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Profiles
Professor Will Blake
Professor of Catchment Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Will can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Soil erosion
- Catchment science
- River basin science
- Agriculture
- River pollution
- Land and water degridation
- UN sustainable development goals and the environment
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
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 University of Plymouth Consolidated Radioisotope Facility (CoRiF).
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Science and Engineering.
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 Prof. 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 Profs 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
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 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
Key publications
54 Palazon L, Gaspar G, Latorre B, Blake WH, Navas A (2014) Evaluatingthe importance of surface soil contributions to reservoir sediment in alpineenvironments: a combined modelling and fingerprinting approach in thePosets-Maladeta Natural Park. Solid Earth; 5:963–978. DOI:10.5194/se-5-963-2014
53 Mabit L, M Benmansour, JM Abril, DE Walling, KMeusburger, AR Iurian, C Bernard, S Tarján, PN Owens, WH Blake, C Alewell(2014) Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchmentsediment budget investigations: a review. Earth-Science Reviews 138,335-351
52 Taylor A, Blake WH,Keith-Roach MJ (2014) Estimating Be-7 enrichment in soil particle sizefractions for erosion and deposition modelling. Journal of Soils andSediments 14 (11), 1886-1893
51 Jha AN,Blake WH, Millward GE (2014) Preface: environmental radioactivity: implicationsfor human and environmental health. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity,133, 1-4
50 Woodbridge J. Davies HJ, Blake WH,Fyfe RM (2014)Exploring recent environmental change in an uplandcatchment using evidence from reservoir sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology52 (3), 229-244
49 Smith HG, Blake WH, Taylor A (2014).Modelling particle residence times in agricultural river basins using asediment budget model and fallout radionuclide tracers. Earth SurfaceProcesses and Landforms, 39 (14), 1944-1959
48 Yamashiki Y, Onda Y, Smith HG, Blake WH,Wakahara T, Igarashi Y, Matsuura Y and Yoshimura K (2014) Initial flux ofsediment-associated radiocesium to the ocean from the largest river impacted byFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Scientific Reports: 4: 3714
47 Smith HG and Blake WH (2014)Sediment fingerprinting in agricultural catchments: a critical re-examinationof source discrimination and data corrections. Geomorphology, 204:177-191 doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.08.003
46 E Leorri, A Cearreta, M Jesús Irabien, AGarcía-artola, DR Corbett, E Horsman, WH Blake, JA Sanchez-Cabiza (2014).Anthropogenic disruptions of the sedimentary record in coastal marshes:Examples from the southern Bay of Biscay (N. Spain). Continental ShelfResearch, DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.08.016
45 Eagling J, Worsfold PJ, Blake WH andKeith-Roach MJ (2013). Influence of sediment redox conditions on uraniummobilisation during saline intrusion. Chemical Geology, 357: 158–163
44. Eagling J, Worsfold PJ, Blake WH andKeith-Roach MJ (2013) Fate of 90Sr and U(VI) in Dounreay sediments followingsaline inundation and erosion. Chemosphere: 92(8):911-7. DOI:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.02.059
43. LeorriE, S Mitra, M Jesús Irabien, AR Zimmerman, WH Blake, Al Cearreta (2013).A 700 year record of combustion-derived pollution in northern Spain: Tools toidentify the Holocene/Anthropocene transition in coastal environments. Scienceof the total Environment 470-471: 240-247,dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.064
42. Taylor A, Blake WH, Keith-Roach MJ,Mabit L. (2013). Assumptions and challenges in the use of fallout beryllium-7as a soil and sediment tracer in river basins. Earth Science Reviews, 126:85-95, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.08.002
41. Leorri, E., Cearreta, A.,García-Artola, A., Irabien, M.J., Blake, W.H., (2013). Relativesea-level rise in the Basque coast (N Spain): Different environmentalconsequences on the coastal area. Ocean & Coastal Management, 77: 3-13, .doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.02.007
40. Smith, H.G., Blake, W.H., Owens, P.N. (2013). Determiningsediment sources following wildfire: a review of the application of sedimenttracers in burned forest environments. Hydrological Processes, 27: 943-958,DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9537
39. Parry L. Charman D, Blake WH (2013)Comparative dating of recent peat deposits using fallout radionuclides andSpheroidal Carbonaceous Particles (SCPs) at a local and landscape scale. QuaternaryGeochronology, 15, 11-19, doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2013.01.002
38. Wharton G, Kronvang B, Ogrinc N, Blake WH(2012). Interactions between sediments and water: perspectives on the 12thInternational Association for Sediment Water Science Symposium. Journal ofSoils Sediments. 12:1497–1500, DOI 10.1007/s11368-012-0606-x
37. Eagling J, Worsfold PJ, Blake WH, Keith-Roach MJ (2012).Mobilization of Tc from reduced sediments during seawater inundation andintrusion. Environmental Science and Technology 6; 46(21):11798-803.doi: 10.1021/es3025935.
