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Professor MELANIE LENG's Outputs (3)

Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting peri-urban shallow lakes (2010)
Journal Article
Vane, C. H., Kim, A. W., McGowan, S., Leng, M. J., Heaton, T. H. E., Kendrick, C. P., Coombs, P., Yang, H., & Swann, G. E. A. (2010). Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting peri-urban shallow lakes. Science of the Total Environment, 409(2), 345-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.033

Sewage contamination in shallow lake sediments is of concern because the pathogens, organic matter and nutrients contribute to the deterioration of the water-bodies' health and ecology. Sediment cores from three shallow lakes (Coneries, Church and Cl... Read More about Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting peri-urban shallow lakes.

A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., & Sloane, H. J. (2010). A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.024

Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records... Read More about A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia.

Stable isotopes from diatom silica (2010)
Book Chapter
Leng, M. J., & Swann, G. E. (2010). Stable isotopes from diatom silica. In J. P. Smol, & E. F. Stoermer (Eds.), The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Part V - Other applications (575-589). (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763175.035

Diatom silica is a form of biogenic opal (SiO2.nH2O, Figure 1) containing oxygen, silicon, carbon and nitrogen isotopes that can be used in lacustrine and marine paleoenvironmental studies. Since diatoms bloom following a seasonal pattern defined par... Read More about Stable isotopes from diatom silica.