Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2022
Sequential Lonsdaleite to Diamond Formation in Ureilite Meteorites via In Situ Chemical Fluid/Vapor Deposition, AG Tomkins, NC Wilson, C MacRae, A Salek, and et al
Metal contamination of intertidal sediment and macroalgae in an area impacted by paint from abandoned boats, Andrew Turner
Microplastics in agricultural soils from a semi-arid region and their transport by wind erosion, Mahrooz Rezaei, Sajjad Abbasi, Haniye Pourmahmood, Patryk Oleszczuk, Coen Ritsema, and Andrew Turner
The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Maria Strack, Scott J. Davidson, Takashi Hirano, and Christian Dunn
Comparing the thermal conductivity of three artificial soils under differing moisture and density conditions for use in green infrastructure, Paul H. Lunt, Kate Fuller, Matthew Fox, Steve Goodhew, and Thomas R. Murphy
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts, Mark Holton, Mark Riley, and Gina Kallis
Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): A citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa, C Kelly, M Wynants, A Patrick, A Taylor, F Mkilema, M Nasseri, S Lewin, L Munishi, K Mtei, P Ndakidemi, and W Blake
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin, RM Dextre, ML Eschenhagen, M Camacho Hernández, S Rangecroft, and et al
Summary of data from the UKWIR chemical investigations programme and a comparison of data from the past ten years' monitoring of effluent quality, M. J. Gardner, S. D.W. Comber, and B. Ellor
Distribution and transport of microplastics in groundwater (Shiraz aquifer, southwest Iran), Atefeh Esfandiari, Sajjad Abbasi, Ahmad Behrouj Peely, Dariush Mowla, Mohammad Ali Ghanbarian, Patryk Oleszczuk, and Andrew Turner
An integrated analysis and comparison of serum, saliva and sebum for COVID-19 metabolomics, Matt Spick, Holly May Lewis, Cecile F. Frampas, Katie Longman, Catia Costa, Alexander Stewart, Deborah Dunn-Walters, Danni Greener, George Evetts, Michael J. Wilde, Eleanor Sinclair, Perdita E. Barran, Debra J. Skene, and Melanie J. Bailey
Sources, concentrations, distributions, fluxes and fate of microplastics in a hypersaline lake: Maharloo, south-west Iran, Sajjad Abbasi and Andrew Turner
Exploring local perceptions of water quality in the upper Santa River, Peru, Rosa Maria Dextre, Sally Rangecroft, Isabel Richter, Claire Kelly, Beatriz Fuentealba, Claudia V. Grados Bueno, Mirtha Camacho Hernandez, Sergio Morera, John Martin, John Adam Guy, and Caroline Clason
The people between the Moors: community and continuity in a changing world, C Kelly, M Cowburn, and S McCormack
An Exploration of the Contribution of Embodied, Situated Research Strategies to Cultural Ecosystem Services and Landscape Assessment Frameworks: An Environmental Empathy Case Study, K Łucznik, JV Serrano, and J Martin
Microplastics captured by snowfall: A study in Northern Iran, Sajjad Abbasi, Mustafa Alirezazadeh, Nastaran Razeghi, Mahrooz Rezaei, Hanie Pourmahmood, Reza Dehbandi, Meisam Rastegari Mehr, Shirin Yavar Ashayeri, Patryk Oleszczuk, and Andrew Turner
PBDEs in the marine environment: Sources, pathways and the role of microplastics, Andrew Turner
The occurrence of monoclinic jarosite in natural environments, N Stephen and A Whitworth
UK state identity-making and British overseas territories’ environments in times of ecological crisis and geopolitical change, N Harmer, I Bailey, and N Hart
Cohort Profile: The Green and Blue Spaces (GBS) and mental health in Wales e-cohort, DA Thompson, RS Geary, FM Rowney, R Fry, and et al
