The BEACh conference is held annually in December and consists of oral presentations from all the postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
2012
Climate Regulators? An investigation of the cycling of methylated amines in marine systems - Charlotte Cree.
Temporal and vertical distributions of IP25 and other lipid biomarkers in sea ice from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Ashleigh Ringrose.
Proxy-based sea ice reconstructions for two Arctic locations with similar latitudes yet highly contrasting oceanographic and environmental settings - Patricia Cabedo-San.
From contemporary to past climatic reconstructions using the sea ice proxy biomarker IP25 in the Barents Sea - Alba Navarro-Rodriguez.
Analysis of the nitrogen content of the artificialsoils at the Eden Project, Cornwall - Kate Schofield.
Sphalerite in agricultural soils: Implications for Cd contamination of crops - Tom Robson.
Total arsenic and arsenic speciation in indigenous food stuffs - Bashdar Sadee.
Forensic techniques to age date human exposure to PCBs - Dave Megson.
Cavitation Flow Luminescence (CFL) for analytical spectroscopy - Claire Whitfield.
Determination of the concentration of iron in seawater using flow injection analysis - Matt Fishwick.
Structural elucidation of carboxylic acids in supercomplex petroleum mixtures for the determination of oil quality and toxicity - Mike Wilde.
Speciation and bioavailability of metals in estuaries - Holly Pearson.
Who needs two dimensions? Elucidation of structural information of petroleum acids from one dimensional GC-MS - Dave Jones.
Seasonal controls on shelf-edge nutrient fluxes at the Malin Shelf - Morwenna Cooper.
The distribution of dissolved zinc in the South Atlantic as part of the UK GEOTRACES Programme - Neil Wyatt.
Keynote speaker - The solubility of trace metals from North Atlantic aerosols (US GEOTRACES) - Rachel Shelley.
2011
The use of biochar as a soil amendment to improve soil quality - Kate Schofield.
Effect of climate change-driven sea water intrusion on the mobilisation of Tc(IV) from reduced sub-surface sediments - Jane Eagling.
Climate Regulating Chemicals? Levels of Glycine Betaine in Phytoplankton - Charlotte Cree.
Plastic production pellets: Anthropogenic accumulators of trace metals in the natural environment - Luke Holmes.
Calibration and application of the IP25 biomarker for Arctic sea ice reconstructions - Patricia Cabedo-Sanz.
Analysis of the sea ice biomarker IP25 in marine sediments from Nordic Seas- a calibration study - Alba Navarro-Rodriguez.
Investigating the use of the sea ice biomarker IP25, in Arctic food webs - Ashleigh Ringrose.
Evaluation of an iminodiacetic acid functionalised resin for metal pre-concentration - Robert Clough.
Toxic element release during ore mineral weathering in agricultural soils - Thomas Robson.
The effect of sublethal nickel concentrations on Mytilus galloprovincialis: A multiple biomarker study - Loma Dallas.
Toxicity of Naphthenic Acids - David Jones.
Assessing changes to the congener profile of dioxins, furans and PCBs during bioaccumulation - David Megson.
2010
Biogeochemistry of dissolved cobalt and iron in the Sargasso Sea - Rachel U Shelley, Peter N Sedwick, Thomas S Bibby, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Thomas M Church, Anna I Macey, Edward R Sholkovitz, Simon J Ussher, Paul J Worsfold, Maeve C Lohan.
The effect of seawater intrusion on technetium remobilisation from reduced soils - Jane Eagling, Paul Worsfold, William Blake and Miranda Keith Roach.
High Resolution Data for Selected Trace Elements from the CLIVAR/Repeat Hydrography P16S cruise: South Pacific to the Southern Ocean - Milne, A, Landing, W, Measures, C.
Marine nutrient dynamics in turbid estuaries - A case study of the Seine estuary, France - Pidduck, E L, Manning, A J, Verney, R, Fitzsimons, M F, Souza, A J and Worsfold, P J.
Where’s the chemistry? Numerical modelling of nutrient distribution within a large-scale river plume - McEwan R A, Stashchuk N, Lohan, M, Vlasenko V.
Seasonal variation in Pseudo-nitzschia spp. and domoic acid production in the Western English Channel - Naomi Downes-Tettmar, Steve Rowland, Peter Miller, and Carole Llewellyn.
Who needs lab work? An investigation into predictive ecotoxicological computer models and naphthenic acids. Jones, D., Rowland, S, Scarlett, A and West, C.
Effects of Ionising Radiation on Aquatic Invertebrates: An Ecotoxicological Perspective - Lorna J. Dallas, Miranda Keith-Roach, Brett P. Lyons, Awadhesh N. Jha.
Bacterial Assimilation of Riverine Organic Nitrogen (BARON) - Alan Tappin, Mark Fitzsimons, Paul Loughnane, Alan McCarthy.
