Mildon, Gerald P. Roberts, Walker JP Faure, and Francesco Iezzi
Coupled changes between the H-Print biomarker and delta N-15 indicates a variable sea ice carbon contribution to the diet of Cumberland Sound beluga whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, and S. T. Belt
Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada, CB Skovsted, I Knight, KU Balthasar, and WD Boyce
Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey, and Nichola Harmer
Developing and evaluating ‘PlymTour’ a new mobile online educational resource for students on Plymouth’s people and places, Mark Holton, Nichola Harmer, and Rebecca Vickerstaff
Development and validation of an OECD reproductive toxicity test guideline with the mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda), K Ruppert, C Geiß, C Askem, R Benstead, R Brown, M Coke, V Ducrot, P Egeler, H Holbech, TH Hutchinson, KL Kinnberg, L Lagadic, Page G Le, A Macken, P Matthiessen, S Ostermann, A Schimera, C Schmitt, A Seeland-Fremer, AJ Smith, L Weltje, and J Oehlmann
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Joey Talbot, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Lan Qie, Serge K. Begne, Jerôme Chave, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Wannes Hubau, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Lera Miles, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Bonaventure Sonké, Terry Sunderland, Steege H ter, Lee J.T. White, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Almeida EC de, Oliveira EA de, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Esteban Álvarez Dávila, Ana Andrade, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard, Timothy R. Baker, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Christopher Baraloto, Jean Francois Bastin, Nicholas Berry, Jan Bogaert, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Roel Brienen, José Luís C. Camargo, Carlos Cerón, Victor Chama Moscoso, Eric Chezeaux, Connie J. Clark, Álvaro Cogollo Pacheco, James A. Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Eurídice N.Honorio Coronado, Greta Dargie, Stuart J. Davies, Canniere C De, Marie Noel Djuikouo, Jean Louis Doucet, Terry L. Erwin, Javier Silva Espejo, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael Herrera, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Jefferson S. Hall, David J. Harris, Terese B. Hart, Kuswata Kartawinata, Lip Khoon Kho, Kanehiro Kitayama, SGW Laurance, WF Laurance, Miguel E. Leal, Thomas Lovejoy, Jon C. Lovett, Faustin Mpanya Lukasu, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Leandro Maracahipes, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew R. Marshall, Paulo S. Morandi, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Jaques Mukinzi, Reuben Nilus, Percy Núñez Vargas, Nadir C.Pallqui Camacho, Guido Pardo, Marielos Peña-Claros, and N/A Pétrone
Eco-efficiency of high-yielding variety rice cultivation after accounting for on-farm environmental damage as an undesirable output: an empirical analysis from Bangladesh, N-E Sabiha, R Salim, and S Rahman
Editorial Introduction: Fourth Planetary Dunes Workshop Special Issue, Matthew Chojnacki and Matt W. Telfer
European national government approaches to older people's transport system needs, Jon Shaw, Rebecca Johnson, Jörn Berding, Matthias Gather, and Markus Rebstock
Evaluating the competing effects of lithology and sediment supply on the erosional dynamics of rivers crossing active faults., A Whittaker, S Boulton, E Kent, J Zondervan, M Hann, S Watkins, R Bell, and S Brooke
Fluvial archives of NW African climate and tectonic evolution, Atlas Mountains, central Morocco, JR Zondervan, M Stokes, AE Mather, and SJ Boulton
Geomorphology on geologic timescales: Evolution of the late Cenozoic Pacific paleosurface in Northern Chile and Southern Peru, L. A. Evenstar, A. E. Mather, A. J. Hartley, F. M. Stuart, R. S.J. Sparks, and F. J. Cooper
Holocene Cyclic Records of Ice-Rafted Debris and Sea Ice Variations on the East Greenland and Northwest Iceland Margins, D. A. Darby, J. T. Andrews, S. T. Belt, A. E. Jennings, and P. Cabedo-Sanz
“Hot spots” of N and C impact nitric oxide, nitrous oxide and nitrogen gas emissions from a UK grassland soil, GP Matthews, N Loick, E Dixon, D Abalos, A Vallejo, K McGeough, C Watson, E Baggs, and L Cardenas
Identification of C 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes in diatoms of the genus Rhizosolenia in polar and sub-polar marine phytoplankton., Simon T. Belt, Thomas A. Brown, Lukas Smik, Agnieszka Tatarek, Józef Wiktor, Gabriele Stowasser, Philipp Assmy, Claire S. Allen, and Katrine Husum
Innovative tidal notch detection using TLS and fuzzy logic: Implications for palaeo-shorelines from compressional (Crete) and extensional (Gulf of Corinth) tectonic settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, and K. Reicherter
In situ determination of trace elements in Fucus spp. by field-portable-XRF, Andrew Turner, Hiu Poon, Alex Taylor, and Murray T. Brown
Longitudinal Study of Sustainably Educated Graduates, Paul Warwick and Wendy Miller
Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach, Ryan Penney, Geoff Wilson, and Lynda Rodwell
