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2023

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Environmental Sciences

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64
Citations
13580
World Ranking
2343
National Ranking
179

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Overview

Fred Worrall is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science, with a significant focus on the subfields of Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research spans several key topics including Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Water Quality and Pollution Assessment.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Worrall include:

  • Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions, 2021, Nature
  • Is water quality in British rivers "better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution"?, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain, 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • The need to integrate legacy nitrogen storage dynamics and time lags into policy and practice, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The heat recovery potential of 'wastewater': a national analysis of sewage effluent discharge temperatures, 2021, Environmental Science Water Research & Technology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tim Burt
  • Nicholas Howden
  • Chris Evans
  • Michael Bowes
  • Helen P. Jarvie

Worrall has published extensively in several scientific venues with the most frequent being:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biogeochemistry

Best Publications

  • Oil and gas wells and their integrity : implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation

    Richard J. Davies;Sam Almond;Robert S. Ward;Robert B. Jackson;Robert B. Jackson

  • Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions.

    C. D. Evans;M. Peacock;A. J. Baird;R. R. E. Artz

  • Long-term accumulation and transport of anthropogenic phosphorus in three river basins

    Stephen M. Powers;Thomas W. Bruulsema;Tim Burt;Neng long Chan

  • Environmental change in moorland landscapes.

    J. Holden;L. Shotbolt;A. Bonn;T. P. Burt

  • Trends in Dissolved Organic Carbon in UK Rivers and Lakes

    Fred Worrall;Ron Harriman;Chris D. Evans;Carol D. Watts

  • Carbon budget for a British upland peat catchment

    Fred Worrall;Mark Reed;Jeff Warburton;Tim Burt

  • Sensitivity analysis and identification of the best evapotranspiration and runoff options for hydrological modelling in SWAT-2000

    N. Kannan;S.M. White;F. Worrall;M.J. Whelan

  • Can climate change explain increases in DOC flux from upland peat catchments

    Fred Worrall;Tim Burt;John Adamson

  • Sustainable phosphorus management and the need for a long-term perspective: The legacy hypothesis

    Philip M. Haygarth;Helen P. Jarvie;Steve M. Powers;Andrew N. Sharpley

  • Carbon balance of UK peatlands: current state of knowledge and future research challenges

    M. F. Billett;D. J. Charman;J. M. Clark;C. D. Evans

  • Peatlands and Climate Change

    Fred Worrall;Pippa Chapman;Joseph Holden;Chris Evans

  • Long term records of riverine dissolved organic matter

    Fred Worrall;Tim Burt;Rosalyn Shedden

  • IUCN UK Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands

    C. G. Bain;A. Bonn;R. Stoneman;S. Chapman

  • The impact of land-use change on water quality at the catchment scale : the use of export coefficient and structural models

    F Worrall;T.P Burt

  • Nitrate concentrations and fluxes in the River Thames over 140 years (1868–2008): are increases irreversible?

    Nicholas J K Howden;TP Burt;F Worrall;MJ Whelan

  • Trends in DOC concentration in Great Britain

    F. Worrall;T.P. Burt

  • Short-term impact of peat drain-blocking on water colour, dissolved organic carbon concentration, and water table depth

    Fred Worrall;Alona Armstrong;Joseph Holden

  • Release of dissolved organic carbon from upland peat

    F. Worrall;T. P. Burt;R. Y. Jaeban;J. Warburton

  • Towards a mechanistic understanding of carbon stabilization in manganese oxides

    Karen Johnson;Graham Purvis;Elisa Lopez-Capel;Caroline Peacock

  • Time series analysis of long-term river dissolved organic carbon records

    Fred Worrall;Tim Burt

  • AGU Fall Meeting

    S Dixon;F Worrall;Nicholas J K Howden;TP Burt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Burt
Tim Burt Durham University
Nicholas J K Howden
Nicholas J K Howden University of Bristol
Richard J. Davies
Richard J. Davies Newcastle University
Martin Evans
Martin Evans University of Manchester
Aletta Bonn
Aletta Bonn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Joseph Holden
Joseph Holden University of Leeds
Chris D. Evans
Chris D. Evans UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Pippa J. Chapman
Pippa J. Chapman University of Leeds
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Evan D. G. Fraser
Evan D. G. Fraser University of Guelph

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