Publications

Explore publications from the UCL Environmental Radiometric Facility, showcasing our contributions to cutting-edge research in radiometric dating and environmental radioactivity analysis.

2024

• Curtis, CJ; Rose, NL; Yang, H; Turner, S; Langerman, K; Fitchett, J; Milner, A; Kabba, A; Shilland, J. (2024). Contamination of depressional wetlands in the Mpumalanga Lake District of South Africa near a global emission hotspot. Science of the Total Environment, 938, Article 173493.

2023

• Yang, H., Macario-González, L., Cohuo, S., Whitmore, T. J., Salgado, J., Peréz, L., . . . O'Dea, A. (2023). Mercury Pollution History in Tropical and Subtropical American Lakes: Multiple Impacts and the Possible Relationship with Climate Change. Environmental Science and Technology.
• Martins, C., Adams, J. K., Yang, H., Shchetnikov, A. A., Di Domenico, M., Rose, N. L., & Mackay, A. W. (2023). Earthquake, floods and changing land use history: A 200-year overview of environmental changes in Selenga River basin as indicated by n-alkanes and related proxies in sediments from shallow lakes. Science of The Total Environment, 873, 162245.

2022

• Callaghan, D., During, H., Medina, R., & Yang, H. (2022). Long-term survival of bryophytes underground: an investigation of the diaspore bank of Physcomitrium eurystomum Sendtn. JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY.
• Wan, D., Yang, H., Song, L., Jin, Z., Mao, X., & Yang, J. (2022). Sediment records of global and regional Hg emissions to the atmosphere in North China over the last three centuries. Environmental Pollution, 310, 119831.

2021

• Smeaton, C., Yang, H., & Austin, W. (2021). Carbon Burial in the Mid-Latitude Fjords of Scotland. Marine Geology.
• Yang, H. (2021). Comment on Anthropogenic-drive alterations in black carbon sequestration and the structure in a deep plateau lake. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
• Tolotti, M., Guella, G., Herzig, A., Rodeghiero, M., Rose, N. L., Soja, G., . . . Teubner, K. (2021). Assessing the ecological vulnerability of the shallow steppe Lake Neusiedl (Austria-Hungary) to climate-driven hydrological changes using a palaeolimnological approach. Journal of Great Lakes Research.
• Peters, L. I., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Klánová, J., Moehring, T., & Harrad, S. (2021). Temporal trends in radiometrically dated sediment cores from English lakes show polybrominated diphenyl ethers correlate with brominated but not mixed bromo/chloro dioxins and furans. Science of The Total Environment, 143118.

2020

• Courtene-Jonesa, W., Quinnb, B., Ewinsb, C., Garya, S. F., Narayanaswamya, B. E. (2020). Microplastic accumulation in deep-sea sediments from the Rockall Trough. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 154, 111092.
• Whitmore, T. J., Riedinger-Whitmore, M. A., Reed, Z. E., Curtis, J. H., Yang, H., Evans, D. E., . . . Franklin, D. L. (2020). Paleolimnological Assessment of Six Lakes on the Kissimmee Chain, with Implications for Restoration of the Kissimmee–Okeechobee–Everglades system, Florida, USA. Lake and Reservoir Management, 1-25.
• Rose, N. L., Milner, A. M., Fitchett, J. M., Langerman, K. E., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., . . . Curtis, C. J. (2020). Natural archives of long-range transported contamination at the remote lake Letšeng-la Letsie, Maloti Mountains, Lesotho. Science of The Total Environment, 139642. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139642
• Roberts, S., Adams, J. K., Mackay, A. W., Swann, G. E. A., McGowan, S., Rose, N. L., . . . Shchetnikov, A. A. (2020). Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia. Environmental Pollution, 113814.

2019

• Anderson, N. J., Appleby, P. G., Bindler, R., Renberg, I., Conley, D. J., Fritz, S. C., . . . Yang, H. (2019). Landscape-Scale Variability of Organic Carbon Burial by SW Greenland Lakes. Ecosystems.

2018

• Yang, H., Shilland, E., Appleby, P., Rose, N., & Battarbee, R. (2018). Legacy Lead Stored in Catchments Is the Dominant Source for Lakes in the UK: Evidence from Atmospherically Derived 210Pb. Environmental Science and Technology.
• Engels, S., Fong, L. S. R. Z., Chen, Q., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., Idris, M., . . . Yang, H. (2018). Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records. Environmental Pollution.
• Lacey, J., Leng, M., Vane, C., Radbourme, A., Yang, H., & Ryves, D. (2018). Assessing human impact on Rostherne Mere, UK, using the geochemistry of organic matter. Anthropocene.
• Xueru, L., RIOUAL, P., Peng, W., Yang, H., & Huang, X. (2018). Impact of recent climate change on Lake Kanas, Altai Mountains (N.W. China) inferred from diatom and geochemical evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology.

2017

• Meyer-Jacob, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Monteith, D., Yang, H., Weckström, J., . . . Bindler, R. (2017). Inferring Past Trends in Lake Water Organic Carbon Concentrations in Northern Lakes Using Sediment Spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology.

2016

• Yang, R., Xie, T., Li, A., Yang, H., Turner, S., Wu, G., & Jing, C. (2016). Sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in remote lakes across the Tibetan Plateau. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, 214, 1-7.
• Yang, H., & Appleby, P. G. (2016). Use of lead-210 as a novel tracer for lead (Pb) sources in plants. Scientific Reports, (6), 1-9.

2015

• Meyer-Jacob, C., Tolu, J., Bigler, C., Yang, H., & Bindler, R. (2015). Early land use and centennial scale changes in lake-water organic carbon prior to contemporary monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(21), 6579-6584.

2013

• Yang, H., & Turner, S. (2013). Radiometric dating for recent lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau. HYDROBIOLOGIA, 713(1), 73-86.
• Rioual, P., Lu, Y., Yang, H., Scuderi, L., Chu, G., Holmes, J., . . . Yang, X. (2013). Diatom-environment relationships and a transfer function for conductivity in lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China. JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY, 50(2), 207-229.

2012

• Drevnick, P. E., Yang, H., Lamborg CH., & Rose, N. L. (2012). Net atmospheric mercury deposition to Svalbard: Estimates from lacustrine sediments. Atmospheric Environment, 59, 509-513.
• Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., & Simpson, G. L. (2012). An assessment of the mechanisms for the transfer of lead and mercury from atmospherically contaminated organic soils to lake sediments with particular reference to Scotland, UK. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 82, 113-135.

2010

• Vane, C. H., Kim, A. W., McGowan, S., Leng, M. J., Heaton, T. H. E., Kendrick, C. P., . . . Swann, G. E. A. (2010). Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting pen-urban shallow lakes. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 409(2), 345-356.
• Yang, H., Engstrom, D. R., & Rose, N. L. (2010). Recent Changes in Atmospheric Mercury Deposition Recorded in the Sediments of Remote Equatorial Lakes in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 44(17), 6570-6575.
• Yang, H., Battarbee, R. W., Turner, S. D., Rose, N. L., Derwent, R. G., Wu, G., & Yang, R. (2010). Historical Reconstruction of Mercury Pollution Across the Tibetan Plateau Using Lake Sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 44(8), 2918-2924.