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Steve Rowland Professor Steve Rowland
Role Qualifications & background BSc (Hons) Bristol PhD Bristol FRSC Chartered Chemist Steve Rowland was educated at Okehampton Grammar School, Devon and following 2 years scientific 'apprenticeship' and a Higher National Certificate in Chemistry in the laboratories of Kodak Ltd, he was an undergraduate (BSc Joint Hons Chemistry & Geology 1977) at the University of Bristol. He returned to the University of Bristol as a postgraduate following 2 years in a small mass spectrometry consultancy firm. After completing a Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor James Maxwell (now FRS), he undertook postdoctoral research with Professor Bob Alexander at Curtin University, Western Australia and then as a British Petroleum fellow at the University of Newcastle UK with Dr Archie Douglas. Steve was appointed to a lectureship at Plymouth Polytechnic in 1984, a Readership in 1989 and awarded a Personal Chair at the University of Plymouth in 1993.He was a Visiting Professor at the CSIRO Marine Laboratory in Hobart, Tasmania in 1997/8 working with Dr John Volkman, sponsored by The Royal Society and British Council and an Associate Editor of the international journal, Organic Geochemistry 1996-2004. From 1993-2001 he was a full board member and Membership Officer of the European Association of Organic Geochemists. Steve is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, former committee member and a past Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Peninsula Section) and a member of the Association for Chemistry and the Environment. He was a member of the international judging panel of the Kuwait Science Prize ($100,000) in December 2002 and an organiser of the 4th International Meeting on Environmental Chemistry in Plymouth held in Dec 2003. In 2005 Steve was an advisor on environmental science education to Kuwait University and he was a consultant to the Norwegian Research Council 2004-2006. In 2005 Steve was made a Visiting Professor and Blaustein Fellow in the Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University USA and was awarded a Royal Society travel grant to support a short study visit to the University of Calgary (Prof Steve Larter), Canada in August 2005. Steve has acted as an external examiner of numerous PhD candidates in the UK and overseas. He is a consultant to oilfield specialists Oil Plus Ltd, Newbury UK, on an industry -funded project on naphthenic acid chemistry and was a consultant to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office on forensic oil identification methods. He was a member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College until May 2008, a member of the NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Committee 2005-2009 and of NERC Services Review Group and of Science Foundation Ireland Geosciences Review Panels 2008. Steve delivered the opening plenary lecture at the 23rd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry 2007 and gave a keynote lecture at the Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference in Adelaide in 2008. Steve won the 'Making Plymouth Great' Business Ideas Challenge in 2007 and was a finalist with industry sponsors Oil Plus Ltd in 'The Engineer' Technology & Innovation awards Oct 3rd 2008 held at the Royal Society, London. One his papers was one of the most cited American Chemical Society papers in Environmental Science & Technology in 2007. In July 2008 Steve was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Investigators award of 2 million euros, one of only 105 awards in Europe for science and engineering (1 of only 19 in the UK ) from 997 applicants. Steve became co-Director of the Biogeochemistry Research Centre in 2010. The Centre was awarded the University of Plymouth Vice -Chancellors Award for Best Research Team in 2010. He was a finalist for the Most Innovative Researcher award in 2011. Steve delivered the Scott Simpson lecture to the 49th Annual Meeting of the Ussher Society in January 2011, a plenary lecture at the 25th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry in Switzerland in September 2011 and an opening lecture to Separation Science Europe at the Royal Institution, London in October 