Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2017
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 and Martin Stokes
Novel use of field-portable-XRF for the direct analysis of trace elements in marine macroalgae., Annie Bull, Murray T. Brown, and Andrew Turner
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, AA Martins, João Cabral, Pedro P. Cunha, Martin Stokes, José Borges, Bento Caldeira, and AC Martins
Submissions from 2016
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
Bioaccessibility of U, Th and Pb in solid wastes and soils from an abandoned uranium mine, Michael Foulkes, Geoffrey Millward, Samuel Henderson, and William Blake
Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach., 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, Vente J de, C Kelly, A Colantoni, 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
Evaluating the success of a marine protected area: A systematic review approach., J. Gallacher, N. Simmonds, H. Fellowes, N. Brown, N. Gill, W. Clark, C. Biggs, and L. D. Rodwell
Slip-partitioned surface ruptures for the Mw 7.0 16 April 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake, Shinji Toda, Heitaro Kaneda, Shinsuke Okada, Daisuke Ishimura, and Zoë K. Mildon
Spectral and chromatographic characterisation of the onoceroid, ambrane: A potential novel biological marker, Paul A. Sutton and Steven J. Rowland
Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above‐ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models, Michelle O. Johnson, David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Deurwaerder H De, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Hans Verbeeck, Randow C von, Abel Monteagudo, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J.W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Gonzalez G Lopez, Sophie Fauset, Carlos A. Quesada, Bradley Christoffersen, Philippe Ciais, Gilvan Sampaio, Bart Kruijt, Patrick Meir, Paul Moorcroft, Ke Zhang, E Alvarez‐Davila, de Oliveira A Alves, Ieda Amaral, Ana Andrade, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, A Araujo‐Murakami, Eric J.M.M. Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Gerardo A. Aymard, Christopher Baraloto, Jocely Barroso, Damien Bonal, Rene Boot, Jose Camargo, Jerome Chave, Alvaro Cogollo, Valverde F Cornejo, da Costa AC Lola, Fiore A Di, Leandro Ferreira, Niro Higuchi, Euridice N. Honorio, Tim J. Killeen, SG Laurance, WF Laurance, Juan Licona, Thomas Lovejoy, Yadvinder Malhi, B Marimon, BH Marimon, Darley C.L. Matos, Casimiro Mendoza, David A. Neill, Guido Pardo, M Peña‐Claros, Nigel C.A. Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Adriana Prieto, H Ramirez‐Angulo, Anand Roopsind, Agustin Rudas, Rafael P. Salomao, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Steege H ter, John Terborgh, Raquel Thomas, Marisol Toledo, A Torres‐Lezama, der Heijden GMF van, Rodolfo Vasquez, Vieira IC Guimarães, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A. Vos, and Timothy R. Baker
Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES, Matthew A. Charette, Phoebe J. Lam, Maeve C. Lohan, Eun Young Kwon, Vanessa Hatje, Catherine Jeandel, Alan M. Shiller, Gregory A. Cutter, A Thomas, Philip W. Boyd, William B. Homoky, Angela Milne, H Thomas, Per S. Andersson, Don Porcelli, Takahiro Tanaka, Walter Geibert, Frank Dehairs, and Jordi Garcia-Orellana
High-resolution carbon cycle and seawater temperature evolution during the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian), Gregory D. Price, Sarah J. Baker, Justin VanDeVelde, and Marie Emilie Clémence
Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro), Bradley O. Christoffersen, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, David R. Galbraith, Timothy R. Baker, Bart Kruijt, Lucy Rowland, Rosie A. Fisher, Oliver J. Binks, Sanna Sevanto, Chonggang Xu, Steven Jansen, Brendan Choat, Maurizio Mencuccini, Nate G. McDowell, and Patrick Meir
Fluvial archives, a valuable record of vertical crustal deformation, A. Demoulin, A. Mather, and A. Whittaker
