Dr John MacDonald

  • Senior Lecturer in Anthropogenic Geomaterials (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

Biography

Biography

2015-present - Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

2013-2015 - PDRA in the Carbonate Research Group with Dr Cedric John, Dept. Earth & Environmenetal Science, Imperial College London

2008-2013 - PhD student with Professor John Wheeler, Dept. Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool

2004-2008 1st class BSc (Hons) in Earth Science, 

School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

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Research interests

Research Opportunities

"Rocks of the Future: how do anthropogenic rocks form and what challenges and opportunities do they pose?" - a mix of field and geochemical analysis to understand the processes whereby artificial ground becomes lithified to form anthropogenic rocks - the rocks of the future. This could be a PhD or MSc by Research.

Additionally, I am always happy to hear from prospective researchers who would like to work in our group.

Research Interests

My main research interest revolves around carbon and carbonates, focusing these days on atmospheric CO2 drawdown and mineralisation. I use a range of analytical methods to investigate 2D and 3D microstructure and geochemical processes to address a range of research questions on:

  • atmospheric CO2 capture with slag and other anthropogenic geomaterials
  • enhanced rock weathering
  • formation of anthropogenic rocks
  • landscape change and pollution from legacy industrial wastes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jb-ViAfOAY

Video: context to my research on atmospheric CO2 mineralisation.

 

Image: reconstruction from XCT data of mineralised CO2 in pores in steel slag.

 

Publications

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Number of items: 50.

2025

Comadran Casas, C. et al. (2025) Feasibility of microbial-induced calcite precipitation in soils polluted by hydrocarbons. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, (Accepted for Publication)

Dickinson, Heloisa, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2025) Enzyme-mediated multiphase precipitation: an innovative strategy for ecotoxic metal immobilizationin aqueous systems. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13(5), 119087. (doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.119087)

MacDonald, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0463-7848, Byrne, Maria, Deaker, Dione J., Foster, Gavin L., Gabarda, Sergio Torres, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Rae, James W.B., Slaymark, Charlotte and Kamenos, Nicholas A. (2025) Timing of calcification and environmental variability determine pH proxy fidelity in coastal calcifying macroalgae. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(9), pp. 2733-2744. (doi: 10.1002/lno.70124)

Alam, Md Jahangir and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2025) Assessing atmospheric CO2 capture with legacy paper mill waste in Scotland. Progress in Physical Geography, (doi: 10.1177/03091333251360750) (Early Online Publication)

Comadran-Casas, Carla ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0728-4395, Unluer, Cise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-5993, Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Macdonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Khaksar Najafi, Elmira, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024 and Gauchotte-Lindsay, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-5031 (2025) Bioremediation of multiple heavy metals through biostimulation of Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation at varying calcium-to-urea concentrations. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 491, 137691. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.137691) (PMID:40088671)

Owen, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-0186, MacDonald, John Murdoch ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Brown, David James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-7382 (2025) Evidence for a rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle. Geology, 53(7), pp. 581-586. (doi: 10.1130/G52895.1)

Stubbs, Amanda R., Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Power, Ian M., McDade, Linzi, Friel, Mark, Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2025) Optimizing the management of quarry fines for on-site carbon removal: Implications of grain size and mineralogy on CO2 mineralization. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 143, 104344. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2025.104344)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Taylor, George, Lewis, Euan R., Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Slaymark, Charlotte, Brown, David J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-7382 and Owen, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-0186 (2025) Formation of an anthropogenic rock: mechanisms and microstructures of lithification of a legacy deposit of cementitious material. Earth Science, Systems and Society, (doi: 10.1144/esss2024-010)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Slaymark, Charlotte, Stubbs, Amanda and Kalabová, Marta (2025) Atmospheric carbon dioxide mineralisation in anthropogenically-derived carbonate deposits. Sedimentologika, 3(1), (doi: 10.57035/journals/sdk.2025.e31.1929)

