Dr Pauline Smedley
Principal Hydrogeochemist
Location: Keyworth
Tel: 0115 936 3493
E-mail Dr Pauline Smedley
Biography
- 2009 – present : BGS, Keyworth: Hydrogeochemist
- – To 2009 : BGS, Wallingford: Hydrogeochemist
- Postdoctoral researcher, Isotope geochemistry, ZWO Lab (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- PhD, Geochemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
- BSc Hons, Environ Sci. (Geol Sci.), University of East Anglia, UK
Current projects and collaboration
- Hydrogeochemistry of trace elements in British groundwater (arsenic, uranium, molybdenum; chemistry of bottled mineral water)
- Trace elements in drinking water from England & Wales (collaboration with CEH, funded by Defra)
- Baseline chemistry of groundwater in aquifers in England & Wales
- Baseline hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in Scotland
- Investigations of the processes controlling streamwater chemistry and their implications for water quality, using archive G-BASE data
Research interests
- Processes controlling mobilisation and transport of trace elements of health concern in groundwaters (arsenic, fluoride, uranium, molybdenum, nickel)
- The baseline chemistry of groundwaters
- Inorganic chemistry of bottled water
- Corrosion and encrustation in groundwater installations and aquifers
- Water-quality monitoring in developing countries
Key papers
Edmunds, W. M. and Smedley, P.L. 2012. Chapter 12: Fluoride in natural waters. In: Essentials of Medical Geology, Second Edition. Eds: Selinus, O., Alloway, B., Centeno, J.A., Finkelman, R.B., Fuge, R., Lindh, U. and Smedley, P.L. Springer, In press.
Smedley, P. L. 2010. A survey of the inorganic chemistry of bottled mineral waters from the British Isles. Applied Geochemistry, 25, 1872-1888.
Reddy, D.V.; Nagabhushanam, P.; Sukhija, B.S.; Reddy, A.G.S.; Smedley, P.L. 2010. Fluoride dynamics in the granitic aquifer of the Wailapally watershed, Nalgonda District, India. Chemical Geology, 269, 278-289.
Smedley, P.L., Knudsen, J. and Maiga, D. 2007. Arsenic in groundwater from mineralised Proterozoic basement rocks of Burkina Faso. Applied Geochemistry, 22, 1074-1092.
Smedley, P.L., Kinniburgh, D.G., Macdonald, D.M.J., Nicolli, H.B., Barros, A.J., Tullio, J.O., Pearce, J.M. and Alonso, M.S. 2005. Arsenic associations in sediments from the loess aquifer of La Pampa, Argentina. Applied Geochemistry, 20, 989-1016.
Smedley, P. L., Zhang, M., Zhang, G. and Luo, Z. 2003. Mobilisation of arsenic and other trace elements in fluviolacustrine aquifers of the Huhhot Basin, Inner Mongolia. Applied Geochemistry, 18, 1453-1477.
Smedley, P. L. and Kinniburgh, D. G. 2002. A review of the source, behaviour and distribution of arsenic in natural waters. Applied Geochemistry, 17, 517-568.
Smedley, P. L., Nicolli, H. B., Macdonald, D. M. J., Barros, A. J. and Tullio, J. O. 2002. Hydrogeochemistry of arsenic and other inorganic constituents in groundwaters from La Pampa, Argentina. Applied Geochemistry, 17, 259-284.
BGS and DPHE, 2001. Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh. Eds: Kinniburgh, D G and Smedley, P L. British Geological Survey Technical Report, WC/00/19. Four Volumes. British Geological Survey.