36. Smith, H.G., Blake, W.H.,Owens, P.N. 2012. Application of sediment tracers to discriminate sedimentsources following wildfire. In: M. Stone, A. Collins, M. Thoms (eds.), Wildfireand water quality: processes, impacts and challenges. IAHS Publication No.354, IAHS Press, Wallingford, pp. 81-89.
35. Owens PN, Blake WH,Giles TR, Williams ND (2012) Determining the effects of wildfire on sedimentsources using 137Cs and unsupported 210Pb: the role oflandscape disturbances and driving forces. Journal of Soils and Sediments,12:982–994, DOI 10.1007/s11368-012-0497-x
34. Taylor A, Blake WH,Keith-Roach MJ, Couldrick L (2012). Sorption behaviour of beryllium-7 andimplications for its use as a sediment tracer. Geoderma, 187–188, 16–23,doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.04.013
33. Taylor A, Blake WH,Keith-Roach MJ, Couldrick L (2012). Optimisation of beryllium-7 gamma analysisfollowing BCR sequential extraction. Analytica Chimica Acta 720: 91– 96
32. Blake WH, Ficken KJ,Taylor P, Russell MA, Walling DE (2012). Tracing crop-specific sediment sourcesin agricultural catchments. Geomorphology, 139–140, 322–329
31. RPD Walsh, K Bidin, WHBlake, NA Chappell, MA Clarke, I Douglas, R Ghazali, AM Sayer, J. Suhaimi,W Tych and KV Annammala, (2011). Long-term responses of rainforest erosionalsystems at different spatial scales to selective logging and climatic change. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. B, 27 , 366(1582), 3340-3353
30. Blake W.H., Theocharopoulos S.P., Skoulikidis N., Clark P., TountasP., R. Hartley, Amaxidis Y. (2010). Wildfire impacts on hillslope sediment andphosphorus yields. Journal of Soils andSediments, 10(4), 671-682 ISSN: 1439-0108
29. Leorri, E., Cearreta, A.,Corbett, R., Blake, W., Fatela, F., R. Gehrels, M. J. Irabien, (2010).Identification of suitable areas for high-resolution sea-level studies in SWEurope using commonly applied 210Pb models. Geogaceta, 48,35-38. ISSN0213-683X
28. Garcia-Artola, A., Cearreta,A., Leorri, E., Irabien, M., & Blake, W.H. (2009). Coastalsalt-marshes as geological archives of recent sea-level changes. Geogaceta,47, 109-112, ISSN0213-683X
27. Wilkinson S.N., Wallbrink P.J.,Hancock G.J., Blake W.H., ShakesbyR.A., Doerr S.H. (2009) Fallout radionuclide tracers identify a switch insediment sources and transport-limited sediment yield following wildfire in aeucalypt forest. Geomorphology. 110(3-4), 140-151
26. MasselinkG, Cointre L, Williams J, Gehrels R, BlakeW (2009) Tide-driven dune migration and sediment transport on an intertidalshoal in a shallow estuary in Devon, UK. MarineGeology, 262(1), 82-95
25. Blake WH, Wallbrink PJ, Wilkinson S, Humphreys GS, Doerr SH,Shakebsy RA, Tomkins K. (2009). Deriving hillslope sediment budgets inwildfire-affected forests using fallout radionuclide tracers. Geomorphology. 104, 105-116
24. Blake,W. H., Wallbrink P. J. and Droppo I.G. (2009) Sediment aggregation andimplications for water quality in wildfire-affected river basins. Marine andFreshwater Research. 60, 653–659
23. Tomkins, K. M., G. S. Humphreys, A. F. Gero, R. A. Shakesby, S. H.Doerr, P. J. Wallbrink, and W. H. Blake(2008), Postwildfire hydrological response in an El Niño–SouthernOscillation–dominated environment, Journalof Geophysical Research, 113, F02023, doi:10.1029/2007JF000853
22. Walsh, R.P.D., Blake, W.H., Garbett-Davies, H.R., James, J.G.,Dyrynda, P., Barnsley, M.J. (2007). Downstream changes in bed-sediment andstreamwater metal concentrations along a watercourse in a rehabilitatedpost-industrial landscape in South Wales. Water, Air andSoil Pollution, 181 (1-4): 107-113
