A long-term, national monitoring scheme that quantifies the concentrations of contaminants in the livers and eggs of selected species of predatory and fish-eating birds in Britain.
Metals chemistry role:
i) to quantify the levels of Hg, Pb and other toxic metals in bird eggs and liver and
ii) to determine the lead isotopic signature for bird livers using ICPMS to measure the relative levels of Pb isotopes.
Metal Deposition Network
The aim of this project is to monitor metals in rural wet deposition and air and, with colleagues at CEH's Edinburgh site, to map UK-wide metal deposition, reporting to UK government and the European Commission.
Metals chemistry role:
i) to run a 15 site UK-wide rural deposition network,
ii) manage and prepare PM10 and precipitation samples for trace analysis,
iii) complete quarterly measurements for major cations, mercury and trace metals and
iv) maintain the analytical database with some interpretation of data.
NanoFate
Various projects across CEH aiming to investigate the toxicology, behaviour and fate of engineered metal nanoparticles in the environment.
Metals chemistry role:
i) to advise project leaders about suitable analytical techniques to quantify metal nanoparticles,
ii) to set up and test methods to quantify these materials and
iii) specifically, to set up and test a single particle ICPMS (spICPMS) to quantify metal NP size and concentration.