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Theme 2 Members
*Theme Leaders are: John Grace and Philipe Bayeve*
| Name; Institution | Research Interests |
| William Austin; St Andrews | Quaternary Environmental Change; North West European Shelf Sea Palaeoceanography; Tephrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating; Benthic Foraminifera as palaeoenvironmental indicators | Philipe Bayeve; Abertay | The environment fate and transport of engineered nanomaterials in subsurface environments and sand filters; The possible effects of these nanomaterials on the facilitated transport of soil-borne contaminants, be they organic or inorganic. |
| Michael Bird; St Andrews | The global carbon cycle on a range of timescales; Quaternary climate change records and their intersection with archaeology, geochronology and palaeoecology |
| James Bown; Abertay | The of computational modelling to link comlexity on different scales, with a particular focus in ecology and healthcare |
| Joanna Cloy; Edinburgh | Environmental geochemistry; Soil biogeochemistry; Heavy metal contaminants in the environment; Peat bogs; Characterisation of soil organic matter |
| Gordon Cook; SUERC | Natural & Man-made Radionuclides as Tracers of Environmental Processes; Environmental Geochemistry; Radioanalytical Chemistry |
| John Crawford; Abertay | Emergence of hierarchical organisation from complex networks of interactions in Ecosystems and complex cell networks |
| Mark Cutler; Dundee | Hyperspectral remote sensing for the extraction and estimation of biophysical and biochemical properties of vegetation and peat soils, particularly relating to tropical forest and UK upland environments. |
| Donald Davidson ; Stirling | Soil micromorphology with special reference to effects of past cultivation practices; legacy of contamination from manuring in the past; land evaluation techniques; computer mapping of soil properties; micromorphology; soil analysis for archaeology |
| Terry Dawson; Edinburgh | Complex systems; Climate change impacts on human-environment interactions; anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity, natural resources and conservation management; remote sensing and environmental modelling. |
| Ruth Doherty; Edinburgh | Coupled climate and atmospheric chemistry modelling; Climate variability - large scale climate indices - ENSO, NAO, IOD and their influence on regional climate; Climate change and variability effects on ecosystems and their uncertainty |
| John Farmer; Edinburgh | Environmental geochemistry; Speciation and behaviour of lead, arsenic, manganese, chromium, antimony, mercury and uranium; Contaminated sediments and soils, focusing on the particular topics of environmental change, biogeochemical processes, contaminated land, and human exposure. |
| Ruth Falconer; Abertay | Modelling community dynamics of fungi; Modelling urban sustainability indicators; Modelling network traffic flow; Visualization tools |
| John Grace; Edinburgh | Uptake of carbon dioxide by rain forests and savannas; the impact of vegetation on the atmosphere and climate change; upland microclimates and their impacts upon plants; effects of drought on plants and plant water relations; carbon sequestration by vegetation; long-term effects of environmental change upon forests; elevational limits of trees. |
| Margaret Graham; Edinburgh | |
| Ian Grieve; Stirling | The chemical composition of stream and soil waters with particular reference to dissolved organic carbon and the controls of organic matter; Soil structure and soil erosion with particular reference to upland soils. |
| Dimitri Grinev; Abertay | Biophysics of soil ecosystems; Architecture and function of biomaterials; X-ray tomography and neutron imaging; Self-organisation in reaction-diffusion systems; Microbial kinetics in porous media; Statistical physics of porous and granular media |
| Kate Heal; Edinburgh | Biogeochemical cycling; treatment of mine drainage in wetlands; sustainable urban drainage; hydrochemical processes in upland catchments. |
| David Hopkins; Stirling/SCRI | Interactions of genetically modified plants with soils; Soils of the Antarctic dry valleys; Recycling of residues from soil micro-organisms; Community development and land use on young volcanic soils. |
| Angus Mackenzie; SUERC | Radionuclides as tracers of environmental processes; Radioactive waste disposal; Radionuclide geochemistry; Natural decay series radionuclides as contaminants in non-nuclear industries; Radioanalytical chemistry. |
| Gillian MacKinnon; SUERC | |
