Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2018
Observational Study Unveils the Extensive Presence of Hazardous Elements in Beached Plastics from Lake Geneva, Montserrat Filella and Andrew Turner
Active pharmaceutical ingredients entering the aquatic environment from wastewater treatment works: A cause for concern?, Sean Comber, Mike Gardner, Pernilla Sörme, Dean Leverett, and Brian Ellor
Complementary biomarker-based methods for characterising Arctic sea ice conditions: A case study comparison between multivariate analysis and the PIP25index, Denizcan Köseoğlu, Simon T. Belt, Lukas Smik, Haoyi Yao, Giuliana Panieri, and Jochen Knies
The resilience and vulnerability of remote mountain communities: The case of Vent, Austrian Alps, GA Wilson, M Schermer, and R Stotten
Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene Streptochilus, CW Smart and E Thomas
Vertical distribution and diurnal migration of atlantid heteropods, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Brett Metcalfe, Melanie J. Leng, Hilary J. Sloane, Gerald Ganssen, P. N. Vinayachandran, and Christopher W. Smart
High contributions of sea ice derived carbon in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tissue., Thomas A. Brown, Melissa P. Galicia, Gregory W. Thiemann, Simon T. Belt, David J. Yurkowski, and Markus G. Dyck
Impact of surface ocean conditions and aerosol provenance on the dissolution of aerosol manganese, cobalt, nickel and lead in seawater, Matthew P. Fishwick, Simon J. Ussher, Peter N. Sedwick, Maeve C. Lohan, Paul J. Worsfold, Kristen N. Buck, and Thomas M. Church
Suspended solids moderate the degradation and sorption of waste water-derived pharmaceuticals in estuarine waters., Y Aminot, L Fuster, P Pardon, K Le Menach, and H Budzinski
Organic matter identifies the nano-mechanical properties of native soil aggregates, SA Gazze, I Hallin, G Quinn, E Dudley, GP Matthews, P Rees, Keulen G van, SH Doerr, and LW Francis
Agroecological, Land-Elevation and Socioeconomic Determinants of Raising Livestock in Bangladesh, S Rahman
A multi-technique experimental and modelling study of the porous structure of IG-110 and IG-430 nuclear graphite, Giuliano M. Laudone, Katie L. Jones, and G. Peter Matthews
Archaeal and bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids in environmental samples by high temperature-gas chromatography with flame ionisation and time-of-flight mass spectrometry detection, Sabine K. Lengger, Paul A. Sutton, Steven J. Rowland, Sarah J. Hurley, Ann Pearson, B. David A. Naafs, Xinyue Dang, Gordon N. Inglis, and Richard D. Pancost
Atomic Spectrometry Update: review of advances in elemental speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, and Julian F. Tyson
Biogeography and genetic diversity of the atlantid heteropods., Deborah Wall-Palmer, Alice K. Burridge, Erica Goetze, Frank R. Stokvis, Arie W. Janssen, Lisette Mekkes, María Moreno-Alcántara, Nina Bednaršek, Tom Schiøtte, Sørensen M Vinther, Christopher W. Smart, and Peijnenburg K T.C.A.
Block and boulder accumulations on the southern coast of Crete (Greece): evidence for the 365 CE tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean, Sarah J. Boulton and Michael R.Z. Whitworth
Building student resilience: a self-leadership approach, Paul Murray, Sheran Murray, Paul Warwick, and Anne Bentley
Detecting environmental change: how many samples are required?, M. J. Gardner and S. D.W. Comber
Disadvantage in English seaside resorts: A typology of deprived neighbourhoods, Sheela Agarwal, Steven Jakes, Stephen Essex, Stephen J. Page, and Martin Mowforth
Does carbon limitation reduce nitrogen retention in soil?, H. Kate Schofield, Alan D. Tappin, and Mark F. Fitzsimons
Employability Voices: a resource to promote and support employability to academics, Jane Collings, Sharon Gedye, Garren Baker, Mark Beresford, Annika Bautz, David Gilvear, Sarah Stevenson, and Jean Almond
Intravenous injection of unfunctionalized carbon-based nanomaterials confirms the minimal toxicity observed in aqueous and dietary exposures in juvenile rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ), David Boyle, Paul A. Sutton, Richard D. Handy, and Theodore B. Henry
Microplastics in different tissues of fish and prawn from the Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf., Sajjad Abbasi, Naghmeh Soltani, Behnam Keshavarzi, Farid Moore, Andrew Turner, and Mina Hassanaghaei
Naphthenic acids in oil sands process waters: Identification by conversion of the acids or esters to hydrocarbons, Michael J. Wilde and Steven J. Rowland
Numerical analysis of the rheological behaviour of the Socompa debris avalanche, Chile, F Vagnon, M Pirulli, I Manzella, K Kelfoun, and AM Ferrero
Palaeo river long profile reconstruction in a fold-and-thrust belt: river terraces as archives of Quaternary incision and aggradation in the Atlas Mountains, JR Zondervan, M Stokes, SJ Boulton, AE Mather, and MW Telfer
PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BENTHIC RECOVERY AFTER THE LATE PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT IN EASTERN LOMBARDY, ITALY, William J. Foster, Silvia Danise, Gregory D. Price, and Richard J. Twitchett
Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna, S Dominici, S Danise, and M Benvenuti
Research-led curriculum innovation to enhance core employability attributes for Environmental Science graduates, Charlotte Braungardt, Alison Stokes, C Guy, and Paul Warwick
Sea ice, ice-rafting, and ocean climate across Denmark Strait during rapid deglaciation (similar to 16-12 cal ka BP) of the Iceland and East Greenland shelves, J. T. Andrews, P. Cabedo-Sanz, A. E. Jennings, S Olafsdottir, S. T. Belt, and A Geirsdottir
Spaces of concern: Parliamentary discourse on Britain's overseas territories., Nichola Harmer
The Evolution of the Silver Hills Volcanic Center, and Revised 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, With Implications for Island Arc Volcanism, S. J. Hatter, M. R. Palmer, T. M. Gernon, R. N. Taylor, P. D. Cole, D. N. Barfod, and M. Coussens
VEGETATION AND LAND-USE CHANGE IN NORTHERN EUROPE DURING LATE ANTIQUITY: A REGIONAL-SCALE POLLEN-BASED RECONSTRUCTION, J Woodbridge-Fisher, R Fyfe, and CN Roberts
Submissions from 2017
Factors Influencing Household Income in Poor Urban Slum Settlements in Bangladesh, S Rahman
Fossils, heritage and conservation: Managing demands on a precious resource, KN Page
Constraining the Deforestation History of Europe: Evaluation of Historical Land Use Scenarios with Pollen-Based Land Cover Reconstructions, Jed O. Kaplan, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Marie José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Anna Kari Trondman, Ralph Fyfe, Laurent Marquer, Florence Mazier, and Anne Birgitte Nielsen
Hierarchical creep cavity formation in an ultramylonite and implications for phase mixing, J Gilgannon, F Fusseis, L Menegon, K Regenauer-Lieb, and J Buckman
Active normal faults and coupled landscape response: bedrock variability in the southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece, JR Zondervan, AC Whittaker, RE Bell, SE Watkins, and SAS Brooke
Quantifying the Erosional Response to Tectonic Forcing: Be10 Catchment Average Erosion Rates from the Taupo Rift, New Zealand., SJ Boulton and KP Norton
Trajectories of change in Mediterranean Holocene vegetation through classification of pollen data, Ralph M. Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, and C. Neil Roberts
Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate, Andrew Bevan, Sue Colledge, Dorian Fuller, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, and Chris Stevens
The challenge of urban design in securing post-event legacies of Olympic Parks, de Oliveira Sanchez R Latuf and Stephen Essex
Investigating Multiple Domains of Household Livelihood Security: Insights from Urban Slums in Bangladesh, S Akter and S Rahman
Bromine in plastic consumer products - Evidence for the widespread recycling of electronic waste., Andrew Turner and Montserrat Filella
Communicating Seismic Risk: the Geoethical Challenges of a People-Centred, Participatory Approach, IS Stewart, J Ickert, and R Lacassin
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
Earthquakes as Precursors of Ductile Shear Zones in the Dry and Strong Lower Crust, L Menegon, G Pennacchioni, N Malaspina, K Harris, and E Wood
Exploring the future potential of jute in Bangladesh, S Rahman, MMH Kazal, IA Begum, and MJ Alam
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
Mudstones and embedded concretions show differences in lithology-related, but not source-related biomarker distributions, SK Lengger, IM Melendez, RE Summons, and K Grice
Let’s Improv It: The Embodied Investigation of Social Collaboration, K Łucznik, A Jackson, A Sakuta, and E Siarava
The Displaced ‘Dispositif’, Guy Edmonds and Shaun Lewin
Changes to Arctic land ice, JE Box, M Sharp, G Aðalgeirsdóttir, M Ananicheva, and et al
Rapid fore-arc extension and detachment-mode spreading following subduction initiation, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Ahmed Omer, Marco Maffione, and Hinsbergen DJJ van
The hydrothermal alteration of carbonatite in the Fen Complex, Norway: mineralogy, geochemistry, and implications for rare earth element resource formation, C Marien, AH Dijkstra, and C wilkins
Contributions of citizen science to landscape democracy: potentials and challenges of current approaches, BJ Shaw, H Draux, MG Martín, J Martin, and C Bieling
Communicating contested geoscience to the public: Moving from ‘matters of fact’ to ‘matters of concern’, Iain S. Stewart and Deirdre Lewis
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
Fluvial archives of NW African climate and tectonic evolution, Atlas Mountains, central Morocco, JR Zondervan, M Stokes, AE Mather, and SJ Boulton
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
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
A new occurrence of the Early Jurassic brachiopod Anarhynchia from the Canadian Cordillera confirms its membership in chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, J Palfy, Zsófia Kovács, S, Gregory D. Price, Attila Vörös, and A
Effect of soil saturation on denitrification in a grassland soil, LM Cardenas, R Bol, D Lewicka-Szczebak, AS Gregory, GP Matthews, WR Whalley, TH Misselbrook, D Scholefield, and R Well
