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Profiles
Professor Will Blake
Professor of Catchment Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Professor Will Blake can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Soil erosion
- River pollution
- Catchment science
- River basin science
- Agriculture
- Land and water degradation
- UN Sustainable Development Goals and the environment
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
I am Professor of Catchment Science with interests in soil erosion, its downstream impacts and associated land management challenges. I specialise in development and application of environment forensic/diagnostic approaches to solve complex sediment and pollution problems from catchment to coast.
I undertake research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in river basin science and physical geography.
Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute.
Director of the University of Plymouth Consolidated Radioisotope Facility (CoRiF).
Qualifications
1994: BSc (Hons) Earth Science, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
1995: MSc Recent Environmental Change, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
2000: PhD, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK. "Using Be-7 as a tracer in sediment budget investigations" with Professor Des Walling and Dr Qingping He
2001–2002: Postdoctoral research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, UK
NERC URGENT programme "Mobilisation and tranfer of heavy metals between ecosystem compartments in the Lower Swansea Valley, an urban regeneration zone", with Professors Rory Walsh and Mike Barnsley
2002–2003: Postdoctoral research officer, Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, UK
"The erosional consequences of varying degrees of fire-induced soil water repellency in the Sydney Forest Fires region", NERC-funded Recognised-Researcher with Drs Shakesby and Doerr (UWS), Wallbrink (CSIRO, Australia) and Humphreys (Maquarie University, Australia)
2007: Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia
2003–present: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth
Professional membership
- Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
- International Association for Sediment Water Science (IASWS)
- International Association of Hydrological Science (IAHS)
- British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)
Roles on external bodies
Member of UN FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project D1.50.17 on “Nuclear Techniques for a Better Understanding of the Impact of Climate Change on Soil Erosion in Upland Agro-ecosystems”
Formerly on International Association for Sediment Water Science Board of Directors
Highlights
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Overview
I teach on the following subjects with a strong emphasis on linking teaching to my research:
Hillslope hydrology and soil erosion
River basin fine sediment dynamics from catchment to coast
Environmental pollution (especially sediment quality and legacy impacts of mining)
Catchment science and management
Catchment ecosystem services
Geohazards: wildfire
Geographical science methods
Wherever possible, my class teaching of process theory is supported by field- and laboratory-based practicals e.g. rainfall simulation to explore impacts agriculture on overland flow and soil erosion or quantification of the environmental quality of streams to assess the effectiveness of catchment sensitive farming.
I have run overseas fieldtrips to the rainforest of Malaysian Borneo where I work on logging impacts on river sediments. I am keen to offer students opportunity to gain professional catchment science experience and regularly employ undergraduate and masters students within my research programmes to assist with field sampling and laboratory analysis. This includes training students to work to ISO9001:2008 standard in the University Consolidated Radioisotope Facility of which I am Director.
I undertake research project supervision on BSc (Hons) Geography and related programmes and MSc projects within the 'Sustainable Environmental Management' and Environmental consultancy' programmes
Research
Research
Research interests
I am Professor of Catchment Science with interests in soil erosion, its downstream impacts and associated land management challenges. I specialise in development and application of environment forensic/diagnostic approaches to solve complex sediment and pollution problems from catchment to coast.
My current research in East Africa and Latin America focuses on how natural science and social science data can be integrated to underpin the co-design of pathways to land management change. These interdisciplinary programmes build on previous research in South East Asia and Australia on impacts of logging and wildfire on hydrological processes, soil erosion and sediment and nutrient flux. I also work extensively on UK river basin management problems in mixed agricultural systems.
My applied environmental forensics research is facilitated through knowledge exchange, mentoring and capacity building activities within joint UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated Research Programmes (2008 to present) on sediment tracing and fingerprinting techniques to support food and water security.
I have received research funding in excess of £2m from UKRI, EU FP7, H2020, Royal Society, NGOs and UK governmental organisations.
