A5037434292- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Heavy metals in environment
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Risk Perception and Management
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Science, Research, and Medicine
Lancaster University
2004-2016
University of the Aegean
2013
Sands
2003-2004
Institute of Cancer Research
2004
Royal Lancaster Infirmary
2004
University of Cumbria
2003
University of Exeter
2001
University of Bayreuth
1998
Ricardo AEA (United Kingdom)
1997
Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners are constituents of flame retardants, and there is growing concern regarding their persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity. We collected breast milk samples between late 2001 early 2003 from 54 U.K.-resident mothers. Of these, 27 originated southeast England (London), the other northwest (Lancaster). Analysis milk-fat extracts by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was performed to determine levels 15 PBDE congeners, polychlorinated biphenyl...
In this study we explored the use of butter as a sampling matrix to reflect regional and global scale distribution PCBs selected organochlorine pesticides/metabolites in air. This was because persistent organic pollutants (POPs) concentrate dairy fats, where concentrations are controlled by feed intake (primarily from pasture/silage), which is turn primarily atmospheric deposition. Butter sigmaPCB varied factor approximately 60 63 samples 23 countries. They were highest European North...
Summary 1. There are increasing demands to predict ecohydrological responses future changes in catchments but such predictions will be inevitably uncertain because of natural variability and different sources knowledge (epistemic) uncertainty. 2. Policy setting decision‐making should therefore reflect these inherent uncertainties both model potential consequences. 3. This is the focus a U.K. Natural Environment Research Council exchange project called Catchment Change Network (CCN). The aim...
Ambient air concentrations at London and Manchester are reported for PCBs, PAHs, PCDD/Fs from 1991 to 1995. This data set suggests that urban PAH trending downward in the U.K. ∑PCB (∑ = congeners 28, 52, 101, 118, 138, 153, 180) were usually ∼0.2−2 ng m-3 over study period, with of seven PCB (∑PCB) generally 2−3 times higher than Manchester. have remained quite stable year-on-year period. PCDD/F trends two sites similar, a decline through 1991−1994, followed by an upturn Summer:winter...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTLong-term changes in the polychlorinated biphenyl content of United Kingdom soilsR. E. Alcock, A. Johnston, S. P. McGrath, M. L. Berrow, and Kevin C. JonesCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 1993, 27, 9, 1918–1923Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1993Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1993https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es00046a022https://doi.org/10.1021/es00046a022research-articleACS PublicationsRequest...
The United Kingdom is used as a study area in which to examine (i) the relationship between primary and potential secondary emissions of PCDD/Fs; (ii) balance atmospheric deposition; (iii) contemporary environmental burden PCDD/Fs possible historical input profiles. This critical review exercise seen an important aid identifying gaps knowledge research needs directing scientifically sound strategy for PCDD/F risk reduction. paper focuses on two key compartments, air soil, these play role...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTContamination of Environmental Samples Prepared for PCB AnalysisRuth E. Alcock, Crispin J. Halsall, Catherine A. Harris, Johnston, Wendy Lead, Gordon. Sanders, and Kevin C. JonesCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 1994, 28, 11, 1838–1842Publication Date (Print):October 1, 1994Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 October 1994https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es00060a013https://doi.org/10.1021/es00060a013research-articleACS...
Abstract Digested sludge was applied to plowed arable and pasture grassland plots losses of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dibenzo‐ p ‐dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), chlorophenols (CPs) monitored over 260 d. Sludge addition increased soil concentrations all in the plot. VOCs, PCBs, CPs declined control plot values within 128 d amendment. Volatilization biodegradation were considered important loss processes for these compounds. However,...
Abstract Generic or site‐specific soil‐quality limits for organic contaminants have been adopted proposed in various countries an effort to control assess contamination. The most comprehensive generic limits, established the Netherlands, distinguish between background concentrations naturally occurring substances and analytical detection man‐made compounds (target values) threshold above which remediation may be necessary (intervention values). These are being employed highlight contaminated...
Abstract This article explores the nature of calls for risk‐based policy present in expert discourse from a cultural theory perspective. Semi‐structured interviews with professionals engaged research and management livestock disease control provide data reading proposing that real basis relating to socio‐technical hazards is deeply political cannot be purified through ‘escape routes’ objectivity. Scientists risk managers are shown calling, on one hand, approaches while other acknowledging...