Dr Laura Shotbolt

Dr Laura Shotbolt
Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Phone: 020 7882 2716
Fax: 020 7882 7479
Email: l.shotbolt@qmul.ac.uk

Research interests:

My main research interests focus on the transport and fate of environmental contaminants in soils, waters and sediments. My research focuses on reconstructing records of past pollution from environmental archives, investigating toxic effects of trace metals and transport of pollutants through the catchment system.

Publications:

  • Shotbolt, L. (in press).Pore water sampling from lake and estuary sediments using Rhizon samplers. Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Tipping, E.,Rothwell, J.J., Shotbolt, L. &  Lawlor, A.J. (2010)  Dynamic modelling of atmospherically-deposited Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in Pennine catchments (northern England). Environmental Pollution 158, 1521–1529
  • Groenenberg, J.E., Romkens, P.F.A.M, Comans, N.J., Luster, J., Pampura, T., Shotbolt, L., Tipping, E. & De Vries, W. (2010) Transfer functions for solid solution partitioning of cadmium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc: Derivation of relations for free metal ion activities and validation on independent data. European Journal of Soil Science, 61, 58–73
  • Shotbolt, L. Rothwell, J.J. & Lawlor, A.J. (2008). A mass-balance approach to quantifying Pb storage and fluxes in the southern Pennines, north-central England. Earth Surfaces, Processes and Landforms 33: 1721–1741.
  • Linton, P.E., Shotbolt, L. & Thomas, A.D. (2007) Microbial communities in long-term heavy metal contaminated ombrotrophic peat. Water Air and Soil Pollution 186: 97-113.
  • Holden, J., Shotbolt, L., Bonn, A., Burt, T.P., Chapman, P.J., Dougill, A.J., Fraser, E.D.G., Hubacek, K., Irvine, B., Kirkby, M.J., Reed, M.S., Prell, C., Stagl, S., Stringer, L.C., Turner, A. & Worrall, F. (2007) Environmental change in moorland landscapes. Earth-Science Reviews 82: 75–100.
  • Shotbolt, L., Büker, P., Ashmore, A.R. & Tipping, E. (2007) Reconstructing past trace metal deposition in the UK using moss samples from herbaria collections. Environmental Pollution 147: 120–130.
  • Tipping, E., Yang, H., Lawlor, A.J., Rose, N. & Shotbolt, L. (2007) Trace metals in Lochnagar: concentrations, loads and dynamic modelling. In Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Vol. 12. Lochnagar: the natural history of a mountain lake. Rose, N. (Ed.).
  • Ashmore, M., Van den Berg, L., Terry, A., Tipping, E., Lawlor, A.J., Lofts, S., Thacker, S.A., Vincent, C.D., Hall, J., O’Hanlon, S., Shotbolt, L., Harmens, H., Lloyd, A., Norris, D., Nemitz, E., Jarvis, K., Jordan, C., 2007. Development of an Effects based Approach for Toxic Metals. Report to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Executive, the National Assembly for Wales and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland. Contract CPEA 24. University of York
  • Tipping, E., Lawlor, A.J., Lofts, S. & Shotbolt, L. (2006). Simulating the long-term chemistry of an upland UK catchment. 2. Heavy metals. Environmental Pollution 141: 139–150
  • Shotbolt, L., Hutchinson, S.M. & Thomas, A.D. (2006). Determining past heavy metal deposition onto the southern Pennines using reservoir sedimentary records. Journal of Paleolimnology 35: 305–322.
  • Hall, J., Ashmore, M.R., Fawehinimi, J., Lofts, S., Shotbolt, L., Spurgeon, D., Svendsen, C. & Tipping, E. (2006) Developing a critical load approach for national risk assessments of atmospheric metal deposition. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25: 883–891.
  • Shotbolt, L. & Thomas, A.D. Heavy metal pollution in upland catchments in the UK. (2006) Geography Review 19: 32–36
  • Shotbolt, L., Thomas, A.D. & Hutchinson, S.M. (2005) Reservoir sediments as records of recent environmental change: A review. Progress in Physical Geography 29: 337–361
  • Ashmore, M.R., Fawehinmi, J., Hill, M., Hall, J., Jordan, C. Lofts, S. Shotbolt, L., Spurgeon, D., Svendsen, C. & Tipping, E. (2004) Further development of an effects based approach for cadmium, copper, lead and zinc. Final report to Defra EPG 1/3/188.
  • Ashmore, M., Fawehinmi, J., Hall, J., Lawlor, A., Shotbolt, L. & Tipping, E. (2003) Further developments of an effects-based approach for determining metal critical loads in the UK. Proceedings of the Expert Meeting on Critical Limits for Heavy Metals and Methods for their Application. Berlin December 2002, 184–188.
  • Shotbolt, L., Hutchinson, S.M., & Thomas, A.D. (2001) Establishing sediment stratigraphy in reservoirs in the southern Pennines. Journal of Hydrological Sciences 46: 701–715.
  • Shotbolt, L., Thomas A.D., Hutchison, S.M. & Dougill, A.J. (2000) Reconstructing the history of heavy metal pollution in the southern Pennines from the sedimentary record of reservoirs: methods and preliminary results. The North West Geographer 3: 3–20. Reprinted in North West Geography 1:3 5–52 (2001). http://www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/4_1_1_2001.htm
  • Shotbolt, L., Townend, J. & Anderson, A.R. (1998) Changes to blanket bog adjoining forest plots at Bad a’ Cheo, Rumster Forest, Caithness. Forestry 71: 311–324.