Steve Hill

Teaching interests

Teaching Experience

My teaching responsibilities have been varied but over the years concerned mainly with the teaching of inorganic/analytical chemistry and instrumentation to the BSc (Hons) Combined Studies in Science, Chemistry, BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry, BSc (Hons) Environmental Science, BSc (Hons) Chemical Oceanography, BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, HNC/HTEC Physical Sciences (Chemistry) and Certificate of Applied Chemistry (LRSC). I have also taught on a number of short courses (including courses on Simplex Optimisation, Hydride Generation and Mixed Gas Plasmas at successive Winter Plasma Conference in the USA and at the Interactional Congress on Analytical Science in Japan), various aspects of atomic spectroscopy on specialist postgraduate short courses and ancillary courses on Information Technology.

I currently supervise about six final year (Honours) projects a year and engage in fieldwork both in the UK and overseas.

I have previouslly held the posts of Head of the School of Environmental Sciences and Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching (Science),

 

Research interests

Research Interests

Analytical and environmental chemistry, atomic spectroscopy, coupled techniques (especially HPLC-ICP-MS), trace metal speciation, instrumental method development, vapour generation techniques, novel approaches to sample preparation, chemometrics, and the application of the above to real life problem solving.

Current focus involves the application of the above to terrestrial systems, in particular contaminated and ex mining land.

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Research Supervision

PhD Students (2000 onwards)

M Shaw PhD. The fabrication and study of metal chelating stationary phases. Awarded 2000

E Menendez-Alonso PhD Speciation and determination of trace levels of chemical species in highly complex matrices from environmental and industrial sources. Awarded 2001

A Marcos PhD. Application of chemometrics to improve the quality of geochemical data obtained from ICP-AES.

Awarded 2001

E Unsworth PhD. Measurement and modelling of uranium series nuclides. Awarded 2002

J Turner PhD. Interferences in ICP-MS: Environmental & Clinical Aspects. Awarded 2004

M Nash PhD. Mobility and speciation of antimony in contaminated soils. Awarded 2004

D Tompkins PhD. Rehabilitation and recolonisation on mine spoil in tropical environments. Awarded 2004

R Santamaria-Fernandez. PhD Element distributions in soils and sediments. Awarded 2004

B. El-Sayed. Environmental assessment of biogeochemical cycling of dissolved organic carbon and disolved organic nitrogen in natural waters. Awarded 2005.

 

Publications

Publications (selected publications post 2000)

Detection of genotoxins in the marine environment: adoption and evaluation of an integrated approach using the embryo-larval stages of the marine mussel, Mytilus edulis.

Mut.Res. 2000, 464, 213-228 (with A Jha, M Foulkes, V Cheung and M Depledge).

A preliminary clinical investigation into the potential of blood lead levels to measure bone resorptionin patients diagnosed with skeletal matastoes using ICP-MS.

Jnl Trace Elements in Medical Bio 2000, 14, 108-115 (with F J Roberts and L Ebdon).

Methodologies for determination of antimony in terrestrial environmental samples.

J. Environ. Monit., 2000, 2, 97-109 (with M J Nash and J E Maskall).

Benchmarking Academic Standards: Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies.

Pub. QAA 2000, ISBN, 1:85824 492 7.

Evaluation of analytical instrumentation. Part XIII. Instrumentation for UV-Visible-NIR Spectrometry. Report by the Analytical Methods Committee.

Analyst 2000, 125, 367-374 (with J N Miller, P J Potts, D C M Squirrell, C Burgess, K E Jarvis, M Bernard, C Watson, S Greenfield and M Sargent).

Evaluation of analytical instrumentation. Part XIV. Instrumentation for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry. Report by the Analytical Methods Committee.

Analyst 2000, 125, 375-380 (with J N Miller, P J Potts, D C M Squirrell, C Burgess, K E Jarvis, M Bernard, C Watson, S Greenfield and M Sargent).

Advances in atomic emission, absorption and fluorescence spectrometry, and related techniques.

J. Anal.At.Spectrom. 2000, 15, 763-805 (with S Chenery, J Dawson, E H Evans, A Fisher, W J Price, C M Smith and J Tyson).

Genotoxic, cytotoxic and developmental effects of tributyltin oxide: An integrated approach to the evaluation of the relative sensitivities of two marine organisms.

