Dr Adrian Bass
- Reader (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
telephone:
01413306654
email:
Adrian.Bass@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, Main Building
Biography
Biography Overview
I am a carbon cycle biogeochemist who specialises in carbon dynamics at terrestrial-aquatric boundaries. My research has taken me from the poles to the tropics where I have studied lateral carbon fluxes in rivers, dynamics of greenhouse gas evasion from river / wetlands / estuaries, and modelling carbon and water mass mixing in both rivers and oceanic systems. I am also interested in the stocks and fluxes of global pyrogenic carbon and its use as a carbon sequestration mechanism. I graduated with a degree in marine biology from the University of Wales Swansea in 2004, completed a Ph.D in lake carbon-cycle functioning from the University of Glasgow in 2008, before conducting 6 years of post doctoral research at James Cook University and Western Sydney University, Australia.
Current / Recent Research Projects:
MOT4Rivers - NERC Freshwater Programme
GALLANT: Glasgow as a Living Laboratory Accelerating Novel Transformation
Research interests
- Aquatic carbon cycle processes.
- Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem biosphere-atmosphere flux dynamics.
- Lateral and vertical fluxes of carbon from terrestrial to aquatic systems.
- Small- and large-scale drivers of trace gas fluxes from soils, focusing on methane and carbon dioxide.
- Integration of local aquatic carbon flux estimates into regional models.
- Natural abundance stable isotope tracer techniques in aquatic and terrestrial systems.
- Interaction of terrestrial and aquatic carbon stocks.
- Land-use alteration impact on fluvial carbon dynamics.
- Climatic impact on fluvial carbon cycle processes.
- Spectrometric techniques for stable isotope analysis.
- Development of high temporal resolution stable isotope instrumentation.
- Biochar as an agricultural amendment, including yield improvements, plant health and soil resilience to climate variation for sustainable production.
- Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emission reductions from soil using biochar.
- Local to ecosystem scale trace gas fluxes, including CO2, CH4 and N2O.
Grants
2024: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - AQUA ELECTROSENS: Accelerated QUAlitative& QUAntitative Analysis by ELECTROchemical SENS £8,000
2023: MOT4Rivers: Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigating Pollution Impacts in a changing world: Science & Tools for tomorrows rivers. £1.99 million (NERC: NE/X01620X/1)
2022: Determining the sources and controls of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from acid mine water and its associated treatment, using radiocarbon analysis. £18,770 (NERC: NEIF 2513.0422).
2022: GALLANT – Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation. £10.2 million. NERC (NE/W005042/1).
2019: FIRE-RECOVER – Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions during recovery from fire in peatlands undergoing restoration. £52, 415 (NERC: NE/T006544/1).
2019 - Living Deltas. £1.7 million of £17.4 million GCRF Research Hub. NERC (NES0089261).
2019 - Elucidating the controls on CH4 and CO2 emissions from permafrost thaw lakes using radiocarbon analysis. £16,566. NERC (NRCF010001; allocation number 2128.1018.001).
2019: Aquasence. ERC (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018). £4.06 million. - European training network in water quality monitoring and field sensor development.
2017 - Principals Early Career Mobility Fund. £4,650. Glasgow University.
2016 - Post Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchange. £4,100. SAGES+
2016 - Does lateral export of carbon decrease in a greener savanna? £7015. The Carnegie Trust.
2013 - Delineating oceanic water mass boundaries at high spatial resolution using automated carbon, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios in a transect from New Zealand to Antarctica. AU$11,500. James Cook University.
2012 - Development of an automated system for continuous, un-attended measurement of dissolved inorganic carbon concentration and stable isotopic composition in aquatic systems. AU$12,048. James Cook University.
2011 - Modelling high temporal resolution export dynamics of carbon from a small, sharply inclined tropical rainforest catchment. AU$7,000. James Cook University.
Supervision
I am available to supervise PhD and MRes research students, potential research topics include (but are not limited to):
Greenhouse gas dynamics in small water bodies.
Tree mediated methane fluxes in temperate coastal environments.
Dynamics of fluvial black carbon in natural and anthropogenic landscapes.
Enhanced rock weathering and its impact on aquatic carbon dynamics.
Aquatic carbon dynamics in landscapes with significant extraction legacy.
I am happy to discuss possible projects in these and many other areas of biogeochemistry, please get in touch if you wish to discuss possible projects.
Current PhD supervision:
- Dashti, Alyaa
Hyperspectral Monitoring of Bioactivity in the Northern Arabian Gulf - Gakpe, Edward Amego
Methane and Carbon dioxide measurement and quantification from River Clyde Estuary
Completed PhD supervision:
- Alison Brown. Greenhouse gas emissions from human-impacted rivers: Identifying ‘hotspots’ from source-to-sea, their drivers and stability. 2019 - 2023
- Jennifer Mallon. Community Productivity and Calcification of Caribbean Coral Reefs undergoing Phase-shift. 2018 – 2022.