2024

Stubbs, Amanda, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 (2024) Mechanisms of secondary carbonate precipitation on felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous rocks: a case study for NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 60(2), (doi: 10.1144/sjg2024-003)

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, White, Stella, Corr, Mairéad, Skiba, Ute, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2024) The impact of estuarine flushing on greenhouse gases: a study of the stratified Clyde estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 304, 108830. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2024.108830)

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Divers, Matthew, Wildman, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-7164, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Einsle, Joshua Franz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8531 (2024) Interrogation of ecotoxic elements distribution in slag and precipitated calcite through a machine learning-based approach aided by mass spectrometry. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8(7), 2300559. (doi: 10.1002/adsu.202300559)

Riley, A. L. et al. (2024) Environmental behaviour of iron and steel slags in coastal settings. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, pp. 42428-42444. (doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33897-4)

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, VanderWal, J., Roberts, N.M.W, Winkelstern, I.Z., Faithfull, J.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 and Boyce, A.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-0787 (2024) Fingerprinting fluid source in calcite veins: combining LA-ICP-MS U-Pb calcite dating with trace elements and clumped isotope palaeothermometry. Tektonika, 2(1), pp. 27-39.

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Garnett, Mark H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-2126, Skiba, Ute, Macdonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2024) Sources and controls of greenhouse gases and heavy metals in mine water: A continuing climate legacy. Science of the Total Environment, 906, 167371. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167371) (PMID:37758145)

Hilderman, Robin, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Griffin, Sammy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-3813, Slaymark, Charlotte, Einsle, Joshua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8531 and Monaghan, Andrew (2024) Heterogeneous lithification across a legacy coastal slag bank: the creation of new sedimentary rock from anthropogenic material. Sedimentologika, 2(1), (doi: 10.57035/journals/sdk.2024.e21.1318)

2023

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, Spruženiece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Griffin, Sammy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-3813 and Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 (2023) Microstructural analysis of slag properties associated with calcite precipitation due to passive CO2 mineralization. Micron, 174, 103532. (doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2023.103532) (PMID:37683551)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Brolly, Connor V., Slaymark, Charlotte, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 and Hilderman, Robin (2023) The mechanisms and drivers of lithification in slag-dominated artificial ground. Depositional Record, 9(4), pp. 810-819. (doi: 10.1002/dep2.230)

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Skiba, Ute, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2023) Urban landscapes and legacy industry provide hotspots for riverine greenhouse gases: a source-to-sea study of the River Clyde. Water Research, 236, 119969. (doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119969) (PMID:37099862)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Carter, Ruth, Plomer, Ben, Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 and Slaymark, Charlotte (2023) The mechanisms and microstructures of passive atmospheric CO2 mineralisation with slag at ambient conditions. Applied Geochemistry, 152, 105649. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2023.105649)

2022

Holdsworth, Chris, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and John, Cedric (2022) Non-linear clumped isotopes from DIC endmember mixing and kinetic isotope fractionation in high pH anthropogenic tufa. Minerals, 12(12), 1611. (doi: 10.3390/min12121611)

Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, Dobson, K.J., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Wadsworth, F.B. and Vasseur, J. (2022) The evolution of paleo-porosity in basalts: reversing pore-filling mechanisms using X-ray computed tomography. Transport in Porous Media, 145, pp. 697-717. (doi: 10.1007/s11242-022-01869-2)

Riley, A. L. et al. (2022) Incorporating conceptual site models into national-scale environmental risk assessments for legacy waste in the coastal zone. Frontiers in Environmental Science(10), 1045482. (doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1045482)

Khudhur, Faisal W. K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) Image-based analysis of weathered slag for calculation of transport properties and passive carbon capture. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 28(5), pp. 1514-1525. (doi: 10.1017/S1431927622000915) (PMID:35781360)

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559 and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) The utilization of alkaline wastes in passive carbon capture and sequestration: promises, challenges and environmental aspects. Science of the Total Environment, 823, 153553. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153553)

