Short CV 
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Undergraduate student in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., 1978-1981
Ph.D student in the Department of Geology, University of Leicester, U.K., 1981-1984 -
Ph.D. Thesis title: Aspects of Sedimentary Facies and Diagenesis in Limestone-Shale Formations of the (Middle Jurassic) Great Estuarine Group, Inner Hebrides
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Lecturer in Sedimentary Geochemistry at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., since August 1986
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Professor in Environmental Sciences at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., since August 2006
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1994-1998 principal editor of Sedimentology, the journal of the International Association of Sedimentologists
Since 1993 editor of Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk the journal of The Geological Society of Norfolk
Current research Interests
My research interests and publications centre on using stable isotopes and sedimentary geochemistry to investigate palaeoenvironmental problems on both human and geological timescales. Current active research includes:
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Stable isotope records in terrestrial cyanobacterial freshwater carbonates and tufas. Collaboration with Dr. Robert Riding (University College Cardiff), Dr. Richard Preece (University of Cambridge), Dr. Martyn Pedley (University of Hull) and Dr. Paul Dennis (UEA Stable Isotope Laboratory) is leading to new ways of attempting to reconstruct terrestrial palaeoclimates during the last 10,000 years.
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Organic carbon storage, and its relationship to nutrients and metal contamination in coastal sediments. Since the mid 1990s my interests were primarily directed toward the Humber Estuary, funded under the NERC LOIS community project. The underlying rationale was to understand how organic matter storage and nutrient assimilation in estuaries varied with sealevel change and reclamation history. Our results are helping to understand carbon cycling at the land/ocean margin. Duncan Parkes and Chris Adams (research students) have continued this work, looking at the coastal margin south of the Humber (Lincolnshire-Essex) with special reference to managed retreat sites. Future funding is anticipated from NERC and the EU for collaborative funding with Prof. Tim Jickells and Prof. Kerry Turner to combine the physical science work with improved modelling, cost-benefit analysis and economic impacts.
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Sedimentological, geochemical and hydrogeological interests in the sedimentary history of the north Norfolk barrier coastline and its reponse to Holocene sealevel change. Work with Dr. Kevin Hiscock is exploring the hydrogeological flux through this coastal zone and its potential impact on nutrient transport and cycling. Collaboration with Dr. Andy Jones and Dr. Simon Jude is exploring new ways of applying GIS techniques to the visualisation of future coastal zone scenarios.
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Early diagenesis and geochemistry of lagoonal, peritidal, lacustrine and terrestrial carbonate sediments and rocks. Current collaborative research with Prof. Mike Leeder and Dr. Peter Rowe, and research students Clive Portman, Jenni Smith, Alex Brasier and Jenni Mason is aimed at dating and understanding the origin of palaeoclimatic changes in Greece and Turkey over the last 250 000 years., principally from tufa and speleothem records.
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Wider geochemical interests include elemental analysis of marine carbonates (e.g. Mg/Ca ratios in foraminfera tests), clay mineralogy and diagenesis of the Pleistocene West Runton Freshwater Bed and the Lynford organic deposits in Norfolk, isotopic and elemental analysis of Triassic red bed sediments (with research student Gemma bates).
Teaching Interests
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Global geochemical cycling
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Sedimentary geochemistry
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Environmental Chemistry
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Sedimentology
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Hydrochemistry
Teachers of environmental chemistry in the School have recently published the second edition of the following title: Andrews, J.E., Brimblecombe, P., Jickells, T.D., Liss, P.S. & Reid, B An Introduction to Environmental Chemistry 2nd Ed., (2004) Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 320pp, ISBN 0-632-05905-2.
Professor J.E. Andrews
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
Tel +44 (0)1603 592536
Fax +44 (0)1603 591327
Email J.Andrews@uea.ac.uk