2011. Steve is to give an invuted lecture at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry conference in Montreal, Canada in June 2012. Professional membership Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry Chartered Chemist Fellow Geological Society of London (lapsed) Chair Royal Society of Chemistry Peninsula Section 2003-2004 Committee Member Royal Society of Chemistry Peninsula Section 2004-2007 Editor 'Organic Geochemistry' (Elsevier) 1996-2004 Membership Officer & Board Member European Association of Organic Geochemistry 8 years Member of the Geochemical Society Member of the European Association of Organic Geochemistry Member of the Association for Chemistry & the Environment Professional Member American Association for the Advancement of Science Visiting Professor CSIRO Australia 1997-98 Visiting Professor & Blaustein Fellow Stanford University, USA 2005-2006 Honorary Professor Peninsula Medical School 2008- Roles on external bodies NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Steering Committee 2005-2009 NERC Services Review Committee 2007 NERC Peer Review College 2005-2008 Lord Chancellor's Committee for Appointment of Magistrates 2007-present Elected Member RSC Peninsula Section 2005-2008
Course Advisor Faculty of Science Kuwait University 2005
External Examiner MSc Newcastle University 2000-2003
Vice Chair Governors Lewannick C P School 2000-2003
Chair Finance Lewannick C P School 2000-2003
Parent Governor Launceston College 2004-2008
Teaching interests Steve was Head of the Centre for Chemical Sciences 2006-2008 (CCS; webpage http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/chemistry). Much of Steve's teaching covers aspects of environmental organic chemistry including a Masters (MSc) course on Oil Pollution. In addition, he has been involved in the production of new teaching material. In collaboration with Prof Simon Belt (2003 RSC Higher education Award winner) he devised a series of case studies on organic chemistry (1st year undergraduate level) for the RSC published in 2006 and is presently preparing similar material funded by the Chemistry For Our Future fund administered by the RSC. Steve acted as External Examiner to the University of Newcastle taught course MSc in Environmental Biogeochemistry for 3 years (2000-2003) and as an External Examiner for Kuwait University proposed BSc in Environmental Science (2005).
Staff serving as external examiners External Examiner for MSc in Environmental Biogeochemistry at University of Newcastle (taught course) 2001-2003
PhD External Examiner: Many, including:
(Latest) University of Newcastle, University of Liverpool, University of Strathclyde, University of Bristol, University of York, University of Exeter.
University of Oldenburg (Germany)
External Advisor BSc Environmental Science Kuwait University 2005 Research interests Steve's major interests are in the areas of organic and environmental organic geochemistry, with particular emphasis in these areas:
Origin and significance of highly branched acyclic isoprenoids (e.g. use as climate proxies, calibrants for molecular evolution etc). Nature of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids (e.g. effects as pollutants, corrosive chemicals, pipeline blockages etc) Fate and effects of organic pollutants especially oil pollution (e.g. effects of dispersants on toxicity and longevity of oil pollution) Fate and effects of plastics and other hydrophobic pollutants (e.g. transport of toxic pollutants into marine organisms).
Origin and Significance of Highly Branched Acyclic Isoprenoids The structural and stereochemical specificity conferred on many organic molecules during biosynthesis is preserved when the compounds are incorporated into sediments. Proof of the structures of such molecules (biological markers) has had such a dramatic impact on petroleum geochemistry that laboratories worldwide are now equipped with the analytical instrumentation necessary for monitoring changes in such compounds. Amongst the most valuable and widely used are a number of acyclic isoprenoid hydrocarbons. Steve's group have made significant contributions to this area including the pioneering syntheses and identifications of crocetane (methanotrophic bacteria) and haslane and rhizane(diatoms) chemical fossils.