Cumberland, Susan, Tierney, Kieran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-8946, Renshaw, Joanna, Geraki, Kalotina and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) Analysis of Metal Entrapment Within Anthropogenic Tufa Using Synchrotron Micro-XRF. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4044)

Kalabová, Marta, Cumberland, Susan, Renshaw, Joanna and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) Anthropogenic Tufa at Legacy Industrial Sites: Potential for Metal Capture. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8116)

Khudhur, Faisal W. K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) Passive CO2 Mineralisation in Slag: Evidence From a Slag Heap in Lanarkshire, Scotland. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6525)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Brolly, Connor (2022) Lithification of Slag-dominated Artificial Ground Through Atmospheric CO2 Drawdown. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-790)

Porfirio Del Angel Lozano, Jose, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559 and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) The Utilisation of X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography (XCT) for the Quantification of Carbon Dioxide in Passively Carbonated Steel Slag. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4645)

Riley, Alex, Onnis, Patrizia, Gandy, Catherine, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Burke, Ian, Renforth, Phil, Jarvis, Adam, Hudson-Edwards, Karen and Mayes, William (2022) Iron and Steel-making Slags as an Environmentally-beneficial Resource; A UK Perspective. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4137)

van Mesdag, Savanna, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 and Jump, Alistair (2022) Anthropogenic Biodiversity and Geodiversity - Can Legacy Industrial Waste Help Offset Falling Global Biodiversity? EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1352)

Guice, George L., Miocevich, Sophie R., Hughes, Hannah S. R., McDonald, Iain, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Ackerson, Michael R., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2022) Origin of ultramafic–mafic bodies on the Isles of Lewis and Harris (Scotland, UK): Constraints on the Archean–Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Precambrian Research, 369, 106523. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106523)

2020

Riley, Alex L., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Burke, Ian T., Renforth, Phil, Jarvis, Adam P., Hudson-Edwards, Karen A., McKie, Jessica and Mayes, William M. (2020) Legacy iron and steel wastes in the UK: Extent, resource potential, and management futures. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 219, 106630. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2020.106630)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2020) The origin(s) and geodynamic significance of Archaean ultramafic-mafic bodies in the mainland Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(4), pp. 700-717. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-013)

2019

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Faithfull, J.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, Roberts, N.M.W., Davies, A.J., Holdsworth, C.S., Newton, M., Williamson, S., Boyce, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-0787 and John, C.M. (2019) Clumped isotope palaeothermometry and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of lava-pile hydrothermal calcite veins. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174, 63. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-019-1599-x)

2018

Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, Dempster, Tim J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-7977, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Reilly, Monica and EIMF (2018) Metasomatism and the crystallization of zircon megacrysts in Archaean peridotites from the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 173, 99. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-018-1527-5) (PMID:30930466) (PMCID:PMC6404683)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., Schlatter, Dennis M., Goodenough, Kathryn M., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2018) Assessing the validity of negative high field strength-element anomalies as a proxy for Archaean subduction: evidence from the Ben Strome Complex, NW Scotland. Geosciences, 8(9), 338. (doi: 10.3390/geosciences8090338)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Blenkinsop, Thomas G., Goodenough, Kathryn M., Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 and Gooday, Robert J. (2018) Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex. Precambrian Research, 311, pp. 136-156. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.020)

Lu, Yi-Chia, Song, Sheng-Rong, Taguchi, Sachihiro, Wang, Pei-Ling, Yeh, En-Chao, Lin, Yu-Jie, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and John, Cédric M. (2018) Evolution of hot fluids in the Chingshui geothermal field inferred from crystal morphology and geochemical vein data. Geothermics, 74, pp. 305-318. (doi: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2017.11.016)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, John, Cédric M. and Girard, Jean-Pierre (2018) Testing clumped isotopes as a reservoir characterization tool: a comparison with fluid inclusions in a dolomitized sedimentary carbonate reservoir buried to 2-4 km. In: Lawson, M., Formolo, M.J. and Eiler, J.M. (eds.) From Source to Seep: Geochemical Applications in Hydrocarbon Systems. Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications (468). Geological Society of London, pp. 189-202. (doi: 10.1144/SP468.7)