Mar Env Res. 2000, 50, 565-573 (with A Jha, J Hagger and M Depledge).

High performance liquid chromatography-isotope dilution-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (HPLC-ID-ICP-MS) for speciation studies: an overview.

Trends in Anal. Chem. 2000, 19, 120-126 (with L J Pitts, A S Fisher).

A drift correction procedure for ICP-AES systems.

Analyst, 2000, 125, 1015-1020 (with A Marcos).

Determination of beryllium in a stream sediment by high performance chelation ion chromatography.

J. Chromatogr. A 2000, 876, 127-133. (with P Jones, M J Shaw and P N Nesterenko).

On line preconcentration and matrix removal for the determination of trace metals in natural waters by flow injection coupled with atomic spectrometric detection.

Anal. Chim. Acta. (in press) (with R Nickson and P J Worsfold).

Application of a multi-way method to study long-term stability in ICP-AES.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 2001, 16, 105-114 (with M Foulkes and A Marcos).

Advances in atomic emission, absorption and fluorescence spectrometry, and related techniques.

J. Anal.At.Spectrom. 2001, 16, 672-711 (with J Dawson, E H Evans, A Fisher, W J Price, C M Smith and J Tyson).

Evaluation of analytical instrumentation. Part XV. Instrumentation for gas chromatography-ion-trap mass spectrometry. Report by the Analytical Methods Committee.

Analyst 2001, 126, 953-963 (with D C M Squirrell, C Burgess, K E Jarvis, M Bernard, C Watson, S Greenfield and M Sargent).

Chemometrics approaches for the study of systematic error in inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and mass spectrometry.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2001, 16, 350-359 (with A Moreda-Piñeiro, A Marcos and A Fisher).

Parallel factor analysis for the study of systematic error in inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and mass spectrometry.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2001, 16, 360-369 (with A Moreda-Piñeiro, A Marcos and A Fisher).

Comparison of enzymatic extraction procedures for use with directly coupled high-performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the speciation of arsenic in baby foods.

Anal. Chim. Acta, 2001, 441, 29-36 (with M Pardo-Martinez, P Viñas and A Fisher).

Determination of uranium and thorium in natural waters with a high matrix concentration using solid-phase extraction inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Anal. Chim. Acta, 2001, 442, 141-146.

Evaluation of the effect of data pre-treatment procedures in classical pattern recognition and principal components analysis: A case study for the geographical classification of tea.

J. Environ. Monit. 2001, 3, 352-360 (with A Moreda-Piñeiro, A Marcos and A Fisher).

Application of an experimental design approach for the optimisation of operating conditions in simultaneous multi-element electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.

Submitted to J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 2002 (with A Moreda-Piñeiro and A Fisher).

Genotoxic, cytotoxic and ontogenetic effects of tri-n-butyltin on the marine worm, Platynersis dumerilii (Polchaeta:Nereidae).

Aquatic Toxicol. 2002, 57, 243-255 (with J A Hagger, M H Depledge and A N Jha).

Atomic Spectrometry Updates. Environmental Analysis.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2002, 17, 284-317 (with T A Arowolo, S R N Chenery, J M Cook, M S Cresser and D L Miles).

Optimization of a multielement sequential extraction method employing an experimental design approach for metal partitioning in soils and sediments.

J. Environ. Monit, 2002, 4, 330-336 (with R Santamaria-fernandez and A Moreda-Pineiro).

The effect of thermodynamic data on computer model predictions of uranium speciation in natural water systems.

J. Environ. Monit., 2002, 4, 528-532 (with E R Unsworth and P Jones).

The effect of humic acids on the sequential extraction of metals from soils using ICP-AES and chemometric analysis.

J. Environ. Monit. 2003, 5, 929-934 (with R Santamaria-Fernandez).

The classification of tea according to region of origin using pattern recognition techniques and trace metal data.

Jnl. Food Comp. Anal. 2003, 16, 195-211 (with A Moreda-Piñeiro and A Fisher).

Atomic Spectrometry Updates. Environmental Analysis.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2003, 18, 170-202 (with T A Arowolo, S R N Chenery, J M Cook, M S Cresser and D L Miles).

Determination of dissolved organic nitrogen in natural waters using high-temperature catalytic oxidation.

Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2003, Vol. 22, No. 11, 819-827 (with E-S Badr. E P Achterberg, A D Tappin and C Braungardt).

