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Overview

Iain Robertson is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on industrial and manufacturing engineering, pollution, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and water science and technology.

Their work covers several main topics, including heavy metals in the environment, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, municipal solid waste management, wastewater treatment and reuse, climate variability and models, and adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal.

Recent publications by Robertson include:

  • "Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years" (2023) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Wood ash amended biochar for the removal of lead, copper, zinc and cadmium from aqueous solution" (2021) published in Environmental Technology & Innovation
  • "The removal of lead, copper, zinc and cadmium from aqueous solution by biochar and amended biochars" (2020) published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • "Historical droughts recorded in extended Juniperus procera ring-width chronologies from the Ethiopian Highlands" (2020) published in International Journal of Biometeorology

Frequent publication venues for Robertson include:

  • Nature Geoscience
  • Gates Open Research
  • Environmental Science Advances
  • Environmental Science Water Research & Technology
  • Environmental Technology & Innovation

Key frequent co-authors in Robertson's research collaborations are:

  • S. C. Cairns
  • Hannah Larissa Nicholas
  • Ian Mabbett
  • A. Miller Todd
  • Patrick Byrne

Best Publications

  • An improved technique for the batch processing of small wholewood samples to α-cellulose

    N.J. Loader;I. Robertson;A.C. Barker;V.R. Switsur

  • Comparison of stable carbon isotope ratios in the whole wood, cellulose and lignin of oak tree-rings

    N.J. Loader;I. Robertson;I. Robertson;D. McCarroll

  • Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

    Danny McCarroll;Mary H. Gagen;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Exorcising the `segment length curse': summer temperature reconstruction since AD 1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in northern Finland

    Mary Gagen;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

    A. Park Williams;A. Park Williams;Christopher C. Funk;Christopher C. Funk;Joel Michaelsen;Sara A. Rauscher

  • Northern European trees show a progressively diminishing response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations

    John S. Waterhouse;V.R. Switsur;V.R. Switsur;A.C. Barker;A.H.C. Carter;A.H.C. Carter

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions

    N.J. Loader;P.M. Santillo;J.P. Woodman-Ralph;J.E. Rolfe

  • Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Cellulose: An Interlaboratory Comparison

    Matthias Saurer;Iain Robertson;Rolf Siegwolf;Markus Leuenberger

  • Signal strength and climate relationships in 13C/12C ratios of tree ring cellulose from oak in east England

    I. Robertson;V. R. Switsur;A. H. C. Carter;A. C. Barker

  • Blue intensity in Pinus sylvestris tree-rings : developing a new palaeoclimate proxy

    Rochelle Campbell;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Håkan Grudd

  • On the purification of α-cellulose from resinous wood for stable isotope (H, C and O) analysis

    K.T. Rinne;T. Boettger;Neil J. Loader;I. Robertson

  • Oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios in tree rings: how well do models predict observed values?

    John S. Waterhouse;V.R. Switsur;V.R. Switsur;A.C. Barker;A.H.C. Carter;A.H.C. Carter

  • Oxygen isotope ratios of oak in east England: implications for reconstructing the isotopic composition of precipitation

    I. Robertson;John S. Waterhouse;A.C. Barker;A.H.C. Carter;A.H.C. Carter

  • Signal strength and climate relationships in 13C/12C ratios of tree ring cellulose from oak in southwest Finland

    I. Robertson;J. Rolfe;V. R. Switsur;A. H. C. Carter

  • Extracting Climatic Information from Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings

    Neil J. Loader;Danny McCarroll;Mary Gagen;Iain Robertson

  • The 8200yr BP cold event in stable isotope records from the North Atlantic region

    Timothy J. Daley;Elizabeth R. Thomas;Jonathan A. Holmes;F. Alayne Street-Perrott

  • Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios

    Mary Gagen;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Friederike Wagner-Cremer;Danny Mccarroll

  • Do tree ring δ13C series from Pinus sylvestris in northern Fennoscandia contain long-term non-climatic trends?

    Mary Gagen;Danny McCarroll;Iain Robertson;Neil J. Loader

  • Cloud response to summer temperatures in Fennoscandia over the last thousand years

    Mary Gagen;Eduardo Zorita;Danny McCarroll;Giles H. F. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil J. Loader
Neil J. Loader Swansea University
Danny McCarroll
Danny McCarroll Swansea University
Steven W. Leavitt
Steven W. Leavitt University of Arizona
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Peter Kuhry
Peter Kuhry Stockholm University
Christopher A. Richardson
Christopher A. Richardson Bangor University
Ian Harris
Ian Harris University of East Anglia
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Tim H.E. Heaton
Tim H.E. Heaton British Geological Survey

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