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Joanna E. Bullard is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and has an active research profile in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on aeolian processes and effects, with specific attention to microplastics and plastic pollution. The research also spans particle dynamics in fluid flows, climate change and permafrost, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and biocrusts and microbial ecology.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of scientific journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, each with two publications. Other venues where they have published include Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, and Geoderma.

Joanna E. Bullard's recent publications include:

  • Preferential transport of microplastics by wind (2020), published in Atmospheric Environment
  • Breakdown and Modification of Microplastic Beads by Aeolian Abrasion (2022), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Soil biocrusts affect metabolic response to hydration on dunes in west Queensland, Australia (2021), published in Geoderma
  • Landscape Controls on Nutrient Stoichiometry Regulate Lake Primary Production at the Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2021), published in Ecosystems
  • Cyanobacterial Soil Crust Responses to Rainfall and Effects on Wind Erosion in a Semiarid Environment, Australia: Implications for Landscape Stability (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • N. John Anderson
  • Cheryl McKenna Neuman
  • Patrick O'Brien
  • Samuel P. Davis
  • Clay Prater

The focus of Joanna E. Bullard's research topics encompasses:

  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

Best Publications

  • High Latitude Dust in the Earth System

    Joanna E. Bullard;Matthew Baddock;Tom Bradwell;John Crusius

  • Aeolian-fluvial interactions in dryland environments: examples, concepts and Australia case study

    Joanna E. Bullard;Grant Harvey McTainsh

  • Dust source identification using MODIS: A comparison of techniques applied to the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

    Matthew C. Baddock;Joanna E. Bullard;Robert G. Bryant

  • Dune mobility and vegetation cover in the Southwest Kalahari desert

    Giles F. S. Wiggs;David S. G. Thomas;Joanna E. Bullard;Ian Livingstone

  • Preferential transport of microplastics by wind

    Joanna E. Bullard;Annie Ockelford;Patrick O'Brien;Cheryl McKenna Neuman

  • The Geomorphology of The Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Joanna E. Bullard;David S. G. Thomas

  • Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust-cycle models

    Joanna E. Bullard;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Matthew C. Baddock;Nick Drake

  • Interactions between aeolian and fluvial systems in dryland environments

    Joanna E. Bullard;Ian Livingstone

  • Sub-basin scale dust source geomorphology detected using MODIS

    Joanna Bullard;Matthew Baddock;Grant Harvey McTainsh;John Leys

  • High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms

    Joseph M. Prospero;Joanna E. Bullard;Richard Hodgkins

  • A note on the use of the "Fryberger method" for evaluating potential sand transport by wind

    Joanna E. Bullard

  • Aeolian abrasion and modes of fine particle production from natural red dune sands: an experimental study

    Joanna E. Bullard;Grant Harvey McTainsh;Christa Pudmenzky

  • Contemporary glacigenic inputs to the dust cycle

    Joanna E. Bullard

  • Dunefield Activity and Interactions with Climatic Variability in the Southwest Kalahari Desert

    J. E. Bullard;D. S. G. Thomas;I. Livingstone;G. S. F. Wiggs

  • Airflow and roughness characteristics over partially vegetated linear dunes in the southwest Kalahari Desert

    Giles F. S. Wiggs;Ian Livingstone;David S. G. Thomas;Joanna E. Bullard

  • Analysis of linear sand dune morphological variability, southwestern Kalahari desert

    J.E. Bullard;D.S.G. Thomas;I. Livingstone;G.F.S. Wiggs

  • Grain-Size Variation on Dunes in the Southwest Kalahari, Southern Africa

    Ian Livingstone;Joanna E. Bullard;Giles F.S. Wiggs;David S.G. Thomas

  • Dust storm contributions to airborne particulate matter in Reykjavík, Iceland

    Throstur Thorsteinsson;GuCrún Gísladóttir;Joanna Elizabeth Bullard;Grant Harvey McTainsh

  • The Arctic in the twenty-first century: changing biogeochemical linkages across a paraglacial landscape of Greenland

    N. John Anderson;Jasmine E. Saros;Joanna E. Bullard;Sean M.P. Cahoon

  • The Anthropocene: is there a geomorphological case?

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Richard C. Chiverrell;James Rose

  • Effect of vegetation removal on airflow patterns and dune dynamics in the southwest Kalahari desert

    G. F. S. Wiggs;I. Livingstone;D. S. G. Thomas;J. E. Bullard

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone University of Northampton
Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford
Grant Harvey McTainsh
Grant Harvey McTainsh Griffith University
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton
Jim H. Chandler
Jim H. Chandler Loughborough University
Mary Bourke
Mary Bourke Trinity College Dublin
Thomas E. Gill
Thomas E. Gill The University of Texas at El Paso
Ian P. Castro
Ian P. Castro University of Southampton
Robert G. Bryant
Robert G. Bryant University of Sheffield

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