For information on current/recent research projects please follow links below:
IMIXSED Project and SEDiLINK Project [EC Horizon 2020]
Jali Ardhi [GCRF] project [UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, NE/P015603/1; NE/R009309/1]
Making soil erosion understandable and governable at the river basin scale for food, water and hydropower sustainability in Latin America [NERC/Newton/CONICYT, Chile: NE/R015597/1]
SIGMA: Peru [UKRI/ CONCYTEC/Newton project, Peru]
Grants & contracts
2019-2020
Identifying fine sediment inputs to key freshwater pearl mussel populations
Funding body: SEPA
Collaborators: APEM Ltd [Meadows]
2019-2021
Societal Impacts of Glacier Melt in the Andes (SIGMA): Peru
Funding body: NERC
Collaborators: co-I with Clason (PI), Morera and others
2018-2020
Making soil erosion understandable and governable at the river basin scale for food, water and hydropower sustainability in Latin America
Funding body: NERC /CONICYT
Collaborators: PI with Bravo (co-PI) and Kelly
2018-2019
Averting a “tragedy of the commons” in Maasai land: Exploring predictors of communal land degradation and developing pathways to change in Northern Tanzania
Funding body: British Academy
Collaborators: Co-I with Anna Rabinovich (PI, Exeter), Ndakidemi (NM-AIST), Nasseri (Schumacher
2017-2019
‘Jali Ardhi [Care for the Land] project: Realising land management change in degraded Maasai grazing lands’ (NE/R009309/1)
Funding body: NERC
Collaborators: (PI) with Ndakidemi, Munishi, Mtei (Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania); Gilvear, Roberts, Wilson (PU); Rabinovich (Exeter); Nasseri and Rae (Schumacher College);
2018-2020
Validating hierarchical mixing models within a catchment sediment budget context. PhD Scholarship (Luis Alberto Ovando Fuentealba)
Funding body: CONICYT Chile
Collaborators: DoS for Luis Ovando
2017-2018
Glacier recession as a source of environmental pollutants (GRASP)
Funding body: INTERACT
Collaborators: co-I with Clason (PI) and Mills
Socio-ecological resilience to soil erosion driven by extreme events: past, present and future challenges in East Africa (aka Jali Ardhi [Care for the land] project)
Funding body: RCUK/Dfid Global Challenges Research fund
Collaborators: (PI) with Ndakidemi, Munishi, Mtei (Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania); Gilvear, Roberts, Wilson (PU); Rabinovich (Exeter); Nasseri and Rae (Schumacher College);
2016-2016
Assessing the suitability of potential Freshwater Pearl Mussel translocation sites in the River Clun (phase 2)
Funding body: Natural England
Collaborators: with Taylor (PI), Comber, Goddard and Westcountry Rivers Trust
2016-2017
Comprehensive illustrated guideline on the advanced use of Be-7 as soil tracer for assessing erosion and sedimentation rates
Funding body: UN FAO/IAEA
Collaborators: PI with Taylor, Iurian and Mabit
2015-2016
Assessing the suitability of potential Freshwater Pearl Mussel translocation sites in the River Clun
Funding body: Natural England
Collaborators: with Taylor (PI), Comber, Goddard and Westcountry Rivers Trust
Temporal and spatial patterns of phosphorus concentration across the ditch system of West Sedgemoor SSSI
Funding body: Natural England
Collaborators: with Taylor (PI), Goddard and Comber
2015-2017
Sediment linkage between land, river and sea: evaluating impacts of historic mining on sediment quality in the coastal zone
Funding body: Horizon 2020 (EC)
Collaborators: with Andra Iurian (MSC Research Fellow)
Integrating isotopic techniques with Bayesian modelling for improved assessment and management of global sedimentation problems
Funding body: Horizon 2020 (EC)
Collaborators: PI with Pascal Boeckx (UGent) plus Navas (CSIC), Smith (Liverpool) and NM-AIST (Tanzania) and Jimma University (Ethiopia)
2011 - 2015
Sources and quality of fine sediment in degraded Freshwater Pearl Mussel habitats (Clun)
Funding body: Natural England
Collaborators: PI (Plymouth) with APEM Ltd (Stone – Project manager), Taylor, Goddard and Hailey
2012 - 2015
Sources and quality of fine sediment in degraded river habitats (Mease )
Funding body: Natural England
Collaborators: PI (Plymouth) with APEM Ltd (Fraser – Project manager), Comber, Taylor, Smith and Hailey
2012 - 2014
Transfer of fallout radiocaesium through river networks impacted by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident (across 2 linked contracts)
Funding body: University of Tsukuba
Collaborators: with Smith (Liverpool) and Onda (Tsukuba)
2012 - 2013
Fine sediment and pollution in southwest rivers (Taw and Teign)
Funding body: Westcountry Rivers Trust
Collaborators: PI with Comber and Taylor
2012
Wrong connections: water quality problems in urban nature reserves
Funding body: PU Community Research Award
Collaborators: PI with Downs, Smith, Taylor, Solman
Environmental monitoring of salt marsh restoration
Funding body: Environment Agency
Collaborators: Co-I with Masselink (PI), Hanley, Blake, et al.
