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Ian W. Croudace is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with focused contributions to related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geophysics, Geography, Planning and Development, and Pollution.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies

Their publication record features articles in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ian W. Croudace are:

  • "Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Measuring anthropogenic impacts on an industrialised coastal marine area using chemical and textural signatures in sediments: A case study of Augusta Harbour (Sicily, Italy)," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Tracing lake pollution, eutrophication and partial recovery from the sediments of Windermere, UK, using geochemistry and sediment microfabrics," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene," 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • "Assessing the role of the "estuarine filter" for emerging contaminants: pharmaceuticals, perfluoroalkyl compounds and plasticisers in sediment cores from two contrasting systems in the southern U.K.," 2020, Water Research

Ian W. Croudace has frequently collaborated with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Peter G. Langdon
  • Phillip E. Warwick
  • David Sear
  • Jonathan Hassall
  • Julian P. Sachs

Best Publications

  • ITRAX: description and evaluation of a new multi-function X-ray core scanner

    Ian W. Croudace;Anders Rindby;R. Guy Rothwell

  • 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

  • Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores

    Ian W. Croudace;R. Guy Rothwell

  • Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Genesis of the Boninite Series Volcanics, Chichijima, Bonin Islands, Japan

    Rex. N. Taylor;Robert W. Nesbitt;Phillipe Vidal;Russell S. Harmon

  • Redistribution and geochemical behaviour of redox-sensitive elements around S1, the most recent eastern Mediterranean sapropel

    J. Thomson;N.C. Higgs;T.R.S. Wilson;I.W. Croudace

  • Bubble growth and rise in soft sediments

    Bernard P. Boudreau;Chris Algar;Bruce D. Johnson;Ian Croudace

  • Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences

    Ian W. Croudace;R. Guy Rothwell

  • Redox zonation of elements at an oxic/post-oxic boundary in deep-sea sediments

    J. Thomson;N.C. Higgs;I.W. Croudace;S. Colley

  • Prediction of Geochemical Composition from XRF Core Scanner Data: A New Multivariate Approach Including Automatic Selection of Calibration Samples and Quantification of Uncertainties

    Gert Jan Weltje;M R Bloemsma;Rik Tjallingii;David Heslop

  • A new ground-level fallout record of uranium and plutonium isotopes for northern temperate latitudes

    Thorsten Warneke;Ian W. Croudace;Phillip E. Warwick;Rex N. Taylor

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

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

  • Twenty Years of XRF Core Scanning Marine Sediments: What Do Geochemical Proxies Tell Us?

    R. Guy Rothwell;Ian w. Croudace

  • 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

  • Benthic foraminiferids as pollution indicators in Southampton Water, southern England, U.K.

    A. R. Sharifi;I. W. Croudace;R. L. Austin

  • A geochemical application of the ITRAX scanner to a sediment core containing eastern Mediterranean sapropel units

    J. Thomson;I. W. Croudace;R. G. Rothwell

  • High-resolution geochemical and micropalaeontological profiling of the most recent eastern Mediterranean sapropel

    D. Mercone;J. Thomson;R.H. Abu-Zied;I.W. Croudace

  • Turbidite emplacement on the southern Balearic Abyssal Plain (western Mediterranean Sea) during Marine Isotope Stages 1–3: an application of ITRAX XRF scanning of sediment cores to lithostratigraphic analysis

    R. Guy Rothwell;Babette Hoogakker;John Thomson;Ian W. Croudace

  • Constraints on the numerical age of the Paleocene‐Eocene boundary

    Adam J. Charles;Daniel J. Condon;Ian C. Harding;Heiko Pälike

  • 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

  • Duration of S1, the most recent sapropel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, as indicated by accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and geochemical evidence

    D. Mercone;J. Thomson;I.W. Croudace;G. Siani

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew B. Cundy
Andrew B. Cundy National Oceanography Centre
Rex N. Taylor
Rex N. Taylor University of Southampton
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
John Thomson
John Thomson University of Southampton
David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton
Robert W. Nesbitt
Robert W. Nesbitt University of Southampton
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Julian P. Sachs
Julian P. Sachs University of Washington
Ludvig Löwemark
Ludvig Löwemark National Taiwan University

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