Staff Profile:Dr Denise Lambkin

Name:

Dr Denise Lambkin

Job Title:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• The use of recycled natural wastes as fertilisers in agriculture

• Production of calcite granules by earthworms

Denise is currently working on compost demonstration trials in Ireland for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The project is part of the Market Development Programme and will contribute to the Organics Strategy by conducting trials of composted BMW in key added-value market sectors, increasing awareness and understanding of composted products, and highlighting the technical and commercial benefits of using composted products.

Research groups / Centres:

• Earth Systems Science Research Group
• Soil Research Centre

Key Facts:

Denise studied Environmental Science at the University of Reading (UK) and obtained a PhD in contamination of soil by arsenic and cadmium. Having previously worked in IT for a number of years she has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Soil Science since 1999. Recent post-doctoral research at Reading has included:

• Compost crop trial for a major UK compost producer - r³ Environmental Technology
• Impact of soil chemistry and diet on rates of calcite production by the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus - NERC
• Standardised sampling procedures for managing sewage sludge and biowastes as soil amendments - Project Horizontal (FP6)

Denise is active in the in the development of International Standards and is convenor of an ISO Working Group with responsibility for three sampling standards (sewage sludge, bottom sediments, bulk suspended sediments).

As a part-time lecturer, she also teaches within the undergraduate and postgraduate Environmental Science teaching programmes.

Publications:

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Number of items: 8.

2011

• Lambkin, D. C., Gwilliam, K. H., Layton, C., Canti, M. G., Piearce, T. G. and Hodson, M. E. (2011) Production and dissolution rates of earthworm-secreted calcium carbonate. Pedobiologia, 54 (Supplement). S119-S129. ISSN 0031-4056 doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.09.003 (special issue '9th International Symposium on Earthworm EcologyXalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 5th – 10th September 2010')
• Lambkin, D. C., Canti, M. G., Piearce, T. G. and Hodson, M. E. (2011) Dissolution rates of earthworm-secreted calcium carbonate. Applied Geochemistry, 26 (Supplement 1). S67-S69. ISSN 0883-2927 doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.031
• Lambkin, D. C., Gwilliam, K. H., Layton, C., Canti, M. G., Piearce, T. G. and Hodson, M. E. (2011) Soil pH governs production rate of calcium carbonate secreted by the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris. Applied Geochemistry, 26 (Supple). S64-S66. ISSN 0883-2927 doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.032
• Fraser, A., Lambkin, D. C., Lee, M. R., Schofield, P. F., Mosselmans, J. F. W. and Hodson, M. E. (2011) Incorporation of lead into calcium carbonate granules secreted by earthworms living in lead contaminated soils. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (9). pp. 2544-2556. ISSN 0016-7037 doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.015

2009

• Lambkin, D. C. and Hodson, M. E. (2009) Kinetics of production and dissolution of earthworm excreted calcite. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (13). A717-A717. ISSN 0016-7037

2004

• Lambkin, D.C., Evans, T.D., Nortcliff, S. and White, T.C. (2004) HORIZONTAL WP2: Towards producing harmonised methods, with quantified precision, for sampling sludges, treated biowastes and soils in the landscape. UNSPECIFIED
• Lambkin, D., Nortcliff, S. and White, T. (2004) The importance of precision in sampling sludges, biowastes and treated soils in a regulatory framework. Trac-Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 23 (10-11). pp. 704-715. ISSN 0165-9936 doi: 10.1016/j.trac.2004.08.008

2003

• Lambkin, D. C. and Alloway, B. J. (2003) Arsenate-induced phosphate release from soils and its effect on plant phosphorus. Water Air and Soil Pollution, 144 (1). pp. 41-56. ISSN 0049-6979

This list was generated on Sat May 26 12:02:01 2012 BST.

Earlier Publications

Lambkin, D.C. and Alloway, B.J. (2000). The problem of arsenic interference in the analysis of soils for cadmium by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry. The Science of the Total Environment 256 77-81.

Lambkin D.C. (2000) . The role of soil particlulates in human health. Paper presented to 'Soil, Environment and Health', British Soil Science Society, Birmingham.