A5067663137- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Viral-associated cancers and disorders
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Aeolian processes and effects
Lancaster University
2012-2024
Ludong University
2021
University of Glasgow
1995-2020
John Muir Health
2020
University of California, Davis
2020
Institute of the Environment
2020
Lancaster University Ghana
2015
University of Leeds
2007-2011
Blood Cancer UK
1995-2000
National Cancer Institute
1997
Increasing energy demands and the drive towards low carbon (C) sources has prompted a rapid increase in ground-mounted solar parks across world. This represents significant global land use change with implications for hosting ecosystems that are poorly understood. In order to investigate effects of typical park on microclimate ecosystem processes, we measured soil air microclimate, vegetation greenhouse gas emissions twelve months under photovoltaic (PV) arrays, gaps between PV arrays...
Global energy demand is increasing as greenhouse gas driven climate change progresses, making renewable sources critical to future sustainable power provision. Land-based wind and solar electricity generation technologies are rapidly expanding, yet our understanding of their operational effects on biological carbon cycling in hosting ecosystems limited. Wind turbines photovoltaic panels can significantly local ground-level by a magnitude that could affect the fundamental plant-soil processes...
Floating solar photovoltaics, or floatovoltaics (FPV), are a relatively new form of renewable energy, currently experiencing rapid growth in deployment. FPV decarbonises the energy supply while reducing land-use pressures, offers higher electricity generating efficiencies compared to ground-based systems and reduces water body evaporation. However, effects on lake temperature stratification both sheltering water's surface from wind limiting radiation reaching column unresolved, despite being...
Floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) installations are increasing globally. However, their interaction with the hosting water body and implications for ecosystem function is poorly understood. Understanding potential impacts critical as bodies provide many services on which humans rely integral delivering United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here, we used scientific evidence from a systematic review stakeholder expertise, captured through an international survey workshop,...
Abstract There is increasing land use change for solar parks and growing recognition that they could be used to support insect pollinators. However, understanding of pollinator response park developments limited empirical data are lacking. We combine field observations with landcover quantify the impact on‐site floral resources surrounding landscape characteristics on abundance species richness. surveyed pollinators flowering plants at 15 across England in 2021, a map assess high‐quality...
A UK population-based case-control study of Hodgkin's disease (HD) in young adults (16-24 years) included 118 cases and 237 controls matched on year birth, gender county residence. The majority (103) the were classified by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) status (EBV present Reed-Stenberg cells), with 19 being EBV-positive. Analyses using conditional logistic regression are presented subject reports prior infectious (infectious mononucleosis (IM), chicken pox, measles, mumps, pertussis rubella). In...
Abstract Soil erosion due to rainfall and overland flow is a significant environmental problem. Studying the phenomenon requires accurate high‐resolution measurements of soil surface topography morphology. Close range digital photogrammetry with an oblique convergent configuration proposed in this paper as useful technique for such measurements, context flume‐scale experimental study. The precision assessed by comparing triangulation solutions resulting DEMs varying tie point distributions...
The number of ground-mounted solar parks is increasing across the world in response to energy decarbonisation. Solar offer an opportunity deliver ecosystem co-benefits but there also a risk that their development and operation may be detrimental ecosystems. Consequently, we created Park Impacts on Ecosystem Services (SPIES) decision-support tool (DST) provide evidence-based insight impacts different park management practices services. SPIES DST underpinned by 704 pieces evidence from 457...
Floating photovoltaic solar energy installations (FPVs) represent a new type of water surface use, potentially sparing land needed for agriculture and conservation. However, standardized metrics the resource use efficiencies FPVs are absent. These critical to understanding environmental ecological impacts that may exhibit. Here, we compared techno-hydrological spatial attributes four spanning different climatic regimes. Next, defined quantified efficiency (WSUE) each FPV. Lastly, coined...
Renewable power capacity is increasing globally in response to energy decarbonisation, with solar photovoltaic (PV) projected be the dominant renewable. A significant proportion of PV deployed as ground-mounted parks potential implications for hosting ecosystem. Given their relatively rapid introduction, impacts on land use and local environment are poorly understood. However, if managed strategically, could offer unique opportunities enhance benefit biodiversity, ecosystem components such...
Abstract The urgency to mitigate the effects of climate change necessitates an unprecedented global deployment offshore renewable-energy technologies mainly including wind, tidal stream, wave energy, and floating solar photovoltaic. To achieve energy demand for terawatt-hours, infrastructure such will require a large spatial footprint. Accommodating this footprint rapid landscape evolution, ideally within two decades. For instance, United Kingdom has committed deploying 50 GW wind by 2030...
Abstract As climate change progresses, there is increasing emphasis on net zero and energy system decarbonization. Several technologies are contributing to this agenda, but among these, the growth of solar photovoltaics has consistently exceeded all projections. With land-use pressures, expense building-mounted photovoltaics, water surfaces increasingly being exploited host these technologies. However, date, we lack an understanding global potential floating and, as such, do not yet have...
We have determined that three type-specific and conformationally dependent monoclonal antibodies, H16.E70, H16.U4, H16.V5, neutralize pseudotype human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) virions in vitro. H16.U4 H16.V5 neutralized derived from the German HPV16 variant 114K Zairian Z-1194 with equal efficiency. In contrast, neutralization of by H16.E70 was two orders magnitude weaker than virions. This difference correlated enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay reactivity to L1 virus-like particles...
Soil erosion and the associated nutrient fluxes can lead to severe degradation of surface waters. Given that both sediment transport sorption are size selective, it is important predict particle distribution (PSD) as well total amount being eroded. In this paper, a finite volume implementation Hairsine‐Rose soil model used simulate flume‐scale experiments with detailed observations dynamics. The numerical allows us account for effects microtopography (measured using close range...