Evaluating sediment accretion rates on restored saltmarshes using fallout Be-7
Funding body: PU Marine Institute
Collaborators: PI with Taylor, Hanley, Masselink and White
2011-2013
Quantifying sources and residence times of contaminated sediment in human-impacted river basins: an integrated approach
Funding body: EU FP7
Collaborators: with Smith (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
2010
Evaluating potential use of Compound Specific Stable Isotopes (CSSIs) as sediment tracing tools
Funding body: Westcountry Rivers Trust and UoP
Collaborators: PI with Couldrick (WRT)
Carbon storage in restored wetlands (River Fal, Cornwall)
Funding body: Westcountry River Trust
Collaborators: PI with Couldrick (WRT)
2009
Carbon management in moorlands; effects of drainage and re-wetting on carbon sequestration
Funding body: Seale Hayne Educational Trust
Collaborators: PI with Charman and Parry
The catastrophic Victoria wildfires: impact of extreme burn severity on the soil system
Funding body: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Collaborators: Co-I with Doerr (PI), Shakesby and University of Melbourne
Development and test of new cost-effective monitoring technologies and planning design for restoration of wetlands – MONITECH
Funding body: Danish Research Council
Collaborators: Co-I with Kronvang (PI) and others
2008
Particulate-associated contaminants in agricultural estuaries (PhD studentship)
Funding body: Iraqi Ministry for Education
Collaborators: Director of studies with Masselink and Keith-Roach
7Be biogeochemistry and role as a tracer in catchment systems (PhD studentship)
Funding body: Westcountry Rivers Trust and UoP
Collaborators: Director of Studies with Keith-Roach
2007
Wildfire, soil erosion and impacts on downstream aquatic resources: evidence form the burnt Evrotas river basin, southern Peloponese, Greece
Funding body: Natural Environment Research Council
Collaborators: Athens Institute of Soil Science; Hellenic Centre for Marine research
Establishing Dominant Sediment Sources Within The Furze Brook Study Catchment’
Funding body: Environment Agency
“Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Tropical Rainforest Systems and Conservation in Sabah”
Funding body: Earthwatch Institute
Collaborators: Co-I with Swansea University, University of Singapore and Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Estuarine siltation in Devon and Cornwall: the role of agricultural land use
Funding body: The Seale-Hayne Educational Trust
Collaborators: co-I with Gehrels and others (PI)
2006
Wildfire, soil erosion and future climates of extremes in Australia
Funding body: Royal Society
Collaborators: PI with Wallbrink (CSIRO)
Establishing baseline patterns and trends of floodplain sedimentation downstream of a selectively logged tropical rainforest catchment
Funding body: Royal Geographical Society
Collaborators: PI with Walsh (Swansea)
Effects of Land Use on Physical and Genetic Soil Structure
Funding body: Seale Hayne Educational Trust
Collaborators: Co-I with Petticrew PI, Moody and Bradley
Developing decision support tools for soil conservation within agricultural river basins PhD studentship
Funding body: Westcountry Rivers Trust and SSB UoP
Collaborators: Director of Studies with A. Williams
2005
Evaluating the role of buffer strips in the protection of aquatic habitats
Funding body: Seale Hayne Educational Trust
Collaborators: PI with Petticrew and Brassley
Avon Estuary Siltation Research Project
Funding body: South Hams Society
Collaborators: PI with Gehrels and Masselink
2003
Impacts of wildfire on effective sediment particle size
Funding body: Royal Society
Collaborators: PI with Droppo (Canada)
2002
Impacts on water quality by sediments and nutrients released during extreme bushfires
Funding body: Sydney Catchment Authority
Collaborators: Co-I with Wallbrink PI, Doerr, Chafer, Humphreys and Shakesby
Downstream impacts of commercial logging in tropical rainforests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Funding body: Royal Society
Collaborators: with Walsh (Swansea)
2001
The erosional consequences of varying degrees of fire-induced soil water repellency in the Sydney Forest Fires region
Funding body: NERC
Collaborators: researcher Co-I with Doerr, Shakesby PI, Humphreys and Wallbrink
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2023) 'Aquatic phosphorus behaviour within a UK Ramsar wetland: Impacts of seasonality and hydrology on algal growth and implications for management' Science of The Total Environment 893, 164606-164606 , DOI
(2023) 'Chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland' Anthropocene 43, , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Dating recent tidal marsh sediments using windborne giant particles of green petcoke – An example from the southwest coast of Portugal' Continental Shelf Research 262, 105026-105026 , DOI
(2023) 'Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite' Science of The Total Environment , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Legacy radionuclides in cryoconite and proglacial sediment on Orwell Glacier, Signy Island, Antarctica' Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 264, , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Ultra-Trace Analysis of Fallout Plutonium Isotopes in Soil: Emerging Trends and Future Perspectives' Chemistry Africa , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Distribution and storage of uranium, and its decay products, in floodplain sediments' Environmental Pollution 324, 121356-121356 , DOI
(2023) 'Contribution of glaciers to water, energy and food security in mountain regions: current perspectives and future priorities' Annals of Glaciology 1-6 , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Portable gamma spectrometry for rapid assessment of soil texture, organic carbon and total nitrogen in agricultural soils' Journal of Soils and Sediments 23, (6) 2556-2563 , DOI
(2023) 'Optimisation of plutonium separations using TEVA cartridges and ICP-MS/MS analysis for applicability to large-scale studies in tropical soils' Analytical Methods 15, (34) 4226-4235 , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Quantifying sediment and particulate phosphorus accumulation in restored floodplain wetlands using beryllium‐7 as a tracer' Hydrological Processes 36, (11) , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Informing versus generating a discussion: Comparing two approaches to encouraging mitigation of soil erosion among Maasai pastoralists' Journal of Environmental Psychology 84, , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Microscale spatial variability of Beryllium-7 at a reference site in southwest China' Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 251-252, 106978-106978 , DOI
