Publications

I’ve published on subjects ranging from Siberian permafrost to South American earthquakes. These pages give an overview of each paper, and a link to download the journal article. Where possible the papers have been published in open access journals, the others are available through institutional data stores.

• Rapid carbon accumulation at a saltmarshrestored by managed realignment exceeded carbon emitted in direct site construction

  2022, PLOS ONE
  Carbon burial at Steart Marshes is very quick – is it effective?

• Characterization of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols in a permanently stratified, hyper-euxinic lake

  2022, Organic Geochemistry
  Purple filters and new biomarker molecules

• The quantification of di-octyl terephthalate and calcium carbonate in polyvinyl chloride using Fourier transform-infrared and Raman spectroscopy

  2022, Journal of Applied Polymer Science
  Identifying plastic with lasers can save money

• Methanotroph-derived bacteriohopanepolyol signatures in sediments covering Miocene brown coal deposits

  2021, International Journal of Coal Geology
  Finding modern and ancient microbes in some Polish coal

• Spatio-temporal analysis of the potential toxicological burden of pollutants in a fluvial system, the River Irwell, Manchester, through anthropogenic activities (present and historical) and natural mechanisms

  2021, North West Geography
  Monitoring river health in North Manchester

• Signatures of the post-hydration heating of highly aqueously altered CM carbonaceous chondrites and implications for interpreting asteroid sample returns

  2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  How do meteorites change as they get heated up?

• Survival of graphitized petrogenic organic carbon through multiple erosional cycles

  2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  Tracking graphite as it goes around and around

• Carbonaceous material export from Siberian permafrost tracked across the Arctic Shelf using Raman spectroscopy

  2018, The Cryosphere
  Terrestrial carbon found far across the Arctic Shelf

• Macromolecular organic matter across the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

  2016, The Cryosphere
  First use of pyrolysis GCMS across the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

• Source, transport and fate of soil organic matter inferred from microbial biomarker lipids

  2016, Biogeosciences
  BHP biomarker molecules on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

• Elephant Moraine 96029, a very mildly aqueously altered and heated CM carbonaceous chondrite

  2016, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  Unravelling a meteorite from the dawn of the Solar System

• Decadal carbon discharge by a mountain stream is dominated by coarse organic matter

  2016, Geology
  Tree trunks and branches contain lots of carbon, but are often too big to measure

• GDGT distributions on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf: Discussion paper

  2015, Biogeosciences Discussions
  Open Access publishing in action

• GDGT distributions on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

  2015, Biogeosciences
  The first study of the BIT index across the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

• Redistribution of multi-phase particulate organic carbon in a marine shelf and canyon system during an exceptional river flood

  2015, Marine Geology
  Tracking organic carbon from river to ocean in Taiwan

• Distributions of bacterial and archaeal membrane lipids in surface sediments reflect differences in input and loss of terrestrial organic carbon along a cross-shelf Arctic transect

  2015, Organic Geochemistry
  Tracking soil carbon and coastal erosion coming from the Kolyma River, Siberia

• Preservation of terrestrial organic carbon in marine sediments offshore Taiwan

  2014, Earth Surface Dynamics
  Mountain building and atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration

• Automated Analysis of Carbon in Powdered Geological and Environmental Samples by Raman Spectroscopy

  2013, Applied Spectroscopy
  A new method for analysing Raman spectra quickly, easily and reliably

• Mobilization and transport of coarse woody debris to the oceans triggered by an extreme tropical storm

  2011, Limnology and Oceanography
  Tropical storms wash huge numbers of tree trunks out to sea

• Subducted seafloor relief stops rupture in South American great earthquakes

  2010, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  Seamounts being forced into subduction zones can stop earthquakes