Risk from weathering of arsenopyrite in agricultural soils - Robson, T C, Braungardt, C B, Keith-Roach, M J. Environmental Prioritisation of Pollutant Mine Waste Tips in South West England using GIS - Alison J M Turner. Cavitation Luminescence for use in micro-fluidic Systems. Whitfield C M F, Foulkes M, Evans E H. The role of plastic production pellets in the accumulation and transport of trace metals in the marine environment - Luke Holmes, Andrew Turner, Richard Thompson.
The Polar Phase of NaNbO3 - Cree C H, Johnston K E, Lightfoot P, Ashbrook S E.
Understanding the sensitivity of the earths climate to CO2 forcing: comparative organic geochemistry of hyperthermal events - Hayley Manners, Stephen Grimes, Paul Sutton, Richard Twitchett, Malcolm Hart, Richard Pancost, Laura Domingo and, Nieves López-Martínez.
Calibration and application of a novel biomarker for Arctic sea-ice reconstruction - Navarro-Rodriguez A, Cabedo-Sanz P, Belt S T, Massé G.
IP25; Problem or progression? - Brown T A.
Assessing environmental toxicology of nanomaterials: ethical responsibilities of toxicologists - Ted Henry.
2009
Exploring ternary interactions between radionuclides, organic complexing agents and natural sands - Estela Reinoso-Maset, Paul Worsfold and Miranda Keith-Roach.
The role of plastic production pellets in the accumulation and transport of trace metals in the marine environment – Luke Holmes, Andrew Turner and Richard Thompson.
A laboratory examination of flocculation properties exhibited by sediments from Portsmouth Harbour - Emma Pidduck and Andrew Manning.
Remobilisation of uranium from contaminated soils upon inundation with seawater. Jane Eagling, Paul Worsfold, William Blake and Miranda Keith Roach
Dynamic up-flow percolation tests – a model for mining waste leachate generation – Alison Turner and Charly Braungardt.
Impacts of dust, mesoscale eddies and phytoplankton dynamics on the bigeochemical cycling of dissolved cobalt and iron in oligotrophic Sargasso Sea – Rachel Shelley, Peter Sedwick, Thomas Bibby, Anna Macey, Paul Worsfold and Maeve Lohan.
The 2D spatial structure of surges around the UK – Robert McEwan, Tom Rippeth and Kevin Horsburgh.
Understanding the sensitivity of the Earth’s climate to CO2 forcing: comparative organic geochemistry of hyperthermal events – Hayley Manners.
IP25: The specific sea ice indicator – Thomas Brown and Simon Belt.
IP25 in Action: Striking similarities in temporal changes to seasonal sea ice conditions across the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago over the last 7000 years - John C Price, Simon T Belt, Lindsay L Vare, Guillaume Massé, Hayley Manners, Suzanne E MacLachlan, John T Andrews and Sabine Schmidt
Bacterial Assimilation of Riverine Organic Nitrogen – Alan Tappin, Mark Fitzsimons, Alan McCarthy and Paul Loughnane.
Pseuo-nitzchia spp. and domoic acid production - Naomi Downes-Tettmar, C Llewellyn, P Miller, and S Rowland.
The toxicity of carrier solvents on mussels and microbes - David Jones, Alan Scarlett, Steve Rowland.
Forensic fingerprinting of Nigerian Crude Oils - Charles West, Anthony Lewis, Steve Rowland.
Biosorption of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn ions from waste waters using macroalgae : Preliminary studies using Ascophyllum Nodosum - John L. Kitui, Mike Foulkes and Paul Worsfold.
Potential contribution of road side soil to the nutrient pool of the Lagos Lagoon Nigeria - Akeem A Abayomi, Kehinde Olayinka, Bola Osuntogun, Babajide Alo, Malcolm Nimmo and Paul Worsfold.
A flow injection solid phase pre-concentration method for the determination of palladium in urban samples - Kerstin Leopold, Marina Maier and Michael Schuster.
2008
An inter-comparison exercise for the certification of a seawater reference material for nutrients - Anders C Raffalt and Paul J Worsfold
Testing the robustness of an ion selective nitrate sensor for monitoring nitrate in natural waters - Ramon Casal-Fernandez, Simon Ussher, Paul J Worsfold
Batch experiments to investigate the kinetics of phosphorus exchange between suspended particulate matter and the water column - Jin Bo Zhao, Miranda J Keith-Roach, Alan Tappin, Ian D McKelvie and Paul J Worsfold.
Bacterial Assimilation of Riverine Organic Nitrogen (BARON) - AlanTappin, Mark Fitzsimons, Paul Loughnane, Alan McCarthy.
