Rowland, Steven - Plymouth University - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry

个人简介

After more than 31 years in organic geochemistry research, at 61 Steve Rowland is currently Professor of Organic Geochemistry, Head of the Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Group and co Director of the Biogeochemistry Research Centre. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter,and was Visiting Professor and Blaustein Fellow at Stanford University, USA and a Visiting Professor at the CSIRO in Australia. He has published over 200 papers including in the leading journals Science and Nature, supervised more than 35 Ph.D students and won research grants worth millions of pounds. In 2008 Steve was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Research Grant of 2 million euros, one of only 100 awards in science & engineering in the EU, one of 19 in the UK. Steve taught chemistry and environmental chemistry at BSc level at the university for over 30 years but now mainly conducts research only. He was a member of the governing bodies of Lewannick Primary School and Launceston College for many years . His outside activities include walking a limping Labrador and fly-fishing .

研究领域

Steve's major interests are in the areas of organic and environmental organic geochemistry, with particular emphasis in these areas: Origin and significance of highly branched acyclic isoprenoids (e.g. use as climate proxies, calibrants for molecular evolution etc). Nature of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids (e.g. effects as pollutants, corrosive chemicals, pipeline blockages etc) Fate and effects of organic pollutants especially oil pollution (e.g. effects of dispersants on toxicity and longevity of oil pollution) Fate and effects of plastics and other hydrophobic pollutants (e.g. transport of toxic pollutants into marine organisms).

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Frank RA, Milestone CB, Rowland SJ, Headley JV, Kavanagh RJ, Lengger SK, Scarlett AG, West CE, Peru KM & Hewitt LM 2016 'Assessing spatial and temporal variability of acid-extractable organics in oil sands process-affected waters' CHEMOSPHERE 160, 303-313 Author Site , DOI PEARL Liu X-L, Birgel D, Elling FJ, Sutton PA, Lipp JS, Zhu R, Zhang C, Koenneke M, Peckmann J & Rowland SJ 2016 'From ether to acid: A plausible degradation pathway of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers' GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 183, 138-152 Author Site , DOI PEARL Bakir A, O'Connor IA, Rowland SJ, Hendriks AJ & Thompson RC 2016 'Relative importance of microplastics as a pathway for the transfer of hydrophobic organic chemicals to marine life' Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) 219, 56-65 , DOI Belt ST, Smik L, Brown A, Kim J-H, Rowland SJ, Allen CS, Gal J-K, Shin K-H, Lee JI & Taylor KWR 2016 'Source identification and distribution reveals the potential of the geochemical Antarctic sea ice proxy IPSO25' NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7, Author Site , DOI PEARL Jonker MTO, Candido A, Vrabie CM, Scarlett AG & Rowland SJ 2016 'Synergistic androgenic effect of a petroleum product caused by the joint action of at least three different types of compounds' CHEMOSPHERE 144, 1142-1147 Author Site , DOI PEARL Beddow J, Johnson RJ, Lawson T, Breckels MN, Webster RJ, Smith BE, Rowland SJ & Whitby C 2016 'The effect of oil sands process -affected water and model naphthenic acids on photosynthesis and growth in Emiliania huxleyi and Chlorella vulgaris' CHEMOSPHERE 145, 416-423 Author Site , DOI PEARL Wilde MJ, West CE, Scarlett AG, Jones D, Frank RA, Hewitt LM & Rowland SJ 2015 'Bicyclic naphthenic acids in oil sands process water: identification by comprehensive multidimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry' J Chromatogr A 1378, 74-87 Author Site , DOI PEARL