Tim Brand

Telephone: 01631 559297
E-mail:tdbr@sams.ac.uk

Job Title Department of Biogeochemistry and Earth Science Support Scientist



Scientific interests

• Nutrient recycling in water column and sediment.

• Particulate carbon dynamics
• Bioturbation measurement and characterisation using radionuclides and photosynthetic pigments
  

• Particle flux measurement using sediment traps and natural radionuclides.

Current projects

• Kongsfjord (Svalbard) sediment trap particle flux and particle biogeochemistry
• Water column nutrient chemistry along the West coast of Svalbard during August 2005
• Using ²¹⁰ Pb as a tracer of particle movement and deposition along the West coast of Svalbard during August 2005
  
• Sediment carbon dynamics and bioturbation along the West coast of Svalbard
  

Teaching / supervising activities

• Analytical techniques in Biogeochemistry for the 2nd Year Chemical Oceanography module

Publications

Spatially complex distribution of dissolved managanese in a fjord as revealed by high-resolution in situ sensing using the autonumous underwater vehicle  Autosub

P.J. Statham, D.P. Connely, C.R. German, T. Brand, J.O. overnell, E. Bulukin, N. Millard, S. McPhail, M. Peabody, J. Perrett, M. Squire, P. Stevenson and A Webb.

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2005, 39(24) 9440-9445

Manganese dynamics in the water column of the upper basin of Loch Etive, a Scottish fjord

J Overnell, T Brand, W Bourgeois, P.J. Statham.

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2002, 55, 481-492

 

Bioturbation, sediment fluxes and benthic community structure around a salmon cage farm in Loch Creran, Scotland

L. Nickell, K. Black, D. Hughes, J. Overnell, T. Brand, T. Nickell, E. Bruer. S. Harvey

Journal of experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2002, 4057, 1-13

 

Horizontal distributions of biogenic and lithogenic elements of suspended

particulate matter in the Mediterranean Sea 2000

NB Price, T Brand, JM Pates, S Mowbray, A Theocharis, G Civitarese, S Miserocchi, S Heussner, FS Lindsay Progress in Oceanography

               

Accumulation of heavy-metals in the ODER Estuary and its offshore basins

Thomas Neumann, Thomas Leipe, Tim Brand and Graham Shimmield 1996, Chemie der Erde-Geochemistry, Vol 56, No. 3, 207-222

               

 The benthic geochemical record of late Holocene carbon flux in the Northeast Atlantic.

 Graham Shimmield, Tim Brand and George Ritchie 19XX

  Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 348, 221-227

 

Changes in the environment during the last centuries on the basis of siliceous microfossil records from the south-western Baltic Sea.

Elinor Andrén, Graham Shimmield and Timothy Brand 1999

The Holocene, Vol. 9

 

Analysis of total and organic carbon and total nitrogen in settling oceanic particles and a marine sediment: an interlaboratory comparison.

Penny King, Hilary Kennedy, Philip Newton, Timothy Jickells Timothy Brand Stephen Calvert,            Gustave Cauwet , Henri Etchber, Bob Head, Alexis Khripounoff, Barbara Manighetti,                         Juan Carlos Miquel 1998

Marine Chemistry, 60, 203-216

 

The use of 210Pb as an indicator of biological processes affecting the flux and sediment geochemistry of organic carbon in the NE Atlantic.

Tim Brand and Graham Shimmield 1991 in Radionuclides in the study of marine processes

Eds. Kershaw, P.J. and Woodhead, D.S

Educational and career history