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

NEW: 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

• Farley, K. A., Piñeiro, G, Palmer, S. M., Jobbágy, E. G. and Jackson, R. B. (2008), Stream acidification and base cation losses with grassland afforestation, Water Resour. Res., 44, W00A03, doi:10.1029/2007WR006659
• Billett, M. F., Deacon, C. E., Palmer, S. M, Dawson, J. J. C. and Hope, D. (2006). Connecting Organic Carbon in Streamwater and Soils in a Peatland Catchment. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 111, G02010, doi:10.1029/2005JG000065

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