New data on the chronology of the Vale do Forno sedimentary sequence (Lower Tejo River terrace staircase) and its relevance as a fluvial archive of the Middle Pleistocene in western Iberia, Pedro P. Cunha, António A. Martins, Jan Pieter Buylaert, Andrew S. Murray, Luis Raposo, Paolo Mozzi, and Martin Stokes
Elemental concentrations and bioaccessibilities in beached plastic foam litter, with particular reference to lead in polyurethane, Andrew Turner and Kwan S. Lau
Sulphide mineral evolution and metal mobility during alteration of the oceanic crust: Insights from ODP Hole 1256D, C. G.C. Patten, I. K. Pitcairn, D. A.H. Teagle, and M. Harris
Rapid mantle-driven uplift along the Angolan margin in the late Quaternary, R. T. Walker, M. Telfer, RL Kahle, M. W. Dee, B Kahle, J. L. Schwenninger, R. A. Sloan, and A. B. Watts
Evidence for the validity of Protatlanta sculpta (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea), D Wall-Palmer, AK Burridge, KTCA Peijnenburg, A Janssen, E Goetze, R Kirby, MB Hart, and CW Smart
A study of arsenic speciation in soil, irrigation water and plant tissue: A case study of the broad bean plant, Vicia faba., Bashdar A. Sadee, Mike E. Foulkes, and Steve J. Hill
Closing crack earthquakes within the Krafla caldera, North Iceland, Zoë K. Mildon, David J. Pugh, Jon Tarasewicz, Robert S. White, and Bryndís Brandsdóttir
Exposure to tritiated water at an elevated temperature: Genotoxic and transcriptomic effects in marine mussels (M. galloprovincialis)., Lorna J. Dallas, Tim P. Bean, Andrew Turner, Brett P. Lyons, and Awadhesh N. Jha
Fingerprinting and tracing the sources of soils and sediments: Earth and ocean science, geoarchaeological, forensic, and human health applications, P. N. Owens, W. H. Blake, L. Gaspar, D. Gateuille, A. J. Koiter, D. A. Lobb, E. L. Petticrew, D. G. Reiffarth, H. G. Smith, and J. C. Woodward
Holocene sea-ice conditions and circulation at the Chukchi-Alaskan margin, Arctic Ocean, inferred from biomarker proxies, Leonid Polyak, Simon T. Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Masanobu Yamamoto, and Yu Hyeon Park
Hydrothermal contributions to global biogeochemical cycles: Insights from the Macquarie Island ophiolite, Rosalind M. Coggon, Damon A.H. Teagle, Michelle Harris, Garry J. Davidson, Jeffrey C. Alt, and Timothy S. Brewer
Optimizing the design of a reproduction toxicity test with the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis., S Charles, V Ducrot, D Azam, R Benstead, D Brettschneider, Schamphelaere K De, Goncalves S Filipe, JW Green, H Holbech, TH Hutchinson, D Faber, F Laranjeiro, P Matthiessen, L Norrgren, J Oehlmann, RZ Evelyn, A Seeland-Fremer, M Teigeler, JP Thome, Kaplon M Tobor, L Weltje, and L Lagadic
Our evolving understanding of aeolian bedforms, based on observation of dunes on different worlds, Serina Diniega, Mikhail Kreslavsky, Jani Radebaugh, S Silverstro, Matt Telfer, and Daniela Tirsch
Ecohydraulics exemplifies the emerging “paradigm of the interdisciplines”, David J. Gilvear, John M. Nestler, Michael J. Stewardson, J. Angus Webb, and David L. Smith
Heavy metals, metalloids and other hazardous elements in marine plastic litter, Andrew Turner
Active normal faulting during the 1997 seismic sequence in Colfiorito, Umbria: Did slip propagate to the surface?, Zoë K. Mildon, Gerald P. Roberts, Walker JP Faure, Luke N.J. Wedmore, and Ken J.W. McCaffrey
Analysis of the elemental composition of marine litter by field-portable-XRF, Andrew Turner and Kevin R. Solman
Integrated terrestrial and marine planning in England’s coastal inter-tidal zone: assessing the operational effectiveness of the Coastal Concordat, Jonathan Turner and Stephen Essex
Stratigraphic and geochemical expression of Barremian–Aptian global climate change in Arctic Svalbard, Madeleine L. Vickers, ML, Gregory D. Price, Rhodri M. Jerrett, and Matthew Watkinson
Return of naturally sourced Pb to Atlantic surface waters, Luke Bridgestock, de Flierdt T van, M Rehkamper, Maxence Paul, Rob Middag, Angela Milne, Maeve C. Lohan, Alex R. Baker, Rosie Chance, Roulin Khondoker, Stanislav Strekopytov, Emma Humphreys-Williams, Eric P. Achterberg, Micha J.A. Rijkenberg, Loes J.A. Gerringa, and Baar HJW de
