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Overview

Paul Brewer is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to scientific research primarily in engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work encompasses several interconnected subfields, including building and construction, atmospheric science, civil and structural engineering, pollution, and health-related toxicology.

Brewer's research focuses on key topics such as mining and resource management, tailings management and properties, heavy metals in the environment, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, hydropower and its environmental impacts, soil geostatistics and mapping, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment, 2023, published in Science
  • Tailings storage facilities, failures and disaster risk, 2024, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • River sediment geochemistry and provenance following the Mount Polley mine tailings spill, Canada: The role of hydraulic sorting and sediment dilution processes in contaminant dispersal and remediation, 2021, published in Applied Geochemistry
  • How have Cretan rivers responded to late Holocene uplift? A multi-millennial, multi-catchment field experiment to evaluate the applicability of Schumm and Parker's (1973) complex response model, 2022, published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Pilot study CCQM-P172 - spectroscopic methods for HNO3 value assignment, 2023, published in Metrologia

Brewer frequently collaborates with several researchers including Mark G. Macklin, Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, Chris Thomas, John R. Owen, and Graham Bird. These coauthors appear in multiple joint publications and contribute to overlapping research areas.

The scientist's work is published across notable venues such as Science, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Applied Geochemistry, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, and Metrologia.

Best Publications

  • A geomorphological approach to the management of rivers contaminated by metal mining

    M.G. Macklin;P.A. Brewer;Karen Hudson-Edwards;Graham Bird

  • High-resolution interpretative geomorphological mapping of river valley environments using airborne LiDAR data

    Anna F. Jones;Paul A. Brewer;Eric Johnstone;Mark G. Macklin

  • THE LONG TERM FATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONTAMINANT METALS RELEASED BY THE JANUARY AND MARCH 2000 MINING TAILINGS DAM FAILURES IN MARAMUREŞ COUNTY, UPPER TISA BASIN, ROMANIA

    Mark G. Macklin;Paul A. Brewer;Dan Balteanu;Tom J. Coulthard

  • The impact of tailings dam spills and clean-up operations on sediment and water quality in river systems: the Rı́os Agrio–Guadiamar, Aznalcóllar, Spain

    Karen A Hudson-Edwards;Mark G Macklin;Heather E Jamieson;Paul A Brewer

  • Flood-related contamination in catchments affected by historical metal mining: an unexpected and emerging hazard of climate change.

    Simon Andrew Foulds;Paul Anthony Brewer;Mark Graham Macklin;William Haresign

  • The solid state partitioning of contaminant metals and As in river channel sediments of the mining affected Tisa drainage basin, northwestern Romania and eastern Hungary

    Graham Bird;Paul A. Brewer;Mark G. Macklin;Dan Balteanu

  • The impact of the October-November 2000 floods on contaminant metal dispersal in the River Swale catchment, North Yorkshire, UK

    Ian A. Dennis;Mark G. Macklin;Tom J. Coulthard;Paul A. Brewer

  • Predicting channel patterns

    John Lewin;Paul A Brewer

  • Laboratory simulation of clast abrasion

    J. Lewin;P. A. Brewer

  • The role of floodplains in attenuating contaminated sediment fluxes in formerly mined drainage basins

    Ian A. Dennis;Tom J. Coulthard;Paul A. Brewer;Mark G. Macklin

  • Heavy metal contamination in the Arieş river catchment, western Romania: Implications for development of the Roşia Montană gold deposit

    Graham Bird;Paul A. Brewer;Mark G. Macklin;Mihaela Serban

  • Planform cyclicity in an unstable reach: complex fluvial response to environmental change

    P. A. Brewer;J. Lewin

  • A geochemical record of flooding on the upper River Severn, UK, during the last 3750 years

    Anna F. Jones;Mark G. Macklin;Paul A. Brewer

  • Water quality impacts and river system recovery following the 2014 Mount Polley mine tailings dam spill, British Columbia, Canada

    Patrick Byrne;Karen A. Hudson-Edwards;Graham Bird;Mark G. Macklin;Mark G. Macklin

  • Variability of late Holocene braiding in Britain

    David G. Passmore;Mark G. Macklin;Paul A. Brewer;John Lewin

  • Assessment of metal mining-contaminated river sediments in England and Wales

    Karen A. Hudson-Edwards;M.G. Macklin;P.A. Brewer;I.A. Dennis

  • Fluvial-controlled metal and As mobilisation, dispersal and storage in the Río Guadiamar, SW Spain and its implications for long-term contaminant fluxes to the Doñana wetlands

    J.N. Turner;P.A. Brewer;M.G. Macklin

  • Quantifying sediment-associated metal dispersal using Pb isotopes: application of binary and multivariate mixing models at the catchment-scale.

    Graham Bird;Paul A. Brewer;Mark G. Macklin;Mariyana Nikolova

  • River system recovery following the Novaţ-Roşu tailings dam failure, Maramureş County, Romania

    Graham Bird;Paul A. Brewer;Mark G. Macklin;Dan Balteanu

  • CDW photogrammetry of low relief fluvial features: accuracy and implications for reach-scale sediment budgeting

    I. Fuller;Martin Charlton;Paul Brewer

  • Holocene flooding and river development in a Mediterranean steepland catchment: The Anapodaris Gorge, south central Crete, Greece

    Mark Macklin;Stephen Tooth;Paul Brewer;P. L. Noble

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark G. Macklin
Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln
Karen A. Hudson-Edwards
Karen A. Hudson-Edwards University of Exeter
Tom J. Coulthard
Tom J. Coulthard University of Hull
John Lewin
John Lewin Aberystwyth University
Heather E. Jamieson
Heather E. Jamieson Queen's University
James Brasington
James Brasington University of Canterbury
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton
Stephen Tooth
Stephen Tooth Aberystwyth University
Mark Patrick Taylor
Mark Patrick Taylor Macquarie University

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