Dr Rebecca Bartlett PhD, MSc

Dr Rebecca Bartlett

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Biogeochemistry

Contact details

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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Rebecca is a biogeochemist, specialising in nutrient cycling and environmental change in modern and past environments. Her research focuses on the biogeochemistry of peats, soils and sediments during environmental disturbance; the subsurface microbial response to natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric sulphur deposition, temperature, storms and floods, mineral reactivity and chemical pollution. Using a combined field and laboratory approach, and stable isotopic techniques, Rebecca’s work examines the small-scale (local) consequences of long-term (global) changes to the environment, and subsequent impacts on pH, carbon dynamics, major nutrient cycles and water quality.

Qualifications

  • 2005 PhD in Biogeochemistry, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
  • 2002 MSc in Environmental Geochemistry, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds
  • 1999 BSc Geological Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Mauquoy, D, Payne, RJ, Babeshko, KV, Bartlett, R, Boomer, I, Bowey, H, Evans, CD, Ring-Hrubesh, F, Muirhead, D, O'Callaghan, M, Piotrowska, N, Rush, G, Sloan, T, Smeaton, C, Tsyganov, AN & Mazei, YA 2020, 'Falkland Island peatland development processes and the pervasive presence of fire', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 240, 106391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106391

Worrall, F, Howden, N, Burt, TP & Bartlett, R 2019, 'The importance of sewage effluent discharge in the export of dissolved organic carbon from U.K. rivers', Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13442

Worrall, F, Howden, NJK, Burt, TP & Bartlett, R 2018, 'Declines in the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration and flux from the UK', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 556, pp. 775-789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.12.001

Klaar, MJ, Kidd, C, Malone, E, Bartlett, R, Pinay, G, Chapin, FS & Milner, A 2015, 'Vegetation succession in deglaciated landscapes : implications for sediment and landscape stability', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1088–1100. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3691

Chigbo, C, Batty, L & Bartlett, R 2013, 'Interactions of copper and pyrene on phytoremediation potential of Brassica juncea in copper-pyrene co-contaminated soil', Chemosphere, vol. 90, no. 10, pp. 2542-2548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.11.007

Li, Q, Wang, X, Kan, D, Bartlett, R, Pinay, G, Ding, Y & Ma, W 2012, 'Enrichment of Phosphate on Ferrous Iron Phases during Bio-Reduction of Ferrihydrite', International Journal of Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.4236/ijg.2012.32033

Li, Q, Wang, X, Bartlett, R, Pinay, G, Kan, D, Zhang, W & Sun, J 2012, 'Ferrous Iron Phosphorus in Sediments: Development of a Quantification Method through 2,2′‐Bipyridine Extraction', Water Environment Research. https://doi.org/10.2175/106143012x13373575830872

Bottrell, SH, Hatfield, D, Bartlett, R, Spence, MJ, Bartle, KD & Mortimer, RJG 2010, 'Concentrations, sulfur isotopic compositions and origin of organosulfur compounds in pore waters of a highly polluted raised peatland', Organic Geochemistry, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.07.005

Bartlett, R, Bottrell, SH, Sinclair, K, Thornton, S, Fielding, ID & Hatfield, D 2010, 'Lithological controls on biological activity and groundwater chemistry in Quaternary sediments', Hydrological Processes, vol. 24, pp. 726-735. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7514

Clark, JM, Bottrell, SH, Evans, CD, Monteith, DT, Bartlett, R, Rose, R, Newton, RJ & Chapman, PJ 2010, 'The importance of the relationship between scale and process in understanding long-term DOC dynamics', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 408, no. 13, pp. 2768-2775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.046

Bartlett, R, Bottrell, SH, Coulson, JP, Carlton, G & Forbes, L 2009, '³⁴S tracer study of pollutant sulfate behaviour in a lowland peatland', Biogeochemistry, vol. 95, no. 2-3, pp. 261-275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-009-9335-7

Bartlett, R, Mortimer, RJG & Morris, K 2008, 'Anoxic nitrification: Evidence from Humber Estuary sediments (UK)', Chemical Geology, vol. 250, no. 1-4, pp. 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.02.001

Bottrell, S, Tellam, J, Bartlett, R & Hughes, A 2008, 'Isotopic composition of sulfate as a tracer of natural and anthropogenic influences on groundwater geochemistry in an urban sandstone aquifer, Birmingham, UK', Applied Geochemistry, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 2382-2394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.03.012

Bartlett, R & Bottrell, S 2008, 'Stable isotope methods in groundwater engineering', Water Management, vol. 161, no. 6, pp. 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1680/wama.2008.161.6.357

Bartlett, R 2007, 'The biogeochemistry of a manganese-rich Scottish sea loch: Implications for the study of anoxic nitrification', Continential Shelf Research, vol. 27, pp. 1501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2007.01.027

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