The first synthesis and complete spectral characterisation (MS, 13C
NMR) of a novel C25 isoprenoid alkane (haslane) and related haslenes
was reported by Steve and John Robson in Nature (60 citations)and
allowed the compounds reported, but not identified, in over fifty other
studies to be assigned. Subsequently, C20 and C30 (rhizane) analogues
were also synthesised and the synthetic compounds were used to afford a
possible explanation of their sedimentary abundance and worldwide
distribution. The research area increased further in importance to
industry with the discovery of the diatom (algal) source of the
compounds by Australian workers and the occurrence of haslane in crude
oils. Subsequent reports resulted in continued funding which on
completion, led to a postdoctoral NERC ROPA award in collaboration with
Professor Jean-Michel Robert at the University of Nantes, France
(report rated Scientifically Excellent by NERC reviewers 1999). Invited
lectures in the U.S.A., Spain and Australia, followed by a sabbatical
year at the CSIRO Marine Laboratories in Australia were accompanied by
filing of two provisional patents and numerous publications, describing
the uses of the alkenes as biomarkers and as potential anti-tumour
agents and we recently identified all of the common sedimentary
compounds (Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta) and determined the method by
which they are biosynthesised (Proceeedings of National Academy of
Sciences, USA with Prof Michel Rohmer of Louis Pasteur University
Strasbourg). We recently worked with colleagues at Royal NIOZ in the
Netherlands and Stanford University USA, to calibrate the pace of the
evolution of haslene and rhizene-producing diatoms since the Cretaceous
period (Science, 2004). Our most recent work has shown that algae (diatoms) living under sea -ice produce a unique biomarker which can be used as a chemical fossil to track the past variations in sea ice in the Arctic (Earth & Planetary Science Letters 2008) at least for the last 10,000 years. This is crucial to the accurate calibration of computerised climate prediction models.
Nature of Unresolved Complex Mixtures of Hydrocarbons
It is astounding, but nonetheless true, that even with sophisticated analytical tools currently available, the hydrocarbon composition of the world's major energy source, namely crude oil is, still largely unknown. Steve's report with Mark Gough in Nature 1990 (>100 citations to date, cited 1990-2005) that a considerable proportion of these previously unresolved and hence unidentified hydrocarbons could be characterised by oxidative degradation was therefore met with widespread interest. Synthesis, spectral characterisation and oxidation of some of the proposed hydrocarbons supported the conclusions of the initial studies, as did biological oxidation. Development of the methodology to include a quantitative, chemometrics-based analysis of the oxidation products also allowed the 'fingerprinting' of a variety of oils from oil spills and the method has also been applied to several unpublished oil spill incidents. The work attracted funding from British Petroleum and from the Natural Environment Research Council. The unravelling of crude oil composition has important consequences for both upstream and downstream petroleum industrial activities as well as for pollution studies. Significant in the latter respect is the increased toxicity of the UCM once oxidised. This realisation led to the funding of two further Ph.D. studentships and a postdoctoral fellow by NERC, from which numerous publications resulted including a paper delivered to the World Congress of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) which won the Procter & Gamble Eurocor prize for the best lecture by a young scientist for former Ph.D. student, and post-doctoral fellow, Emma Smith who now works at the University of Toronto, Canada. Three further papers were published in Environmental Science and Technology, (see publications).The impacts of UCM pollutants on marine ecosystems were established in a preliminary study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and most recently we have used comprehensive gas chromatography mass spectrometry to identify thousands of overlooked toxicants in health-impacted mussels from around the UK (Environmental Science & Technology, 2007; a Most-Cited paper in 2007) and to demonstrate the toxicity of the pollutants to mussels.
Studies of Organic Pollutants Oil Pollution
Oil pollution remains a widespread environmental problem. Application of the analytical and biological marker chemistry expertise developed in the foregoing studies to the identification of crude oils spilled in the environment has proved an extremely environmentally valuable exercise over many years and has led to both published and consultancy studies. Differentiation of petroleum-derived and biogenic hydrocarbons in Mussels (Mytilus edulis) from North Sea oil platforms required a revision of previous estimates of pollutant burdens and one of the first identifications of a specific algal source for the biogenic compounds was made. Extension of this careful, compound-specific analytical approach proved valuable for the identification of Nigerian crude oil spilled into the Humber Estuary and of hydrocarbons from the Sullom Voe oil terminal. A fully funded studentship from Kuwait provided instrumentation necessary for a realistic appraisal of the role of solar radiation in the degradation of spilled oil. It is apparent that this process has not been adequately modelled by previous studies and our results indicate that if suitable attention is paid to experimental design, major differences in the degradation rates of oil-derived water-soluble aromatics are observed. The results of these initial studies were presented at an invited lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Mason lecture). Successive studies were supported by the University, NERC and Plymouth Marine Laboratory including two further studentshipsboth now completed. An important development has been extension of this approach to an examination of the toxicological importance of the compounds from crude oil. Indeed this has revealed that previous research has under estimated a significant environmental burden. This work represents one of the few U.K. studies of molecular changes in spilled oil composition despite the regular occurrence of oil spills of headline proportions (e.g. Braer, Sea Empress). Our studies of the latter have resulted in numerous publications and both research council and industry funds. With funding from DEFRA, DTI, MMS (USA) and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency we completed a 4 year study of the toxicity effects of biodegraded and dispersed crude oils.