2017

Lu, Yi-Chia, Song, Sheng-Rong, Wang, Pei-Ling, Wu, Chung-Che, Mii, Horng-Sheng, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Shen, Chuan-Chou and John, Cedric (2017) Magmatic-like fluid source of the Chingshui geothermal field, NE Taiwan evidenced by carbonate clumped-isotope paleothermometry. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 149, pp. 124-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.03.004)

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Magee, C. and Goodenough, K.M. (2017) Dykes as physical buffers to metamorphic overprinting: an example from the Archaean–Palaeoproterozoic Lewisian Gneiss Complex of NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 53(2), pp. 41-52. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2017-004)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Milicich, Sarah, Davies, Amelia, Holdsworth, Chris, Newton, Michael, Williamson, Sam, Faithfull, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, McNamara, David and John, Cedric (2017) Fingerprinting the Temperature and Fluid Source of Fracture-Filling Calcite in Geothermal Systems Using Clumped Isotopes. Goldschmidt 2017, Paris, France, 13-18 Aug 2017.

2015

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Wheeler, John, Crowley, Quentin, Harley, Simon L., Mariani, Elisabetta and Tatham, Daniel (2015) Temperature–time evolution of the Assynt Terrane of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex of Northwest Scotland from zircon U-Pb dating and Ti thermometry. Precambrian Research, 260, pp. 55-75. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.01.009)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, John, Cedric and Girard, Jean-Pierre (2015) Dolomitization Processes in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Insight from Geothermometry Using Clumped Isotopes. In: 11th Applied Isotope Geochemistery Conference AIG-11, Orléans, France, 21-25 Sep 2014, pp. 265-268.

2013

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Wheeler, John, Harley, Simon L., Mariani, Elisabetta, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Crowley, Quentin and Tatham, Daniel (2013) Lattice distortion in a zircon population and its effects on trace element mobility and U–Th–Pb isotope systematics: examples from the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, northwest Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166(1), pp. 21-41. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-013-0863-8)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2013) Zircon—Earth’s timekeeper. Geology Today, 29(3), pp. 113-117. (doi: 10.1111/gto.12011)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Goodenough, Kathryn M. (2013) The South Barra shear zone: a composite Inverian–Laxfordian shear zone and possible Terrane boundary in the Lewisian gneiss complex of the Isle of Barra, NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 49(2), pp. 93-103. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2011-463)

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Comadran Casas, C. et al. (2025) Feasibility of microbial-induced calcite precipitation in soils polluted by hydrocarbons. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, (Accepted for Publication)

Dickinson, Heloisa, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2025) Enzyme-mediated multiphase precipitation: an innovative strategy for ecotoxic metal immobilizationin aqueous systems. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13(5), 119087. (doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.119087)

MacDonald, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0463-7848, Byrne, Maria, Deaker, Dione J., Foster, Gavin L., Gabarda, Sergio Torres, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Rae, James W.B., Slaymark, Charlotte and Kamenos, Nicholas A. (2025) Timing of calcification and environmental variability determine pH proxy fidelity in coastal calcifying macroalgae. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(9), pp. 2733-2744. (doi: 10.1002/lno.70124)

Alam, Md Jahangir and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2025) Assessing atmospheric CO2 capture with legacy paper mill waste in Scotland. Progress in Physical Geography, (doi: 10.1177/03091333251360750) (Early Online Publication)

Comadran-Casas, Carla ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0728-4395, Unluer, Cise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-5993, Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Macdonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Khaksar Najafi, Elmira, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024 and Gauchotte-Lindsay, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-5031 (2025) Bioremediation of multiple heavy metals through biostimulation of Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation at varying calcium-to-urea concentrations. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 491, 137691. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.137691) (PMID:40088671)

