Dr Bernard Dudley

Environmental Chemist

Research interests

Current Research

Long-term monitoring of Loch Leven

The EU WISER project

European Aquatic Plants Taxa List

River Tay Research

I am leading a project which surveys the River Tay and its estuary at least quarterly by boat, sampling at 10 sites between Perth and Broughty Ferry. The primary aim of this project is to quantify nutrient processing (nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon) along this part of the river. It is thought that microbial processes are likely to remove nitrate from the water, converting it into inert nitrogen gas, a process called denitrification. This means that less nitrate is transported to the North Sea, so the river and estuary would be performing a cleaning function. It is also possible that this process results in the production of a highly effective greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide.

Results of this project will be posted soon.

Past projects

• The EU REBECCA project
• Site Condition Monitoring of Scottish Standing Waters
• ALTER-Net

Brief CV

• 2005 onwards: Environmental Chemist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh research site
• 2004-2005: Biochemistry Research Technician, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh
• 1997-2003: University of Western Australia. Ph.D: The role of benthic vegetation as a nutrient buffer in coastal lagoons
• 1993-1997: University of Queensland, Australia. B.Sc. (Hons 1), Botany, Ecology, Chemistry

Selected publications

For all CEH publications, see the NERC Open Research Archive.

Also see my ResearcherID profile