Complex Social Value-Based Approach for Decision-Making and Valorization Process in Chinese World Cultural Heritage Site: The Case of Kulangsu (China), X Liang, C Coscia, E Dellapiana, J Martin, and Y Zhang
Biotic and abiotic degradation of suspended particulate lipids along a transect in the Chukchi Sea, Jean François Rontani, Lukas Smik, Sun Yong Ha, Jun oh Min, and Simon T. Belt
Antiphased dust deposition and productivity in the Antarctic Zone over 1.5 million years, Michael E. Weber, Ian Bailey, Sidney R. Hemming, Yasmina M. Martos, Brendan T. Reilly, Thomas A. Ronge, Stefanie Brachfeld, Trevor Williams, Maureen Raymo, Simon T. Belt, Lukas Smik, Hendrik Vogel, Victoria L. Peck, Linda Armbrecht, Alix Cage, Fabricio G. Cardillo, Zhiheng Du, Gerson Fauth, Christopher J. Fogwill, Marga Garcia, Marlo Garnsworthy, Anna Glüder, Michelle Guitard, Marcus Gutjahr, Iván Hernández-Almeida, Frida S. Hoem, Ji Hwan Hwang, Mutsumi Iizuka, Yuji Kato, Bridget Kenlee, Suzanne OConnell, Lara F. Pérez, Osamu Seki, Lee Stevens, Lisa Tauxe, Shubham Tripathi, Jonathan Warnock, and Xufeng Zheng
Particle size effect on geochemical composition of experimental soil mixtures relevant for unmixing modelling, Leticia Gaspar, William H. Blake, Ivan Lizaga, Borja Latorre, and Ana Navas
Sticky stuff: biological cohesion for scour and erosion prevention, R Schindler, R Whitehouse, and J Harris
European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials, Esther Githumbi, Ralph Fyfe, Marie Jose Gaillard, Anna Kari Trondman, Florence Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Anneli Poska, Shinya Sugita, Jessie Woodbridge, Julien Azuara, Angelica Feurdean, Roxana Grindean, Vincent Lebreton, Laurent Marquer, Nathalie Nebout-Combourieu, M Stančikaitė, I Tanţău, Spassimir Tonkov, and Lyudmila Shumilovskikh
The unrecognized importance of carbon stocks and fluxes from Swamps in Canada and the USA, Scott J. Davidson, E Daze, Eunji Byun, Dean Hiler, Markus Kangur, Julie Talbot, Sarah A. Finkelstein, and Maria Strack
Atmospheric transport of microplastics during a dust storm, Sajjad Abbasi, Mahrooz Rezaei, Farnaz Ahmadi, and Andrew Turner
Book review: Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes, S Berlin
CO2 uptake decreased and CH4 emissions increased in first two years of peatland seismic line restoration, Megan Schmidt, Scott J. Davidson, and Maria Strack
Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: new high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover, Gustav Strandberg, J Lindstrom, Anneli Poska, Qiong Zhang, Ralph Fyfe, Esther Githumbi, E Kjellstrom, Florenze Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Shinya Sugita, Anna Kari Trondman, Jessie Woodbridge, and Marie José Gaillard
Anchoring Policies, Alignment Tensions: Reconciling New Zealand’s Climate Change Act and Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg and Ian Bailey
Subaerial volcanism is a potentially major contributor to oceanic iron and manganese cycles, Jack Longman, Martin R. Palmer, Thomas M. Gernon, Hayley R. Manners, and Morgan T. Jones
Microplastics in the atmosphere of Ahvaz City, Iran, Sajjad Abbasi, Neamatollah Jaafarzadeh, Amir Zahedi, Maryam Ravanbakhsh, Somayeh Abbaszadeh, and Andrew Turner
Geophagy and microplastic ingestion, Hoda Amiri, Mohammad Hoseini, Sajjad Abbasi, Mohammad Malakootian, Majid Hashemi, Neamatollah Jaafarzadeh, and Andrew Turner
