BEACh conferences

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.