Andrew Bray
Postgraduate Student
Telephone number:
+44(0) 113 34
33647
Email address: ee08awb@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.154
Biography
Project Details
Project Title: Mineral weathering and soil formation: the role of microorganisms
Supervisors: Prof Liane Benning, Dr Steeve Bonneville, Prof Bruce Yardley
Start Date: 1st October 2009
Qualifications
BSc Environmental Geoscience Cardiff University
MSc Geochemistry University of Leeds
Memberships/Fellowships
Geological Society of London - Fellow
European Association of Geochemistry - Member
Mineralogical Society - Member
Research Interests
My principal research interests are in the chemistry of terrestrial bio-geo interactions, particularly, soil formation processes and nutrient fluxes in the critical zone. I am also interested in global scale biogeochemical cycling, Earth surface processes, weathering and landscape evolution.
Teaching Interests
Demonstrator for undergraduate lab classes, field trips and Masters' level geochemistry course.
Publications
Bonneville, S., Morgan, D.J., Schmalenberger, A., Bray, A., Brown, A., Banwart S.A., Benning, L.G. (2011) Tree-mycorrhiza symbiosis accelerate mineral weathering: Evidences from nanometer-scale elemental fluxes at the hypha–mineral interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 6988-7005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.08.041