Environmental
Our staff's research expertise has an extremely positive influence on our courses as current case study based findings are introduced within teaching.
Our Environmental Science staff are involved in national and international research projects, which help to inform governmental decision makers when making policy decisions.
Examples of our research areas include:
Biogeochemical studies of metals in aquatic and terrestrial systems
- Biomonitoring of aquatic environments
- Environmental trace metal contamination from copper processing industry
- Phytoremediation of aquatic environments
- Mechanisms of metal-tolerance by plants
- Distribution and mobility of selected health-significant micro-anionic nutrients (iodine and fluorine)
- Human exposure to aluminium and other trace metals from dietary intake
- Human exposure assessment of environmental toxic trace elements
- Nutrient content of cryopreserved plant species
- Fe-57 Mössbauer spectroscopic studies of environmental, geochemical and archaeological materials
- Instrumental Neutron – Activation Analysis for the determination of trace elements in coal and coal ash