Methodological perspectives on the application of compound-specific stable isotope fingerprinting for sediment source apportionment, Hari R. Upadhayay, Samuel Bodé, Marco Griepentrog, Dries Huygens, Roshan M. Bajracharya, William H. Blake, Gerd Dercon, Lionel Mabit, Max Gibbs, Brice X. Semmens, Brian C. Stock, Wim Cornelis, and Pascal Boeckx
Multi-proxy record of orbital-scale changes in climate and sedimentation during the Weissert Event in the Valanginian Bersek Marl Formation (Gerecse Mts., Hungary), Dávid Bajnai, József Pálfy, Mathieu Martinez, Gregory D. Price, Anita Nyerges, and István Főzy
Normal fault growth and linkage in the Gediz (Alasehir) Graben, Western Turkey, revealed by transient river long-profiles and slope-break knickpoints, Sarah J. Boulton, Emiko Kent, Alexander C. Whittaker, Iain S. Stewart, and MC Alcicek
Novel use of field-portable-XRF for the direct analysis of trace elements in marine macroalgae., Andrew Turner, Annie Bull, and Murray T. Brown
Resolving discrepancies between field and modelled relative sea-level data: lessons from western Ireland, Robin Edwards, W. Roland Gehrels, Anthony Brooks, Ralph Fyfe, Katie Pullen, Joseph Kuchar, and Kieran Craven
River terraces and alluvial fans: The case for an integrated Quaternary fluvial archive, A. E. Mather, M. Stokes, and E. Whitfield
Sea-ice dynamics in an Arctic coastal polynya during the past 6500 years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, TL Rasmussen, M Forwick, and ST Belt
Seismic faults and sacred sanctuaries in Aegean antiquity, Iain S. Stewart
Self-attenuation corrections for Pb-210 in gamma-ray spectrometry using well and coaxial HPGe detectors, A. R. Iurian, G. E. Millward, O. Sima, A. Taylor, and W. Blake
Semi-quantitative reconstruction of early to late Holocene spring and summer sea ice conditions in the northern Barents Sea, Sarah M.P. Berben, Katrine Husum, Alba Navarro-Rodriguez, Simon T. Belt, and Steffen Aagaard-Sørensen
Social geology — integrating sustainability concepts into Earth sciences, Iain S. Stewart and Joel C. Gill
Sonic affects and the production of space: ‘Music by handle’ and the politics of street music in Victorian London, Paul Simpson
Tectonic and lithological controls on fluvial landscape development in Central-Eastern Portugal: Insights from long profile tributary stream analyses, Pedro P. Cunha, AA Martins, João Cabral, Martin Stokes, José Borges, Bento Caldeira, and AC Martins
The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source fingerprinting: A review, J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P.G. Minella, and Philip N. Owens
The effect of wastewater effluent derived ligands on copper and zinc complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, and M. D. Scrimshaw
Trace elements in fragments of fishing net and other filamentous plastic litter from two beaches in SW England, Andrew Turner
Tropical forest light regimes in a human-modified landscape, Sophie Fauset, Manuel U. Gloor, Marcos P.M. Aidar, Helber C. Freitas, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Mauro A. Marabesi, Andre L.C. Rochelle, Alexander Shenkin, Simone A. Vieira, and Carlos A. Joly
Validation of the OECD reproduction test guideline with the New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum using trenbolone and prochloraz, C Geiß, K Ruppert, C Askem, C Barroso, D Faber, V Ducrot, H Holbech, TH Hutchinson, P Kajankari, KL Kinnberg, L Lagadic, P Matthiessen, S Morris, M Neiman, O-P Penttinen, P Sanchez-Marin, M Teigeler, L Weltje, and J Oehlmann
Submissions from 2016
The Importance of Geosites and Heritage Stones in Cities—a Review, P De Wever, F Baudin, D Pereira, and et al
Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?, Zoe K. Mildon, Shinji Toda, Walker JP Faure, and Gerald P. Roberts
Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries, J Moreno, F. Fatela, E. Leorri, F Moreno, M. C. Freitas, T. Valente, M. F. Araújo, J. J. Gómez-Navarro, L. Guise, and W. H. Blake
Tapping the archives: The sterol composition of marine sponge species, as determined non-invasively from museum preserved specimens, reveals biogeographical features, SK Lengger, J Fromont, and K Grice
Bioaccessibility of U, Th and Pb in solid wastes and soils from an abandoned uranium mine, Geoffrey Millward, Michael Foulkes, Samuel Henderson, and William Blake
Could this be a concrete solution to biodiversity loss?, LB Firth, A Evans, AM Knights, R Nash, and et al
Controls on the early Holocene collapse of the Bothnian Sea Ice Stream, CC Clason, SL Greenwood, N Selmes, JM Lea, and et al
Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach, A. Colantoni, L. Salvati, C. Kosmas, O. Kairis, C. Karavitis, S. Acikalin, A. Belgacem, A. Solé-Benet, M. Chaker, V. Fassouli, C. Gokceoglu, H. Gungor, R. Hessel, H. Khatteli, A. Kounalaki, A. Laouina, F. Ocakoglu, M. Ouessar, C. Ritsema, M. Sghaier, H. Sonmez, H. Taamallah, L. Tezcan, J. de Vente, C. Kelly, and M. Carlucci
Clockwise rotation of the entire Oman ophiolite occurred in a suprasubduction zone setting, Antony Morris, Matthew Meyer, Mark W. Anderson, and Christopher J. MacLeod