Heterogeneous weathering of polypropylene in the marine environment, John W. Scott, Andrew Turner, Andres F. Prada, and Linduo Zhao
Subaerial-submarine morphological changes at Stromboli volcano (Italy) induced by the 2019–2020 eruptive activity, Traglia F. Di, Alessandro Fornaciai, Daniele Casalbore, Massimiliano Favalli, Irene Manzella, Claudia Romagnoli, Francesco Latino Chiocci, Paul Cole, Teresa Nolesini, and Nicola Casagli
COSC-2 – drilling the basal décollement and underlying margin of palaeocontinent Baltica in the Paleozoic Caledonide Orogen of Scandinavia, Henning Lorenz, Jan Erik Rosberg, Christopher Juhlin, Iwona Klonowska, Rodolphe Lescoutre, George Westmeijer, Bjarne S.G. Almqvist, Mark Anderson, Stefan Bertilsson, Mark Dopson, Jens Kallmeyer, Jochem Kück, Oliver Lehnert, Luca Menegon, Christophe Pascal, Simon Rejkjær, and Nick N.W. Roberts
Pollen-based maps of past regional vegetation cover in Europe over twelve millennia - evaluation and potential, Esther Githumbi, Behnaz Pirzamanbein, Johan Lindström, Anneli Poska, Ralph Fyfe, Florence Mazier, Anne Brigitte Nielsen, Shinya Sugita, Anna Kari Trondman, Jessie Woodbridge, and Marie José Gaillard
Media coverage, attention cycles and the governance of plastics pollution, Ian Bailey
Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic, A. Izdebski, P. Guzowski, R. Poniat, L. Masci, J. Palli, C. Vignola, M. Bauch, C. Cocozza, R. Fernandes, F. C. Ljungqvist, T. Newfield, A. Seim, D. Abel-Schaad, F. Alba-Sánchez, L. Björkman, A. Brauer, A. Brown, S. Czerwiński, A. Ejarque, M. Fiłoc, A. Florenzano, E. D. Fredh, R. Fyfe, N. Jasiunas, P. Kołaczek, K. Kouli, R. Kozáková, M. Kupryjanowicz, P. Lagerås, M. Lamentowicz, M. Lindbladh, J. A. López-Sáez, R. Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, K. Marcisz, F. Mazier, S. Mensing, A. M. Mercuri, K. Milecka, Y. Miras, A. M. Noryśkiewicz, E. Novenko, M. Obremska, S. Panajiotidis, M. L. Papadopoulou, A. Pędziszewska, S. Pérez-Díaz, G. Piovesan, A. Pluskowski, P. Pokorny, A. Poska, T. Reitalu, M. Rösch, L. Sadori, Ferreira C Sá, D. Sebag, M. Słowiński, M. Stančikaitė, N. Stivrins, I. Tunno, S. Veski, A. Wacnik, and A. Masi
Remote Sensing of Tundra Ecosystems using High Spectral Resolution Reflectance: Opportunities and Challenges, Peter R. Nelson, Andrew J. Maguire, Zoe Pierrat, Erica L. Orcutt, Dedi Yang, Shawn Serbin, Gerald V. Frost, Matthew J. Macander, Troy S. Magney, David R. Thompson, Jonathan A. Wang, Steven F. Oberbauer, Sergio Vargas Zesati, Scott J. Davidson, Howard E. Epstein, Steven Unger, Petya K.E. Campbell, Nimrod Carmon, M Velez‐Reyes, and K. Fred Huemmrich
Occurrence and chemical characteristics of microplastic paint flakes in the North Atlantic Ocean, Andrew Turner, Clare Ostle, and Marianne Wootton
Stepping stones towards Antarctica: Switch to southern spawning grounds explains an abrupt range shift in krill, Angus Atkinson, Simeon L. Hill, Christian S. Reiss, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Gregory Beaugrand, Geraint A. Tarling, Guang Yang, Deborah K. Steinberg, Katrin Schmidt, Martin Edwards, Emilce Rombolá, and Frances A. Perry
Thermal safety margins of plant leaves across biomes under a heatwave, Nawatbhrist Kitudom, Sophie Fauset, Yingying Zhou, Zexin Fan, Murong Li, Mingjian He, Shubin Zhang, Kun Xu, and Hua Lin
U‐Pb zircon geochronology from the Northern Cordillera, central Yukon, with implications for its tectonic assembly, Andrew J. Parsons, William C. McClelland, Alexandre Zagorevski, James J. Ryan, Mark J. Coleman, Nathan Cleven, and CR Staal
