| Academic degree: | Dr. |  | | Last name: | Taylor | | First name: | Kevin | | Responsible for: | INTERCOMP: geochemistry, mineralogy and chemical speciation of sediments and sediment-bound contaminants; sediments in urban river basins | | Organization/Institute: | Manchester Metropolitan University | | Department: | Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences | | Position: | Reader | | Street, Number, POB: | Chester Street | | Postal code, City: | M1 5GD Manchester | | State: | | | Country: | United Kingdom | | Phone: | 44-161-2471569 | | Fax: | 44-161-2476318 | | E-mail address: | k.g.taylor@mmu.ac.uk | | Url: | http://www.egs.mmu.ac.uk/users/ktaylor/pers_page/kevin.html | | Curriculum vitae: | Dr. Kevin G. Taylor
Reader
Dept of Environmental and Geographical Sciences
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, M1 5GD., U.K.
Tel: 44-161-2471569
Fax: 44-161-2476318
E-mail: k.g.taylor@mmu.ac.uk
web page: http://www.egs.mmu.ac.uk/users/ktaylor/pers_page/kevin.html
I have over 15 years experience in sediment geochemistry, mineralogy and diagenesis in both freshwater and marine environments. My current research interests include contaminated sediment diagenesis, sediment geochemistry and sediment-water interactions in urban sediment systems, contaminated-sediment transfers on the river-basin scale, geomicrobiology of sediments, and sediment mineralogy and contaminant speciation.
There have been significant advances recently in the integration of soil, sediment, water and ecological processes within river basins, both at the local-scale and the river-basin scale. Within my area of expertise I choose below three areas that warrant future research.
1) An improved understanding of the transfers and impacts of urban sediment particulates upon urban surface water and air quality. The heavily contaminated nature of urban particulates is well-documented, but the specific impacts on ecosystem and human health, and the best ways to mitigate against such impacts, could be significantly improved. There is a particularly poor understanding of the transfers from street surfaces, through surface and sub-surface drainage systems, through to receiving water bodies.
2) We need to increase our understanding of the role that microbiological processes play in contaminant mobility and fixation in contaminated aquatic sediments and explore the possibilities that the engineering of such systems may be able to play in contaminated sediment remediation and management. The rapidly expanding field of molecular analysis of microbial systems will afford exciting opportunities in this area.
3) With respect to contaminants in sediments, there is now a real need to understand how vastly varying range of scales of observation can be integrated to provide us with realistic river-basin scale models. We have excellent data and models for large-scale (10s of kilometres) river basin transfers, and equally for small-scale (microns) sediment-water interactions. As in many other disciplines, the challenge will be in the integration of these scales of observation.
| | Areas of interest: | | mineralogy | | environmental geochemistry | | sediments | | Sediment/water interactions | | diagenesis | | contaminated sediments | | geomicrobiology | | urban systems | | sediment management | | geochemistry | | |
| | Articles: | 8 JSS (4) 275 (2008), Urban sediments—a global perspective. Thematic issue in the ‘Journal of Soils and Sediments’
7 JSS (1) 59 (2007), Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments: Measurement, Modelling and Management. Editors: Phil N Owens and Alison J Collins. Reviewer: Dr. Kevin G. Taylor
6 JSS (4) 262-268 (2006), Subject Area ´Intercompartment´: The (Associate) Subject Editors: Challenges and relevant literature in JSS and ESPR (the presentation of the Editors is not complete yet and will be continued)
4 JSS (4) 219-222 (2004), Sediment Management at the River Basin Scale - Synthesis of the SedNet Work Package 2 Outcomes
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