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Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus (2015)
Book Chapter
Jonas, A. E. (2015). Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus. In J. Cidell, & D. Prytherch (Eds.), Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space (281-293). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709680

Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary cit... Read More about Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus.

Mobile transitions : exploring synergies for urban sustainability research (2015)
Journal Article
Affolderbach, J., & Schulz, C. (2016). Mobile transitions : exploring synergies for urban sustainability research. Urban studies, 53(9), 1942-1957. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015583784

Urban sustainability approaches focusing on a wide range of topics such as infrastructure and mobility, green construction and neighbourhood planning, or urban nature and green amenities have attracted scholarly interest for over three decades. Recen... Read More about Mobile transitions : exploring synergies for urban sustainability research.

Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel) (2015)
Journal Article
Houk, V., Reed, J. M., Cvetkoska, A., Houk, V., Van De Vijver, B., & Vossel, H. (2015). Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel). Fottea : journal of the Czech Phycological Society, 15(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.5507/fot.2015.006

© Czech Phycological Society (2015). Large, subfossil populations of an unknown centric, planktonic diatom were observed in a lake sediment core from Lake Kinneret (Israel), which is here described as Cyclotella paleo–ocellata sp. nov. The new taxon,... Read More about Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel).

The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body (2015)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., & Morris, C. (2015). The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body. In E. Straughan, & H. Hawkins (Eds.), Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (267-281). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584355-20

Farmed animals have long been the subject of aesthetic appreciation. They are valued for their particular contribution to the aesthetics of agricultural landscapes and can act as important visual signifiers of geographical locality (Evans and Yarwood... Read More about The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body.

A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA (2015)
Journal Article
Egan, J., Staff, R., & Blackford, J. (2015). A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA. Holocene, 25(7), 1054-1067. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615576230

© The Author(s) 2015 The climactic eruption of Mount Mazama in Oregon, North America, resulted in the deposition of the most widespread Holocene tephra deposit in the conterminous United States and south-western Canada. The tephra forms an isochronou... Read More about A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA.

Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter (2015)
Journal Article
Lockwood, C. L., Stewart, D. I., Mortimer, R. J. G., Mayes, W., Jarvis, A. P., Gruiz, K., & Burke, I. T. (2015). Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter. Environmental science and pollution research, 22(14), 10800-10810. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4282-4

Red mud is a highly alkaline (pH >12) waste product from bauxite ore processing. The red mud spill at Ajka, Hungary, in 2010 released 1 million m3 of caustic red mud into the surrounding area with devastating results. Aerobic and anaerobic batch expe... Read More about Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter.

Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, A., Rogerson, M., Greenway, G., & Mayes, W. M. (2015). Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments. Mine Water and the Environment, 34(3), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-015-0325-9

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. We present results from in vitro flask and flume experiments using freshwater biofilms sourced and cultivated from a mine-impacted stream in North Yorkshire, UK. Flask experiments showed rapid uptake of Zn f... Read More about Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments.

Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen (2015)
Journal Article
Schulz, C., & Affolderbach, J. (2015). Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen. Geographische Rundschau, 67(5), 4-9

Green New Deal, Green Economy, Nachhaltiges Wachstum - sind einige der zentralem Schlagworte, die derzeit Hochkonjunktur in politischen Programmen und medialen Debatten haben, und immer häufiger auch zum Forschungsgegenstand der Geographie werden. Di... Read More about Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen.

From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology (2015)
Journal Article
Deutz, P., & Ioppolo, G. (2015). From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology. Sustainability, 7(2), 2259-2273. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7022259

Industrial ecology introduced a new paradigm of principles and tools useful to academic analysis and decision support activities for industry and policymakers. This paper presents a view of the state of the art of industrial ecology, encompassing the... Read More about From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology.

Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK (2015)
Journal Article
McCarroll, J., Chambers, F., Webb, J., & Thom, T. (2017). Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK. Quaternary International, 432, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.068

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA In a recent discussion of research priorities for palaeoecology, it was suggested that palaeoecological data can be applied and used to inform nature conservation practice. The present study exemplifies this approach and... Read More about Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK.