Owen, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-0186, MacDonald, John Murdoch ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Brown, David James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-7382 (2025) Evidence for a rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle. Geology, 53(7), pp. 581-586. (doi: 10.1130/G52895.1)

Stubbs, Amanda R., Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Power, Ian M., McDade, Linzi, Friel, Mark, Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2025) Optimizing the management of quarry fines for on-site carbon removal: Implications of grain size and mineralogy on CO2 mineralization. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 143, 104344. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2025.104344)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Taylor, George, Lewis, Euan R., Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Slaymark, Charlotte, Brown, David J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-7382 and Owen, Amanda ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-0186 (2025) Formation of an anthropogenic rock: mechanisms and microstructures of lithification of a legacy deposit of cementitious material. Earth Science, Systems and Society, (doi: 10.1144/esss2024-010)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Slaymark, Charlotte, Stubbs, Amanda and Kalabová, Marta (2025) Atmospheric carbon dioxide mineralisation in anthropogenically-derived carbonate deposits. Sedimentologika, 3(1), (doi: 10.57035/journals/sdk.2025.e31.1929)

Stubbs, Amanda, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 (2024) Mechanisms of secondary carbonate precipitation on felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous rocks: a case study for NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 60(2), (doi: 10.1144/sjg2024-003)

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, White, Stella, Corr, Mairéad, Skiba, Ute, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2024) The impact of estuarine flushing on greenhouse gases: a study of the stratified Clyde estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 304, 108830. (doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2024.108830)

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Divers, Matthew, Wildman, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-7164, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Einsle, Joshua Franz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8531 (2024) Interrogation of ecotoxic elements distribution in slag and precipitated calcite through a machine learning-based approach aided by mass spectrometry. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8(7), 2300559. (doi: 10.1002/adsu.202300559)

Riley, A. L. et al. (2024) Environmental behaviour of iron and steel slags in coastal settings. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, pp. 42428-42444. (doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33897-4)

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, VanderWal, J., Roberts, N.M.W, Winkelstern, I.Z., Faithfull, J.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 and Boyce, A.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-0787 (2024) Fingerprinting fluid source in calcite veins: combining LA-ICP-MS U-Pb calcite dating with trace elements and clumped isotope palaeothermometry. Tektonika, 2(1), pp. 27-39.

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Garnett, Mark H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-2126, Skiba, Ute, Macdonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2024) Sources and controls of greenhouse gases and heavy metals in mine water: A continuing climate legacy. Science of the Total Environment, 906, 167371. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167371) (PMID:37758145)

Hilderman, Robin, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Griffin, Sammy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-3813, Slaymark, Charlotte, Einsle, Joshua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8531 and Monaghan, Andrew (2024) Heterogeneous lithification across a legacy coastal slag bank: the creation of new sedimentary rock from anthropogenic material. Sedimentologika, 2(1), (doi: 10.57035/journals/sdk.2024.e21.1318)

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, Spruženiece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Griffin, Sammy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-3813 and Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 (2023) Microstructural analysis of slag properties associated with calcite precipitation due to passive CO2 mineralization. Micron, 174, 103532. (doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2023.103532) (PMID:37683551)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Brolly, Connor V., Slaymark, Charlotte, Spruzeniece, Liene ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3024, Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 and Hilderman, Robin (2023) The mechanisms and drivers of lithification in slag-dominated artificial ground. Depositional Record, 9(4), pp. 810-819. (doi: 10.1002/dep2.230)

Brown, Alison M., Bass, Adrian M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-6582, Skiba, Ute, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Pickard, Amy E. (2023) Urban landscapes and legacy industry provide hotspots for riverine greenhouse gases: a source-to-sea study of the River Clyde. Water Research, 236, 119969. (doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119969) (PMID:37099862)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Carter, Ruth, Plomer, Ben, Wilson, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-5374 and Slaymark, Charlotte (2023) The mechanisms and microstructures of passive atmospheric CO2 mineralisation with slag at ambient conditions. Applied Geochemistry, 152, 105649. (doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2023.105649)