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UoP Research group membership Biogeochemistry Research Centre (BGC)Chemical Sciences Marine Institute Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Other research Research degrees awarded to supervised students PhD Studentships since 2007 Research Assessment Exercise (6 completed, 3 in progress; 35 PhDs supervised in career) 2011-2014 A. Ringrose NERC Studentship Use of HBI biomarkers as measures of trophic transfer in polar foodwebs. Year 1 . With Prof S Belt (DoS) and Dr T Brown. 2009-2012 D. Jones UoP Studentship Polar unresolved pollutants: Characterisation & Toxicity. Year 3.Writing thesis. 2008-2011 N. Downes-Tettmar NERC CASE with PML. Algal toxins. Year 3.Writing thesis. 2006-2010 R. Johnston NERC CASE studentship with Oil Plus Ltd. Bioremediation of aromatic naphthenic acids.With Dr C Whitby, University of Essex. PhD awarded Jan 2011. 2005-2007 A.Scarlett HEIF2 Studentship with Dr T. Galloway. Potential ecological effects of biodegraded and dispersed oils. PhD awarded 2008. 2004-2007 M.Frenzel NERC Industrial CASE studentship with University of Exeter (EMERGE , Prof H Lappin-Scott) and Schlumberger Cambridge Research. PhD awarded 2008. 2003-2007 C.H. Redshaw BBSRC CASE Studentship/Astrazeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory PhD awarded 2007 Biotic fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products 2003-2007 C.E. West University of Plymouth Scholarhip/Astrazeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory PhD awarded 2007.Abiotic fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products. With Dr C.A. Lewis 2002-2005 B.E. Smith University of Plymouth Studentship PhD awarded 2005 2002-2005 P. Curtis-Jackson NERC Studentship PhD awarded 2005 2000-2004 A.M. Booth NERC Studentship.Characterisation and toxicity of petroleum-derived unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons in mussels (M. edulis). PhD awarded 2004. With Dr C.A. Lewis (Director of Studies) 2000-2003 G. Masse University of Plymouth Studentship Ph.D. awarded. 1998-2001 W.G. Allard University of Plymouth Studentship Ph.D. Awarded. 1998-2001 P. McCormack University of Plymouth Studentship/astraZeneca Environmental Laboratory Ph.D. Awarded. University of Plymouth, U.K.The separation and identification of small highly polar or ionisable organic molecules in water. With Dr P. Jones (Director of Studies) Grants & contracts Since the national Research Assessment Exercise 2001 (Running total ca £4.9M):
2011-2014 DEFRA. Investigating whether microplastics can cause harm in the marine environment. £391,000. With P.I. Prof R Thompson and Co-I Prof T Galloway (Univ of Exeter). 2008-2010 Oil Plus Ltd (on behalf of consortium: BP, Nalco, Total, BG Group, Chevron) 215,000 GBP Characterisation of naphthenic acids. 2008-2013 European Research Council Advanced Grant Euro 2,000,000 'Outreach': unresolved pollutants. 2008 NERC Isotopic signatures of Arctic Sea-ice biomarkers, £39,040 in kind. With Prof S Belt and Dr G Masse. 2007 UoP 10,000 GBP Proof of Concept fund (Lipoil) 2007-2010 HEFCE 256,000 GBP Laboratory & Vulnerable Subjects Initiative 2007 FCO 300,000 GBP Crude oil analysis.With Dr C A Lewis. 2006 NERC 38,000 GBP Use of sea ice proxy to study fluctuations in Arctic sea ice over the Holocene. With Prof S Belt & Dr G Masse. 2006 NERC 13,950 GBP. Novel proxy for sea -ice determination (in-kind funding). With Prof S Belt & Dr G Masse. 