Effect of soil saturation on denitrification in a grassland soil, GP Matthews, L Cardenas, R Bol, D Lewicka-Szczebak, A Gregory, W Whalley, T Misselbrook, D Scholefield, and R Well
Spacing the subject: Thinking subjectivity after non-representational theory, Paul Simpson
Crystallographic control and texture inheritance during mylonitization of coarse grained quartz veins, A Ceccato, G Pennacchioni, L Menegon, and M Bestmann
European national government approaches to older people's transport system needs, Rebecca Johnson, Jon Shaw, Jörn Berding, Matthias Gather, and Markus Rebstock
Relative sea-level variability during the late Middle Pleistocene: New evidence from eastern England, N. L.M. Barlow, A. J. Long, W. R. Gehrels, M. H. Saher, R. G. Scaife, H. J. Davies, K. E.H. Penkman, D. R. Bridgland, A. Sparkes, C. W. Smart, and S. Taylor
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
Seismic faults and sacred sanctuaries in Aegean antiquity, Iain S. Stewart
Dinocyst stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Stevns Klint, Denmark, Meriel E.J. FitzPatrick, David A. Forber, and Malcolm B. Hart
HAWAIIAN SKIRT controls size and floral organ number by modulating CUC1 and CUC2 expression, ZH González-Carranza, X Zhang, JL Peters, V Boltz, and et al
Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England, H Langford, S Boreham, RM Briant, GR Coope, and et al
The onset of fabric development in deep marine sediments, M Maffione and A Morris
Architecture and Urban Design: The Shaping of Rio 2016 Olympic Legacies, de Oliveira Sanchez R Latuf and SJ Essex
Baffin Bay paleoenvironments in the LGM and HS1: Resolving the ice-shelf question, Anne E. Jennings, John T. Andrews, Cofaigh C Ó, Guillaume St-Onge, Simon Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Christof Pearce, Claude Hillaire-Marcel, and Campbell D Calvin
Spatializing Climate Justice: Justice Claim Making and Carbon Pricing Controversies in Australia, Ian Bailey
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
In situ determination of trace elements in Fucus spp. by field-portable-XRF, Andrew Turner, Hiu Poon, Alex Taylor, and Murray T. Brown
Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe, Laurent Marquer, Marie José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Anneli Poska, Anna Kari Trondman, Florence Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Ralph M. Fyfe, Anna Maria Jönsson, Benjamin Smith, Jed O. Kaplan, Teija Alenius, H. John B. Birks, Anne E. Bjune, Jörg Christiansen, John Dodson, Kevin J. Edwards, Thomas Giesecke, Ulrike Herzschuh, Mihkel Kangur, Tiiu Koff, Małgorzata Latałowa, Jutta Lechterbeck, Jörgen Olofsson, and Heikki Seppä
The limitations of hibonite as a single-mineral oxybarometer for early solar system processes, AJ Berry, PF Schofield, AN Kravtsova, LA Miller, and et al
Distribution of pelagic phytoplankton-derived lipid biomarkers along a transect from the East Sea to the Bering Sea: insights into their suitability as open-water indicators, J-K Gal, J-H Kim, L Smik, SY Ha, ST Belt, S-I Nam, and K-H Shin
Analyzing riparian zone ecosystem services bundles to instruct river management, Looy K. Van, Thierry Tormos, Yves Souchon, and David Gilvear
Monitoring photo-oxidative and salinity-induced bacterial stress in the Canadian Arctic using specific lipid tracers, Rémi Amiraux, Simon T. Belt, Frédéric Vaultier, Virginie Galindo, Michel Gosselin, Patricia Bonin, and Jean François Rontani
Aeolian sediment fingerprinting using a Bayesian mixing model, Hamid Gholami, Matt W. Telfer, William H. Blake, and Abolhassan Fathabadi
Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene, Anne E. Jennings, John T. Andrews, Cofaigh C Ó, Guillaume St Onge, Christina Sheldon, Simon T. Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, and Claude Hillaire-Marcel
In situ elemental characterisation of marine microplastics by portable XRF., Andrew Turner
Cadmium, lead and bromine in beached microplastics., Angelo Massos and Andrew Turner
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
Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey, and Nichola Harmer
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
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
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
Morphodynamics, boundary conditions and pattern evolution within a vegetated linear dunefield, M. W. Telfer, P. P. Hesse, M. Perez-Fernandez, R. M. Bailey, S. Bajkan, and N. Lancaster
The Role of Omics in the Application of Adverse Outcome Pathways for Chemical Risk Assessment, EK Brockmeier, G Hodges, TH Hutchinson, E Butler, M Hecker, KE Tollefsen, N Garcia-Reyero, P Kille, D Becker, K Chipman, J Colbourne, TW Collette, A Cossins, M Cronin, P Graystock, S Gutsell, D Knapen, I Katsiadaki, A Lange, S Marshall, SF Owen, EJ Perkins, S Plaistow, A Schroeder, D Taylor, M Viant, G Ankley, and F Falciani
Switching deformation mode and mechanisms during subduction of continental crust: a case study from Alpine Corsica, G Molli, L Menegon, and A Malasoma
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
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