Unexpected removal of the most neutral cationic pharmaceutical in river waters, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Alan D. Tappin, Alan J. McCarthy, and J. Paul Loughnane
The impact of natural and anthropogenic Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), and pH on the toxicity of triclosan to the crustacean Gammarus pulex (L.)., Sean D.W. Comber, Christopher J. Rowett, and Thomas H. Hutchinson
Determination of rare earth elements in natural water samples – A review of sample separation, preconcentration and direct methodologies, Andrew Fisher and Derya Kara
Coupling of marine and continental oxygen isotope records during the Eocene-Oligocene transition, Nathan D. Sheldon, Stephen T. Grimes, Jerry J. Hooker, Margaret E. Collinson, Melanie J. Bugler, Michael T. Hren, Gregory D. Price, and Paul A. Sutton
Pharmaceuticals in soils of lower income countries: Physico-chemical fate and risks from wastewater irrigation., Katherine Lees, Mark Fitzsimons, Jason Snape, Alan Tappin, and Sean Comber
Extracting palaeoflood data from coarse-grained Pleistocene river terrace archives: an example from SE Spain, Anne Mather and Martin Stokes
Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data, Simon Brewer, Thomas Giesecke, Basil A.S. Davis, Walter Finsinger, Steffen Wolters, Heather Binney, Beaulieu J-L de, Ralph Fyfe, Graciela Gil-Romera, Norbert Kühl, Petr Kuneš, Michelle Leydet, and Richard H. Bradshaw
Source identification and distribution reveals the potential of the geochemical Antarctic sea ice proxy IPSO25, S. T. Belt, L. Smik, T. A. Brown, J. H. Kim, S. J. Rowland, C. S. Allen, J. K. Gal, K. H. Shin, J. I. Lee, and K. W.R. Taylor
Response to Gottesfeld and Jacobs 2016, Andrew Turner, Emily R. Kearl, and Kevin R. Solman
Variability in drift ice export from the Arctic Ocean to the North Icelandic Shelf over the last 8000 years: A multi-proxy evaluation, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Simon T. Belt, Anne E. Jennings, John T. Andrews, and Áslaug Geirsdóttir
Monitoring abiotic degradation in sinking versus suspended Arctic sea ice algae during a spring ice melt using specific lipid oxidation tracers, Jean François Rontani, Simon T. Belt, Thomas A. Brown, Rémi Amiraux, Michel Gosselin, Frédéric Vaultier, and Christopher J. Mundy
GEOMETRY OF HOLOCENE TIDAL NOTCHES – SEA LEVEL MARKERS AT PERACHORA PENINSULA, GULF OF CORINTH, GREECE, S Schneiderwind, M Kázmér, S Boulton, I Papanikolaou, and K Reicherter
Using video games for volcanic hazard education and communication: an assessment of the method and preliminary results, Lara Mani, Paul D. Cole, and Iain Stewart
Characterization of the in situ magnetic architecture of oceanic crust (Hess Deep) using near-source vector magnetic data, M Tominaga, MA Tivey, CJ MacLeod, A Morris, CJ Lissenberg, DJ Shillington, and V Ferrini
Restoration of the external Scandinavian Caledonides, A. Hugh N. Rice and Mark W. Anderson
The Winter Olympics: driving urban change, 1924-2022, SJ Essex and Groot J de
Seasonal sea ice variability in eastern Fram Strait over the last 2000 years, P Cabedo-Sanz and ST Belt
Advancing the 3Rs in regulatory ecotoxicology: A pragmatic cross-sector approach, N Burden, R Benstead, M Clook, I Doyle, P Edwards, SK Maynard, K Ryder, D Sheahan, G Whale, Egmond R van, JR Wheeler, and TH Hutchinson
Amazon forest response to repeated droughts, T. R. Feldpausch, O. L. Phillips, R. J.W. Brienen, E. Gloor, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, Y. Malhi, A. Alarcón, Dávila E Álvarez, P. Alvarez-Loayza, A. Andrade, L. E.O.C. Aragao, L. Arroyo, C. GA Aymard, T. R. Baker, C. Baraloto, J. Barroso, D. Bonal, W. Castro, V. Chama, J. Chave, T. F. Domingues, S. Fauset, N. Groot, Coronado E Honorio, S Laurance, WF Laurance, S. L. Lewis, J. C. Licona, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Marimon-Junior, Bautista C Mendoza, D. A. Neill, E. A. Oliveira, E. A. Oliveira, Camacho NC Pallqui, G. Pardo-Molina, A. Prieto, C. A. Quesada, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez-Angulo, M. Réjou-Méchain, A. Rudas, G. Saiz, R. P. Salomão, J. E. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, Steege H ter, J. Stropp, J. Terborgh, R. Thomas-Caesar, der Heijden GMF van, Martinez R Vásquez, E. Vilanova, and V. A. Vos