The impact of diet on wastewater treatment works phosphorus loading, Chloe Down and Sean Comber
Policing the Global Countryside: Toward a Research Agenda, Richard Yarwood
Solving The Housing Market Crisis In England And Wales: From New Towns To Garden Communities, M Taylor, Stephen Essex, and Olivia Wilson
Re-purposing Universities: The Path to Purpose, Victoria Hurth and Iain S. Stewart
An Exploration of the Contribution of Embodied, Situated Research Strategies to Cultural Ecosystem Services and Landscape Assessment Frameworks: An Environmental Empathy Case Study, K Łucznik, JV Serrano, and J Martin
Atomic Spectrometry Update: review of advances in elemental speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, and Julian F. Tyson
Atomic spectrometry update: review of advances in the analysis of metals, chemicals and materials, Simon Carter, Robert Clough, Andy Fisher, Bridget Gibson, and Ben Russell
Book review: The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree, P Simpson
Consumer engagement at the UEA: Deliverable 5.1, Ian Bailey, Gina Kallis, Phedeas Stephanides, and Konstantinos Chalvatis
Continuous-flow synthesis of mesoporous SBA-15, Christopher M.A. Parlett, Hamidreza Arandiyan, Lee J. Durndell, Mark A. Isaacs, Antonio Torres Lopez, Roong J. Wong, Karen Wilson, and Adam F. Lee
First, do no harm: time for a systems approach to address the problem of health-care-derived pharmaceutical pollution, Kelly Thornber, Fiona Adshead, Angeliki Balayannis, Richard Brazier, Ross Brown, Sean Comber, Caroline Court, Iain Davidson, Michael Depledge, Caroline Farmer, Stuart Gibb, Richard Hixson, Claas Kirchhelle, Keith Moore, Marco Motta, Lydia Niemi, Stewart Owen, David Pencheon, Sharon Pfleger, Emma Pitchforth, Neil Powell, Wiebke Schmidt, Richard Smith, Georgina Sowman, Wendy Tyler-Batt, Helen Wilkinson, Edward CF Wilson, Lora Fleming, William Gaze, and Charles Tyler
Microplastics in the school classrooms of Shiraz, Iran, Sajjad Abbasi, Andrew Turner, Reza Sharifi, Mohammad Javad Nematollahi, Mehrzad Keshavarzifard, and Tahereh Moghtaderi
Optimizing opportunities for oak woodland expansion into upland pastures, Thomas R. Murphy, Mick E. Hanley, Jonathan S. Ellis, and Paul H. Lunt
Re-colonization of hostile environments by benthic foraminifera: an example from Montserrat, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, Malcolm B. Hart, Jodie K. Fisher, Christopher W. Smart, Rebecca Speers, and Deborah Wall-Palmer
Tracking hunter-gatherer impact on vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: proxies and challenges, Anastasia Nikulina, Katharine MacDonald, Fulco Scherjon, E Pearce, Marco Davoli, Jens Christian Svenning, Emily Vella, Marie José Gaillard, Anhelina Zapolska, Frank Arthur, Alexandre Martinez, Kailin Hatlestad, Florence Mazier, Maria Antonia Serge, Karl Johan Lindholm, Ralph Fyfe, Hans Renssen, Didier M. Roche, Sjoerd Kluiving, and Wil Roebroeks
Submissions from 2021
Endotyping Asthma - Profiling the Metabolic Dimension?, Michael J. Wilde and Salman Siddiqui
Dating martian mafic crust; microstructurally constrained baddeleyite geochronology of enriched shergottites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7257, NWA 8679 and Zagami, LG Staddon, JR Darling, WH Schwarz, NR Stephen, and et al
Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part I – sediment source tracing in three neighbouring river catchments, Maarten Wynants, Linus Munishi, Kelvin Mtei, Samuel Bodé, Aloyce Patrick, Alex Taylor, David Gilvear, Patrick Ndakidemi, William H. Blake, and Pascal Boeckx