Holdsworth, Chris, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and John, Cedric (2022) Non-linear clumped isotopes from DIC endmember mixing and kinetic isotope fractionation in high pH anthropogenic tufa. Minerals, 12(12), 1611. (doi: 10.3390/min12121611)

Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, Dobson, K.J., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Wadsworth, F.B. and Vasseur, J. (2022) The evolution of paleo-porosity in basalts: reversing pore-filling mechanisms using X-ray computed tomography. Transport in Porous Media, 145, pp. 697-717. (doi: 10.1007/s11242-022-01869-2)

Riley, A. L. et al. (2022) Incorporating conceptual site models into national-scale environmental risk assessments for legacy waste in the coastal zone. Frontiers in Environmental Science(10), 1045482. (doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1045482)

Khudhur, Faisal W. K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) Image-based analysis of weathered slag for calculation of transport properties and passive carbon capture. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 28(5), pp. 1514-1525. (doi: 10.1017/S1431927622000915) (PMID:35781360)

Khudhur, Faisal W.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559 and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) The utilization of alkaline wastes in passive carbon capture and sequestration: promises, challenges and environmental aspects. Science of the Total Environment, 823, 153553. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153553)

Guice, George L., Miocevich, Sophie R., Hughes, Hannah S. R., McDonald, Iain, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Ackerson, Michael R., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2022) Origin of ultramafic–mafic bodies on the Isles of Lewis and Harris (Scotland, UK): Constraints on the Archean–Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Precambrian Research, 369, 106523. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106523)

Riley, Alex L., MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Burke, Ian T., Renforth, Phil, Jarvis, Adam P., Hudson-Edwards, Karen A., McKie, Jessica and Mayes, William M. (2020) Legacy iron and steel wastes in the UK: Extent, resource potential, and management futures. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 219, 106630. (doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2020.106630)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2020) The origin(s) and geodynamic significance of Archaean ultramafic-mafic bodies in the mainland Lewisian Gneiss Complex, North Atlantic Craton. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(4), pp. 700-717. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-013)

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Faithfull, J.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, Roberts, N.M.W., Davies, A.J., Holdsworth, C.S., Newton, M., Williamson, S., Boyce, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-0787 and John, C.M. (2019) Clumped isotope palaeothermometry and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of lava-pile hydrothermal calcite veins. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174, 63. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-019-1599-x)

Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, Dempster, Tim J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-7977, MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Reilly, Monica and EIMF (2018) Metasomatism and the crystallization of zircon megacrysts in Archaean peridotites from the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 173, 99. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-018-1527-5) (PMID:30930466) (PMCID:PMC6404683)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., Schlatter, Dennis M., Goodenough, Kathryn M., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 (2018) Assessing the validity of negative high field strength-element anomalies as a proxy for Archaean subduction: evidence from the Ben Strome Complex, NW Scotland. Geosciences, 8(9), 338. (doi: 10.3390/geosciences8090338)

Guice, George L., McDonald, Iain, Hughes, Hannah S.R., MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Blenkinsop, Thomas G., Goodenough, Kathryn M., Faithfull, John W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542 and Gooday, Robert J. (2018) Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex. Precambrian Research, 311, pp. 136-156. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.020)

Lu, Yi-Chia, Song, Sheng-Rong, Taguchi, Sachihiro, Wang, Pei-Ling, Yeh, En-Chao, Lin, Yu-Jie, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and John, Cédric M. (2018) Evolution of hot fluids in the Chingshui geothermal field inferred from crystal morphology and geochemical vein data. Geothermics, 74, pp. 305-318. (doi: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2017.11.016)