2006 Datalog Ltd 100,000 GBP Knowledge Transfer Partnership. GC Tracer with C A Lewis. 2006 BG Group & Oil Plus Ltd 43,500 GBP Studies of naphthenic acids. 2006 Royal Society 9204 GBP A novel proxy for determining palaeo-temperatures of Arctic sea waters with S Belt, G Masse (PI). 2006 NERC/Oil Plus Ltd Case PhD studentship Biodegradation of naphthenates (with University of Essex, Dr C Whitby) 2005-6 Norwegian Research Council 1,500,000 NOK (150000 to UoP) with SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway. Impacts of UCMs in the environment. 2005 European Science Foundation & HanseWissenschaftKolleg 400 euros to attend ESF sea-ice workshop, Germany. 2005-2006 MCA/DEFRA/DTI/MMS Potential ecological effects of chemically-dispersed and biodegraded oils (£60,590 extension: total £317,590) 2005 Blaustein Fellowship $5000 Visiting Scholar Stanford University, California, USA. 2005 Royal Society International Outgoing Short Visit University of Calgary, Canada. £800 2004 Leverhulme Trust Travel Grant £11,200 Unravelling extremely complex toxic mixtures; with Prof P Nesterenko Moscow State University. 2004 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: £5500 with Prof Jim Readman Plymouth Marine Lab plus £25,400 travel and living expenses to Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist (Dr K Aranami).An isotopic study of persistent biogenic organics in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean sediments. July 2004-March 2005. 2004 NERC Life sciences Mass Spectrometry research grant: Dynamic aspects of terpenoid biosynthesis in diatoms. Instrument use award. £5250 With Dr G Masse & Dr S Belt 2004 NERC/Schlumberger Industrial Case PhD studentship Biodegradation of drill cuttings from oil platforms (with EMERGE University of Exeter, Prof H Lappin-Scott) 2004 UP Enterprises Cytostatic activity of marennine £10,192 (with Drs S Belt & G Masse) 2003 NERC Hydrocarbon hump profiling £171,187 plus PhD studentship stipend (3 years). (with Dr A C Lewis) 2003-2006 University Scholarship/Astrazeneca Abiotic fate of pharmaceuticals in the environment £42,000 2003 BBSRC/Astrazeneca Industrial Case studentship Biotic fate of pharmaceuticals in the environment £41,250 2003-2005 NERC Diversity of novel, technologically usdeful, pigment-producing diatoms in estuaries of South Devon, U.K. £24,340 2003 The Leverhulme Trust Lost at sea: Where do all the plastics go? (with Dr R. Thompson and Dr T. Galloway) £181,610 2003 NERC Hydrocarbon humps £3,600 2002-2004 MCA/DEFRA/DTI/MMS Potential ecological effects of chemically-dispersed and biodegraded oils £257,000 2002-2004 NERC MIMOS: Towards a sea-truthing of environmental discharge models £68,347 2001 Strategic Research Infrastucture Fund (SRIF) HEFCE Compound specific isotope ratio mass spectrometer and associated equipment £200,000 2001 NERC Controls on diatom HBI distributions (in-kind funding) £3,600 2000-2003 NERC Hydrocarbon humps £150,400 2000-2001 Environment Agency Organic micropollutants in the River Thames (2 grants) £34,500 Conferences organised 2003 Association of Chemistry in the Environment 4th International meeting on environmental chemistry Plymouth December 2003 2003 British Organic Geochemistry Society 15th National meeting
Conference Papers
(2004)
'Analytical and toxicological methods for identification of unresolved complex mixtures ('humps') of hydrocarbons in the environment'
14th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference.
