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Profiles
Dr Angela Milne
Lecturer in Environmental Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Lecturer in Environmental Science
Angela moved into teaching following 10 years as a postdoctoral researcher, having spent time in Florida and Plymouth. She is still involved in research as well as teaching, and is also a PhD supervisor. Angela is Stage 1 Tutor, and also a module leader at Stages 1 and 2 for the undergraduate BSc Environmental Science and BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability degree courses.
Qualifications
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Plymouth University: 2010 – 2017
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Florida State University: 2007-2010
PhD Marine Chemistry (University of Plymouth: 2003-2007)BSc (Hons) Environmental Science (University of Plymouth: 1998-2002)
Professional membership
Royal Society of Chemistry
Challenger Society
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Teaching interests
The Physical Environment (Stage 1, BSc Environmental Science / BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability)
Environmental Pollution (Stage 1, BSc Environmental Science)
Field and Research Skills (Stage 2, BSc Environmental Science / BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability)
Weather and Climate (Stage 2, BSc Environmental Science)
Managing human impacts in the marine environment (Stage 2, BSc Environmental Science / BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability)
Marine Chemistry (MSc Applied Marine Science)
Research interests
The cycling of bio-essential trace metals in the marine environment
Trace metal biogeochemistry: I am interested in the distribution of trace elements (particularly bio-essential elements such as iron and cobalt) in the ocean, both in the dissolved phase and from oceanic particulate material.
Analytical chemistry: I am very interested in developing and using analytical techniques which allow for the determination of multiple elements from one sample.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Antony Birchill (2013 – 2017, co-supervisor): Cycling of iron in the Celtic Sea.
Grants & contracts
Co-investigator and named PDRF on the following proposal submissions:
‘Processes Influencing Carbon Cycling Observations of the Lower Limb of the Antarctic Overturning’. NERC Directed Grant (2017 - current) Awarded £268,000.
‘Carbon uptake and seasonal traits of Antarctic remineralisation depth’. NERC Directed Grant (2017 - current) Awarded £262,000
‘Iron speciation in marine suspended particles transported from the Celtic Shelf’. Co-Investigator. Diamond Light Source Standard Proposal (2017) Awarded beamtime
‘The supply of Iron from shelf sediments to the oceans’. NERC Directed Grant: Shelf Seas Biogeochemistry Programme (2013-17) Awarded £304,000
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long-term food web degradation' Global Change Biology , DOI Open access
2020 'The oceanic biogeochemistry of nickel and its isotopes: New data from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide' Earth and Planetary Science Letters 535, 116118-116118 , DOI Open access
2019 'The interplay between regeneration and scavenging fluxes drives ocean iron cycling' Nature Communications 10, (1) , DOI Open access
2019 'Exploring mechanisms for spring bloom evolution: contrasting 2008 and 2012 blooms in the southwest Pacific Ocean' Journal of Plankton Research , DOI Open access
2019 'Putting the silicon cycle in a bag: Field and mesocosm observations of silicon isotope fractionation in subtropical waters east of New Zealand' Marine Chemistry 213, 1-12 , DOI Open access
2019 'The eastern extent of seasonal iron limitation in the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean' Scientific Reports 9, , DOI Open access
2019 'Estimating Uncertainties in Oceanographic Trace Element Measurements' Frontiers in Marine Science , DOI Open access
2018 'Paired dissolved and particulate phase Cu isotope distributions in the South Atlantic' Chemical Geology , DOI Open access
2018 'The Role of External Inputs and Internal Cycling in Shaping the Global Ocean Cobalt Distribution: Insights From the First Cobalt Biogeochemical Model' Global Biogeochemical Cycles , DOI Open access
2018 'Anthropogenic Signatures of Lead in the Northeast Atlantic' Geophysical Research Letters 45, (6) 2734-2743 , DOI Open access
2018 'The distribution of lead concentrations and isotope compositions in the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean' GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 225, 36-51 , DOI Open access
2017 'Seasonal iron depletion in temperate shelf seas' Geophysical Research Letters , DOI Open access
2017 'A Comparison between Four Analytical Methods for the Measurement of Fe(II) at Nanomolar Concentrations in Coastal Seawater' Frontiers in Marine Science 4, , DOI Open access
2017 'Particulate phases are key in controlling dissolved iron concentrations in the (sub)tropical North Atlantic' Geophysical Research Letters , DOI Open access
2016 'Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 374, (2081) 20160076-20160076 , DOI Open access
2016 'Return of naturally sourced Pb to Atlantic surface waters' NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7, , DOI Open access
2016 'Measurement uncertainty associated with shipboard sample collection and filtration for the determination of the concentration of iron in seawater' Anal. Methods 8, (37) 6711-6719 , DOI Open access
2015 'The impact of circulation and dust deposition in controlling the distributions of dissolved Fe and Al in the south Indian subtropical gyre' Marine Chemistry 176, 110-125 , DOI
2015 'Iron stable isotopes track pelagic iron cycling during a subtropical phytoplankton bloom' Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112, (1) E15-E20 , DOI
2014 'Uncertainty contributions to the measurement of dissolved Co, Fe, Pb and V in seawater using flow injection with solid phase preconcentration and detection by collision/reaction cell-quadrupole ICP-MS' Talanta 133, 162-169 , DOI Open access
2014 'Biogeochemical cycling of dissolved zinc along the GEOTRACES South Atlantic transect GA10 at 40 S' GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES 28, (1) 44-56 , DOI Open access
2013 'Methods for the sampling and analysis of marine aerosols: results from the 2008 GEOTRACES aerosol intercalibration experiment' LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS 11, 62-78 , DOI
2012 'Fluorometric detection of total dissolved zinc in the southern Indian Ocean' MARINE CHEMISTRY 132, 68-76 , DOI
2010 'Determination of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in seawater using high resolution magnetic sector inductively coupled mass spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS)' Anal Chim Acta 665, (2) 200-207 , DOI
2009 'Investigation of iron(III) reduction and trace metal interferences in the determination of dissolved iron in seawater using flow injection with luminol chemiluminescence detection' Anal Chim Acta 652, (1-2) 259-265 , DOI
2009 'Real-time detection of reactive oxygen species generation by marine phytoplankton using flow injection-chemiluminescence' LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS 7, 706-715 , DOI
2008 'Nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of bacterial productivity and growth in the oligotrophic subtropical North Atlantic' LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 53, (2) 824-834 , DOI
2008 'Relative influence of nitrogen and phosphorus availability on phytoplankton physiology and productivity in the oligotrophic sub-tropical North Atlantic Ocean' LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 53, (1) 291-305 , DOI
2006 'Iron limits primary productivity during spring bloom development in the central North Atlantic' GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 12, (4) 626-634 , DOI
2005 'PLASMA MEMBRANE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN MARINE DIATOMS - METABOLIC FUNCTION AND CHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES' PHYCOLOGIA 44, (4) 26-26
2004 'Developing standards for dissolved iron in seawater. ' EOS 88 (11), 131-132