21. Tomkins K. M., Humphreys G.S., Wilkinson, M. T., Fink, D., Hesse, P. P., Doerr, S. H., Shakesby, R. A.,Wallbrink, P. J., Blake W. H.(2007). Contemporary versus long-termdenudation along a passive plate margin: the role of extreme events. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32(7),1013-1031 ISSN: 0197-9337
20. Shakesby R.A., Wallbrink P.J., Doerr S.H., English P.M., ChaferC.J., Humphreys G.S., Blake W.H.,Tomkins K.M. (2007). Distinctiveness of wildfire effects on soil erosion insouth-east Australian eucalypt forests assessed in a global context. Forest Ecology and Management 238, 347–364. ISSN: 0378-1127
19. Blake, W. H., I. G. Droppo, G. S. Humphreys, S. H.Doerr, R. A. Shakesby, and P. J. Wallbrink (2007), Structural characteristicsand behavior of fire-modified soil aggregates, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F02020, doi:10.1029/2006JF000660.
18. Blake, W.H., Walsh, R.P.D., Reed, J., Barnsley, M.J. and Smith J. (2007)Impacts of landscape remediation on theheavy metal pollution dynamics of a lake surrounded by non-ferrous smelterwaste. Environmental Pollution, 148,268-280
17. Blake, W.H., Walsh, R.P.D., Sayer, A.M. & Bidin, K. (2006). Quantifyingfine-sediment sources in primary and selectively-logged rainforest catchmentsusing geochemical tracers. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus 6: 615–623. ISSN 1567-7230
16. Owens, P.N., Blake, W.H. & Petticrew, E.L. (2006). Changes in sediment sources following wildfire in mountainousterrain: a paired-catchment approach, British Columbia, Canada. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus 6:637–645. ISSN 1567-7230
15. Blake W.H., Wallbrink, P.J., Doerr, S.H., Shakesby, R.A.,Humphreys, G.S., English, P., Wilkinson, S., (2006). Using geochemicalstratigraphy to indicate post-fire sediment and nutrient fluxes into a watersupply reservoir, Sydney, Australia. In: Rowan J. (Ed) Sediment Dynamics and the Hydromorphology of Fluvial Systems. IAHSPublication 306, pp 363-370, ISSN 0144-7815
14. Blake, W.H., Wallbrink, P.J., Doerr, S.H., Shakesby, R.A. &Humphreys, G.S. 2006. Magnetic enhancement in fire-affected soil and itspotential for sediment-source ascription. EarthSurface Processes and Landforms 31, 249–264. ISSN: 0197-9337
13. Doerr, S.H., Shakesby, R.A.,Blake, W.H., Chafer, C.J.,Humphreys, G.S., Wallbrink, P.J. (2006). Effects of differing wildfire severities on soil wettability andimplications for hydrological response. Journal of Hydrology. 319: 295-311 ISSN: 0022-1694
12. Blake, W.H., Droppo, I.G., Wallbrink P.J., Doerr, S.H., Shakesby,R.A., Humphreys, G.S. (2005). Impacts ofwildfire on effective sediment particle size: implications for post-firesediment budgets. In: Walling D.E. and Horowitz A. J. (Eds) Sediment Budgets 1. IAHS Publication291, 143-150. ISBN 1-901502-87-2
11. Wallbrink, P.J., Blake, W.H., Doerr, S.H., Shakesby,R.A., Humphreys, G.S., English, P. (2005). Using tracer based sediment budgets to assess redistribution of soil andorganic material after severe bush fires. In: Walling D.E. and Horowitz A. J.(Eds) Sediment Budgets 2. IAHSPublication 292 223-230. ISBN1-901502-92-9
10. Doerr, S.H., Blake, W.H., , Shakesby, R.A.,Stagnitti, F., Vuurens, S.H., Humphreys, G.S. & Wallbrink, P. , 2004, Heating effects on water repellencyin Australian eucalypt forest soils and their value in estimating wildfire soiltemperatures. International Journalof Wildland Fire, 13(2), 157-163, ISSN: 1049-8001
