Dr Julian Andrews

Short CV

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:
  • 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 a new ways of attempting to reconstruct terrestrial palaeoclimates during the last 10,000 years. Elizabeth Garnett (research student) is currently studying stable isotope records and trace element concentrations in selected early Holocene British tufas.
  • Cretaceous palaeoatmospheres, calcretes and food sources for dinosaurs using carbon isotopes in fossil soils and organic matter. Collaborative work with Prof. S.K. Tandon (University of Delhi) working on the Lameta Beds of central India and with Stuart Robinson (research student at the University of Oxford) and others on the Wealden of southern Britain.
  • Organic carbon storage, and its relationship to nutrients and metal contamination in coastal sediments. Between 1994-2000 my interests were primarily directed toward the Humber Estuary, funded under the NERC LOIS community project. Dr. Greg Samways was the PDRA on this project and 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 (research student) is continuing this work, looking at the coastal margin south of the Humber (Lincolnshire-Suffolk). 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-beneifit analysis and economic impacts.
  • Collaborative reseach with Dr. Tony Greenaway (Chemistry Deptartment, University of the West Indies) and Dr. Paul Dennis (UEA), using carbon isotopes to trace pollutant sources in harbour sediments (Kingston Jamaica). This work began as part of a British Council funded link between Environmental Chemists at UEA ENV and the Chemistry Deptartment at the University of the West Indies. Subsequent work has been funding by NERC.
  • Sedimentological, geochemical and hydrogeological interests in the sedimentary history of the north Norfolk barrier coastline and its has reponse to Holocene sealevel change. New work with Dr. Kevin Hiscock and Adrian Green is exploring the hydrogeological flux through this coastal zone and its potential impact on nutrient transport and cycling. Collaboration with Dr. Andy Jones and Simon Jude (reserach student) is exploring new ways of applying GIS techniques to the visualisation of future coastal zone scenarios.
  • Early diagenesis of lagoonal, peritidal, lacustrine and terrestrial carbonate sediments and rocks. Current collaborative research with Prof. Mike Leeder and research student Clive Portman, is aimed at dating and understanding the origin of enigmatic late Pleistocene non-marine bioherms in the Gulf of Corinth. Work with Dr. Mark Hounslow and Paulette Posen (Leverhulme funded RA) is focussed on high resolution analysis of late Triassic carbonates 'lacustrine-soil zone' carbonates in SW Britain. We hope that new stable isotope data combined with magnetostratigraphy might yield valuable palaeoclimatic infomation.

    Teaching Interests

    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 .
    Dr. J.E. Andrews,

    School of Environmental Sciences,
    University of East Anglia,
    Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

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