Univ Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK
05/06/2004
- 11/06/2004
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
pp A529 - A529
(1995)
'SORPTION AND DESORPTION OF TEFLUTHRIN INSECTICIDE BY SOIL UNDER SIMULATED RAINFALL RUNOFF CONDITIONS'
in Walker A,Allen R,Bailey SW,Blair AM,Brown CD,Gunther P,Leake CR,Nicholls PH (ed.)
Symposium on Pesticide Movement to Water.
UNIV WARWICK, COVENTRY, ENGLAND
03/04/1995
- 05/04/1995
BRITISH CROP PROTECTION COUNCIL
pp 25 - 32
(1995)
'TEFLUTHRIN SORPTION TO MINERAL PARTICLES - ROLE OF PARTICLE ORGANIC COATINGS'
4th Workshop on Chemistry and Fate of Modern Pesticides.
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
08/09/1993
- 10/09/1993
GORDON BREACH SCI PUBL LTD
pp 275 - 285
(1994)
'ANALYSIS OF GEOPORPHYRINS BY HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY'
1994 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.
SAN DIEGO, CA
10/01/1994
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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
pp 939 - 943
(1993)
'A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF MICROBIAL DECOMPOSITION OF BIOPOLYMERS IN RECENT SEDIMENTS FROM THE PERU MARGIN'
7TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN UNION OF GEOSCIENCES : MARINE SEDIMENTS, BURIAL, PORE WATER CHEMISTRY, MICROBIOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS.
STRASBOURG, FRANCE
04/04/1993
- 08/04/1993
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
pp 55 - 66
Journals
Articles
(2011)
'Diamonds in the rough: identification of individual naphthenic acids in oil sands process water.'
Environ Sci Technol
45
(7),
pp 3154 - 3159
, DOI: 10.1021/es103721b
(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 Spectrom
25
(12),
pp 1741 - 1751
, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.5040
(2011)
'Identification of individual tetra- and pentacyclic naphthenic acids in oil sands process water by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.'
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
25
(9),
pp 1198 - 1204
, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4977
(2011)
'Synthesis and toxicity of some metabolites of the microbial degradation of synthetic naphthenic acids.'
Sci Total Environ
409
(15),
pp 2936 - 2941
, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.012
(2010)
'Complications with remediation strategies involving the biodegradation and detoxification of recalcitrant contaminant aromatic hydrocarbons.'
Sci Total Environ
408
(19),
pp 4093 - 4101
, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.042
(2010)
'Identification of a Novel Ester Obtained during Isolation of C-80 (ARN) Tetraprotic Acids from an Oilfield Pipeline Deposit'
ENERG FUEL
24,
pp 5579 - 5585
, DOI: 10.1021/ef1008743
(2010)
'Mass spectrometry of polycyclic tetracarboxylic ('ARN') acids and tetramethyl esters.'
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
24
(21),
pp 3195 - 3204
, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4761
(2009)
'CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNRESOLVED COMPLEX MIXTURE-RICH BIODEGRADED CRUDE OIL'
ENVIRON TOXICOL CHEM
28
(9),
pp 1815 - 1824
(2009)
'Towards bioremediation of toxic unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons: identification of bacteria capable of rapid degradation of alkyltetralins'
J SOIL SEDIMENT
9
(2),
pp 129 - 136
, DOI: 10.1007/s11368-009-0070-4
(2008)
'A derivatisation and liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation multistage mass spectrometry method for the characterisation of naphthenic acids.'
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
22
(23),
pp 3909 - 3927
, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.3806
(2008)
'Abrupt climate changes for Iceland during the last millennium: Evidence from high resolution sea ice reconstructions'
EARTH PLANET SC LETT
269
(3-4),
pp 564 - 568
, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.017
(2008)
'Chronic sublethal effects associated with branched alkylbenzenes bioaccumulated by mussels'
ENVIRON TOXICOL CHEM
27
(3),
pp 561 - 567
(2008)
'Distinctive C-13 isotopic signature distinguishes a novel sea ice biomarker in Arctic sediments and sediment traps'
MAR CHEM
112
(3-4),
pp 158 - 167
, DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2008.09.002
(2008)
'Effects of alkyl chain branching on the biotransformation of naphthenic acids.'
