Staff Profile:Professor Mark Hodson

Name:
Professor Mark Hodson
Job Title:
Director of Research (SHES) / Professor in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy
Responsibilities:
  • Director of Research (SHES)
  • Director of the Soil Research Centre
Areas of Interest:

The main aim of Mark's research is to understand the biogeochemistry of soils and contaminated environments. He has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and been funded by the NERC, BBSRC, CCLRC / STFC, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and industry. Mark is fully involved in out reach activities and is currently in receipt of a Science and Technologies Funding Council Science in Society Fellowship. He is available to give talks schools and colleges, suitable for GCSE and A level science classes, on a range of subjects including pollution, evolution and climate change. Download the flyer: Shining a light on the environment (PDF 169 KB)

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Key Facts:

Mark Hodson joined the Department in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004, Reader in 2006 and Professor in 2009. Following his PhD at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, he spent three years working on mineral weathering and acid rain as a postdoctoral scientist at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen. He then moved south, initially to work as an environmental mineralogist at the Natural History Museum in London and then as a lecturer in geochemistry at the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology at Reading.

Out in the wider world Mark is on the Editorial boards of the journals Environmental Pollution and Applied Geochemistry and has been involved in public lectures, radio and television programmes. He has served on the NERC peer-review college and the CCLRC Facility Access Panel (Chemistry and Environment section) and from 2005 to 2010 was the general secretary of the Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland.

Mark is a Research Associate at the Natural History Museum

In 2004 Mark was awarded the Max Hey medal of the Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland and in 2005 the Houtermans medal of the European Association for Geochemistry.

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Earlier Publications

Davies, N.A., Hodson, M.E. and Black, S. (2002) Changes in toxicity and bioavailability of lead in contaminated soils to the earthworm Eisenia fetida after bonemeal amendments to the soil. Env. Tox. Chem. 21 2685 - 2691.

Hodson, M.E. (2002) Variation in element release rate from different mineral size fractions from the B horizon of a granitic podzol - size is important. Chem. Geol. 190 91 - 112

Hodson, M.E. (2002) Experimental evidence for mobility of Zr and other trace elements in soils. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66 819 - 828.

Hodson, M.E. (2002) Comment on "Calculations of weathering rate and soil solution chemistry for forest soils in the Norwegian - Russian border area with the PROFILE model" by G. Koptsik, S. Tevedal, D. Aamlid and K. Venn. Ap. Geochem. 17 117 - 121.

Hodson, M.E. and Bloodworth, A. (2001) The mineralogy of waste and waste disposal. Mineralogical Magazine 65 561-562.

Hodson, M.E., Valsami-Jones, E., Cotter-Howells, J.D., Dubbin, W.E., Kemp, A.J. and Warren, A. (2001) Effect of bone meal (calcium phosphate) amendments on metal release from contaminated soils - a leaching column study. Env. Poll. 112 233-243.

Langan, S.J., Hodson, M.E., Bain, D.C., Hornung, M., Reynolds, B., Hall, J. and Johnston, L. (2001) The role of weathering rate determinations in generating uncertainties in the calculation of critical loads of acidity and their exceedance. Wat. Air Soil Pollut.: Focus 1 299-312.

Stephens, S.R., Alloway, B.J., Carter, J.E., Parker, A. and Hodson, M.E. (2001). Changes in the leachability of metals from dredged canal sediments on drying and oxidation. Environmental Pollution 114 407-413.

Hodson, M.E. and Valsami-Jones, E. (2000) Can metal phosphate formation in soils be used as a treatment for meal contaminated soil? Land Contam. and Reclaim. 8 153-165.

Hodson, M.E., Valsami-Jones, E. and Cotter-Howells, J.D. (2000) Bone meal additions as a remediation treatment for metal contaminated soil. Env. Sci.Technol. 34 3501-3507.

Contributions to book chapters

Hodson, ME and Valsami-Jones, E and JD Cotter-Howells (2000) Metal phosphates and remediation of metal contaminated land. In JD Cotter-Howells, E Valsami-Jones, M Batchelder and L Campbell (Eds.) Minerals and the environment. Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. Pp. 291 - 311.

Brantley, SL, White, AF and Hodson, ME (1999) Surface area of Primary Silicate Minerals. In B Jamtveit and P Meakin (Eds.) Growth, dissolution and pattern formation in geosystems. Kluwer Pp. 291 - 326

Upton, BGJ, Parsons, I, Emeleus, H and Hodson, ME (1996) Layered Alkali Igneous Rocks of the Gardar Province, South Greenland. In RG Cawthorn (Ed.) Layered Intrusions. Elsevier 526pp.

 

Mark Hodson on Mountain

Contact Details

Email:
m.e.hodson@reading.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0) 118 378 6974

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