- Chao Gu. Fluvial carbon dynamics in temperate urban / agricultural catchment. 2017 – 2021.
- Getachew Agegnehu. Impacts of biochar and compost on soil fertility, crop performance and carbon sequestration in tropical agricultural soils. 2012 - 2016.
Teaching
- Level-3 Geography
- Geographic Techniques
- Research Skills
- Oceanography
- Monitoring Water Environments in 'Sustainable Water Environments MS.c'
Research datasets
Additional information
Conference Participation:
Stolpmann L, Balke T, Bass AM (2023) Increased CO2 Efflux from Retreating Salt Marshes Occurs Before Active Erosion. EGU General Assembly.
Stolpmann L, Balke T, Bass AM (2022) Retreating Salt Marsh Edges Show Increased CO2 Efflux Before Sediment Erosion. AGU Fall Meeting.
Neethipathi DK, Ganguly P, Beniwal A, Bass AM, Scott M, Dahiya R (2022) MoS2 modified screen printed carbon electrode based flexible sensor for detection of Copper. IEEE Int conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors & Systems (FLEPS).
Artz R, Coyle M, Gilbert P, Andersen R, Bass AM (2021) Post-fire carbon dioxide emissions from a peatland undergoing restoration. EGU General Assembly.
Gu C, Waldron S, Bass AM (2021) Carbon dioxide and methane temporal dynamics in an urban river. Geophysical Research Abstracts.
Mallon J, Cyronak T, Hall E, Banaszak A, Exton D, Bass AM (2021) Light-driven dynamics between calcification and production in functionally diverse coral reef calcifiers. International Coral Reef Society 14th Conference.
Artz R, Coyle M, Gilbert P, Andersen R, Bass AM (2021) Post-fire carbon dioxide emissions from a peatland undergoing restoration. European Geosciences Union meeting.
Moguel RG, Douglas PM, Bass AM, Pilote M & Garnett M (2019) Radiocarbon Data from Permafrost Peatland Lakes Indicate Dissolved Methane is Dominantly Modern while Particulate Matter and Ebullition Methane Contain Older Carbon. American Geosciences Union meeting.
Bass AM, Bird MI, (2015) Biochar and compost amendments for soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation. National Soil Carbon Program (NSCP), Canberra.
Bass AM, Bird MI, Jenberu G, Beavan A, Nelson P (2014) Biochar as a soil amendment in tropical Australia: Crop yield and growth, greenhouse gas fluxes and soil chemistry. National Soil Science Conference, Melbourne.
Munksgaard NC, Zwart C, Bass AM, Wurster C, Haig J, Nott J (2013) Stable isotopes in precipitation and paleoclimatic archives in tropical areas to improve regional hydrological and climatic impact models. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.
Munksgaard NC, Bass AM, Wurster C, Bird I (2013). Analysis of δ18O and δD in environmental waters at high temporal and spatial resolution by Diffusion Sampling – Cavity Ring-down Spectrometry (DS-CRDS). European Geosciences Union meeting, Vienna.
Bass, A. M., M. I. Bird, M. Liddell & P. Nelson. (2011). Fluvial dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic carbon during periodic flood events in a steep tropical rainforest catchment.11th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference, Cairns.
Bass, A. M., S. Waldron, T. Preston, and C. E. Adams. (2007) Temporal and Spatial Variation in δ13CDIC and δ18ODO: A Case Study Using Loch Lomond, Scotland. Isotopes in Ecology conference, Belfast.
Bass, A. M., S. Waldron, T. Preston, and C. E. Adams. (2006) Temporal and Spatial Variation in δ13CDIC and δ18ODO: A Case Study Using Loch Lomond, Scotland. (2006). Scottish Freshwater Group, Stirling.
Bass, A. M., S. Waldron, T. Preston, and C. E. Adams. (2005). Dissolved Organic Carbon in Loch Lomond, Scotland: Spatial and temporal variation in concentration and isotopic composition. Scottish Freshwater Group conference, Stirling.
Bass, A. M., S. Waldron, T. Preston, and C. E. Adams. (2005). Dissolved Organic Carbon in Loch Lomond, Scotland: Spatial and temporal variation in concentration and isotopic composition. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography conference, Santiago de Compostella.
Activity in the Academy:
Reviewer in several international journals including (but not limited to): Limnology and Oceanography, Biogeochemistry, Science of the Total Environment, Global Change Biology, Hydrological Processes, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Pedosphere, Geoderma.
Discovery grants reviewer, Australian Research Council (ARC).
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Reviewer.
Nuffield Research Placements Reviewer.
Photography
- www.adrianbass.smugmug.com
- Instagram @bassers