9. Blake, W.H., Wallbrink, P.J., Doerr, S.H., Shakesby, R.A. &Humphreys, G.S., 2004, Sediment redistribution following wildfire in the Sydneyregion, Australia: a mineral magnetic tracing approach. In: Golosov V., BelayevV. and Walling D.E. (eds) SedimentTransfer through the Fluvial System, IAHS Publication 288, pp 52-59 ISBN 1-901502-67-8
8. Shakesby, R.A., Chafer,C., Doerr, S.H., Blake, W.H.,Humphreys, G.S. and Wallbrink, P.J. (2003). Fire severity, water repellencycharacteristics and hydrogeomorphological changes following the Christmas 2001Sydney forest fires. Australian Geographer. 34, 147-175
7. Blake, W.H., Walsh, R.P.D. andBarnsley, M.J. (2003). Relating mineralmagnetic measurements to sediment quality in a remediated, contaminatedcatchment: the significance of heavy metal delivery mode and water-sedimentexchange dynamics in a small urban lake. Journal Physique, 107, 193 – 196
6. Blake, W.H., Walsh, R.P.D., Barnsley, M.J., Palmer, G.,Dyrynda, P. and James, J.G. (2003) Impacts of storm flow on heavy metalconcentrations in a small industrialised catchment. Hydrological Processes, 17, 1923-1939
5. Blake, W.H., Walling, D.E. and He, Q. (2002). The use of 7Be as a tracer insediment budget investigations. Geografiska Annaler 84A(2), 89 – 102
4. Walling, D.E., He, Q. and Blake, W.H., 2000. River floodplains as phosphorus sinks. TheRole of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer.IAHS Publ. No. 263: 211-218.
3. Walling, D.E., He, Q. and Blake, W.H., 1999. Use of 7Be and 137Csmeasurements to document short- and medium-term rates of water-induced soilerosion on agricultural land. Water Resources Research 35 (12):3865-3874.
2. Blake, W.H., Walling, D.E. and He, Q. 1999. Fallout 7Be as a tracer in soilerosion investigations. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 51:599-605.
1. Blake, W.H., Plater, A.J. and Boyle, J. 1998. Seasonal trends in the uranium-series characteristics of contemporarywaters and sediment from Hawes Water, Cumbria, UK. Journal of Palaeolimnology 20: 1-14.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Dataset on the 6-year radiocesium transport in rivers near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant' Scientific Data 7, (1) , DOI
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 , DOI
2020 'Spatial distribution of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland' Science of The Total Environment 142749-142749 , DOI
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
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 , DOI
2018 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) , 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' Sci Rep 8, (1) 13073-13073 , 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' Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 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 Pb-210 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 Cs-137 and unsupported Pb-210: 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 'Effects of differing wildfire severities on soil wettability and implications for hydrological response' Journal of Hydrology 319, (1-4) 295-311
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 '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 Be-7 and Cs-137 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 '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 '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 51-61
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
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
'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
'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
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