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Charles West

 

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Dr Charles West

  • Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: Room 627 Davy, Davy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 584556
  • Email: charles.west@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background

PhD, Chemistry, University of Plymouth
BSc (Hons) Analytical Chemistry, 1st Class, University of Plymouth

Background

2009 - date     European Research Council (ERC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2007 - 2009    Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Professional Awards

  • Award for Best Postgraduate Research Poster, 6th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005
  • Award for Best Postgraduate Research Poster, 16th British Organic Geochemistry Society meeting, Nottingham, 2004 
  • PS Analytical Prize for Advanced Analytical Techniques, University of Plymouth, 2002
  • Glasson Memorial Prize for Highest Analytical Chemistry Degree Performance, 2002
 

Professional membership
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry  (MRSC)
Member of the European Association of Organic Geochemists  (EAOG)
Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC)
 



Research interests

  • Environmental organic chemistry
  • Applications of GC, GC-MS and GCxGC-ToF-MS
  • Characterisation of naphthenic acids
  • Nature of unresolved complexed mixtures (UCMs)
  • Fingerprinting Crude Oils
  • Marine Pollution
  • Diamondoid carboxylic acids
 

UoP Research group membership

Biogeochemistry Research Centre (BGC) 
Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry 

Publications

2012

Jones, D., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Frank, R.A., Rowland, S.J. Isolation and estimation of the 'aromatic' naphthenic acid content of an oil sands process-affected water extract. J. Chromatogr. A (Accepted).

West, C.E. and Rowland, S.J. (2012) Aqueous phototransformation of diazepam and related human metabolites under simulated sunlight. Environ. Sci. Technol. 46 (9), 4749-4756.                                [doi: 10.1021/es203529z]

Scarlett, A.G., West, C.E., Jones, D., Galloway, T.S and Rowland, S.J. (2012) Predicted toxicity of naphthenic acids present in oil sands process-affected waters to a range of environmental and human endpoints. Sci. Total. Environ. 425, 119-127. [doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.064]

Rowland, S.J., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G, Ho, C and Jones, D. (2012) Differentiation of oil sands process-affected waters by GCxGC-mass spectrometry of naphthenic acid profiles. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrometry, 26 (5), 572-576. [doi: 10.1002/rcm.6138].

2011

Johnson R.J., West C.E., Swah A., Folwell B.D., Smith B.E., Rowland, S.J. and Whitby, C. (2011) Biotransformation of alkylbranched aromatic alkanoic naphthenic acids by a bacterial isolate with high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Mycobacterium spp. Environmental Microbiology.
[doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920].


Rowland, S.J., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Jones, D., Frank. R. and Hewitt, L. (2011) Steroidal aromatic naphthenic acids in oil sands process-affected water: structural comparisons with environmental estrogens. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (22), 9806-9815. [doi:10.1021/es202606d].
 

Rowland S.J., West C.E., Scarlett A.G. and Jones D. (2011) Method for the differentiation of alternative sources of naphthenic acids. UK Patent  Application No. 1109838.1.  Filed 13th June 2011. Canadian Patent Application No. 2,743,156 Filed 14th June 2011. U.S. Patent Application No. 13/160,367 Filed 14th June 2011.

Jones, D., Scarlett, A.G., West, C.E. and Rowland, S.J. (2011) The toxicity of individual naphthenic acids to Vibrio fisheri. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (22), 9776-9782. [doi: 10.1021/es201948j].

Rowland, S.J., Clough, R., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Jones, D.  and Thompson, S. (2011) Synthesis and mass spectrometry of some tri- and tetracyclic naphthenic acids. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrometry, 25 (17), 2573-2578. [doi:10.1002/rcm.5153

Scarlett, A.G., Clough, R., West, C.E., Lewis, C.A., Booth, A.M. and Rowland, S.J. (2011) Alkylnaphthalenes: priority pollutants or minor contributors to the poor health of marine communities? Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (14), 6160-6166. [doi: 10.1021/es201234a].

West, C.E., Jones, D., Scarlett, A.G., Rowland, S.J. (2011) Compositional heterogeneity may limit the usefulness of commercial naphthenic acids for toxicity assays. Sci. Total Environ. 409 (19), 4125-4131.[doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.05.061].

Rowland, S.J., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Jones, D. (2011) Identification of individual acids in a commercial sample of naphthenic acids from petroleum by two dimensional comprehensive gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrometry 25 (12), 1741-1751. [doi: 10.1002/rcm.5040].

Rowland, S.J., Jones, D., Scarlett, A.G., West, C.E., Liu Pok Hin, Boberek, M., Smith, B.E & Whitby, C (2011) Synthesis and toxicity of some metabolites of the microbial degradation of 'model' naphthenic acids. Sci. Total Environ. 409 (15), 2936-2941. [doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.012].

Rowland, S.J., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Jones, D.  and Frank, R.A. (2011) Identification of individual tetra- and pentacyclic naphthenic acids in oil sands process water. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrometry, 25 (9), 1198-1204. [doi: 10.1002/rcm.4977].

Rowland, S.J., West, C.E., Scarlett, A.G., Jones, D., Boberek, M., Pan, L., Ng, M., Kwong, L & Tonkin, A (2011)  Monocyclic and monoaromatic naphthenic acids: Synthesis & Characterisation. Env. Chem. Lett. 9, 525-533. [doi: 10.1007/s10311-011-0314-6].

Rowland, S.J., Scarlett, A.G., West, C.E., Jones, D. and Frank, R.A. (2011) Diamonds in the rough: identification of individual naphthenic acids in oil sands process water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (7), 3154-3159. [doi: 10.1021/es103721b].