Prof Andrew Cundy
Professor of Geoscience
contact:
Environment and Technology
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642270
Email: A.Cundy@brighton.ac.uk
Teaching
- Environmental geochemistry and geology
- Contaminated land remediation and regeneration
- Geohazards
- Estuarine, coastal and oceanographic processes
- Earth system processes
Research
- Applied and environmental geochemistry
- Novel geochemical methods of contaminated land remediation and soil engineering
- Environmental nanotechnologies
- Contaminated land and water management
- Neotectonics
- Coastal and estuarine processes and management
- Recent sediments as recorders of environmental change and tectonism
- Radiometric dating
Consultancy
- Radiometric dating (210Pb and 137Cs)
- Gamma spectrometric analysis
- Management of contaminated land
Biography
- Research interests cover a number of fields in Applied Geology and Environmental Management
- Carried out research in four continents in projects funded by government, nuclear site owners, the Environment Agency, the European Union and private industry
- Manages the gamma spectrometry facility at Brighton
- Leads the geology research area
- Joined the University of Brighton in 2006
- Visiting Professor, Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Sicily, 2011
Research Publications
Aschenbrenner, O., Fukuda, T., Hasumura, T., Maekawa, T., CUNDY, ANDREW and WHITBY, RAYMOND (2012) Creation of spherical carbon nanoparticles and clusters from carbon dioxide via UV dissociation at the critical point Green Chemistry, 14 (4). ISSN 1463-9262
KATOK, KSENIIA, WHITBY, RAYMOND, Fukuda, T., Maekawa, T., Bezverkhyy, I., MIKHALOVSKY, SERGEY and CUNDY, ANDREW (2012) Hyperstoichiometric interaction between silver and mercury at the nanoscale Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 51 (11). ISSN 1433-7851
AlAmri, O.D., CUNDY, ANDREW, Di, Y., Jha, A.N. and Rotchell, J.M. (2012) Ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage response identified in marine mussels, Mytilus sp. Environmental Pollution, 168 . ISSN 0269-7491
Di Leonardo, R., CUNDY, ANDREW, Bellanca, A., Mazzola, A. and Vizzini, S. (2012) Biogeochemical evaluation of historical sediment contamination in the Gulf of Palermo (NW Sicily): Analysis of pseudo-trace elements and stable isotope signals Journal Of Marine Systems, 94 . ISSN 0924-7963
McIntosh, A.D., Fryer, R.J., Webster, L. and CUNDY, ANDREW (2012) Long-term fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in sediments from Loch Leven after closure of an aluminium smelter Journal Of Environmental Monitoring, 14 (5). ISSN 1464-0325
WHITBY, RAYMOND, Gun'ko, V.M., Korobeinyk, Alina, BUSQUETS SANTACANA, ROSA, CUNDY, ANDREW, Laszlo, K., Skubiszewska-Zieba, J., Leboda, R., Tombacz, E., Toth, I.Y., Kovacs, K. and MIKHALOVSKY, SERGEY (2012) Driving forces of conformational changes in single-layer graphene oxide ACS Nano, 6 (5). ISSN 1936-0851
SAVINA, IRINA, ENGLISH, CHRISTOPHER, WHITBY, RAYMOND, ZHENG, YISHAN, Leistner, A., MIKHALOVSKY, SERGEY and CUNDY, ANDREW (2011) High efficiency removal of dissolved As(III) using iron nanoparticle-embedded macroporous polymer composites Journal of Hazardous Materials, 192 (3). ISSN 0304-3894
Voitko, K.V., WHITBY, RAYMOND, Gun'ko, V.M., Bakalinska, O.M., Kartel, M.T., Laszlo, K., CUNDY, ANDREW and MIKHALOVSKY, SERGEY (2011) Morphological and chemical features of nano and macroscale carbons affecting hydrogen peroxide decomposition in aqueous media Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 361 (1). ISSN 0021-9797
WHITBY, RAYMOND, Korobeinyk, Alina, Gun'ko, V.M., BUSQUETS SANTACANA, ROSA, CUNDY, ANDREW, Laszlo, K., Skubiszewska-Zieba, J., Leboda, R., Tombacz, E., Toth, I.Y., Kovacs, K. and MIKHALOVSKY, SERGEY (2011) pH-driven physicochemical conformational changes of single-layer graphene oxide Chemical Communications, 47 (34). ISSN 1359-7345
Gaki-Papanastassiou, K., Cundy, A.B. and Maroukian, H. (2011) Fluvial versus tectonic controls on the late Holocene geomorphic and sedimentary evolution of a small Mediterranean fan delta system Journal of Geology, 119 (2). pp. 221-234. ISSN 0022-1376
Agnew, K., Cundy, A.B., Hopkinson, L., Croudace, I.W., Warwick, P.E. and Purdie, P. (2011) Electrokinetic remediation of plutonium-contaminated nuclear site soil wastes: results from a pilot-scale on-site trial Journal of Hazardous Materials, 186 (2-3). pp. 1930-1941. ISSN 0304-3894