(2022) 'Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments II: Release and downstream consequences' Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Ecological consequences of historic moorland ‘improvement’' Biodiversity and Conservation , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Understanding the complexity of sediment residence time in rivers: Application of Fallout Radionuclides (FRNs)' Earth-Science Reviews 233, , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): A citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa' Environmental Research Letters 17, , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Towards sustainability: Threat of water quality degradation and eutrophication in Usangu agro-ecosystem Tanzania' Marine Pollution Bulletin 181, 113909-113909 , DOI
(2022) 'Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation' Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 46, (4) 630-648 , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Composition of deposited sediment and its temporal variation in a disturbed tropical catchment in the Kelantan river basin, Peninsular Malaysia' Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30, (28) 71881-71896 , DOI
(2022) 'Evaluating spatio-temporal soil erosion dynamics in the Winam Gulf catchment, Kenya for enhanced decision making in the land-lake interface' Science of The Total Environment 815, 151975-151975 , DOI
(2022) 'Particle size effect on geochemical composition of experimental soil mixtures relevant for unmixing modelling' Geomorphology 403, , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Land use patterns influence the distribution of potentially toxic elements in soils of the Usangu Basin, Tanzania' Chemosphere 284, 131410-131410 , DOI
(2021) 'Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution' The Cryosphere 15, (11) 5151-5168 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Evaluating Soil Carbon as a Proxy for Erosion Risk in the Spatio-Temporal Complex Hydropower Catchment in Upper Pangani, Northern Tanzania' Earth 2, (4) 764-780 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Building Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through Soil Organic Carbon Restoration in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities' Sustainability 13, (19) 10966-10966 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Evaluating the effectiveness of soil conservation at the basin scale using floodplain sedimentary archives' Science of The Total Environment 792, 148414-148414 , DOI
(2021) 'Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part I – sediment source tracing in three neighbouring river catchments' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46, (15) 3096-3111 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Assessment of arsenic status and distribution in Usangu agro-ecosystem-Tanzania' Journal of Environmental Management 294, 113012-113012 , DOI
(2021) 'Characterization of soil phosphate status, sorption and saturation in paddy wetlands in usangu basin-Tanzania' Chemosphere 278, 130466-130466 , DOI
(2021) 'Toxic metals in East African agro-ecosystems: Key risks for sustainable food production' Journal of Environmental Management 294, 112973-112973 , DOI
(2021) 'Exploring Relationship between Perception Indicators and Mitigation Behaviors of Soil Erosion in Undergraduate Students in Sonora, Mexico' Sustainability 13, (16) 9282-9282 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part II – sedimentological evidence of phased land degradation' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46, (15) 3112-3126 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Soil fertility and land sustainability in Usangu Basin-Tanzania' Heliyon 7, (8) , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Reconstructing the Changes in Sedimentation and Source Provenance in East African Hydropower Reservoirs: A Case Study of Nyumba ya Mungu in Tanzania' Earth 2, (3) 485-514 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Potentially toxic elements status and distribution in Usangu agroecosystem-Tanzania' Environmental Challenges 4, , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Accumulation and bioconcentration of heavy metals in two phases from agricultural soil to plants in Usangu agroecosystem-Tanzania' Heliyon 7, (7) , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Drivers, Impacts and Mitigation of Increased Sedimentation in the Hydropower Reservoirs of East Africa' Land 10, (6) 638-638 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Correction to Transport and Redistribution of Radiocesium in Fukushima Fallout through Rivers' Environmental Science & Technology 55, (13) 9394-9394 , DOI
(2021) 'Sediment source apportionment following wildfire in an upland commercial forest catchment' Journal of Soils and Sediments 21, (6) 2432-2449 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Fine-tuning of 210Pb-based methods for dating vegetated saltmarsh sediments' Quaternary Geochronology 62, 101153-101153 , DOI
(2021) 'Channel erosion dominates sediment sources in an agricultural catchment in the Upper Yangtze basin of China: Evidence from geochemical fingerprints' CATENA 199, (0) 105111-105111 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Dataset on the 6-year radiocesium transport in rivers near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant' Scientific Data 7, (1) , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Protecting the commons: Predictors of willingness to mitigate communal land degradation among Maasai pastoralists' Journal of Environmental Psychology 72, 101504-101504 , DOI
(2020) 'Integrating land‐water‐people connectivity concepts across disciplines for co‐design of soil erosion solutions' Land Degradation & Development 32, (12) 3415-3430 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Spatial distribution of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland' Science of The Total Environment 765, 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2020) '‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa' Land 9, (10) 352-352 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Exploring the potential of using 7Be measurements to estimate soil redistribution rates in semi-arid areas: results from Western Iran and Southern Italy' Journal of Soils and Sediments 20, (9) 3524-3536 , DOI
