The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review. Earth-Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103985

Tracing ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism of crustal rocks through the geological record is a key for understanding the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth due to the linkage with deep subduction processes. Until recently, UHP research was almo... Read More about The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review.

Standardised bioassays reveal that mosquitoes learn to avoid compounds used in chemical vector control after a single sub-lethal exposure. (2022)
Journal Article
Sougoufara, S., Yorkston-Dives, H., Masyirah Aklee, N., Che Rus, A., Zairi, J., & Tripet, F. (2022). Standardised bioassays reveal that mosquitoes learn to avoid compounds used in chemical vector control after a single sub-lethal exposure. Scientific reports, 2206 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05754-2

Vector-borne diseases are worldwide public health issues. Despite research focused on vectorial capacity determinants in pathogen transmitting mosquitoes, their behavioural plasticity remains poorly understood. Memory and associative learning have be... Read More about Standardised bioassays reveal that mosquitoes learn to avoid compounds used in chemical vector control after a single sub-lethal exposure..

A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK (2022)
Journal Article
Cassidy, N. J., Egan, S. S., Griffiths, D., & Brown, C. S. (2022). A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 55(3), Article qjegh2021-131. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2021-131

Deep hot sedimentary aquifers (HSAs) are targeted for geothermal exploitation in the Cheshire Basin, UK. In this study, a single extraction well targeting the Collyhurst Sandstone Formation was modelled on MATLAB coupling heat and fluid flux. The Col... Read More about A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK.

Biographical Consequences of Environmental Activism (2022)
Book Chapter
Vestergren, S., & Drury, J. (2022). Biographical Consequences of Environmental Activism. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855680-38

This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field.

Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier (vol 176, 98, 2021) (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier (vol 176, 98, 2021). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01873-7

Localized bank collapse or regional event? (2021)
Journal Article
Leslie, A., Regis, A., Clarke, S., Priddy, C., & Dodd, T. (2021). Localized bank collapse or regional event?. https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v8.pp27-44

<jats:p>This study presents a detailed synopsis of the sedimentological and structural features displayed within an underdescribed enigmatic facies observed in the basal Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of the Colorado Plateau. The facies comprises p... Read More about Localized bank collapse or regional event?.

The Potential for a Released Autosomal X-Shredder Becoming a Driving-Y Chromosome and Invasively Suppressing Wild Populations of Malaria Mosquitoes (2021)
Journal Article
Alcalay, Y., Fuchs, S., Galizi, R., Bernardini, F., Elaine Haghighat-Khah, R., Rusch, D. B., Adrion, J. R., Hahn, M. W., Tortosa, P., Rotenberry, R., & Aris Papathanos, P. (2021). The Potential for a Released Autosomal X-Shredder Becoming a Driving-Y Chromosome and Invasively Suppressing Wild Populations of Malaria Mosquitoes. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.752253

Sex-ratio distorters based on X-chromosome shredding are more efficient than sterile male releases for population suppression. X-shredding is a form of sex distortion that skews spermatogenesis of XY males towards the preferential transmission of Y-b... Read More about The Potential for a Released Autosomal X-Shredder Becoming a Driving-Y Chromosome and Invasively Suppressing Wild Populations of Malaria Mosquitoes.

‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation (2021)
Journal Article
Howell, L. P., Priddy, C., Mitten, A. J., Jeffery, A. J., Egan, S. S., Leslie, G., Pettigrew, R. P., Clarke, S. M., & Kearsey, T. I. (2021). ‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(4), jgs2021 - 083. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-083

The block and basin tectonostratigraphic framework for the northern Pennine (rift) Basin, within which buoyant granite intrusions core intra-basin fault-bounded blocks, has long held traction. However, many of the elements of this framework are roote... Read More about ‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation.

Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones (2021)
Journal Article
Grodner, M., Clarke, S., burley, S., Leslie, G., & Haslam, R. (2021). Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones. Journal of Structural Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104468

Fractures in limestones of the Palaeocene Lockhart Formation in the hanging wall of the Himalayan Main Boundary Thrust north of Islamabad are examined, and the data analysed using a combination of topology and fractal dimension to characterise fractu... Read More about Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones.

Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01854-w

The major-element chemical composition of garnet provides valuable petrogenetic information, particularly in metamorphic rocks. When facing detrital garnet, information about the bulk-rock composition and mineral paragenesis of the initial garnet-bea... Read More about Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier.

Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics (2021)
Journal Article
Law, A. (2021). Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2021.100038

Plastic pollution is abundant in aquatic environments worldwide and many of its detrimental impacts are well documented, but it also represents a novel substrate available to a diversity of organisms. Biofilms – assemblages of bacteria, algae, and fu... Read More about Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics.

Applying analytical chemistry techniques to the characterisation of mine spoils and assessing treatments for minimising their environmental impacts (2021)
Thesis
Alhar, M. A. M. Applying analytical chemistry techniques to the characterisation of mine spoils and assessing treatments for minimising their environmental impacts. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/421282

Mining activities can leave a legacy of contamination with the potential to threaten the wider environment and human health. This is particularly so with historic mines that pre-date modern restoration and environmental protection measures. This stud... Read More about Applying analytical chemistry techniques to the characterisation of mine spoils and assessing treatments for minimising their environmental impacts.

Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed (2021)
Journal Article
Montenari, Korn, D., & Montenari, M. (2023). Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 97(4), 761-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00577-4

Abstract The Protocanites Beds of the Black Forest Massif (Germany) form an important lithostratigraphic key bed, as the index fossils contained in this formation enable correlation within large areas of the internal Zone of the central Variscan Belt... Read More about Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed.

Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, J., Covaci, A., Roberts, J., Sobhy, I., Kirk, W., & Bruce, T. (2021). Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. Frontiers in Plant Science, 711896 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.711896

There is a need to develop new ways of protecting plants against aphid attack. Here, we investigated the effect of a plant defence activator, cis-jasmone (CJ), in a range of cultivars of Brassica napus, Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Plants wer... Read More about Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae..

Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation (2021)
Journal Article
Arab, K., Thompson, D., & Oliver, I. (2021). Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03674-8

Drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) are wastes generated when water is clarified using aluminium or iron salts. They are increasingly being considered as a resource with potential reuse value, particularly in relation to soil or water remediati... Read More about Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation.

Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.21252/70xz-yc73

The Indian government is yet to achieve the goal of providing electricity to schools all over the country, and the illiteracy rate seems to emerge from the schools with inadequate infrastructure. Rural schools do not have access to electricity due to... Read More about Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review.

The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium (2021)
Journal Article
Smeaton, C., Cui, X., Bianchi, T., Cage, A., Howe, J., & Austin, W. (2021). The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1- 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107081

Fjord sediments are recognized as hotspots for the burial and storage of organic carbon, yet little is known about the long-term drivers of significant terrestrial organic carbon (OC) transfers into these coastal carbon stores. The mid-latitude fjord... Read More about The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium.

Evolutionary ecology: Plant volatile profile changes after escaping specialist insects. (2021)
Journal Article
Sobhy, I., & Bruce, T. (2021). Evolutionary ecology: Plant volatile profile changes after escaping specialist insects. Current Biology, R969 - R971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.043

Considerable debate surrounds the role of plant volatiles in plant defence against insects. A new study provides evidence for evolutionary changes in an invasive plant that support the defensive role of plant volatiles.

Plastics talk/talking plastics: the communicative power of plasticity (2021)
Book Chapter
McKay. (2021). Plastics talk/talking plastics: the communicative power of plasticity. In Plastic Legacies Pollution, Persistence, and Politics (225-244). https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01

Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use. (2021)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., Schiffner, I., Price, E., Charnell-Hughes, M., Kishkinev, D., & Holland, R. A. (2021). Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use. Animal Behaviour, 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.004

Recent research into the navigational strategies of homing pigeons (Columba livia) inthe familiar area has highlighted the phenomenon of route fidelity – birds formingidiosyncratic flight paths to which they are loyal over multiple releases from the... Read More about Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use..