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Overview

Andrew B. Cundy is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, chiefly within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. These areas underpin the scientific inquiries pursued across a substantial body of scholarly output.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science (69 publications)
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (42 publications)

Within these domains, subfields of particular focus are:

  • Pollution (22 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (20 publications)
  • Ecology (14 publications)
  • Oceanography (12 publications)
  • Global and Planetary Change (11 publications)

Among the key research topics addressed, there are:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (38 publications)
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (28 publications)
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology (18 publications)
  • Marine and environmental studies (14 publications)
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 publications)
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer (14 publications)
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 publications)

The scientist has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, including:

  • The Anthropocene Review (8 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (4 publications)
  • Journal of Cleaner Production (4 publications)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin (4 publications)
  • Earth-Science Reviews (3 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew B. Cundy include:

  • The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines, 2021, Earth's Future
  • The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series, 2023, The Anthropocene Review
  • Storm Response of Fluvial Sedimentary Microplastics, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Riverine microplastics: Behaviour, spatio-temporal variability, and recommendations for standardised sampling and monitoring, 2020, Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Identification of tidal trapping of microplastics in a temperate salt marsh system using sea surface microlayer sampling, 2020, Scientific Reports

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research career, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Neil L. Rose (15 co-authored papers)
  • Simon Turner (12 co-authored papers)
  • Martin J. Head (9 co-authored papers)
  • P. Gaca (9 co-authored papers)
  • Jan Zalasiewicz (8 co-authored papers)

Best Publications

  • Use of iron-based technologies in contaminated land and groundwater remediation: a review

    Andrew B. Cundy;Laurence Hopkinson;Raymond L.D. Whitby

  • Pb isotopic composition of airborne particulate material from France and the Southern United Kingdom : Implications for Pb pollution sources in urban areas

    Fabrice Monna;Joël Lancelot;Ian W. Croudace;and Andrew B. Cundy

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • Developing principles of sustainability and stakeholder engagement for "gentle" remediation approaches: the European context

    Andrew Cundy;Richard Bardos;Andrew Church;M. Puschenreiter

  • Trends in the recovery of phosphorus in bioavailable forms from wastewater

    Patrick Matthew Melia;Andrew B Cundy;Saran Sohi;Peter S Hooda

  • Recent Anthropogenic Impacts on the Bilbao Estuary, Northern Spain: Geochemical and Microfaunal Evidence

    A. Cearreta;M.J. Irabien;E. Leorri;I. Yusta

  • Reconstructing historical trends in metal input in heavily-disturbed, contaminated estuaries: studies from Bilbao, Southampton Water and Sicily

    Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace;Alejandro Cearreta;Marı́a J. Irabien

  • Heavy metal contamination and mixing processes in sediments from the Humber Estuary, Eastern England

    S.V. Lee;Andrew Cundy

  • Brownfields to green fields: Realising wider benefits from practical contaminant phytomanagement strategies

    A.B. Cundy;R.P. Bardos;Markus Puschenreiter;Michel Mench

  • The Anthropocene: comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Erle C. Ellis;Martin J. Head

  • Heavy metal distribution and early-diagenesis in salt marsh sediments from the Medway Estuary, Kent, UK

    Kate L. Spencer;Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace

  • The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

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  • Sediment Accretion and Recent Sea-level Rise in the Solent, Southern England: Inferences from Radiometric and Geochemical Studies

    Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace

  • A simple method for the production of large volume 3D macroporous hydrogels for advanced biotechnological, medical and environmental applications

    Irina N. Savina;Ganesh C. Ingavle;Andrew B. Cundy;Sergey V. Mikhalovsky;Sergey V. Mikhalovsky

  • Biochar and compost amendments enhance copper immobilisation and support plant growth in contaminated soils

    Sarah Jones;R. Paul Bardos;Petra S. Kidd;Michel Mench

  • High efficiency removal of dissolved As(III) using iron nanoparticle-embedded macroporous polymer composites.

    Irina N. Savina;Christopher J. English;Raymond L.D. Whitby;Yishan Zheng

  • Recent salt marsh development and natural regeneration of reclaimed areas in the Plentzia estuary, N. Spain

    A. Cearreta;M.J. Irabien;I. Ulibarri;I. Yusta

  • Riverine microplastics: Behaviour, spatio-temporal variability, and recommendations for standardised sampling and monitoring

    Karolina Skalska;Annie Ockelford;James E. Ebdon;Andrew B. Cundy

  • Storm Response of Fluvial Sedimentary Microplastics.

    Annie Ockelford;Andy Cundy;James E. Ebdon

  • Sedimentary and geochemical variations in a salt marsh/mud flat environment from the mesotidal Hamble estuary, southern England

    Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace

  • Developing decision support tools for the selection of "gentle" remediation approaches.

    Kene Onwubuya;Andrew Cundy;Markus Puschenreiter;Jurate Kumpiene

  • Heavy metal and hydrocarbon pollution in recent sediments from southampton water, southern England: a geochemical and isotopic study.

    Ian W. Croudace;Andrew B. Cundy

  • Reliability of salt marshes as “geochemical recorders” of pollution input: a case study from contrasting estuaries in southern England

    Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace;John Thomson;James L. Lewis

  • Holocene coastal uplift in the taormina area, northeastern sicily: Implications for the southern prolongation of the calabrian seismogenic belt

    I.S. Stewart;A. Cundy;S. Kershaw;C. Firth

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian W. Croudace
Ian W. Croudace University of Southampton
Sergey V. Mikhalovsky
Sergey V. Mikhalovsky University of Brighton
Michel Mench
Michel Mench INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Markus Puschenreiter
Markus Puschenreiter BOKU University
Jaco Vangronsveld
Jaco Vangronsveld Hasselt University
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton
Adriana Bellanca
Adriana Bellanca University of Palermo
Pavel Tlustoš
Pavel Tlustoš Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Bernd Marschner
Bernd Marschner Ruhr University Bochum
Giancarlo Renella
Giancarlo Renella University of Padua

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