Environmental Sciences Research Institute

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Brian Rippey

Professor in Environmental Science

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School of Environmental Sciences
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine
BT52 1SA
Tel: +44 (0) 2870 124864
Fax: +44 (0) 2870 124911
Email: bhrt.rippey@ulster.ac.uk

Research Interests

Aquatic chemistry; the fate and effects of oxygen, heavy metals and phosphorus in lakes, particularly the sedimentary record of environmental change and processes. Ecological assessment and environmental toxicology.

Publications

Number of items: 16.

Rippey, Brian (2010) A model for the concentration of lead and polychlorinated biphenyls in lake sediment. Journal of Paleolimnology, 43. pp. 565-576.

Rippey, B and McSorley, C (2009) Oxygen depletion in lake hypolimnia. Limnology and Oceanography, 54. pp. 905-916.

McElarney, Y and Rippey, B (2009) A comparison of classifications of reference lakes using aquatic macrophytes and water body descriptors. Hydrobiologia, 625. pp. 195-206.

Kelly, M, Juggins, S, Guthrie, R, Jamieson, J, Rippey, Brian, Hirst, H and Yallop, M (2008) Assessment of ecological status in UK rivers using diatoms. Freshwater Biology , 53. pp. 403-422.

Neale, M and Rippey, B (2008) A comparison of environmental and biological site classifications for the prediction of macroinvertebrate communities of lakes in Northern Ireland. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 18. pp. 729-741.

Rippey, Brian, Anderson, N J, Renberg, I and Korsman, T (2008) The accuracy of methods used to estimate the whole-lake accumulation rate of organic carbon, major cations, phosphorus and heavy metals in sediment. Journal of Paleolimnology, 39. pp. 83-99.

Dodkins, Ian and Rippey, Brian (2008) Objectivity and confidence in biological assessment or rivers and lakes. In: Focus on Water Resource Research. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 149-193. ISBN 978-1-60456-093-0

Rippey, Brian, Rose, N, Yang, H, Harrard, S, Robson, M and Travers, S (2007) An assessment of toxicity in profundal lake sediment due to deposition of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants from the atmosphere. Environment International, 34. pp. 345-356.

Rippey, B and Douglas, RW (2004) Reconstructing regional-scale lead contamination of the atmosphere (1850-1980) in the United Kingdom and Ireland using lake sediments. GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, 18 (4). pp. GB4026.

Rippey, B, Rose, CL and Douglas, RW (2004) A model for lead, zinc, and copper in lakes. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 49 (6). pp. 2256-2264.

Douglas, RW, Rippey, B and Gibson, CE (2003) Estimation of the in-situ settling velocity of particles in lakes using a time series sediment trap. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, 48 (3). pp. 512-518.

Jordan, P. and Rippey, Brian (2003) Lake sedimentary evidence of phosphorus, iron and manganese mobilisation from intensively fertilised soils. WATER RESEARCH, 37 (6). pp. 1426-1432.

Douglas, RW, Rippey, B and Gibson, CE (2002) Interpreting sediment trap data in relation to the dominant sediment redistribution process in a lake. ARCHIV FUR HYDROBIOLOGIE, 155 (4). pp. 529-539.

Jordan, Philip, Rippey, Brian and Anderson, NJ (2002) The 20th century whole-basin trophic history of an inter-drumlin lake in an agricultural catchment. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 297 (1-3). pp. 161-173.

Jordan, Philip, Rippey, Brian and Anderson, NJ (2001) Modeling diffuse phosphorus loads from land to freshwater using the sedimentary record. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 35 (5). pp. 815-819.

Douglas, RW and Rippey, B (2000) The random redistribution of sediment by wind in a lak. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 45 (3). pp. 686-694.

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