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Overview

Philip N. Owens is affiliated with the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a focus on several subfields including ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

The main topics Philip N. Owens investigates encompass soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and sediment transport processes, radioactive contamination and transfer, soil and water nutrient dynamics, heavy metals in the environment, toxic organic pollutants impact, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Owens has contributed to multiple research publications with notable articles including:

  • Soil erosion and sediment dynamics in the Anthropocene: a review of human impacts during a period of rapid global environmental change, 2020, Journal of Soils and Sediments

Owens frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among the most common are:

  • Ellen L. Petticrew
  • Kristen Kieta
  • Caroline Clason
  • Edyta Łokas
  • Giovanni Baccolo

The scientist's work has been published in a variety of venues, with recurrent publications in:

  • Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among recent notable papers connected to the broader scholarly network of collaborators are:

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in terrestrial and aquatic environments following wildfire: a review, 2022, Environmental Reviews
  • Contribution of glaciers to water, energy and food security in mountain regions: current perspectives and future priorities, 2022, Annals of Glaciology
  • Seasonal Turbidity Linked to Physical Dynamics in a Deep Lake Following the Catastrophic 2014 Mount Polley Mine Tailings Spill, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Fine-grained sediment in river systems : Environmental significance and management issues

    P. N. Owens;R. J. Batalla;A. J. Collins;B. Gomez

  • Fingerprinting suspended sediment sources in the catchment of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, UK

    Desmond E. Walling;Philip N. Owens;Graham J. L. Leeks

  • Sediments in urban river basins: a review of sediment–contaminant dynamics in an environmental system conditioned by human activities

    Kevin G. Taylor;Philip N. Owens

  • Storage of sediment-associated nutrients and contaminants in river channel and floodplain systems

    D.E Walling;P.N Owens;J Carter;G.J.L Leeks

  • The behavioural characteristics of sediment properties and their implications for sediment fingerprinting as an approach for identifying sediment sources in river basins

    A.J. Koiter;P.N. Owens;E.L. Petticrew;D.A. Lobb

  • The phosphorus content of fluvial sediment in rural and industrialized river basins.

    Philip N Owens;Desmond E Walling

  • Fingerprinting suspended sediment sources in a large urban river system.

    Julie Carter;Philip N Owens;Desmond E Walling;Graham J.L Leeks

  • Spatial variability of caesium-137 inventories at reference sites: an example from two contrasting sites in England and Zimbabwe

    Philip N. Owens;Desmond E. Walling

  • Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review

    L. Mabit;M. Benmansour;J.M. Abril;D.E. Walling

  • The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source fingerprinting: a review.

    J. Patrick Laceby;Olivier Evrard;Hugh G. Smith;Will H. Blake

  • The role of channel and floodplain storage in the suspended sediment budget of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, UK

    Desmond E. Walling;Philip N. Owens;Graham J.L. Leeks

  • The particle size characteristics of fluvial suspended sediment in the Humber and Tweed catchments, UK

    Desmond E Walling;Philip N Owens;Ben D Waterfall;Graham J.L Leeks

  • Fingerprinting and tracing the sources of soils and sediments: Earth and ocean science, geoarchaeological, forensic, and human health applications

    P.N. Owens;W.H. Blake;L. Gaspar;L. Gaspar;D. Gateuille;D. Gateuille

  • Use of floodplain sediment cores to investigate recent historical changes in overbank sedimentation rates and sediment sources in the catchment of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, UK

    Philip N Owens;Desmond E Walling;Graham J.L Leeks

  • Soil erosion and sediment dynamics in the Anthropocene: a review of human impacts during a period of rapid global environmental change

    Philip N. Owens

  • The behaviour of bomb-derived caesium-137 fallout in catchment soils

    Philip N. Owens;Desmond E. Walling;Qingping He

  • Spatial variability of soil phosphorus in relation to the topographic index and critical source areas: sampling for assessing risk to water quality.

    Trevor Page;Philip M. Haygarth;Keith J. Beven;Adrian Joynes

  • The use of caesium-137 measurements to establish a sediment budget for the Start catchment, Devon, UK

    Philip N. Owens;Desmond E. Walling;Qingping He;Jo Shanahan

  • The role of soil surface properties on the particle size and carbon selectivity of interrill erosion in agricultural landscapes

    Alexander J. Koiter;Philip N. Owens;Ellen L. Petticrew;David A. Lobb

  • Sources of variability in fatty acid (FA) biomarkers in the application of compound-specific stable isotopes (CSSIs) to soil and sediment fingerprinting and tracing: A review.

    D.G. Reiffarth;E.L. Petticrew;P.N. Owens;D.A. Lobb

  • Downstream changes in the transport and storage of sediment-associated contaminants (P, Cr and PCBs) in agricultural and industrialized drainage basins

    P. N. Owens;D. E. Walling;J. Carton;Andrew Alexander Meharg

Frequent Co-Authors

Desmond E. Walling
Desmond E. Walling University of Exeter
David A. Lobb
David A. Lobb University of Manitoba
Graham J.L. Leeks
Graham J.L. Leeks UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
William H. Blake
William H. Blake Plymouth University
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Stephen J. Déry
Stephen J. Déry University of Northern British Columbia
Ian D L Foster
Ian D L Foster Rhodes University
Zhihong Xu
Zhihong Xu Griffith University
Lionel Mabit
Lionel Mabit International Atomic Energy Agency
Roland Bol
Roland Bol Forschungszentrum Jülich

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