Publications

Developing constitutive models from EPR‐based self‐learning finite element analysis

Publication ID: pub.1092290900

Publication date: 18/10/2017

Keywords: Data Mining; Evolutionary Techniques; Finite Element; Self-learning Simulation

A constitutive model that captures the material behavior under a wide range of loading conditions is essential for simulating complex boundary value problems. In recent years, some attempts have been made to develop constitutive models for finite element analysis using self-learning simulation (SelfSim). Self-learning simulation is an inverse analysis technique that extracts material behavior from […]

Fluctuating seawater pH/pCO2 regimes are more energetically expensive than static pH/pCO2 levels in the mussel Mytilus edulis

Publication ID: pub.1092273062

Publication date: 18/10/2017

Keywords: Animals; Carbon Dioxide; Climate Change; Devon; Homeostasis; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Mytilus edulis; Seawater; Starcross; Time Factors; UK

Ocean acidification (OA) studies typically use stable open-ocean pH or CO2 values. However, species living within dynamic coastal environments can naturally experience wide fluctuations in abiotic factors, suggesting their responses to stable pH conditions may not be reflective of either present or near-future conditions. Here we investigate the physiological responses of the mussel Mytilus edulis […]

In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil

Publication ID: pub.1091401195

Publication date: 19/09/2017

Keywords: Arsenic; Durham; Fe-Mn Binary Oxide; Lead; Remediation; Soil; UK

The ability of a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste to adsorb arsenic (As) in a historically contaminated soil was investigated. Initial laboratory sorption experiments indicated that arsenite [As(III)] was oxidized to arsenate [As(V)] by the Mn oxide component, with concurrent As(V) sorption to the Fe oxide. The binary oxide waste had As(III) and As(V) adsorption capacities […]

Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

Publication ID: pub.1091829266

Publication date: 18/09/2017

Keywords: Climate-carbon-cycle Model; Climate Reponse; Emission Budgets; Emissions Pledges; Emissions Reductions; Global; IPCC Fifth Assessment Report; Limiting Warming to 1.5 °C; Mitigation Scenario; Peak and Decline

The Paris Agreement has opened debate on whether limiting warming to 1.5 °C is compatible with current emission pledges and warming of about 0.9 °C from the mid-nineteenth century to the present decade. We show that limiting cumulative post-2015 CO2 emissions to about 200 GtC would limit post-2015 warming to less than 0.6 °C in 66% of Earth system […]

The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

Publication ID: pub.1091563812

Publication date: 11/09/2017

Keywords: ACER (Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses) Database; Age Models; Albedo; Charcoal Records; Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) Cycles; Event Stratigraphy; Global; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Last Glacial Period; Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL); Past Climate Changes; Pollen Records; Radiometric Dating; 40Ar∕39Ar-dated Tephra Layers; 14C, 234U∕230Th

Abstract. Quaternary records provide an opportunity to examine the nature of the vegetation and fire responses to rapid past climate changes comparable in velocity and magnitude to those expected in the 21st-century. The best documented examples of rapid climate change in the past are the warming events associated with the Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) cycles during the […]

Redefining community based on place attachment in a connected world

Publication ID: pub.1091502971

Publication date: 05/09/2017

Keywords: Adult; Australia; Communication; Community Participation; Coral Reefs; Environment; Environmental Policy; Female; Great Barrier Reef; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Object Attachment; Politics; Residence Characteristics

The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community based on residential location or resource use are limited with respect to their utility as surrogates for communities of shared environment-related interests, and because of the localist perspective […]