Dr Clare Woulds
Lecturer in Water, Soil and Carbon Interactions
School of Geography
Dr Clare Woulds is Lecturer in Water, Soil and Carbon Interactions in the School of Geography and is a water@leeds appointee. Dr Woulds’ research is broadly concerned with studying the biogeochemical processes occurring in marine sediments, with an emphasis on the cycling and burial of organic carbon and nitrogen, and the role played by fauna in shaping their own geochemical environment.
Dr Woulds’ work in low oxygen environments has led to a particular interest in de-convolving the closely associated influences of sediment organic matter content, dissolved oxygen concentration, and faunal community biomass and structure, on the early decay/burial pathways of organic carbon. Dr Woulds studies sedimentary organic matter cycling using stable isotope tracer experiments, together with more traditional measurements of sediment organic geochemistry, and sedimentwater fluxes of nutrients.
Current and future research aims are to resolve the details of microbial organic matter processing, and of biochemical alteration of organic matter during faunal digestion, and also to work towards a global model of the influence of sedimentdwelling fauna on organic carbon and nitrogen burial. Dr Woulds is also developing research interests in the cycling of carbon in river systems, from headwater streams to estuaries.
Dr Clare Woulds
Lecturer in Water, Soil and Carbon Interactions
School of Geography
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 9440
Email: c.woulds@leeds.ac.uk
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