Dr Andrew Tye

Andrew Tye’s Biography

• 2004 to present: Environmental Geochemist / Soil Scientist
• 2015 to present: Honorary Lecturer, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham.
• 1997 to 2004: Post doctoral Research Associate — University of Nottingham
• 1994 to 1997: PhD University of Wolverhampton, Soil and Plant Science

Research interests

• Heavy metals in soils – Their lability, speciation and bioavailability
• Land to sea transfer of nutrients – Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon and Silicon – LOCATE – Land Ocean Carbon Transfer
• Soil moisture and shallow groundwater interactions – Impact on crop yield –
• ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems
• Soil moisture and shallow groundwater interactions – Impact of drought – Annex to the review of the research and scientific understanding of drought
• Greenhouse gases and soil profile structure – Assessing the role of soil and subsoil structure on greenhouse gases – AgZero+ | AgZeroPlus
• Soil Erosion – Assessments of soil erosion using various techniques including high resolution aerial photography, models
• Soil Formation – Use of ¹⁰Be to estimate soil formation rates. Combined with erosion these can look at soil lifespans

ORCID: 0000-0002-4653-7773

Publications
NERC Open Research Archive — Dr Andrew Tye

Reports

• Tye, A M, Moir, A, Reinsch, S, Cartwright, C, Feeney, C J, and Robinson, D A. 2022. Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP). ERAMMP Report-70: Report on the use of remote sensing to assess soil erosion, poaching and disturbance features. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017)
• Tye, A M, Williamson, J, Robinson, D, Cartwright, C, and Evans, D. 2021. Soil Formation Rates Scoping Study. Welsh Government; Soil Policy Unit, Department for Environment, Energy & Rural Affairs. Project No.: SPEP 2020-21/09
• Tye, A M, Hurst, M D, and Barkwith, A K A P. 2013. Nene phosphate in sediment Investigation. Environment Agency Project REF: 30258. OR/13/031
• Tye, A M, and Robinson, D A. 2020. ERAMMP Report-45: Soil Degradation: Erosion & Compaction Phase-1. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017) (UKCEH 06297/06810)

Key papers

• Gooddy, D C, Tye, A M, Smith, A C, Chenery, S R, and Surridge, B J W. 2026. Deciphering phosphorus dynamics in impacted river systems using phosphate oxygen and lead isotope analysis. Applied Geochemistry, 203, 106809
• Reinsch, S, Robinson, D A, van Soest, M A J, Keith, A M, Parry, S, and Tye, A M. 2024.  Temperate Soils Exposed to Drought—Key Processes, Impacts, Indicators, and Unknowns. Land, 13, 1759.
• Tye, A M, Leeming, K A, Gong, M, Marchant, B, and Hurst, M D. 2024. Assessment of suspended sediment export and dynamics using in-line turbidity sensors and time series statistical models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(13), 4113–4132.
• Tye, A M, Jarvie, H P, et al. 2024. Riverine concentrations and export of dissolved silicon, and potential controls on nutrient stoichiometry, across the land–ocean continuum in Great Britain. Journal of Hydrology, 640, 131738.
• Garforth J M, Tye, A M, Young, S D, Bailey, E H, and Lofts, S. 2024. A comparison of characterisation and modelling approaches to predict dissolved metal concentrations in soils. Environmental Chemistry, 21, EN23075.
• Tye, A M, Williamson, J L., et al. 2022. Dissolved inorganic carbon export from rivers of Great Britain: Spatial distribution and potential catchment-scale controls. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 615, Part A, 128677,
• Evans, D, Quinton, J N, Tye, A M, Rhodes, A, Davies, J A C, and Mudd, S. 2019. Arable soil formation and erosion: a hillslope-based cosmogenic nuclide study in the United Kingdom. DOI: 10.5194/soil-2019-8
• Robinson, D A, Hockley, N J, Cooper, D, Emmet, B A, Keith, A, Lebton, I, Reynolds, B, Tipping, E, Tye, A M, Watts, C W, Whalley, W R, Black, H I J, Warren, G P, and Roinson, S. 2013. Review: Natural Capital and Ecosystem services, developing an appropriate soils framework as a basis for valuation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 57, 1023–1033
• Tye, A M, Young, S D, Crout, N M J, West, H M, Laybourn-Parry, J, Stapleton, L M, and Poulton, P R. 2005. The fate of 15N added to high arctic tundra to mimic increased inputs of atmospheric N released from a melting snowpack. Global Change Biology, 11, 1640–1654
• Tye, A M, Young, S D, Crout, N M J, Zhang, H, Preston, S, Barbosa-Jefferson, V L, Davison, W, McGrath, S P, and Paton, G I. 2003. Predicting the activity of Cd²⁺ and Zn²⁺ in soil pore water from the radio-labile metal fraction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(3), 375–385

Books

Andy Tye was a co-author on European Commission, Joint Research Centre – Cinelli, G, De Cort, M, and Tollefsen, T. (Eds.): European Atlas of Natural Radiation, Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019. ISBN 978-92-76-08259-0, doi:10.2760/520053, Catalogue number KJ-02-19-425-EN-C, EUR 19425 EN. Printed by Bietlot in Belgium 2019 – 190 pp. – 30.1 × 42.4 cm.

• Soil biogeochemistry
• Soil physics
• Soil erosion and formation
• Environmental geochemistry
• Isotope dilution techniques for metals
• Use of chemical speciation programs (e.g. WHAM6; Phreeqc)
• Soil moisture / groundwater sensor systems

• Member of British Soil Science Society
• 2015 to 2022: Management Board member for Soil Training and Research CDT (STARS)
• Award for Best paper 2024 in the journal Land – ‘Temperate Soils Exposed to Drought—Key Processes, Impacts, Indicators, and Unknowns’