Lu, Yi-Chia, Song, Sheng-Rong, Wang, Pei-Ling, Wu, Chung-Che, Mii, Horng-Sheng, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Shen, Chuan-Chou and John, Cedric (2017) Magmatic-like fluid source of the Chingshui geothermal field, NE Taiwan evidenced by carbonate clumped-isotope paleothermometry. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 149, pp. 124-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.03.004)

MacDonald, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Magee, C. and Goodenough, K.M. (2017) Dykes as physical buffers to metamorphic overprinting: an example from the Archaean–Palaeoproterozoic Lewisian Gneiss Complex of NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 53(2), pp. 41-52. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2017-004)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Wheeler, John, Crowley, Quentin, Harley, Simon L., Mariani, Elisabetta and Tatham, Daniel (2015) Temperature–time evolution of the Assynt Terrane of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex of Northwest Scotland from zircon U-Pb dating and Ti thermometry. Precambrian Research, 260, pp. 55-75. (doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.01.009)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Wheeler, John, Harley, Simon L., Mariani, Elisabetta, Goodenough, Kathryn M., Crowley, Quentin and Tatham, Daniel (2013) Lattice distortion in a zircon population and its effects on trace element mobility and U–Th–Pb isotope systematics: examples from the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, northwest Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166(1), pp. 21-41. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-013-0863-8)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2013) Zircon—Earth’s timekeeper. Geology Today, 29(3), pp. 113-117. (doi: 10.1111/gto.12011)

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Goodenough, Kathryn M. (2013) The South Barra shear zone: a composite Inverian–Laxfordian shear zone and possible Terrane boundary in the Lewisian gneiss complex of the Isle of Barra, NW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 49(2), pp. 93-103. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2011-463)

Book Sections

MacDonald, John M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, John, Cédric M. and Girard, Jean-Pierre (2018) Testing clumped isotopes as a reservoir characterization tool: a comparison with fluid inclusions in a dolomitized sedimentary carbonate reservoir buried to 2-4 km. In: Lawson, M., Formolo, M.J. and Eiler, J.M. (eds.) From Source to Seep: Geochemical Applications in Hydrocarbon Systems. Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications (468). Geological Society of London, pp. 189-202. (doi: 10.1144/SP468.7)

Conference or Workshop Item

Cumberland, Susan, Tierney, Kieran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-8946, Renshaw, Joanna, Geraki, Kalotina and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) Analysis of Metal Entrapment Within Anthropogenic Tufa Using Synchrotron Micro-XRF. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4044)

Kalabová, Marta, Cumberland, Susan, Renshaw, Joanna and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) Anthropogenic Tufa at Legacy Industrial Sites: Potential for Metal Capture. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8116)

Khudhur, Faisal W. K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-1180, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Daly, Luke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-4092 (2022) Passive CO2 Mineralisation in Slag: Evidence From a Slag Heap in Lanarkshire, Scotland. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6525)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Brolly, Connor (2022) Lithification of Slag-dominated Artificial Ground Through Atmospheric CO2 Drawdown. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-790)

Porfirio Del Angel Lozano, Jose, Macente, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-4559 and MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X (2022) The Utilisation of X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography (XCT) for the Quantification of Carbon Dioxide in Passively Carbonated Steel Slag. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4645)

Riley, Alex, Onnis, Patrizia, Gandy, Catherine, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Burke, Ian, Renforth, Phil, Jarvis, Adam, Hudson-Edwards, Karen and Mayes, William (2022) Iron and Steel-making Slags as an Environmentally-beneficial Resource; A UK Perspective. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4137)

van Mesdag, Savanna, MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Neill, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4168-3931 and Jump, Alistair (2022) Anthropogenic Biodiversity and Geodiversity - Can Legacy Industrial Waste Help Offset Falling Global Biodiversity? EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022. (doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1352)

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, Milicich, Sarah, Davies, Amelia, Holdsworth, Chris, Newton, Michael, Williamson, Sam, Faithfull, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-3542, McNamara, David and John, Cedric (2017) Fingerprinting the Temperature and Fluid Source of Fracture-Filling Calcite in Geothermal Systems Using Clumped Isotopes. Goldschmidt 2017, Paris, France, 13-18 Aug 2017.