Derivation of water quality guidelines for priority pharmaceuticals, A Kumar, GE Batley, B Nidumolu, and TH Hutchinson
Farm characteristics and farmer perceptions associated with bovine tuberculosis incidents in areas of emerging endemic spread, J. M. Broughan, D. Maye, P. Carmody, L. A. Brunton, A. Ashton, W. Wint, N. Alexander, R. Naylor, K. Ward, A. V. Goodchild, S. Hinchliffe, R. D. Eglin, P. Upton, R. Nicholson, and G. Enticott
Geomorphic and geological constraints on the active normal faulting of the Gediz (Alaşehir) Graben, Western Turkey., E. Kent, S. J. Boulton, I. S. Stewart, A. C. Whittaker, and MC Alcicek
On the stability of various highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) lipids in stored sediments and sediment extracts, Sanz P. Cabedo, Lukas Smik, and Simon T. Belt
Measurements of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon isotope variability in Sphagnum moss along a micro-topographical gradient in a southern Patagonian peatland, N. J. Loader, F. A. Street-Perrott, D. Mauquoy, T. P. Roland, Bellen S van, T. J. Daley, D. Davies, P. D.M. Hughes, V. O. Pancotto, G. H.F. Young, M. J. Amesbury, D. J. Charman, G. Mallon, and Z. C. Yu
The 8.2-ka BP event in north-eastern North America: first combined oxygen and hydrogen isotopic data from peat in Newfoundland, T. J. Daley, K. E. Barber, P. D.M. Hughes, N. J. Loader, M. Leuenberger, and F. A. Street-Perrott
From ether to acid: a plausible degradation pathway of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers, Xiao Lei Liu, Daniel Birgel, Felix J. Elling, Paul A. Sutton, Julius S. Lipp, Rong Zhu, Chuanlun Zhang, M Konneke, Jörn Peckmann, Steven J. Rowland, Roger E. Summons, and Kai Uwe Hinrichs
Potholes and pitfalls: The impact of rural transport on female entrepreneurs in Nigeria, Rebecca Johnson, Andrew Seedhouse, and Robert Newbery
When did the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains get high? Constraints on neo- and active tectonics from fluvial geomorphology and palaeoaltimetry, SJ Boulton, M Stokes, J Vandevelde, and AE Mather
Abandoned metal mines and their impact on receiving waters: A case study from Southwest England., SJ Beane, SD Comber, J Rieuwerts, and P Long
Carbon cycle history through the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary: A new global δ13C stack, Gregory D. Price, I Főzy, and József Pálfy
Earthquake risk communication as dialogue – insights from a workshop in Istanbul's urban renewal neighbourhoods, Johanna Ickert and Iain S. Stewart
New Zealand and climate change: what are the stakes and what can New Zealand do?, IG Bailey and Inderberg TH Jackson
Orthophosphate-P in the nutrient impacted River Taw and its catchment (SW England) between 1990 and 2013., Alan D. Tappin, Sean Comber, and Paul J. Worsfold
A "mental models" approach to the communication of subsurface hydrology and hazards, Hazel Gibson, Iain S. Stewart, Sabine Pahl, and Alison Stokes
Distributions of highly branched isoprenoid alkenes and other algal lipids in surface waters from East Antarctica: Further insights for biomarker-based paleo sea-ice reconstruction, Lukas Smik, Simon T. Belt, Jan L. Lieser, Leanne K. Armand, and Amy Leventer
EXCEPTIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF STATOLITHS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHRISTIAN MALFORD LAGERSTA¨ TTE (CALLOVIAN, JURASSIC) IN WILTSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, Malcolm B. Hart, Jonghe A de, Kevin N. Page, Gregory D. Price, and Christopher W. Smart
Design, disability and the planning challenge: the reality of living with severely disabled children, Stephen Essex and Jamie Staples
Determination of phosphorus in natural waters: A historical review., Paul Worsfold, Ian McKelvie, and Phil Monbet