Blending procedure for the cytosolic preparation of mussel samlpes for AAS determination of Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn bound to low molecular weight compounds.

Atomic spec. 2004, 25, 37-43(with R Santamaria-Fernandez, S Santiago-Rivas, A Moreda-Pineiro, P Bermejo-Barrera and A Bermejo-Barrera).

Atomic Spectrometry Updates. Environmental Analysis.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2004, 19, 301-330 (with T A Arowolo, C Harrington, J M Cook, M S Cresser and D L Miles).

Matrix digestion of soil and sediment samples for the extraction of lead, cadmium and antimony and their direct determination by ICP-MS and ICP-AES.

Microchem. Acta. 2004, 144, 277-283 (with P Chattopadhyay, D Henon and A Fisher).

Uranium speciation in moorland river water samples: A comparison of experimental results and computer model predictions.

J. Environ. Monit., 2005, 7, 1-9 (with E Unsworth, J Cook and P Jones).

Atomic Spectrometry Updates. Environmental Analysis.

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2005, 20, 170-202 (with T A Arowolo, S R N Chenery, J M Cook, J Rieuwerts and D L Miles).

Preconcentration and determination of trace elements with 2,6-diacetylpyridine functionalized Amberlite XAD-4 by flow injection and atomic spectroscopy.

Analyst, 2005, 130, 1518-1523.
Trace metal distributions in the Arosa estuary (NW Spain):  The application of a recently developed sequential extraction procedure for metal partitioning.   Anal. Chim. Acta., 2006, 557, 344-352 (with R Santamaria-Fernandez and M Cave).

Developments with anion exchange stationary phases for HPLC-ICP-MS analysis of antimony species.  Analyst, 2006, 131, 724-730. (with M Nash and J Maskall).

 Atomic Spectrometry Updates.  Environmental Analysis.  J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2006, 21, 217-243 (with O.T.Butler, J M Cook, C. Harrington, J Rieuwerts and D L Miles).
Comparison of some newly synthesised chemically modified Amberloite XAD-4 resins for the preconcentration and determination of trace elements by flow injection inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).  Anayst, 2006, 131, 1232-1240 (with D Kara and A Fisher)

On-line sequential determination of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) with selective elution os solid extracts using an alumina column.             Atom. Spec. 2006, 27 (4), 107 -116. (with A Bermejo-Berrera, P Bermejo-Berrera and A Fisher).

Atomic Spectrometry Updates.  Environmental Analysis.  J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2007, 22, 187-221 (with O.T.Butler, J M Cook, C. Harrington, J Rieuwerts and D L Miles).

 

 

 

Reports & invited lectures

Selected Invited and Keynote Conference Presentations

1. Elemental speciation : Can atomic spectroscopy meet future challenges?

Keynote lecture presented at 22 Spektrometertagung, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 2000.

2. Application of chemometric approaches for the study of systematic error in ICP-AES/MS.

Invited paper presented at 10th BNASS, Sheffield, July 2000 (with A Moreda-Pineiro, A Marcos and A Fisher).

3. Uranium speciation : a comparison of experimental data and computer models for natural water samples.

Presented at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Lillehammer, Norway, Feb 2001 (with E Unsworth, P Jones and J Cook).

4. Metal speciation for environmental samples: problems and some solutions.

Invited lecture presented at the International Congress on Analytical Science 2001, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 2001.

5. Information overload? Application of chemometrics with Atomic Spectrometry. Pleaary lecture to be presented at the Royal society of Chemistry 12th Biennial Atomic Spectroscopy symposium, July 2004.

6. Environmental Analysis by ICP-AES and ICP-MS: Obtaining more information from the same data. Invited lecture presented at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

29 January - 3 February 2005 Budapest, Hungary

To date I have presented over 280 conference presentations, most at national/international level meetings.

 

Conferences organised

2000 onwards:

1998-2000 Facilitator for Royal Society of Chemistry, Analytical Grand Prix.

1998-2000 Organising Committee of 10th BNASS Meeting, Sheffield, July 2000.

2000-2002 Organising Committee of 11th BNASS Meeting, Loughborough, July 2002.

2002-2004 Organising Committee of 12th BNASS Meeting, Plymouth, June 2004.

2005. Organising Committee. RSC Analytical Research Forum, Plymouth, July 2005.

2006. Chairman of the 13th BNASS meeting  held in Glasgow , July 2006.