Eutrophication and ammonia inhibition in the Taw Estuary, SW England - Gerald Maier, Maria Ripoll-Matas, Alan Tappin, Gillian Glegg, Paul Worsfold.
The effects of high CO2 on the fixed nitrogen inventory of the Western English Channel - . Neil Wyatt, Maeve Lohan, Malcolm Woodward, Andy Rees, Steve Widdicombe and Vassilis Kitidis.
A novel solid phase preconcentration method using gold coated silica for the determination of mercury in river waters by atomic fluorescence spectrometry - Kerstin Leopold, Michael Foulkes, Paul Worsfold.
Flow injection determination of total iron in freshwaters with neutralization chemiluminescence - Attiq-ur-Rehman Kakar, Amir Waseem, Mohammad Yaqoob and Abdul Nabi.
Kinetic of platinum group elements uptake by the marine microalga, Chlorella stigmatophora - Leyla Shams, Andrew Turner, Murray Brown, Geoff Millward.
Physical and chemical factors impacting upon the dissolution of aerosol iron in seawater - Marie Séguret, Simon Ussher, Paul Worsfold, Malcolm Nimmo.
Total dissolved Co in bioassays from the tropical Northeast Atlantic using Flow Injection Chemiluminescence Detection - Rachel Shelley, Maeve Lohan, Andy Rees, Jo Dixon, Darren Clark and Paul Worsfold.
The impact of sea level rise on the fate of radionuclides at contaminated nuclear sites.- Jane Eagling, Paul J Worsfold, Will Blake, Miranda J Keith Roach.
The effect of organic complexing agents on radionuclide sorption to natural sand - Estela Reinoso-Maset, Paul Worsfold and Miranda Keith-Roach.
Dynamic up-flow percolation tests – a model for mining waste leachate generation - Alison Turner, Charlotte Braungardt, Paul Worsfold, John Rieuwerts and Ben Williamson.
2007
Biological Assimilation of Riverine Organic Nitrogen (BARON) - Alan Tappin and Mark Fitzsimons.
Sustainable Management of Minewater Pollution from Headwaters to Estuaries - Alison Turner, Dr Charlotte Braungardt, Dr John Rieuwerts, Professor Paul Worsfold and Dr Duncan Pirrie.
Determination of Trace Metals in Seawater using ID-ICPMS - Angie Milne, Pete Morton, Bill Landing, Michael Bizimus
A combination of gel probes (DGT & DET) for: in situ determination of DRP in pore waters [and] the characterization of sediment reactivity - Ph. Monbet, I D McKelvie and P J Worsfold.
The Potential of Modified Agricultural Practices to Mitigate Eutrophication Events in the Taw Estuary (UK) - Gerald Maier, Gillian A Glegg, Alan D Tappin and Paul J Worsfold.
Investigation of organic phosphorous uptake by natural river water bacteria - J B Zhao, M Keith-Roach, A Tappin and I D McKelvie and P J Worsfold.
Geochemistry and Mineralogical Characteristics of Mine-Waste in the Tamar Valley, SW England - Krongkaew Mighanetara, John Rieuwerts, Charlotte Braungardt and Fethi Azizi.
Temporal variability of colloidal material in agricultural storm runoff from managed grassland using flow field-flow fractionation - Laura Gimbert, Gary Bilotta, Rich Brazier, Trisha Butler, Steve Granger, Phil Haygarth, Kit Macleod, and Paul Worsfold.
2006
Inter- comparison exercise for certified reference materials for nutrients in seawater - Rebecca Tuckwell, Paul J Worsfold, Maeve Lohan.
Integration of in-situ metal speciation measurements with a marine bioassay in estuarine waters of SW England - Cathryn Money, Charlotte Braungardt, Paul Worsfold, Eric Achterberg, Awadhesh Jha.
Competition between Th and Fe for EDTA; Analysed using electrospray ionisation mass spectometry - Colin C May, Andrew J Cartwright*, Paul J Worsfold and Miranda J Keith-Roach.
“Characterisation of radionuclide speciation and solubility in the presence of organic complexing agents and soil components” - Estela Reinoso Maset, Paul Worsfold and Miranda Keith-Roach.
Assessment of the Trophic Status of the Taw Estuary - Gerald Maier, Gillian Glegg, Alan Tappin, Paul Worsfold.
Determination of phosphorous in the Plym river and its uptake by bacteria. - J B Zhao, M. Keith-Roach, A Tappin and I D McKelvieand P J Worsfold.
Three Dimensional (Physical, Chemical and Concentration) Imaging of Colloidal Material in Runoff Waters from Grassland using Flow Field-Flow Fractionation - Laura Gimbert, Phil Haygarth, and Paul Worsfold.
