【Topic】：Opportunities for research and study in Environmental Science at the University of Manchester

【Speaker】：Kevin Taylor University of Manchester

【Time】：18:30—19:40 on 11.29,2016

【Place】：A01-N303

【Profile】

Professor Kevin Taylor is Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Science. He has published more than 70 publications on Earth Science and Environmental Science, and has supervised >35 PhD students, including Chinese CSC students and visitors.

 

Selected research publications from Professor Taylor:

Byrne, P., Taylor, K.G, Hudson-Edwards, K and Barrett, J. (2016). Speciation and potential long-term behaviour of chromium in urban sediment particulates. Journal of Soil and Sediments,DOI 10.1007/s11368-016-1558-3

Taylor, K.G. and Konhauser, K.O. (2011). Iron in Earth surface systems: a major player in chemical and biological processes. Elements, 7, 83-88.

Rothwell, J,J., Taylor, K.G., Chenery, SRN, Cundy, AB, Evans, M.G. and Allott, T.E.H. (2010) Storage and behaviour of As, Sb, Pb and Cu in ombrotrophic peat bogs under contrasting water table conditions. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 8497-8502

Barrett, J., Taylor, K.G., Hudson-Edwards, K.A., Charnock, J.M. (2010). Solid-phase speciation of Pb in urban road dust sediment: a XANES and EXAFS study. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2940-2946.

Taylor, K.G. and Owens, P.N. (2009) Sediments in urban river basins: a review of sediment-contaminant dynamics in an environmental system conditioned by human activities.Journal of Soils and Sediments, 9, 281-303.

Taylor, K.G., Hudson-Edwards, K.A., Bennett, A.J., Vishnyakov, V. (2008) Early diagenetic vivianite [Fe3(PO4)2.8H2O] in a contaminated freshwater sediment and insights into zinc uptake: a micro-EXAFS, micro-XANES and Raman study. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 1623-1633.

Robertson, D.,Taylor, K.G.& Hoon, S.R. (2003) Geochemical and mineral magnetic characterisation of urban sediment particulates. Applied Geochemistry, 18, 269-282.