Environ Sci Technol
42
(24),
pp 9323 - 9328
(2008)
'Low biodegradability of fluoxetine HCl, diazepam and their human metabolites in sewage sludge-amended soil'
J SOIL SEDIMENT
8
(4),
pp 217 - 230
, DOI: 10.1007/s11368-008-0024-2
(2008)
'Unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of aromatic hydrocarbons: branched alkyl indanes and branched alkyl tetralins are present in UCMs and accumulated by and toxic to, the mussel Mytilus edulis.'
Environ Sci Technol
42
(21),
pp 8122 - 8126
(2008)
'Uptake of the pharmaceutical Fluoxetine Hydrochloride from growth medium by Brassicaceae.'
Phytochemistry
69
(13),
pp 2510 - 2516
, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.06.018
(2007)
'A novel chemical fossil of palaeo sea ice: IP25'
Organic Geochemistry
38
(1),
pp 16 - 27
(2007)
'Analysis of 'ARN' naphthenic acids by high temperature gas chromatoagraphy and high performance liquid chromatography'
Journal of Separation Science
30
(3),
pp 375 - 380
(2007)
'Biodegradation of toxic alkylcyclohexyltetralins by aerobic bacteria'
Organic Geochemistry
38(4),
pp 540 - 550
, DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.12.008
(2007)
'Can amphipod behavior help to predict chronic toxicity of sediments?'
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
13
(3),
pp 506 - 518
(2007)
'Can amphipod behaviour help to predict chronic toxicity of sediments?'
Human and Ecology Risk Assessment
13,
pp 506 - 518
(2007)
'Chronic toxicity of unresolved complex mixtures (UCM) of hydrocarbons in marine sediments'
Journal of Soils and Sediments
7,
pp 200 - 206
(2007)
'Chronic toxicity of unresolved complex mixtures (UCM) of hydrocarbons in marine sediments'
Journal of Soils and Sediments
7
(4),
pp 200 - 206
(2007)
'Method for assessing chronic toxicity of marine and estuarine sediment-associated contaminants using the amphipod <em>Corophium volutator</em>'
Marine Environmental Research
63,
pp 457 - 470
(2007)
'Method for assessing the chronic toxicity of marine and estuarine sediment-associated contaminants using the amphipod Corophium volutator'
Marine Environmental Research
63
(5),
pp 457 - 470
(2007)
'Potential for plastics to transport hydrophobic contaminants'
ENVIRON SCI TECHNOL
41
(22),
pp 7759 - 7764
(2007)
'Potential for plastics to transport hydrophobic contaminants'
Environmental Science & Technology
41
(22),
pp 7759 - 7764
(2007)
'Resistance of toxic alkylcyclohexyltetralins to biodegradation by aerobic bacteria'
Organic Geochemistry
38
(4),
pp 540 - 550
(2007)
'Resolution of Unresolved Complex Mixtures of Hydrocarbon Components by GC×GC-ToF-MS Reveals Chronic Sublethal Effects Associated with Branched Alkylbenzenes Bioaccumulated by Mussels'
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry
27,
pp 561 - 567
(2007)
'Structure elucidation of C-80, C-81 and C-82 isoprenoid tetraacids responsible for naphthenate deposition in crude oil production'
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
5
(12),
pp 1873 - 1877
(2007)
'Unresolved Complex Mixtures of Aromatic hydrocarbons 'humps': thousands of overlooked persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic contaminants'
Environmental Science & Technology
41,
pp 457 - 464
, DOI: 10.1021/es0615829
(2007)
'Unresolved complex mixtures of aromatic hydrocarbons: Thousands of overlooked persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic contaminants in mussels'
Environmental Science & Technology
41
(2),
pp 457 - 464
(2006)
'Highly branched isoprenoid alcohols and epoxides in the diatom Haslea ostrearia Simonsen'
Organic Geochemistry
37
(2),
pp 133 - 145
(2006)
'Toxicity and compositional analysis of aromatic hydrocarbon fractions of two pairs of undegraded and biodegraded crude oils from the Santa Maria (California) and Vienna basins'
Organic Geochemistry
37
(12),
pp 1885 - 1899
(2005)
'Comparative toxicity of two oil dispersants, superdispersant-25 and corexit 9527, to a range of coastal species'
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
24
(5),
pp 1219 - 1227
(2005)
'Comparative toxicity of two oil dispersants, superdispersant-25 and corexit 9527, to a range of coastal species.'