(2020) 'Determining tributary sources of increased sedimentation in East-African Rift Lakes' Science of The Total Environment 717, 137266-137266 , DOI
(2019) '“We will change whether we want it or not”: Soil erosion in Maasai land as a social dilemma and a challenge to community resilience' Journal of Environmental Psychology 101365-101365 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Assessing the performance of a physically based hydrological model using a proxy‐catchment approach in an agricultural environment' Hydrological Processes 33, (24) 3119-3137 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Transport and Redistribution of Radiocesium in Fukushima Fallout through Rivers' Environmental Science & Technology 53, (21) 12339-12347 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Fingerprinting changes of source apportionments from mixed land uses in stream sediments before and after an exceptional rainstorm event' Geomorphology 341, 216-229 , DOI
(2019) 'Extreme levels of fallout radionuclides and other contaminants in glacial sediment (cryoconite) and implications for downstream aquatic ecosystems' Scientific Reports 9, (1) , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Differentiating the geographical origin of Ethiopian coffee using XRF- and ICP-based multi-element and stable isotope profiling' Food Chemistry 290, 295-307 , DOI
(2019) 'Preface—evaluating the response of critical zone processes to human impacts with sediment source fingerprinting' Journal of Soils and Sediments 19, (9) 3245-3254 , DOI
(2019) 'Understanding the geomorphic consequences of enhanced overland flow in mixed agricultural systems: sediment fingerprinting demonstrates the need for integrated upstream and downstream thinking' Journal of Soils and Sediments 19, (9) 3319-3331 , DOI
(2019) 'Testing the mid-Holocene relative sea-level highstand hypothesis in North Wales, UK' The Holocene 29, (9) 1491-1502 , DOI
(2019) 'Drivers of increased soil erosion in East Africa’s agro-pastoral
systems: changing interactions between the social, economic
and natural domains' Regional Environmental Change , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Fingerprinting changes in source contribution for evaluating soil response during an exceptional rainfall in Spanish pre-pyrenees' Journal of Environmental Management 240, 136-148 , DOI
(2018) 'Foraminiferal evidence of major environmental changes driven by the sun-climate coupling in the western Portuguese coast (14th century to present)' Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 218, 106-118 , DOI
(2018) '10,000 years of climate control over carbon accumulation in an Iberian bog (southwestern Europe)' Geoscience Frontiers 10, (4) 1521-1533 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Testing the sensitivity of a multivariate mixing model using geochemical fingerprints with artificial mixtures' Geoderma 337, 498-510 , DOI
(2018) 'A deconvolutional Bayesian mixing model approach for river basin sediment source apportionment' Scientific Reports 8, (1) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Pinpointing areas of increased soil erosion risk following land cover change in the Lake Manyara catchment, Tanzania' International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 71, 1-8 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Community managed forests dominate the catchment sediment cascade in the mid-hills of Nepal: A compound-specific stable isotope analysis' Science of the Total Environment 637-638, 306-317 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Isotope mixing models require individual isotopic tracer content for correct quantification of sediment source contributions' Hydrological Processes 32, (7) 981-989 , DOI
(2018) 'Soil erosion rates under different tillage practices in central Belgium: New perspectives from a combined approach of rainfall simulations and 7 Be measurements' Soil and Tillage Research 179, 29-37 , DOI
(2018) 'Impact of soil hydrological properties on the Be-7 depth distribution and the spatial variation of Be-7 inventories across a small catchment' Geoderma 318, 88-98 , DOI
(2017) 'Rapid and irreversible sorption behavior of 7Be assessed to evaluate its use as a catchment sediment tracer' Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 182, 108-116 , DOI
(2017) 'Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Sources in an Urbanizing Mediterranean Catchment' Land Degradation & Development , DOI
(2017) 'Self-attenuation corrections for Pb-210 in gamma-ray spectrometry using well and coaxial HPGe detectors' Applied Radiation and Isotopes , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Aeolian sediment fingerprinting using a Bayesian mixing model' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Evaluation of salt marsh restoration by means of self-regulating tidal gate – Avon estuary, South Devon, UK' Ecological Engineering 106, 174-190 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source fingerprinting: A review' Earth-Science Reviews 169, 85-103 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Methodological perspectives on the application of compound-specific stable isotope fingerprinting for sediment source apportionment' Journal of Soils and Sediments 17, (6) 1537-1553 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries' Science of The Total Environment , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Bioaccessibility of U, Th and Pb in solid wastes and soils from an abandoned uranium mine' Journal of Environmental Radioactivity , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Fingerprinting and tracing the sources of soils and sediments: Earth and ocean science, geoarchaeological, forensic, and human health applications' Earth-Science Reviews 162, 1-23 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Combining catchment modelling and sediment fingerprinting to assess sediment dynamics in a Spanish Pyrenean river system' Science of The Total Environment 569-570, 1136-1148 , DOI
(2016) 'Temporal variability of beryllium-7 fallout in southwest UK' Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 160, 80-86 , DOI
(2016) 'Quantifying the spatial variation of Be-7 depth distributions towards improved erosion rate estimations' GEODERMA 269, 10-18 , DOI
(2015) 'Comparing catchment sediment fingerprinting procedures using an auto-evaluation approach with virtual sample mixtures' Science of The Total Environment 532, 456-466 , DOI
(2015) 'Preface—Addressing challenges to advance sediment fingerprinting research' Journal of Soils and Sediments 15, (10) 2033-2037 , DOI