| Tim Malthus; Edinburgh | Remote sensing; field spectroscopy; freshwater systems. Remote sensing for quantitative applications; high spectral resolution remote sensing; remote sensing of aquatic systems; Change detection in semi-natural vegetation. |
| Frank Mayle; Edinburgh | Quaternary palaeoecology of the humid tropics |
| Andy McLeod; Edinburgh | Global environmental change; environmental sustainability; impacts on stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation on ecosystems; air pollution; climate change; environmental change and sustainability |
| Patrick Meir; Edinburgh | Ecosystem science; carbon-water relationship of plants and ecosystems; terrestrial carbon cycle; tropical forests. |
| Maurizio Mencuccini; Edinburgh | Net ecosystem productivity of forest ecosystems; functional implications of architectural scaling in plants; tree-water relations; carbon stocks and fluxes; tree development and ageing; photosynthesis. |
| John Moncrieff; Edinburgh | Land-atmosphere exchange of radiately active gases (CO2 and CH4); transport and diffusion in the Planetary Boundary Layer. |
| Caroline Nichol; Edinburgh | The use of multi scale remote sensing (ground, airborne and satellite) for detecting seasonal changes in photosynthesis, light use efficiency and stress |
| Wilfred Otten; Abertay | The soil microenvironment; decomposition of organic matter and emission of greenhouse gases; fungal growth; The use of network models for invasion and persistence of organisms in heterogeneous soil environments |
| Genevieve Patenaude; Edinburgh | Forestry: function, diversity and structural complexities; influence of forests on climate. Remote sensing; Knowledge Transfer: Disseminating knowledge and expertise for policy making and private/public forestry sectors |
| Paul Palmer; Edinburgh | Modelling atmospheric chemistry, measuring and modelling biogenic voc fluxes, inverse modelling, and satellite remote sensing |
| David Reay; Edinburgh | Nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture; Methane oxidation in soils; Microbial ecology; Diffuse water pollution; Land use impacts on greenhouse gas fluxes; Carbon dioxide emission from soils and biomass; Global methane budgets; Science communication |
| Ian Simpson;Stirling | Soils, sediments and landscape history: Micromorphology; land resource utilisation and organisation by early societies; North Atlantic region; |
| Keith Smith; Edinburgh | Ecosystem/Atmosphere exchange of green house gases; Gains and losses of carbon by soils; Greenhouse gas emissions & land use practices; Oone depletion; Use of iron-rich materials to remove phosphate/heavy metals/arsenic from water. |
| Ed Stephens; St Andrews | Mineralogy & Geochemistry and Human Health; Biominerals and Environmental Change; Granite Petrogenesis; Analytical Methods |
| Susan Waldron; Glasgow | Biogeochemical cycles, especially carbon and within aquatic systems; Aplications of stable isotope analyses to biogeochemical cycling; Stoichiometry of natural systems; Continuous data-logging of water chemistry parameters. |
| Charles Warren; St Andrews | Dynamics & climatic sensitivity of lake-calving glaciers (Patagonia and Iceland); Aspects of Scottish environmental management, including the socio-economic implications of land use change, and environmental policy analysis. |
| Nia White; Abertay | The physiology, molecular biology, ecology and environmental control of Serpula lacrymans the dry rot fungus. |
| Mat Williams; Edinburgh | Vegetation-atmosphere gas exchange; interactions of carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles; primary productivity and plant allocation; ecosystem models and scaling; climate controls on vegetation distribution; data assimilation |
| Clare Wilson; Stirling | Geoarchaeology; Soil micromorphology and micro-analytical techniques; Knowledge transfer of geoarchaeological techniques and methods to field archaeologists. |
| Iain Woodhouse; Edinburgh | Radar Remote Sensing; Polar Decomposition Methods for Visualising SAR Data; Novel Visualisation Techniques for the Analysis of Multichannel Remote Sensing Data; DEM Generation and Regional Scale Geomorphology; Synergistic Remote Sensing of Vegetation; Macroecology and Telemacroscopics. |
| Philip Wookey; Stirling | Impacts of environmental change upon the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems; Biodiversity and ecosystem processes; Nutrient cycling, soil organic matter dynamics, and biogenic trace gas fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere. |
| Iain Young; Abertay | Biophysics of soil ecosystems; Architecture and function of biomaterials; X-ray tomography; Sensory Ecology of organisms; Global change and land use management; Biophysics of Sports Turf |