Introduction to Focus Section: The Geographies of Crime and Policing in the Global Countryside, Vania Ceccato and Richard Yarwood
Feeling redundancy, Paul Simpson
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply, Jack Longman, Benjamin J.W. Mills, Hayley R. Manners, Thomas M. Gernon, and Martin R. Palmer
Coastal dunes as a sink and secondary source of marine plastics: A study at Perran Beach, southwest England, Andrew Turner, Sara L. Amos, and Tracey Williams
Global catastrophic risk from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions, Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor, and Paul Cole
Marine temperatures underestimated for past greenhouse climate, Madeleine L. Vickers, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Clemens V. Ullmann, Stefanie Lode, Nathan Looser, Luiz Grafulha Morales, Gregory D. Price, Philip R. Wilby, Iben Winther Hougård, Stephen P. Hesselbo, and Christoph Korte
Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N, Anna J. Pieńkowski, Katrine Husum, Simon T. Belt, Ulysses Ninnemann, Denizcan Köseoğlu, Dmitry V. Divine, Lukas Smik, Jochen Knies, Kelly Hogan, and Riko Noormets
Best Practices for Monitoring and Assessing the Ecological Response to River Restoration, Judy England, Natalie Angelopoulos, Susan Cooksley, Jennifer Dodd, Andrew Gill, David Gilvear, Matthew Johnson, Marc Naura, Matthew O’hare, Angus Tree, Jennifer Wheeldon, and Martin A. Wilkes
Architecture of pericratonic Yukon-Tanana terrane in the northern Cordillera, J J Ryan, A Zagorevski, N R Cleven, A J Parsons, and N L Joyce
Overview of Cordilleran oceanic terranes and their significance for the tectonic evolution of the northern Cordillera, A Zagorevski, C.R. van Staal, J J Ryan, J.H. Bedard, A Bogatu, D Canil, Mark J. Coleman, ML Golding, N L Joyce, C Lawley, S McGoldrick, M Mihalynuk, D Milidragovic, A J Parsons, and P Schiarizza
Are sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) effective at retaining dissolved trace elements?, Jasmine Humphrey, Chris Rowett, Jonathan Tyers, Mark Gregson, and Sean Comber
Putting nature centre stage? The challenges of ‘mainstreaming’ biodiversity in the planning process, Olivia Wilson
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution, Caroline C. Clason, Will H. Blake, Nick Selmes, Alex Taylor, Pascal Boeckx, Jessica Kitch, Stephanie C. Mills, Giovanni Baccolo, and Geoffrey E. Millward
30-year record of Himalaya mass-wasting reveals landscape perturbations by extreme events, Joshua N. Jones, Sarah J. Boulton, Martin Stokes, Georgina L. Bennett, and Michael R.Z. Whitworth
Metal pollutant pathways in cohesive coastal catchments: Influence of flocculation and biopolymers on partitioning and flux, R. J. Schindler, S. D.W. Comber, and A. J. Manning
Characterizing Hydration of the Ocean Crust Using Shortwave Infrared Microimaging Spectroscopy of ICDP Oman Drilling Project Cores, Molly A. Crotteau, Rebecca N. Greenberger, Bethany L. Ehlmann, George R. Rossman, Michelle Harris, Peter B. Kelemen, and Damon A.H. Teagle
Children, military families and soldier citizenship, Richard Yarwood, Naomi Tyrrell, and Claire Kelly
Hazardous metal additives in plastics and their environmental impacts, Andrew Turner and Montserrat Filella
How does a country’s developmental status affect ambient air quality with respect to particulate matter?, R. Johnson, J. Rieuwerts, and S. D.W. Comber
