Dr. John Hamilton-Taylor

Reader in Aquatic Geochemistry

Environmental Science Department
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster, LA1 4YQ
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1524 593893
Fax: +44 (0)1524 593985

Email: j.hamilton-taylor@lancaster.ac.uk

Interests

Dr Hamilton-Taylor has worked mainly on the biogeochemical cycling of metals and radionuclides in aquatic, sediment and soil systems, but has published across a range of topics, including chemical weathering, aquatic biofilms and the environmental behaviour of POPs (persistent organic pollutants).

He is currently working on:

• The cation binding properties of soil organic matter with Jim Cooke (PhD student) and Ed Tipping (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, C.E.H.)
  
  
• The processes and factors controlling dissolved organic matter fluxes in soils with Sarah Buckingham (PhD student) and Ed Tipping
  
  
• Experimental and modelling studies of binding of uranium-series elements to particles in the Mediterranean Sea (with Jackie Pates and Adam Stackhouse)
  
  
• Chemical speciation in natural waters and associated equilibrium modelling (with Ed Tipping and Stephen Lofts at C.E.H.)
  
  

Dr Hamilton-Taylor is also a keen orienteer, fell runner and hill-walker, and a life-long supporter of Arsenal FC.

Recent Publications

1. Hamilton-Taylor, J., E.J. Smith, W. Davison and M. Sugiyama. (2005). Resolving and modeling the effects of Fe and Mn redox cycling on trace metal behavior in a seasonally anoxic lake. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 1947-1960.
   
   
2. Smith, E., Hamilton-Taylor, J., Davison, W., Fullwood, N.J. and McGrath, M. (2004). The effect of humic substances on barite precipitation - dissolution behaviour in natural and synthetic lake waters. Chem. Geol., 207, 81-89.
   
   
3. Fones, G.R., W. Davison and J. Hamilton-Taylor. (2004). The fine-scale remobilization of metals in the surface sediment of the North-East Atlantic. Cont. Shelf Res., 24, 1485-1504.
   
   
4. Bryan, S.E., E.Tipping and J.Hamilton-Taylor. (2002). Comparison of measured and modelled copper binding by natural organic matter in freshwaters. Comparative Biochem. Physiol. Part C, 133, 37-49.
   
   
5. Stidson, R., J. Hamilton-Taylor and E. Tipping. (2002). Laboratory dissolution studies of rocks from the Borrowdale Volcanic Group (English Lake District). Water, Air, Soil Poll., 138: 335-358.
   
   
6. Smith, E.J., W. Davison and J. Hamilton-Taylor. (2002). Methods for preparing synthetic freshwaters. Water Res., 36, 1286-1296.
   
   
7. Hamilton-Taylor, J., A.S. Postill, E. Tipping and M.P. Harper. (2002). Laboratory measurements and modeling of metal-humic interactions under estuarine conditions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 403-415.
   
   
8. Tipping, E., C. Rey-Castro, S.E. Bryan and J. Hamilton-Taylor. (2002). Al(III) and Fe(III) binding by humic substances in freshwaters, and implications for trace metal speciation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 3211-3224.
   
   
9. Peters, A.J., J. Hamilton-Taylor and E. Tipping. (2001). Americium binding to humic acid. Environ. Sci. Technol. 35, 3495-3500.
   
   
10. Hunt, A.P., J. Hamilton-Taylor, and J.D. Parry. (2001). Trace metal interactions with biofilms in small acidic mountain streams. Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie, 153, 155-176.
    
    
11. Hunt, A.P., J.D. Parry and J. Hamilton-Taylor. (2000). Further evidence of elemental composition as an indicator of the bioavailability of humic substances to bacteria. Limnol. Oceanog., 45, 237-241.
    
    
12. Gevao, B., J. Hamilton-Taylor and K.C. Jones. (2000). Toward a complete mass balance and model for PCBs and PAHs in a small rural lake, Cumbria UK. Limnol. Oceanog., 45, 881-894.