The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture (2015)
Journal Article
Mason, R. (2015). The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture. Wesley and Methodist Studies, 7(1), 78-99. https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.7.1.0078

F. J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture as Appropriate to the Buildings of Nonconformists (1850) has conventionally been used to demonstrate the architectural patterns of nineteenth-century Wesleyan chapels. However, this emphasis has overlooke... Read More about The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture.

Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration (2014)
Journal Article
Skinner, C. J., Bellerby, T. J., Greatrex, H., & Grimes, D. I. (2015). Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration. Journal of hydrology, 522(March), 110-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.052

The potential for satellite rainfall estimates to drive hydrological models has been long understood, but at the high spatial and temporal resolutions often required by these models the uncertainties in satellite rainfall inputs are both significant... Read More about Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration.

Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present (2014)
Journal Article
Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Reed, J. M., Wagner, B., Panagiotopoulos, K., Leng, M. J., & Lacey, J. H. (2015). Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present. Journal of paleolimnology, 53(2), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-014-9821-3

Lake Prespa, in the Balkans, contains an important palaeo-archive in a key location for understanding Quaternary climate variability in the transition between Mediterranean and central European climate zones. Previous palaeoenvironmental research on... Read More about Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present.

Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment (2014)
Journal Article
Atkinson, L. J., Sherlock, D. J., & Atkin, O. K. (2015). Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment. Plant, Cell and Environment, 38(6), 1023-1034. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12460

To determine (1) whether acclimation of carbon metabolism to low temperatures results in recovery of the relative growth rate (RGR) of plants in the cold and (2) the source of N underpinning cold-acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana, we supplied plant... Read More about Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment.

Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Reed, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., & Levkov, Z. (2014). Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece). Quaternary science reviews, 103(1), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.004

The juncture between the west-east and north-south contrasting Holocene climatic domains across the Mediterranean is complex and poorly understood. Diatom analysis of Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) provides a new insight into lake levels... Read More about Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece).

Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey (2014)
Journal Article
Dean, J. R., Eastwood, W. J., Roberts, N., Jones, M. D., Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H., Allcock, S. L., …Leng, M. J. (2015). Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey. Journal of hydrology, 529(Part 2), 608-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.004

Palaeo-hydrological interpretations of lake sediment proxies can benefit from a robust understanding of the modern lake environment. In this study, we use Nar Gölü, a non-outlet, monomictic maar lake in central Turkey, as a field site for a natural e... Read More about Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey.

Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions (2014)
Journal Article
Lockwood, C. L., Mortimer, R. J., Stewart, D. I., Mayes, W. M., Peacock, C. L., Polya, D. A., …Burke, I. T. (2014). Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions. Applied geochemistry : journal of the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, 51(December), 268-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.10.009

The tailings dam breach at the Ajka alumina plant, western Hungary in 2010 introduced ∼1 million m³ of red mud suspension into the surrounding area. Red mud (fine fraction bauxite residue) has a characteristically alkaline pH and contains several pot... Read More about Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions.

WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999' (2014)
Journal Article
Remesan, R., Bellerby, T., Holman, I., & Frostick, L. (2015). WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999'. Theoretical and applied climatology, 122(1-2), 229-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-014-1282-0

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Wien. Numerical weather modelling has gained considerable attention in the field of hydrology especially in un-gauged catchments and in conjunction with distributed models. As a consequence, the accuracy with which these model... Read More about WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999'.

Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary (2014)
Journal Article
Anton, Á. D., Klebercz, O., Magyar, Á., Burke, I. T., Jarvis, A. P., Gruiz, K., & Mayes, W. M. (2014). Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary. Environmental science--processes & impacts, 16(12), 2677-2685. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4em00452c

The failure of the Ajka red mud depository in October 2010 led to the largest single release of red mud into the surface water environment. This study provides a comparative assessment of stream sediment quality in the Torna–Marcal–Rába catchment bet... Read More about Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary.

The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands (2014)
Journal Article
Younger, P. L., & Mayes, W. M. (2015). The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands. Mine Water and the Environment, 34(1), 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-014-0293-5

Abandoned surface mine voids are often left to flood, forming pit lakes. Drawing simple but important lessons from experiences with compost-based passive remediation systems for acidic mine waters, an alternative end-use for open pit mine voids is pr... Read More about The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands.