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Recent publications and PhD Theses

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Publications

2009

  • Ingels J., Kiriakoulakis K., Wolff G.A. and Vanreusel A. (2009) Enriched metazoan meiofauna and nematode structure and diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep-Sea Research I, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.010. Abstract
  • Jeffreys R.M., Wolff G.A. and Murty S. (2009) The trophic ecology of the megafauna at the Pakistan margin: insights from stable isotopes and lipid biomarkers. Deep-Sea Research I, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.05.001. Abstract
  • Christiansen B., Wolff G.A. (2009) The oceanography, biogeochemistry and ecology of two NE Atlantic seamounts: The OASIS project. Deep Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.021. Abstract
  • Vilas J. C., Arístegui J., Kiriakoulakis K., Wolff G. A., Espino M., Polo I., Montero M. F., Mendonça (2009) A. Seamounts and organic matter – is there an effect? The case of Sedlo and Seine Seamounts; Part 1. Distributions of dissolved and particulate organic matter. Deep Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.023. Abstract
  • Kiriakoulakis K., Vilas J. C., Blackbird S. J., Arístegui J., Wolff G. A. (2009) Seamounts and organic matter – is there an effect? The case of Sedlo and Seine Seamounts. Part II. Composition of suspended particulate organic matter. Deep Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.024. Abstract
  • Lavaleye M., Duineveld G., Lundälv T., White M., Guihen D., Kiriakoulakis K. and Wolff G.A. 2009) Cold-Water Corals on the Tisler Reef. Preliminary observations on the dynamic reef environment. Oceanography, 22, 76-84. Full Article
  • Tyler P., Amaro T., Azorla R., Cunha M., de Stigter H., Gooday A., Huveene V., Ingels J., Kiariakoulakis K., Lastras G., Masson D., Oliveira A., Pattenden A., Vanreusel A., van Weering T., Vitorino J., Witte U., Wolff G.A. (2009) Europe’s ‘Grand Canyon’: the Nazaré Submarine Canyon. Oceanography, 22, 46-57. Full Article

2008

  • Jeffreys,R.M., Wolff G.A., Cowie G.L. (2008) Influence of oxygen on heterotrophic reworking of sedimentary lipids at the Pakistan Margin. Deep-Sea Research II, 56 358–375. Abstract
  • Mawji E., Gledhill M., Milton J.A., Tarran G.A., Ussher S., Thompson A., Wolff G.A., Worsfold P.J. and Achterberg E.P. (2008) Hydroxamate siderophores: occurrence and importance in the Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Science and Technology 42, 8675-8670. Abstract
  • Chiverrell R.C., Oldfield F., Appleby P.G., Barlow D., Fisher E., Thompson R. and Wolff G. (2008) Evidence for changes in Holocene sediment flux in Semer Water and Raydale, North Yorkshire, UK. Geomorphology, 100, 70-82. Abstract
  • Mather R.L., Reynolds S.E., Wolff G.A., Williams R. G., Torres-Valdes S., Woodward E. Malcolm S., Landolfi Angela, Pan Xi, Sanders Richard, and Achterberg Eric P. (2008) Phosphorus Cycling in North and South Atlantic sub-tropical gyres. Nature Geoscience, 1, 439 - 443. Abstract

2007

  • Reynolds, S. E., Mather R. L., Wolff G. A., Williams R. G., Landolfi A., Sanders R., and Woodward E.M.S. (2007), How widespread and important is N2 fixation in the North Atlantic Ocean?, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, GB4015, doi:10.1029/2006GB002886. Abstract
  • Hughes, J.A., Smith, T., Chaillan, F., Bett, B.J., Billett, D.S.M., Boorman, B., Fisher E.H., Frenz, M. & Wolff, G.A. (2007) Two abyssal sites in the Southern Ocean influenced by different organic matter inputs: environmental characterization and preliminary observations on the benthic foraminifera. Deep-Sea Research II 54 (2007) 2275–2290. Abstract
  • Marshall J.D., Lang B., Crowley S.F., Weedon G.P., van Calsteren P., Fisher E.H., Holme R., Holmes J.A., Jones R.T., Bedford A., Brooks S.J., Bloemendal J., Kiriakoulakis K., and Ball J.D. (2007). Terrestrial impact of abrupt changes in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation: Early Holocene, UK. Geology, 35, 639–642. Abstract
  • Turnewitsch R., Springer B. M., Kiriakoulakis K., Vilas J. C., Arístegui J., Wolff G. A., Peine F., Werk S., Graf G., Waniek. J. (2007). Approaching the true concentration of particulate organic carbon in seawater: the relative methodological importance of artificial organic carbon gains and losses in two-filtration-based techniques. Marine Chemistry, 105, 208-228. Abstract
  • Kiriakoulakis K. , Freiwald A., Fisher E., Wolff G. A. (2007) Organic matter quality and supply to deep-water coral/mound systems of the NW European Continental Margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96, 159-170. Abstract

2006

  • Roussenov V, Williams R.G., Mahaffey C. and Wolff GA (2006) Does the transport of dissolved organic nutrients affect export production in the Atlantic Ocean? Global Biogeochemical Cycles vol 20 GB3002 Art. No. GB3002 JUL 8 2006. Abstract
  • Jones V., Parish K, Thomson A, Wolff G.A. Maie N., Jaffé R. (2006) Molecular characterization of proteinaceous material in the Florida coastal Everglades, Hydrobiologia, 569, 1, 129-133(5). Abstract
  • Neto R.R., Wolff G.A., Billett D.S.M., Mackenzie K.L. and Thompson A. (2006) The influence of changing food supply on the lipid biochemistry of deep-sea holothurians. Deep-Sea Research I, 53, 516-527. Abstract

2005

  • Neto R.R., Thompson A. & Wolff G.A. (2005) Determination of steryl sulphates in invertebrate tissue by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 383(6), 938-946. Abstract
  • Jones V., Collins M.J., Penkman K.E.H., Jaffe R., and Wolff G.A. (2005) An assessment of the microbial contribution to aquatic dissolved organic nitrogen using amino acid enantiomeric ratios. Organic Geochemistry, 36(7), 1099-1107. Abstract
  • Kiriakoulakis K., Fisher L., Freiwald A., Grehan A., Roberts M. and Wolff G.A. ( 2005) Lipids and nitrogen isotopes of two deep-water corals from the North-East Atlantic: initial results and implications for their nutrition. In: Cold water Corals and Ecosystems (eds: Freiwald A. and Roberts M.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 715-729. Full Article

2004

  • Kiriakoulakis K., Bett B.J., White M. and Wolff G.A. (2004) Organic biogeochemistry of the Darwin Mounds, a deep-water coral ecosystem, of the NE Atlantic. Deep Sea Research I 51(12), 1937-1954 Abstract
  • Hudson I.R., Pond D.W., Billett D.S.M., Tyler P.A., Lampitt R.S. and Wolff G.A. (2004) Temporal variations in fatty acid composition of deep-sea holothurians: evidence of bentho-pelagic coupling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 281, 109–120. Abstract
  • Van Gaever S., Vanreusel A., Hughes J.A., Bett B.J. and Kiriakoulakis K. (2004) The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 84, 547-556. Abstract
  • Mahaffey C., Williams R.G., Wolff G.A. and Anderson W.T. (2nd March 2004) Physical supply of nitrogen to phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18(1), GB1034 10.1029/2003GB002129. Full article
  • Jones V., Ruddell C.J., Wainwright G., Rees H.H., Jaffé R., and Wolff G.A. (2004) One-dimensional and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: a tool for protein characterisation in aquatic samples. Marine Chemistry, 85(1-2), 63-73. Abstract

2003

  • Wigham, B.D., Hudson, I.R., Billett, D.S.M. and Wolff, G.A. (2003) Is long-term change in the abyssal Northeast Atlantic driven by qualitative changes in export flux? Evidence from selective feeding in deep-sea holothurians. Progress in Oceanography, 59, 409-441. Abstract
  • Oldfield F. Wake, R., Boyle, J., Jones, R., Nolan, S., Gibbs, Z., Appleby, P., Fisher, E. and Wolff, G.A. (2003a) The late-Holocene history of Gormire Lake (NE England) and itscatchment: a multiproxy reconstruction of past human impact. Holocene, 13(5), 677-690. Abstract
  • Oldfield F., Asioli A., Accorsi C.A., Mercuri A.M., Juggins S., Langone L., Rolph T., Trincardi F., Wolff G., Vigliotti L., Frigani M., van der Post K. and Branch N. (2003b) A high resolution late Holocene palaeoenvironmental record from the central Adriatic Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, 319-342. Abstract
  • Mahaffey C., Williams R.G., Wolff G.A., Mahowald N., Anderson W. and Woodward M. (2003) Biogeochemical signatures of nitrogen fixation in the eastern North Atlantic, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(6), art. no.-1300. Abstract
  • Fisher E., Oldfield F. Wake R. Boyle J. Appleby P. and Wolff G. A. (2003) Molecular marker records of land use change. Organic Geochemistry, 34(1), 105-119. Abstract

2002

  • Santos V.L.C.S., Billett D.S.M. and Wolff G.A. (2002) 1-O-Alkylglyceryl ether lipids of the gut walls and contents of an abyssal holothurian (Oneirophanta mutabilis) Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 13(5), 653-657. Full article - pdf

2001

  • Lampitt R., Bett B.J., Kiriakoulakis K., Popova E.E., Ragueneau O., Vangriesheim A. and Wolff G.A. (2001) Material supply to the abyssal seafloor in the northeast Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 27-63. Abstract
  • Kiriakoulakis K., Stutt E., Rowland S.J., Vangriesheim A., Lampitt R.S. and Wolff G.A.(2001) Controls on the organic chemical composition of settling particles in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 65-87. Abstract
  • Fabiano M., Pusceddu, A. Dell’Anno A., Armeni, M,. Vanucci, S., Lampitt, R.S., Wolff, G.A., Danovaro, R. (2001) Fluxes of phytopigments and labile organic matter to the deep ocean in the NE Atlantic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 89-104. Abstract
  • Rabouille, C., Stahl H., Bassinot F., Tengberg A., Brunnegard J., Hall P., Kiriakoulakis K., Reyss J-L., Dezileau L., Crassous P., Roos P., and Lampitt R. (2001) Imbalance in the carbonate budget of surficial sediments in the North Atlantic Ocean: millenium time scale variation? Progress in Oceanography, 50, 201-221. Abstract
  • Galeron J. Sibuet M. Vanreusel A. Mackenzie K.L. Gooday A.J., Dinet A. and Wolff, G.A. (2001) Temporal patterns among meiofauna and macrofauna taxa related to changes in sediment geochemistry at an abyssal NE Atlantic site. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 303-324. Abstract
  • Billett D.S.M., Bett B.J, Rice A.L., Thurston M.H., Galeron J., Sibuet M. and Wolff G.A. (2001) Long-term change in megabenthos of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 325-348. Abstract
  • Ginger M. L., Billett D. S. M., Mackenzie K. L., Kiriakoulakis K., Neto R.R, Boardman D.K., Santos V.L.C.S., Horsfall I.M. and Wolff G. A. (2001) Organic matter assimilation and seletive feeding by holothurians in the deep sea: some observations and comments. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 407-421. Abstract.
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2000

  • Kiriakoulakis K., Marshall J.D. and Wolff G.A. (2000) Biomarkers in a Lower Jurassic concretion from Dorset (UK). Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157(1), 207-220. Abstract
  • Gage J.D., Levin L.A. and Wolff G.A. (2000) Benthic processes in the deep Arabian Sea: Introduction and overview. Deep-Sea Research II, 47, 1-7.
  • Smallwood B.J. and Wolff G.A. (2000) Characterisation of organic matter in sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone at the Oman Margin, Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 47, 353-375. Abstract
  • Ginger M.L., Santos V.L.C.S. and Wolff G.A. (2000) A preliminary investigation of the lipids of abyssal holothurians. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, U.K, 80, 139-146. Abstract.

1999

  • Smallwood B.J., Bett B.J., Smith C.R., Gage J.D., Patience A., Hoover D. and Wolff G.A. (1999) Megafauna can control the quality of organic matter in marine sediments. Naturwissenschaften, 86(7), 320-324. Abstract
  • Watts S., Pollard A.M. and Wolff G.A. (1999) Pyrolysis-GCMS of Jet and other black lithic materials. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26, 923-933. Abstract
  • De Craen M., Swennen R., Keppens E.M., Macaulay C.I. and Kiriakoulakis K. (1999) Bacterially mediated formation of carbonate concretions in the Oligocene Boom Clay of Northern Belgium. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 69, 1098-1106. Abstract
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1998

  • Thompson A., McMorn P. and Wolff G. A. (1998) A rapid method for the clean-up of chlorinated biphenyls (CBs) isolated from environmental samples. Talanta, 45, 1001-1006. Abstract
  • Prartono T. and Wolff G.A. (1998) Organic geochemistry of lacustrine sediments: evidence for the changing trophic status of the lake, Rostherne Mere, UK. Organic Geochemistry, 28, 729-747. Abstract
  • Rouchy J.M., Taberner C., Blanc-Valleron M.M., Sprovieri R., Russell M., Pierre C., Di Stefano E., Wolff G.A., Pueyo J.J., Caruso A., Dinarès-Turrell J., Grimalt J., Gomis-Coll E., Cespuglio G., Ditchfield P., Pestrea S., Combororieu-Nebout N. and Santisteban C. (1998) Sedimentary and diagenetic markers of the restriction in a marine basin: The Lorca Basin (SE Spain) during the Messinian. Sedimentary Geology, 121, 23-55. Abstract

    1997

  • Marshall J.D., Brenchley P.J., Mason P., Wolff G.A., Astini R.A., Hints L. and Meidla T. (1997) Global carbon isotopic events associated with mass extinctions and glaciation in the late Ordovician. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 132, 195-210. Abstract
  • Watts S., Pollard A.M. and Wolff G.A. (1997) Kimmeridge Jet - A potential new source for British Jet. Archaeometry, 39, 125-143
  • Horsfall I.M. and Wolff G.A. (1997) Hydrolysable amino acids in surficial sediments from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, north-east Atlantic ocean. Organic Geochemistry, 26, 311-320. Abstract
  • Fitzsimons M.F., Jemmett A.W.L. and Wolff G.A. (1997) The geochemistry of the methylamines in a salt marsh of varying maturity through a tidal cycle. Organic Geochemistry, 27, 15-24. Abstract
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1996

  • Thompson A., Allen J., Dodoo D., Hunter J., Hawkins S. and Wolff G.A. (1996) The distributions of organochlorine compounds in environmental samples from the North and Irish Seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 32, 232-237. Abstract

1995

  • Fitzsimmons M.F., Abdul-Rashid K.M., Riley J.P and Wolff G.A. (1995) Aminopropanone as a marker for raw sewage in natural waters? Marine Pollution Bulletin., 30, 306-312. Abstract
  • Wolff G.A., Boardman D., Sutton I., Horsfall I., Ripley M., Lewis C.A., Rowland S.J., Patching J., Ferrero T., Lambshead J., Davis N., Chester R. and Rice A.L. (1995) The biogeochemistry of sediments from the Madeira Abyssal Plain. Internationale Revue der gestamen Hydrobiologie, 80, 333-349.
  • Lambshead P.J.D., Ferrero T.J. and Wolff G.A. (1995) Comparison of the vertical distribution of nematodes from two contrasting abyssal sites in the Northeast Atlantic subject to different seasonal inputs of phytodetritus. Internationale Revue der gestamen Hydrobiologie, 80, 327-331.
  • Jaffé R., Wolff G.A., Cabrera A. and Carvajal H. (1995) Biogeochemistry of dissolved and particle associated lipids in rivers from the Orinoco Basin. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 59, 4507-4522. Abstract

1994

  • Santos V., Billett D.S.M., Rice A.L. and Wolff G.A. (1994) The fate of organic matter in deep sea sediments from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. I. Lipids. Deep Sea Research, 41, 787-819. Abstract
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Theses

  • Mather R. (2009)
  • Song Y. (2008)
  • Reynolds S. (2008)
  • Gibbons H.L. (2007) “Climate change and the carbon cycle of a small, hard water lake”
  • Jefferys R.M. (2006) “Influence of environmental conditions on biogeochemical processes in the Arabian Sea: Oxygen and benthos”
  • Jones V. (2003) "Characterisation of dissolved organic nitrogen compounds in aquatic samples"
  • Mahaffey C. (2003) "Biogeochemical signals for the supply of nitrogen to phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean"
  • Neto R.R. (2002) " The biochemical response of deep-sea holothurians to temporal variability in food supply at the deep-sea abyssal floor"
  • Mackenzie K.L. (2000) "Seasonality in the abyssal North Eastern Atlantic - a biogeochemical perspective"
  • Fisher E. (1999) "The impact of land use change on lacustrine organic geochemistry"
  • Smallwood B. (1998) "The influence of physical and biological processes on organic matter distribution and preservation in recent marine sediments from the Oman Margin, Arabian Sea"
  • Kiriakoulakis K. (1997) "Organic geochemistry of early diagenetic concretions"
  • Mason, P. (1996) "Palaeoceanographic changes associated with the late Ordovician mass extinctions"
  • Prartono T. (1996) "Organic geochemistry of lacustrine sediments. A case study of the eutrophic lake, Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, UK"
  • Sutton I. (1995) "Trace metal and organic matter diagenesis in deep-sea sediments"
  • Horsfall I. (1995) "Early diagenesis of amino acids in sediments from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and the role of holothurians"
  • Santos V. (1993) "Biogeochemistry of deep-ocean sediments from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean".
  • Lee K. (1993) "Structural characterisation of dissolved organic carbon by adsorption-pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry"
  • Fitzsimons M. (1993) "The geochemistry of methylamines in recent marine and lacustrine sediments"
  • Al-Lihaibi S. (1991) "Organic sulphur in recent marine sediments"