“Choice may not necessarily be a good thing”: student attitudes to autonomy in interdisciplinary project-based learning in GEES disciplines, Nichola Harmer and Alison Stokes
Sustainable geoscience, I Stewart
Quantitative estimates of sinking sea ice particulate organic carbon based on the biomarker IP25, T. A. Brown, S. T. Belt, M. Gosselin, M. Levasseur, M. Poulin, and C. J. Mundy
The environmental impacts and health hazards of abandoned boats in estuaries, Andrew Turner and Aldous Rees
Lead in exterior paints from the urban and suburban environs of Plymouth, south west England, Andrew Turner and Kevin R. Solman
Understanding the Planning Challenges of Brownfield Development in Coastal Urban Areas of England, Craig Leger, Christopher Balch, and Stephen Essex
Living together in student accommodation: performances, boundaries and homemaking, Mark Holton
Pre- and post-installation community perceptions of wind farm projects: the case of Roskrow Barton (Cornwall, UK), GA Wilson and SL Dyke
Shaping the role of 'fast' and 'slow' drivers of change in forest-shrubland socio-ecological systems, Agostino Ferrara, Claire Kelly, Geoff A. Wilson, Angelo Nolè, Giuseppe Mancino, Sofia Bajocco, and Luca Salvati
The Miocene – Pliocene boundary and the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the easternmost Mediterranean: insights from the Hatay Graben (Southern Turkey)., Sarah J. Boulton, Christopher W. Smart, Chiara Consolaro, and Avalon Snider
Co - Producing Mobilities : negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move, Simon Cook, Anna Davidson, Elaine Stratford, Jennie Middleton, Anna Plyushteva, Helen Fitt, Sophie Cranston, Paul Simpson, Hannah Delaney, Kate Evans, Amy Jones, Jonathan Kershaw, Nina Williams, David Bissell, Tara Duncan, Frans Sengers, Joanna Elvy, and Clancy Wilmott
The role of biophysical cohesion on subaqueous bed form size, Daniel R. Parsons, Robert J. Schindler, Julie A. Hope, Jonathan Malarkey, Jaco H. Baas, Jeffrey Peakall, Andrew J. Manning, Leiping Ye, Steve Simmons, David M. Paterson, Rebecca J. Aspden, Sarah J. Bass, Alan G. Davies, Ian D. Lichtman, and Peter D. Thorne
Climate policy strength compared: China, the US, the EU, India, Russia, and Japan, Hugh Compston and Ian Bailey
Lead and other toxic metals in playground paints from South West England, Andrew Turner, Emily R. Kearl, and Kevin R. Solman
An evaluation of extraction techniques for arsenic in staple diets (fish and rice) utilising both classical and enzymatic extraction methods, Bashdar A. Sadee, Mike E. Foulkes, and Steve J. Hill
Promoting the 3Rs to enhance the OECD fish toxicity testing framework., TH Hutchinson, JR Wheeler, A Gourmelon, and N Burden
Developmental toxicity of metaldehyde in the embryos of Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) co-exposed to the synergist piperonyl butoxide, Katrina C. Hallett, Andrew Atfield, Sean Comber, and Thomas H. Hutchinson
Evaluation of a closed-system cytotoxic transfer device in a pharmaceutical isolator., N. Vyas, A. Turner, J. M. Clark, and G. J. Sewell
Geography and post-phenomenology, James Ash and Paul Simpson
Is the Troodos ophiolite (Cyprus) a complete, transform fault-bounded Neotethyan ridge segment?, A Morris and M Maffione
Sea-level rise impacts on transport infrastructure: The notorious case of the coastal railway line at Dawlish, England, David Dawson, Jon Shaw, and R Gehrels
Semi-quantitative estimates of paleo Arctic sea ice concentration based on source-specific highly branched isoprenoid alkenes: A further development of the PIP25 index, Lukas Smik, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, and Simon T. Belt
Absence of Gradients and Nernstian Equilibrium Stripping (AGNES) for the determination of [Zn2+] in estuarine waters, Holly B.C. Pearson, Josep Galceran, Encarna Companys, Charlotte Braungardt, Paul Worsfold, Jaume Puy, and Sean Comber
A review of the ecology, palaeontology and distribution of atlantid heteropods (Caenogastropoda: Pterotracheoidea: Atlantidae), Deborah Wall-Palmer, Christopher W. Smart, Richard Kirby, Malcolm B. Hart, Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg, and Arie W. Janssen
