dr sheila palmer

CONTACT DETAILS
Room 3.69
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Email: s.m.palmer@leeds.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0 in UK) 113 34 37991

Student hours:
Wednesdays 11am-1pm and
Thursdays 3-5pm

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

  • 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
  • Chapman, P. J., McDonald, G., Tyson, R., Palmer, S. M., Mitchell, G., & Irvine, B. (2010). Changes in water colour sources between 1986 and 2006 in the headwaters of the River Nidd, Yorkshire, UK. Biogeochemistry, 101(1-3), 281-291. doi:10.1007/s10533-010-9474-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.
  • Farley, K. A., G. Piñeiro, S. M. Palmer, E. G. Jobbágy, and R. B. Jackson (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
  • Palmer S. M., Wellington B. I., Johnson C. E. and Driscoll C. T. (2005). Landscape influences on aluminum and dissolved organic carbon in streams draining a northern hardwood forest. Hydrological Processes, 19(9), 1751-1769
  • Hope D., Palmer S. M., Billett M. F. and Dawson J. J. C. (2004). Variations in dissolved CO2 and CH4 in a first order stream and catchment: an investigation of soil-stream linkages. Hydrological Processes 18(17), 3255-3275
  • Dawson J. J. C., Billett M. F., Hope D., Palmer S. M. and Deacon C. (2004). Sources and sinks of aquatic carbon linked to a peatland stream continuum. Biogeochemistry 70(1), 71-92
  • Billett M. F., Palmer S. M., Hope D., Deacon C., Storeton-West R., Hargreaves K. J., Flechard C. and Fowler D. (2004). Linking land-atmosphere carbon fluxes in a lowland peatland system. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18(1), GB1024, doi: 10.1029/2003GB002058
  • Palmer S. M., Driscoll C. T. and Johnson C. E. (2004). Long-term trends in soil solution and stream water chemistry at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: relationship with landscape position. Biogeochemistry 68(1), 51-70
  • Aitkenhead M. J., McDonald A. J. S., Dawson J.J., Couper G., Smart R. P., Billett M. F., Hope D. and Palmer S. (2003). A novel method for training neural networks for time-series prediction in environmental systems. Ecological Modelling 162: 87-95
  • Palmer S. M. and Driscoll C. T. (2002). Acidic deposition: Decline in mobilization of toxic aluminium. Nature 417, 242-243
  • Palmer S. M., Hope D., Billett M. F., Dawson J.J.C., and Bryant C. (2001). Sources of organic and inorganic carbon in a headwater stream: evidence from carbon isotope studies. Biogeochemistry 52(3), 321-338
  • Hope D., Palmer S. M., Billett M. F. and Dawson J. J.C. (2001). Carbon dioxide and methane evasion from a peatland stream. Fluxes and soil controls. Limnology and Oceanography 46(4), 847-857

Reports

  • Chapman, P. J., Palmer, S. M., Goslan, E., & Jarvis, P. (2011). Characterisation of dissolved organic carbon from two different ‘types’ of catchments at How Stean: Influence of soil depth and chemistry: Report for Yorkshire Water Services (R&D Project 09009). LEEDS: University of Leeds.
  • Holden, J., Chapman, P. J., Palmer, S. M., Kay, P., & Grayson, R. (2011). A review of moorland burning impacts on raw water quality with a focus on water colour.: Final report to Yorkshire Water Services, Project B4897. LEEDS: University of Leeds.

Book Chapters

  • Edwards A. C., Ron Vaz M. D., Porter (Palmer) S., and Ebbs L. (1996). Nutrient Cycling in Upland Catchment Areas: The Significance of Organic Forms of N and P. M. G. Anderson and S. M. Brooks (eds.), 'Advances in Hillslope Processes', Volume 1, 253-262, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons

Conference Abstract

  • Billett M. F., Dawson J. J., Hope D. and Palmer S. M. (2004). Carbon loss from peatlands: A UK perspective. Eos Transactions. AGU, 85(17), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract B31B-05
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