(2015) 'Drivers of Holocene peatland carbon accumulation across a climate gradient in northeastern North America' Quaternary Science Reviews 121, 110-119 , DOI
(2015) 'Identifying sediment sources by applying a fingerprinting mixing model in a Pyrenean drainage catchment' Journal of Soils and Sediments 15, (10) 2067-2085 , DOI
(2015) 'Determining riverine sediment storage mechanisms of biologically reactive phosphorus in situ using DGT' Environmental Science and Pollution Research , DOI Open access
(2015) 'The interception and wash-off fraction of 7Be by bean plants in the context of its use as a soil radiotracer' Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 306, (1) 301-308 , DOI
(2015) 'Determining riverine sediment storage mechanisms of biologically reactive phosphorus in situ using DGT' Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22, (13) 9816-9828 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Estimating Be-7 association with soil particle size fractions for erosion and deposition modelling' JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 14, (11) 1886-1893 , DOI
(2014) 'Fallout <SUP>210</SUP>Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review' EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 138, 335-351 , DOI
(2014) 'Modelling particle residence times in agricultural river basins using a sediment budget model and fallout radionuclide tracers' EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 39, (14) 1944-1959 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Recent environmental change in an upland reservoir catchment: a palaeoecological perspective' JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY 52, (3) 229-244 , DOI
(2014) 'Anthropogenic disruptions of the sedimentary record in coastal marshes: Examples from the southern Bay of Biscay (N. Spain)' CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH 86, 132-140 , DOI
(2014) 'Preface: environmental radioactivity: implications for human and environmental health' J Environ Radioact 133, 1-4 , DOI
(2014) 'A 700 year record of combustion-derived pollution in northern Spain: tools to identify the Holocene/Anthropocene transition in coastal environments' Sci Total Environ 470-471, 240-247 , DOI
(2014) 'Initial flux of sediment-associated radiocesium to the ocean from the largest river impacted by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant' Sci Rep 4, , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Evaluating the importance of surface soil contributions to reservoir sediment in alpine environments: a combined modelling and fingerprinting approach in the Posets-Maladeta Natural Park' SOLID EARTH 5, (2) 963-978 , DOI
(2014) 'Sediment fingerprinting in agricultural catchments: A critical re-examination of source discrimination and data corrections' GEOMORPHOLOGY 204, 177-191 , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Assumptions and challenges in the use of fallout beryllium-7 as a soil and sediment tracer in river basins' EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 126, 85-95 , DOI
(2013) 'Influence of sediment redox conditions on uranium mobilisation during saline intrusion' CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 357, 158-163 , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Fate of 90Sr and U(VI) in Dounreay sediments following saline inundation and erosion' Chemosphere 92, (8) 911-917 , DOI
(2013) 'Relative sea-level rise in the Basque coast (N Spain): Different environmental consequences on the coastal area' OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT 77, 3-13 , DOI
(2013) 'Comparative dating of recent peat deposits using natural and anthropogenic fallout radionuclides and Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles (SCPs) at a local and landscape scale' QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY 15, 11-19 , DOI
(2012) 'Interactions between sediments and water: perspectives on the 12th International Association for Sediment Water Science Symposium' JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 12, (10) 1497-1500 , DOI
(2012) 'Mobilization of technetium from reduced sediments under seawater inundation and intrusion scenarios' Environ Sci Technol 46, (21) 11798-11803 , DOI
(2012) 'Sorption behaviour of beryllium-7 and implications for its use as a sediment tracer' GEODERMA 187, 16-23 , DOI
(2012) 'Determining the effects of wildfire on sediment sources using <SUP>137</SUP>Cs and unsupported <SUP>210</SUP>Pb: the role of landscape disturbances and driving forces' JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 12, (6) 982-994 , DOI
(2012) 'Optimisation of beryllium-7 gamma analysis following BCR sequential extraction' Anal Chim Acta 720, 91-96 , DOI
(2012) 'Tracing crop-specific sediment sources in agricultural catchments' GEOMORPHOLOGY 139, 322-329 , DOI
(2012) 'Application of sediment tracers to discriminate sediment sources following wildfire' Wildfire and water quality: processes, impacts and challenges 354, 81-89
(2011) 'Long-term responses of rainforest erosional systems at different spatial scales to selective logging and climatic change' PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 366, (1582) 3340-3353 , DOI
(2010) 'Wildfire impacts on hillslope sediment and phosphorus yields' JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 10, (4) 671-682 , DOI
(2010) 'Coastal salt-marshes as geological archives of recent sea-level changes' Geogaceta 47, 109-112
(2010) 'Identification of suitable areas for high-resolution sea-level studies in SW Europe using commonly applied 210Pb models' Geogaceta 47, 35-38
(2009) 'Fallout radionuclide tracers identify a switch in sediment sources and transport-limited sediment yield following wildfire in a eucalypt forest' GEOMORPHOLOGY 110, (3-4) 140-151 , DOI
(2009) 'Tide-driven dune migration and sediment transport on an intertidal shoal in a shallow estuary in Devon, UK' MARINE GEOLOGY 262, (1-4) 82-95 , DOI
(2009) 'Deriving hillslope sediment budgets in wildfire-affected forests using fallout radionuclide tracers' GEOMORPHOLOGY 104, (3-4) 105-116 , DOI
(2009) 'Sediment aggregation and water quality in wildfire-affected river basins' MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH 60, (7) 653-659 , DOI
(2008) 'Postwildfire hydrological response in an El Nino-Southern Oscillation-dominated environment' JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE 113, (F2) , DOI
(2007) 'Changes in the metal content of bed sediment along a river-lake-estuary system in a rehabilitated post-industrial landscape' Water, Air and Soil Pollution 181, (1-4) 107-113
