Professor Melanie Leng
Professor of Isotope Geosciences
Direct contact:
T: 0115 936 3515
E: mjl49@le.ac.uk
Research Group: Crustal Processes
Research Interests
- Development of stable isotope techniques in relation to current environmental issues.
- Current and past freshwater contributions into the Antarctic Ocean and effects on ocean circulation.
- Climate influences on Northern Europe over the Holocene (last 10,000 years).
- Major climatic boundary thresholds through geological time.
- Isotopes in Biogenic Silica (IBiS) http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ibis/
- Development of Isotopic Proxies for Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation: A Carbon Perspective www.dippi-c.org
- Scientific Collaboration On Past Speciation Conditions in Ohrid (SCOPSCO) http://www.geologie.uni-koeln.de/coord_ohrid.html
Key Publications
- Chapligin, B., Leng, M.J., Webb, E., Alexandre, A., Dodd, J.P., Ijiri, A., Lücke, A., Shemesh, A., Abelmann, A., Herzschuh, U., Longstaffe, F.J., Meyer, H., Moschen, R., Okazaki, Y., Rees, N., Sharp, Z.D., Sloane, H.J., Sonzogni, C., Swann, G.E.A., Sylvestre, F., Tyler, J.T., Yam, R. 2011. Inter-laboratory comparison of oxygen isotopes from biogenic silica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 7242-7256.
- Leng, M.J., Jones, M.D., Frogley, M.F., Eastwood, W.J., Kendrick, C.P., Roberts, C.N. 2010. Detrital carbonate influences on bulk oxygen and carbon isotope composition of lacustrine sediments from the Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change, 71, 175-182.
- Leng, M.J. and Sloane, H.J. 2008. Combined oxygen and silicon isotope analysis of biogenic silica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23, 313-319.
- Leng, M.J. and Barker, P.A. 2006. A review of the oxygen isotope composition of lacustrine diatom silica for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Earth Science Reviews, 75, 5-27.
- Leng, M.J. and Marshall, J.D. 2004. Palaeoclimate interpretation of stable isotope data from lake sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 811-831.
Teaching
- Stable isotope geochemistry
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