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Overview

Pauline Smedley is affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, mechanics of materials, artificial intelligence, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work covers a range of topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, groundwater flow and contamination studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Frequent publication venues for Smedley include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Applied Geochemistry
  • Ground Water
  • Chemical Geology
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Robert S. Ward
  • Stuart Gilfillan
  • D.G. Kinniburgh
  • Dan Lapworth
  • Thomas B. Boving

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Pauline Smedley are:

  • Uranium in natural waters and the environment: Distribution, speciation and impact (2022) published in Applied Geochemistry
  • Groundwater quality: Global threats, opportunities and realising the potential of groundwater (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Groundwater Solute Composition and Concentrations (2022) published in Ground Water
  • Monitoring of methane in groundwater from the Vale of Pickering, UK: Temporal variability and source discrimination (2023) published in Chemical Geology
  • Equipping for risk: Lessons learnt from the UK shale-gas experience on assessing environmental risks for the future geoenergy use of the deep subsurface (2024) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Pauline Smedley has also contributed to book publications. They published "Fluoride in Groundwater" (2022) through The Groundwater Project eBooks.

Best Publications

  • A review of the source, behaviour and distribution of arsenic in natural waters

    P.L Smedley;D.G Kinniburgh

  • Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh

    D.G. Kinniburgh;P.L. Smedley

  • Hydrogeochemistry of arsenic and other inorganic constituents in groundwaters from La Pampa, Argentina

    P.L Smedley;H.B Nicolli;D.M.J Macdonald;A.J Barros

  • Fluoride in Natural Waters

    W. Mike Edmunds;Pauline L. Smedley

  • Essentials of medical geology : impacts of the natural environment on public health

    O. Selinus;B. Alloway;P.L. Smedley;J.A. Centeno

  • The geochemistry of rare earth elements in groundwater from the Carnmenellis area, southwest England

    Pauline L. Smedley

  • Molybdenum in natural waters: A review of occurrence, distributions and controls

    Pauline L. Smedley;David G. Kinniburgh

  • Residence time indicators in groundwater: the East Midlands Triassic sandstone aquifer

    W.M Edmunds;P.L Smedley

  • Mobilisation of arsenic and other trace elements in fluviolacustrine aquifers of the Huhhot Basin, Inner Mongolia

    P.L Smedley;M Zhang;G Zhang;Z Luo

  • Arsenic associations in sediments from the loess aquifer of La Pampa, Argentina

    P.L. Smedley;D.G. Kinniburgh;D.M.J. Macdonald;H.B. Nicolli

  • Arsenic and selenium

    J.A. Plant;J. Bone;N. Voulvoulis;D.G. Kinniburgh

  • Groundwater geochemistry and health: an overview

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  • Fluoride dynamics in the granitic aquifer of the Wailapally watershed, Nalgonda District, India

    D.V. Reddy;P. Nagabhushanam;B.S. Sukhija;A.G.S. Reddy

  • Mobility of arsenic in groundwater in the Obuasi gold-mining area of Ghana: some implications for human health

    P. L. Smedley;W. M. Edmunds;K. B. Pelig-Ba

  • Arsenic in Groundwater and the Environment

    Pauline Smedley;David Kinniburgh

  • Uranium in natural waters and the environment: Distribution, speciation and impact

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  • Arsenic in rural groundwater in Ghana: Part special issue: Hydrogeochemical studies in sub-saharan Africa

    Pauline L. Smedley

  • Groundwater quality: Global threats, opportunities and Realising the potential of groundwater.

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  • Redox patterns and trace-element behavior in the East Midlands Triassic Sandstone Aquifer, U.K.

    Pauline L. Smedley;W. Mike Edmunds

  • Isotopic evidence for palaeowaters in the British Isles

    W.G. Darling;W.M. Edmunds;P.L. Smedley

  • Arsenic in groundwater from mineralised Proterozoic basement rocks of Burkina Faso

    P.L. Smedley;J. Knudsen;D. Maiga

  • The Koloa Volcanic Suite of Kauai, Hawaii

    Sven Maaløe;Dodie James;Pauline Smedley;Svend Petersen

  • The natural (baseline) quality of groundwater in England and Wales

    P. Shand;W.M. Edmunds;A.R. Lawrence;Pauline Smedley

Frequent Co-Authors

W.M. Edmunds
W.M. Edmunds University of Oxford
W.G. Darling
W.G. Darling British Geological Survey
Michael J. Watts
Michael J. Watts British Geological Survey
Alan MacDonald
Alan MacDonald British Geological Survey
Grant Allen
Grant Allen University of Manchester
David Lowry
David Lowry Royal Holloway University of London
Dan Lapworth
Dan Lapworth British Geological Survey
Alastair C. Lewis
Alastair C. Lewis University of York
David A. Polya
David A. Polya University of Manchester
Michael O. Rivett
Michael O. Rivett University of Strathclyde

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