(2007) 'Contemporary versus long-term denudation along a passive plate margin: the role of extreme events' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32, (7) 1013-1031
(2007) 'Distinctiveness of wildfire effects on soil erosion in south-east Australian eucalypt forests assessed in a global context' Forest Ecology and Management 238, (1-3) 347-364
(2007) 'Downstream changes in bed-sediment and streamwater metal concentrations along a watercourse in a rehabilitated post-industrial landscape in south wales' Water Air and Soil Pollution 181, (1-4) 107-113
(2007) 'Impacts of landscape remediation on the heavy metal pollution dynamics of a lake surrounded by non-ferrous smelter waste' Environmental Pollution 148, (1) 268-280
(2007) 'Structural characteristics and behavior of fire-modified soil aggregates' Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 112, (F2)
(2006) 'Changes in sediment sources following wildfire in mountainous terrain: a paired-catchment approach, British Columbia, Canada' Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus 6, (5-6) 637-645 , DOI
(2006) 'Longer-term and contemporary denudation rates, and the role of extreme events along a passive margin, Australia' Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, (18) A273-A273
(2006) 'Magnetic enhancement in wildfire-affected soil and its potential for sediment-source ascription' Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31, (2) 249-264
(2006) 'Quantifying fine-sediment sources in primary and selectively-logged rainforest catchments using geochemical tracers' Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus 6, (5-6) 615-623 , DOI
(2006) 'Effects of differing wildfire severities on soil wettability and implications for hydrological response' Journal of Hydrology 319, (1-4) 295-311
(2006) 'Using geochemical stratigraphy to indicate post-fire sediment and nutrient fluxes into a water supply reservoir, Sydney, Australia' Sediment Dynamics and the Hydromorphology of Fluvial Systems 306, 363-370
(2005) 'Using tracer based sediment budgets to assess redistribution of soil and organic material after severe bush fires' 223-230
(2004) 'Heating effects on water repellency in Australian eucalypt forest soils and their value in estimating wildfire soil temperatures' International Journal of Wildland Fire 13, (2) 157-163
(2004) 'Sediment redistribution following wildfire in the Sydney region, Australia: a mineral magnetic tracing approach' SEDIMENT TRANSFER THROUGH THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM (288) 52-59
(2003) 'Fire severity, water repellency characteristics and hydrogeomorphological changes following the Christmas 2001 Sydney forest fires' Australian Geographer 34, (2) 147-175
(2003) 'Heavy metal concentrations during storm events in a rehabilitated industrialized catchment' Hydrological Processes 17, (10) 1923-1939
(2003) 'Impacts of storm flow on heavy metal concentrations in a small industrialised catchment' Hydrological Processes 17, 1923-1939
(2003) 'Relating mineral magnetic measurements to sediment quality in a remediated, contaminated catchment: The significance of heavy metal delivery mode and water-sediment exchange dynamics in a small urban lake' Journal de Physique Iv 107, 193-196
(2002) 'Using cosmogenic beryllium -7 as a tracer in sediment budget investigations' Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography 84 (2), 89-102 , DOI
(2002) 'Using cosmogenic beryllium-7 as a tracer in sediment budget investigations' Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography 84, (2) 89-102 , DOI
(2002) 'The use of 7Be as a tracer in sediment budget investigations' Geografiska Annaler 84A, (2) 89-102
(2002) 'Using cosmogenic beryllium-7 as a tracer in sediment budget investigations' GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 84A, (2) 89-102 , DOI
(2000) 'River flood plains as phosphorus sinks' ROLE OF EROSION AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN NUTRIENT AND CONTAMINANT TRANSFER, PROCEEDINGS (263) 211-218
(1999) 'Use of <SUP>7</SUP>Be and <SUP>137</SUP>Cs measurements to document short- and medium-term rates of water-induced soil erosion on agricultural land' WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 35, (12) 3865-3874 , DOI
(1999) 'Fallout beryllium-7 as a tracer in soil erosion investigations' Appl Radiat Isot 51, (5) 599-605 , DOI
(1998) 'A potential record of palaeoclimate from U-series disequilibria in carbonate lake sediments' Chinese Science Bulletin 43, (S1) 100-100 , DOI
(1998) 'Seasonal trends in the uranium-series isotopic signatures of lake waters and sediments: Hawes Water, northwest England' JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY 20, (1) 1-14 , DOI
Reviews
(2012) 'Discriminating fine sediment sources and the application of sediment tracers in burned catchments: a review' Hydrological Processes , DOI
Books
(2019) Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7). Springer International Publishing , DOI
Chapters
(2019) 'Preface' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) v-v
(2019) 'Preface' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) v-v
(2019) 'Preface' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) v-v
(2019) 'Conversion of Be-7 Activity Concentrations into Soil and Sediment Redistribution Amounts' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) Springer International Publishing 45-59 , DOI
(2019) 'How to Design a Be-7 Based Soil Distribution Study at the Field Scale: A Step-by-Step Approach' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) Springer International Publishing 15-27 , DOI
(2019) 'Research into Practice—Linking Be-7 Evidence to Land Management Policy Change for Improved Food Security' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) Springer International Publishing 61-69 , DOI
(2019) 'The Use of Be-7 as a Soil and Sediment Tracer' Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7) Springer International Publishing 1-13 , DOI
(2018) 'Environmental Forensics: A Multi-catchment Approach to Detect Origin of Sediment Featuring Two Pilot Projects in Malaysia' Improving Flood Management, Prediction and Monitoring Emerald Publishing Limited 49-61 , DOI
(2014) 'Compound Specific Stable Isotope techniques for improving soil conservation strategies: an overview of lessons learned from an FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project' in Heng LK; Sakadevan K; Dercon G; Nguyen ML Managing soils for food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation Rome Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
