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Overview

Peter G. Appleby is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, contributing extensively to topics related to climate, geology, and radiological measurements.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work focuses on the following subfields:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomaterials

Research themes prominently covered by Peter G. Appleby include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a focus on paleolimnology, environmental contamination, and geochronology. Notable publications include:

  • Effects of climate change and industrialization on Lake Bolshoe Toko, eastern Siberia (2021), published in Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Integration of dendrochronological and palaeoecological disturbance reconstructions in temperate mountain forests (2020), published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Geochronology of sediment cores from the Vefsnfjord, Norway (2021), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Technical note: Quantifying uranium-series disequilibrium in natural samples for dosimetric dating - Part 1: gamma spectrometry (2022), published in Geochronology
  • Detection of a hot 137Cs particle in marine sediments from Norway: potential implication for 137Cs dating (2021), published in Geo-Marine Letters

Peter G. Appleby collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • G.T. Piliposian
  • Boris K. Biskaborn
  • Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring
  • Luidmila A. Pestryakova
  • Bernhard Diekmann

The scientist's work is regularly published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Geochronology

Best Publications

  • The calculation of lead-210 dates assuming a constant rate of supply of unsupported 210Pb to the sediment

    P.G. Appleby;F. Oldfield

  • Chronostratigraphic Techniques in Recent Sediments

    Peter Appleby

  • History of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Since 12,370 14C yr BP from a Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

    W. Shotyk;D. Weiss;P. G. Appleby;A. K. Cheburkin

  • The assessment of 210Pb data from sites with varying sediment accumulation rates

    P. G. Appleby;F. Oldfield

  • 210Pb dating by low background gamma counting

    P. G. Appleby;P. J. Nolan;D. W. Gifford;M. J. Godfrey

  • Three decades of dating recent sediments by fallout radionuclides: a review

    P.G. Appleby

  • Two thousand years of atmospheric arsenic, antimony, and lead deposition recorded in an ombrotrophic peat bog profile, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

    William Shotyk;Andrij K. Cheburkin;Peter G. Appleby;Andreas Fankhauser

  • Atmospheric Pb Deposition since the Industrial Revolution Recorded by Five Swiss Peat Profiles: Enrichment Factors, Fluxes, Isotopic Composition, and Sources

    Dominik Weiss;William Shotyk;Peter G. Appleby;Jan Dirk Kramers

  • The Historical Record of Atmospheric Pyrolytic Pollution over Europe Registered in the Sedimentary PAH from Remote Mountain Lakes

    Pilar Fernández;Rosa M. Vilanova;Carolina Martínez;Peter Appleby

  • Selective trapping of organochlorine compounds in mountain lakes of temperate areas.

    Joan O. Grimalt;Pilar Fernandez;Lourdes Berdie;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • 210 Pb dating of annually laminated lake sediments from Finland

    P. G. Appleby;F. Oldfield;R. Thompson;P. Huttunen

  • 241Am dating of lake sediments

    P. G. Appleby;N. Richardson;P. J. Nolan

  • Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

    Richard W. Battarbee;John-Arvid Grytnes;Roy Thompson;Peter G. Appleby

  • Highly anomalous accumulation rates of C and N recorded by a relic, free-floating peatland in Central Italy

    Claudio Zaccone;Daniela Lobianco;William Shotyk;Claudio Ciavatta

  • Persistent organochlorine compounds in soils and sediments of European high altitude mountain lakes

    Joan O. Grimalt;Barend L. van Drooge;Alejandra Ribes;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • Were the Larsemann Hills ice-free through the Last Glacial Maximum?

    Da Hodgson;Pe Noon;Wim Vyverman;Cl Bryant

  • Conversion Models for Use in Soil-Erosion, Soil-Redistribution and Sedimentation Investigations

    D. E. Walling;Q. He;P. G. Appleby

  • Heavy metal pollution and co-selection for antibiotic resistance: A microbial palaeontology approach.

    A.W. Dickinson;A.W. Dickinson;A. Power;M.G. Hansen;K.K. Brandt

  • Alternative 210 Pb dating: results from the New Guinea Highlands and Lough Erne

    F. Oldfield;P. G. Appleby;R. W. Battarbee

  • Mercury Accumulation Rates and Spatial Patterns in Lake Sediments from West Greenland: A Coast to Ice Margin Transect

    Bindler R;Renberg I;Appleby Pg;Anderson Nj

  • Dating of recent lake sediments in the United Kingdom and Ireland using spheroidal carbonaceous particle (SCP) concentration profiles

    N.L. Rose;S. Harlock;P.G. Appleby;R.W. Battarbee

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil L. Rose
Neil L. Rose University College London
Frank Oldfield
Frank Oldfield University of Liverpool
Richard W. Battarbee
Richard W. Battarbee University College London
Roger J. Flower
Roger J. Flower University College London
Helen Bennion
Helen Bennion University College London
John Boyle
John Boyle University of Liverpool
Vivienne J. Jones
Vivienne J. Jones University College London
William Shotyk
William Shotyk University of Alberta
Andrea Lami
Andrea Lami National Research Council (CNR)
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton

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