Pathways for Phosphorus (and Nitrogen) release from sediments of the Tamar Estuary (SW England) and the Gippsland Lakes (Australia) eutrophic ecosystems: Diagenesis Experiments and Modeling - Ph. Monbet, P Worsfold and I McKelvie.
Investigating the Decomposition of Depleted Uranium in the Environment - Stephanie Handley Sidhu, Paul Worsfold and Miranda Keith-Roach.
Impact of sea level rise on the fate of radionuclides at contaminated nuclear sites - Victoria Cammack, Geoff Millward, William Blake and Miranda Keith-Roach.
2005
Natural estuarine particles and thier uptake of nitrogen in estuaries (NEPTUNE) - Alan Tappin, Mark Fitzsimons and Geoff Millward
Speciation analysis of soluble co-contaminants complexes of long -lived radionuclides by electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry - Andrew Cartwright, Miranda Keith-Roach and Colin May.
High Resolution Real Time Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide Production by Diatoms - Angie Milne, Margaret S Davey, Paul Worsfold and Alison R Taylor.
Speciation and toxicicty of Cu, Cd, Pb and Zn to larvae of the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas - Cathryn Money, Charlotte Braungardt, Eric Achterberg, Paul Worsfold, Awadhesh Jha.
Impact of co-contaminants on the mobility of long lived anthropogenic radionuclide contamination - Colin May.
A Review of Estuarine Eutrophication, with specific reference to England and Wales - Rebecca Nimmo-Smith, Paul Worsfold, Alan Tappin and Gillian Glegg.
Study of organic phosphorus uptake by bacteria using a plug-flow microcosm - J B Zhao, M Keith-Roach, A Tappin, I D McKelvie and P J Worsfold.
Impact of past mining activities on the water quality of the Tamar today - Krongkaew Mighanetara, Dr Charlotte Braungardt (SOEOE), Dr John Rieuwerts (SOEOE), Dr Fethi Azizi (SOE), Professor. Mike Riley (SOE).
Determination of Colloidal Phosphorus in Agricultural Runoff Waters using Flow Injection- Liquid Waveguide Capillary Cell and Flow Field-Flow Fractionation - Laura J Gimbert, Philip M Haygarth, Ronald Beckett and Paul J Worsfold.
Detection of aerosol iron in seawater by Flow Injection Chemiluminescence (FI-CL) - Marie Séguret.
Flow injection FI determination of phytic acid using immobilised phytase - Omaka Ndukaku Omaka, Dr Miranda Keith-Roach and Professor Paul Worsfold.
The Geochemical and Microbial Controls on the Decomposition and Dispersion of Depleted Uranium in the Environment. - Stephanie Handley, Miranda Keith-Roach, Paul Worsfold and Eric Achterberg.
2004
Development of a 1-D model to simulate nutrient transport in the Tamar Estuary over decadel time-scales - Alan Tappin.
Analysis of Iron in the North Pacific using Flow Injection with Chemiluminescence Detection - Angie Milne, Paul Worsfold, Eric Achterberg, Alison Taylor.
Novel integration of trace element speciation measurements and marine bioassays - Cathryn Money, Charlotte Braungardt, Eric Achterberg, Paul Worsfold, Mike Foulkes, Ian McFadzen.
Identification and Quantification of Marine Siderophores - Edward Mawji, Martha Gledhill, Paul Worsfold and Eric Achterberg.
Comparison of Centrifugation and Filtration Techniques for the Size Fractionation of Colloidal Material in Soil Suspensions using Sedimentation Field-Flow Fractionation - Laura J. Gimbert, Philip M Haygarth, Ronald Beckett, and Paul J Worsfold - Accepted for publication in: Environmental Science & Technology.
Evaluating the factors controlling the dissolution of aerosol iron in seawater - Marie Séguret, Simon Ussher, Eric Achterberg, Malcolm Nimmo, Paul Worsfold.
The Trace Metal Chemical Character of the Red Sea Marine Aerosol - Orif. M, Nimmo M, Worsfold P and Achterberg E.
The fate of marine snow: effect of aggregation and associated bacteria on methyl iodide production - Noble Asare, Carol Turley, Phillip Nightingale, Malcolm Nimmo.
Effects of acidity [H+] and molybdate concentration [molyb] on the recovery species after autoclave digestion (with persulphate only) at 121OC for 45 minutes - Omaka Ndukaku Omaka.
Distribution of Dissolved Iron Species in the Canary Basin - Simon J Ussher, Eric P Achterberg and Paul J Worsfold.
The Geochemical and Microbial Controls on the Decomposition and Dispersion of Depleted Uranium in the Environment. - Stephanie Handley, Miranda Keith-Roach, Paul Worsfold and Eric Achterberg.
Techniques for Studying the Biogeochemistry of Nutrients in the Tamar Catchment - Utra Mankasingh.