Conference Proceedings

MacDonald, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X, John, Cedric and Girard, Jean-Pierre (2015) Dolomitization Processes in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Insight from Geothermometry Using Clumped Isotopes. In: 11th Applied Isotope Geochemistery Conference AIG-11, Orléans, France, 21-25 Sep 2014, pp. 265-268.

Exhibitions

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

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Grants

'The Mineralogical and Geochemical Processes involved in Rapid Natural Lithification of Artificial Ground'; NERC Exploring the Frontiers project NE/X009718/1; 2022-2023; £82307 (PI)

'Delivering a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation (GALLANT)'; NERC changing the environment strategic project NE/W005042/1; 2022-2027; £10.2 M (co-I)

'Legacy Wastes in the Coastal Zone'; NERC Highlight Topic project NE/T003200/1; 2020-2024; £1.5 M (co-I, led by Newcastle)

Carnegie Research Incentive Grant: ‘Clumped isotopes’ in calcite: a new method for tracking fluid flow in lavas and its implications for geothermal energy generation. 2016-2017, £7030

£40914 from University of Glasgow for Covid recovery pilot data collection on coastal slag bank properties

£2200 from SAGES+ for clumped isotope analysis of steel slag-derived tufas

£2400 from SAGES+ for µCT analysis of cement waste to investigate atmospheric carbon capture

£750 from SAGES+ for microstructural analysis of carbonated slag

£750 from SAGES+ for experiments on capturing wastewater metals with carbonate precipitation

EDS Layered image of reworked slag

Image: false colour chemical map showing the microstructure of reworked slag.

Supervision

Postgraduate Research Opportunities

I am always happy to hear from prospective students who wish to undertake an MSc by Research or PhD in the following fields of interest:

  • the formation of anthropogenic rocks
  • enhanced rock weathering for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal
  • atmospheric CO2 capture with slag or other anthropogenic geomaterials
  • pollution from legacy industrial wastes

Current Students:

 

  • Bekesi, Anna
    Past in present soils: Leveraging development-led archaeological data to generate insights into urban soil development and soil health
  • Dickinson, Heloisa
    Understanding and modelling the potential impacts of alternate land-use practices: CO2 sequestration and pollutant immobilisation in derelict and contaminated land sites 
  • Langley, Bethan
    Arctic blue carbon: human and climatic drivers of change
  • Wang, Yuchen
    Sediment transport of made ground along Scottish sites

Teaching

  • L1 and L2 Earth Science sessions on pollution
  • L2 Earth Science - lead residential field class
  • L4 Environmental Geoscience - environmental policy and planning
  • L4 Environmental Geoscience and Geology dissertation supervision
  • Various MSc taught sessions and dissertation supervision

Video: teaching on an Environmental Geochemistry field class

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2023: Clough Memorial Award (Edinburgh Geological Society)

Editorial boards

  • 2015 - 2020: Subject Editor for the Journal of the Geological Society

Professional & learned societies

  • 2015: Committee Member, Mineralogical Society (Applied Mineralogy Group)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2024
Number of items: 2.

2024

van Mesdag, S. N. K., Divers, M. and MacDonald, J. (2024) Can anthropogenic biodiversity and geodiversity associated with legacy industrial waste help offset decreasing global biodiversity? [Data Collection]

Khudhur, F. , MacDonald, J. , Macente, A. , Daly, L. , Spruzeniece, L. , Wildman, M. , Chung, P., Wilson, C., Monoghan, A. and University of Edinburgh XRF Facility, (2024) Understanding CO2 mineralization in ironmaking and steelmaking by-products through microstructural analysis. [Data Collection]

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