Tephra deposition and bonding with reactive oxides enhances burial of organic carbon in the Bering Sea, Jack Longman, Thomas M. Gernon, Martin R. Palmer, and Hayley R. Manners
What the presence of regulated chemical elements in beached lacustrine plastics can tell us: the case of Swiss lakes, Montserrat Filella, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Murillo, and Andrew Turner
Designing a Graphene Coating-Based Supercapacitor with Lithium Ion Electrolyte: An Experimental and Computational Study via Multiscale Modeling, Joseph Paul Baboo, Shumaila Babar, Dhaval Kale, Constantina Lekakou, and Giuliano M. Laudone
CHOS gas/fluid‐induced reduction in ureilites, AD Langendam, AG Tomkins, KA Evans, NC Wilson, and et al
Desertification of Iran in the early twenty-first century: assessment using climate and vegetation indices, Dameneh H. Eskandari, Hamid Gholami, Matt W. Telfer, Jesús Rodrigo Comino, Adrian L. Collins, and John D. Jansen
Evaluating Soil Carbon as a Proxy for Erosion Risk in the Spatio-Temporal Complex Hydropower Catchment in Upper Pangani, Northern Tanzania, Aloyce I.M. Amasi, Maarten Wynants, Remigius A. Kawala, Shovi F. Sawe, William H. Blake, and Kelvin M. Mtei
Perfluorinated alkyl substances: Sewage treatment and implications for receiving waters, S. D.W. Comber, M. J. Gardner, and B. Ellor
Equilibrium calculations of iron speciation and apparent iron solubility in the Celtic Sea at ambient seawater pH using the NICA-Donnan model, Kechen Zhu, Antony J. Birchill, Angela Milne, Simon Ussher, Matthew P. Humphreys, Nealy Carr, Claire Mahaffey, Maeve C. Lohan, Eric P. Achterberg, and Martha Gledhill
Building Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through Soil Organic Carbon Restoration in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities, Alex Taylor, Maarten Wynants, Linus Munishi, Claire Kelly, Kelvin Mtei, Francis Mkilema, Patrick Ndakidemi, Mona Nasseri, Alice Kalnins, Aloyce Patrick, David Gilvear, and William Blake
Ecohydrological interactions in a boreal fen–swamp complex, Alberta, Canada, Matthew C. Elmes, Scott J. Davidson, and Jonathan S. Price
Australian Plate Subduction is Responsible for Northward Motion of the India‐Asia Collision Zone and ∼1,000 km Lateral Migration of the Indian Slab, Andrew J. Parsons, Karin Sigloch, and Kasra Hosseini
Constraints on the petrologic history of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from pyroxene zoning profiles and electron backscattered diffraction, A Wenzel, J Filiberto, N Stephen, SP Schwenzer, and SJ Hammond
Inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus in Western European aerosol and the significance of dry deposition flux into stratified shelf waters, Caroline White, Simon J. Ussher, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Sov Atkinson, E. Malcolm S. Woodward, Mingxi Yang, and Thomas G. Bell
Dry and wet deposition of microplastics in a semi-arid region (Shiraz, Iran), Sajjad Abbasi and Andrew Turner
The role of kelp in the transport and fate of negatively buoyant marine plastic, Andrew Turner and Tracey Williams
Transport, weathering and pollution of plastic from container losses at sea: Observations from a spillage of inkjet cartridges in the North Atlantic Ocean, Andrew Turner, Tracey Williams, and Tom Pitchford
MV Wakashio grounding incident in Mauritius 2020: The world's first major spillage of Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil, Alan G. Scarlett, Robert K. Nelson, Marthe Monique Gagnon, Alex I. Holman, Christopher M. Reddy, Paul A. Sutton, and Kliti Grice
