Current Post: Professor and Head of School

Room Number: S0.36

Telephone: 01603 592536 (+44 1603 592536)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: j.andrews@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Head of School

Research Interests

Low temperature geochemistry; sedimentology and diagenesis of sediments and sedimentary rocks; carbonate sediments, coastal and estuarine palaeoenvironments; stable isotope geochemistry; palaeoclimatology.


Biography

My principal research areas use geochemical information, particularly stable isotopes, in the reconstruction of environmental and climatic conditions, and the local cycling of elements that impact society (such as carbon, nutrient and contaminant metals). My research covers long temporal scales including modern environments, the recent geological past (Quaternary) and deeper geological time. My research has recently focused on three themes:

1. Stable isotope records in terrestrial calcium carbonate deposits (tufas, stromatolites, cave deposits etc.) as ways of reconstructing, validating and dating terrestrial palaeoclimatic events over the last 200,000 years. I am currently working on suitable sites in the UK, Greece, Turkey, Iran, and India.

2. Geochemistry of carbonate sediments as indicators of global sea level and wider palaeoenvironmental change in the Quaternary Oceans. With Prof. M. Leeder and Dr P. Rowe (both UEA), we are unravelling the sedimentological record of sea level change during the last interglacial, principally in the uplifting coastlines of central Greece. The complex details of these rapid sea-level (and climatic) events are constrained by U series dating and fit into global models for non-orbitally forced sea level changes during the penultimate glacial/interglacial cycle.

3. The role of estuaries as stores and reactors of various material and chemical components (organic carbon, nutrient elements N and P, contaminant metals (As, Pb, Cu, Zn) and S. This work started with Prof. Tim Jickells (UEA) as part of the NERC LOIS (Land Ocean Interaction Study) and has continued with EU framework V funding (coordinated by Prof. K. Turner UEA). Recently we have modelled the effects of various management options in estuaries (managed realignment, discharge practices etc) and linked these to social and economic implications under a range of future scenarios.
 

Significant Publications

• Brasier, A.T., Andrews, J.E. & Kendall, A.C.  (2011) Diagenesis or dire genesis? The origin of columnar spar in tufa stromatolites of central Greece and the role of chironomid larvae. Sedimentology , 58, 1283-1302. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01208.x
• Fisher, B., Bradbury, R.B., Andrews, J.E., Ausden, M., Bentham-Green, S., White S. & GillL, J. (2011) Impacts of species-led conservation on ecosystem services of wetlands: under-standing co-benefits and tradeoffs. Biodiversity and Conservation, doi: 10.1007/s10531-011-9998-y
• Brasier, A.T., Andrews, J.E., Marca-Bell, A., & Dennis, P.F. (2010) Depositional continuity of seasonally laminated tufas: implications for δ18O based palaeotemperatures. Global and Planetary Change, 71, 160-167. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.022
• Andrews, J.E., Samways, G., Shimmield, G.B. (2008) Historical storage budgets of organic carbon, nutrient and contaminant elements in saltmarsh sediments: biogeochemical context for managed realignment, Humber Estuary, UK. Science of the Total Environment, 405, 1-13. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.044
• Andrews, J.E., Portman, C., Rowe, P.J., Leeder, M.R. & Kramers, J.D. (2007) Sub-Orbital sea-level change early in MIS 5e: new evidence from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 259, 457-468. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.005
• Andrews, J.E., Burgess, D., Cave, R.R., Coombes, E.G., Jickells, T.D., Parks, D. J. & Turner, R.K. (2006) Biogeochemical value of managed realignment, Humber estuary, UK. Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.08.021
  

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