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Research

Research Interest 1

Earth's organic chemistry, focussing on marine and freshwater environments and linking with the geological and more recent past.

Research grants

Can we detect changes in Arctic ecosystems?

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2017 - March 2022

Controls over Oceanic Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS)

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2017 - March 2023

ATLAS (a Trans-Atlantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial management plan for Europe).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

May 2016 - October 2020

CROZET - surface water productivity, variability in export flux and deep-sea diversity - how are they linked?

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2005 - September 2008

Geomagnetism in the age of sail.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

October 2002 - December 2002

Twilight zone to deep-ocean floor. Developing an understanding of particle dynamics and trophic interactions using a molecular experimental approach

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2008 - September 2011

Trophic relationships of benthic fauna at the Oman Margin: the impact of mass jelly falls.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2008 - June 2009

Oceanic Seamounts: an Integrated Study (OASIS).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

December 2002 - November 2005

Hotspot ecosystem research on the margins of European seas (HERMES).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2005 - March 2009

The Altantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2002 - October 2006

Mechanics of earthquake triggering.

ROYAL SOCIETY

November 2000 - October 2004

Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study (ACES).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

March 2000 - February 2003

Environmental organic mass spectrometry in oceanography (ENORMASS).

HIGHER EDUCATION FUND COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND (UK)

January 1999 - December 2001

Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas (HERMIONE)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2009 - September 2012

Iron speciation in seawater.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

August 2004 - August 2007

Self-organisation in geomagnetic secular variation.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2004 - December 2007

A Molecular 135,000-year Record of Environmental Change from Lake Ohrid

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

March 2011 - February 2014

Benthic processes in the Arabian Sea: Interrelationships between the benthos, sediment biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2002 - December 2005

Transport and storage of nutrients, carbon and heat in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2005 - April 2009

Intact proteins in seawater.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

April 2002 - March 2003

Environmental controls on mound formation along the European margin (ECOMOUND).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2000 - March 2003

CaNDyFloSS: Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics and Fluxes over Shelf Systems

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2013 - March 2018