Environ Toxicol Chem
24
(5),
pp 1219 - 1227
(2005)
'Isolation of individual hydrocarbons from the unresolved complex hydrocarbon mixture of a biodegraded crude oil using preparative capillary gas chromatography'
Organic Geochemistry
36
(6),
pp 963 - 970
(2004)
'Biosynthesis of unusual monocyclic alkenes by the diatom Rhizosolenia setigera (Brightwell)'
Phytochemistry
65
(8),
pp 1101 - 1106
(2004)
'Isoprenoid biosynthesis in the diatoms Rhizosolenia setigera (Brightwell) and Haslea ostrearia (Simonsen)'
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
101
(13),
pp 4413 - 4418
(2004)
'Linking measurements of sub-lethal effects on individual organisms with community-level impacts and chemical measures of pollution'
Journal of Applied Ecology
41,
pp 114 - 123
(2004)
'Lost at sea: Where is all the plastic?'
Science
304
(5672),
pp 838 - 838
(2004)
'Measurements of sublethal effects on individual organisms indicate community-level impacts of pollution'
Journal of Applied Ecology
41
(1),
pp 114 - 123
(2004)
'Morphological, biochemical and molecular evidence for the transfer of Gyrosigma nipkowii Meister to the genus Haslea (Bacillariophyta)'
European Journal of Phycology
39
(2),
pp 181 - 195
(2004)
'Occurrence of novel monocyclic alkenes from diatoms in marine particulate matter and sediments'
Organic Geochemistry
35
(7),
pp 813 - 822
(2004)
'The rise of Rhizosolenid diatoms'
Science
304 (5670),
pp 584 - 587
, DOI: 10.1126/science.1096806
(2004)
'The rise of the rhizosolenid diatoms'
Science
304
(5670),
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Additional information Links PEGG IN THE NEWS! A 2 page article about our 'hump' research entitled "Oil troubles water", appeared in the Summer edition of Planet Earth. You can read it at http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth/. The publication of some of our research into plastics pollution in Science (2004, vol. 304, p838) has met with worldwide interest including an interview given by our MBERG ecologist colleague Dr Richard Thompson to the BBC World Science in Action programme which you can listen to at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/sci_act.shtml after Friday 7th May and the BBC Radio 4 Today programme which you can listen to at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/. The press have also published print and web-based articles, including in : Nature, The Guardian, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic, New Scientist. PEGG research on oil pollution was featured in an article by Nicola Jones in New Scientist magazine ("Spills' Lethal Legacy Lives On" ) recently (http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=1&id=mg17823891.500) and also on BBC Radio 4 "Costing the Earth"' on 17th April 2003. Steve Rowland and Emma Smith were interviewed about their research into oil pollution by presenter Tom Feilden. You can hear it all on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/costingtheearth_20030417.shtml For more details of my research please see our group page at http//www.pegg.org.uk For other WWW articles in which we have appeared please see: http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/mars_uk/rowland.html http://www.iger.bbsrc.ac.uk/igerweb/confs/simsug/abstracts/controls.htm http://www.science.plym.ac.uk/departments/environmental/news_stories/rowland_bc-australia.htm |
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