School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

I am a soil biogeochemist with a particular interest in forest and upland soils. My work includes the effect of environmental (e.g. acid rain) and land management change (e.g. burning, afforestation) on soil and solution chemistry, and sometimes the subsequent effects on surface water quality. I am particularly interested in the cycling of carbon and the mobilisation and speciation of aluminium. 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Greenhouse gas emissions associated with non gaseous losses of carbon from peatlands - fate of particulate and dissolved carbon

Characterisation of dissolved organic carbon from different sources within a catchment

EMBER: Effects of Moorland Burning on the Ecohydrology of River Basins 

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• River Basin Processes and Management

PUBLICATIONS

• Clark, J. M., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Palmer, S. M., Chapman, P. J., & Bottrell, S. H. (2011). Variation in the sensitivity of DOC release between different organic soils following H2SO4 and sea-salt additions. EUR J SOIL SCI, 62(2), 267-284. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2389.2010.01344.x
• Jackson, R. B., Cook, C. W., Pippen, J. S., & Palmer, S. M. (2009). Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. ECOLOGY, 90(12), 3352-3366

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