(2014) 'Tracing crop specific sediment sources in agricultural catchments with compound specific stable isotopes (CSSI) and geochemical markers' in Heng LK; Sakadevan K; Dercon G; Nguyen ML Managing soils for food security and climate change adaptation an dmitigation Rome Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(2009) 'Tropical Rainforests' in Slaymaker O; Embleton-Hamann C; Spencer T Geomorphology and global environmental change Cambridge Univ Pr
(2007) 'Decision support tools for sediment management' in Owens PN; Organization S Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources: Sediment management at the river basin scale Elsevier Science
(2006) 'Changes in the spatial distribution of erosion within a selectively logged rain-forest catchment in Borneo 1988-2003' in Owens PN; Collins AJ Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments CABI
(2006) 'Factors affecting post-fire hillslope soil erosion after the Christmas 2001 forest fires near Sydney, Australia' in Owens PN; Collins AJ Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments CABI
(2006) 'Prospects for a sediment fingerprinting approach to unravelling changing upstream sediment sources in the rotationally selectively logged Segama catchment, Sabah' in Sidle RC; Tani M; Abdul Rahim N; Tewodros Ayele T Forests and Water in Warm Humid Asia
(2006) 'Tracing eroded soil in a burnt water supply catchment, Sydney, Australia: linking magnetic enhancement to soil water repellency' in Owens PN; Collins AJ Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments CABI
(2006) 'Changes in Sediment Sources Following Wildfire in Mountainous Terrain: A Paired-Catchment Approach, British Columbia, Canada' The Interactions Between Sediments and Water Springer Netherlands 273-281 , DOI
(2006) 'Hillslope soil erosion and bioturbation after the Christmas 2001 forest fires near Sydney, Australia' Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments: measurement, modelling and management CABI 51-61 , DOI
(2006) 'Quantifying Fine-Sediment Sources in Primary and Selectively Logged Rainforest Catchments Using Geochemical Tracers' The Interactions Between Sediments and Water Springer Netherlands 251-259 , DOI
(2004) 'Mass movement events in the south-west Sydney Basin during the Holocene' in Roach I Regolith 2004
(2003) 'Some effects of fire on the regolith' Advances in Regolith
Conference Papers
(2012) 'Uranium and Its Decay Products in Floodplain Sediments from the River Fal' International Symposium on Environmental Radioactivity
(2012) 'Long-term multi-scale changes in erosion and sediment transport with rotational selective logging in the Segama catchment, Sabah' Asia Oceania Geosciences Society – American Geophysical Union (WPGM) Joint Assembly
(2012) 'Tracing crop-specific sediment sources in agricultural catchments with compound specific stable isotope (CSSI) and geochemical markers' International Symposium on Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
(2012) 'Using FRN and CSSI sediment tracing technologies to support sediment control measures' 3rd Research Coordination Meeting for CRP D1.20.11, International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna
(2012) 'Compound-specific stable isotope analysis for improving precision soil conservation strategies: an overview of the lessons learnt in a FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project. FAO/IAEA' International Symposium on Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
(2012) 'Impacts of historic uranium mining on floodplain sediment quality, Fal river-estuary, South West England' 50th Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association Conference: Today's science for tomorrow's Management Venice
(2012) 'Quantifying sediment retention by restored wetlands using fallout
radionuclide tracer technology (137Cs and 7Be): The River Odense,
Denmark' in Kronvang B; Hoffman CC; Vlad ML Wetland restoration – challenges and opportunities
(2012) 'An integrated approach for determining sources and residence times of fine sediment transported through a river network' EGU General Assembly 2012
(2012) 'Contextualising impacts of logging on tropical rainforest catchment sediment dynamics and source processes using the stratigraphic record of an in-channel bench deposit' EGU General Assembly
(2012) 'Muted response of fine-grained sediment to a wildfire in British Columbia: the role of landscape disturbances and driving forces' EGU General Assembly
(2012) 'The use of downstream sediment mini-cores to indicate changes through time in the spatial pattern and process contribution of erosion within a small, selectively logged rainforest catchment in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo' EGU General Assembly
(2012) 'Uranium and Its Decay Products in Floodplain Sediments from the River Fal' EGU General Assembly 2012
(2010) 'The catastrophic Victoria fires of 2009: extreme fire intensity, but only moderate soil burn severity? Reconstructing fire behaviour from soil, ash and seedbank survival data' VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research Coimbra, Portugal 1-/-1/2010
(2010) 'Erosion on tropical rain-forest terrain: a re-evaluation in the light of long-term monitoring, aerial photographic evidence and sediment fingerprinting in Borneo' EGU2010-14504 Vienna
(2010) 'Exploring flocculation of suspended burned sediment using an annular
flume' EGU General Assembly 2010 Vienna
(2010) 'Impact of the extreme 2009 wildfire Victoria the wettability of naturally highly water repellent soils' EGU General Assembly 2010 Vienna
(2010) 'Impact of the extreme 2009 wildfires in Victoria on the soil system and implications for fire behaviour' EGU General Assembly 2010 Vienna
(2010) 'The environmental behaviour of beryllium-7: implications for its use as a
soil erosion tracer' EGU General Assembly 2010 Vienna
Reports
(2013) Validation of Be-7 as a tracer for short-term soil erosion events in eastern Austria. Joint FAO/IAEA Programme: Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture: Soils Newsletter
(2012) Evaluating the contribution of different land uses to catchment sediment yield using compound-specific stabel isotope techniques. Joint FAO/IAEA Programme: Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture: Soils Newsletter
Presentations and posters
'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN) to reduce land degradation in East Africa' , DOI
Other Publications
Data associated with 'Rowney et al. (2022). Ecological consequences of historic moorland ‘improvement’. Biodiversity and Conservation'. Open access
Dataset for paper pair 'Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania'. Open access