Dr Arnoud Boom

Associate Professor in Biogeochemistry

Contact details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3832
• Email: ab269@le.ac.uk
• Office: Bennett Building F72b

Personal details

PhD

I am a bio-geochemist and teach Physical Geography at the University of Leicester. I am also Director of the Leicester Environmental Stable Isotope Laboratory.

Websites

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-691X

Research

I have an interest in stable isotopes, organic geochemistry and climate change.

External activities

Director Leicester Environmental Stable Isotope Laboratory:

Upon request, I offer the following commercial analyses with a turnaround time of < month (on average):

• elemental analysis of carbon and nitrogen
• d13C and d15N on organics £5 per sample
• d2H, d18O on cellulose samples £8 per sample
• d2H, d18O on water samples £7 per sample
• GC/MS analysis of lipid extract analyses
• Pyrolysis GC/MS analysis
• compound specific ¹³C and Deuterium analysis of lipid extracts 
• ATR, transmission and reflection FTIR, including microscopic imaging

If you are interested in collaboration, feel free to contact me by email or telephone.

Supervision

Research areas for PhD supervision

I am interested in supervising students on the following topics:

• Palaeoclimate Neotropical environments
• Palaeohydrology using Deuterium isotopes
• Palaeoclimate of Southern Africa

• Tropical tree ring stable isotopes
• Peat geochemistry
• Fate of organic matter in tropical forest ecosystems

Enquiries: If you are interested in studying for a PhD in one of these research areas, don't hesitate to contact me first and make informal enquiries via pgrgeog@le.ac.uk.

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