Teasdale, P., Collins, P.E.F., Firth, C.R. and Cundy, A.B. (2011) Recent estuarine sedimentation rates from shallow inter-tidal environments in western Scotland: implications for future sea level trends and coastal wetland development Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (1-2). pp. 109-129. ISSN 0277-3791
Kortekaas, S., Papadopoulos, L., Ganas, A., Cundy, A.B. and Diakantoni, A. (2011) Geological identification of historical tsunamis in the Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11 . pp. 2029-2041. ISSN 1561-8633
Cangemi, M., Di Leonardo, R., Bellanca, A., Cundy, A.B., Neri, R. and Angelone, M. (2010) Geochemistry and mineralogy of sediments and authigenic carbonates from the Malta Plateau, Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean): relationships with mud/fluid release from a mud volcano system Chemical Geology, 276 (3-4). pp. 294-308. ISSN 0009-2541
Cundy, A.B., Gaki-Papanastassiou, K., Papanastassiou, D., Maroukian, H., Frogley, M.R. and Cane, T. (2010) Geological and geomorphological evidence of recent coastal uplift along a major Hellenic normal fault system (the Kamena Vourla fault zone, NW Evoikos Gulf, Greece) Marine Geology, 271 (1-2). pp. 156-164. ISSN 0025-3227
Whitby, R.L.D., Fukuda, T., Maekawa, T., Mikhalovsky, S.V. and Cundy, A.B. (2010) Real-time imaging of complex nanoscale mechanical responses of carbon nanotubes in highly-compressible porous monoliths Nanotechnology, 21 (7). ISSN 0957-4484
Teasdale, P., Collins, P.E.F., Firth, C.R. and Cundy, A.B. (2010) Recent estuarine sedimentation rates from shallow inter-tidal environments in Western Scotland: implications for future sea-level trends and coastal wetland development Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (1-2). pp. 109-129. ISSN 0277-3791
Rothwell, J.J., Taylor, K.G., Chenery, S., Cundy, A.B., Evans, M.G. and Allott, T.E.H. (2010) Storage and behaviour of As, Sb, Pb and Cu in ombrotrophic peat bogs under contrasting water table conditions Environment Science and Technology, 44 (22). pp. 8497-8502. ISSN 0013-936X
CUNDY, ANDREW, HOPKINSON, LAURENCE and Pollock, R. (2009) Electrokinetic Ferric Iron Remediation and Stabilisation (FIRS) of Hexavalent Chromium contaminated soils: an ex-situ field scale demonstration CL:AIRE research bulletin, RB 9 . pp. 1-6.
Onwubuya, K., Cundy, A.B., Puschenreiter, M., Kumpiene, J., Greaves, J., Teasdale, P., Mench, M., Tlustos, P., Mikhalovsky, S., Waite, S., Friesl, W., Marschner, B. and Muller, I. (2009) Developing decision support tools for the selection of "gentle" remediation approaches Science of the Total Environment, 388 (1-3). pp. 6132-6142. ISSN 0048-9697
Hopkinson, L., Cundy, A.B., Faulkner, D.W.S., Hansen, A. and Pollock, R. (2009) Electrokinetic stabilization of Cr(VI)-contaminated soils In: Reddy, K. and Cameselle, C., eds. Electrochemical remediation technologies for polluted soils, sediments and groundwater. John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA, pp. 179-194. ISBN 978-0-470-38343-8
Hopkinson, L., Cundy, A., Faulkner, D., Hansen, A. and Pollock, R. (2009) Electrokinetic stabilization of hexavalent chromium contaminated soils In: Reddy, K.R. and Cameselle, C., eds. Electrochemical Remediation Techniques for Polluted Soils, Sediments and Groundwater. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 179-192. ISBN 9780470383438
Berkely, A., Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Horton, B.P. and Cundy, A.B. (2009) Foraminiferal biofacies across mangrove-mudflat environments at Cocoa Creek, north Queensland, Australia Marine Geology, 263 (1-4). pp. 64-86. ISSN 0025-3227
Ramirez-Herrera, M.T., Cundy, A.B., Kostoglodov, V. and Ortiz, M. (2009) Late Holocene tectonic land-level changes and tsunamis at Mitla lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico Geofisica Internacional, 48 (2). pp. 195-209. ISSN 0016-7169
Krom, M.D., Carbo, P., Clerici, S., Cundy, A.B. and Davies, I.M. (2009) Sources and timing of trace metal contamination to sediments in remote sealochs, NW Scotland Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 83 (2). pp. 239-251. ISSN 0272-7714
Cundy, A.B., Hopkinson, L. and Whitby, R.L.D. (2008) Use of iron-based technologies in contaminated land and groundwater remediation: a review Science of the Total Environment, 400 (1-3). pp. 42-51. ISSN 0048-9697
Ouddane, B., Mikac, N., Cundy, A.B., Quillet, L. and Fisher, J.C. (2008) A comparative study of mercury distribution and methylation in mudflats from two macotidal estuaries: the Seine (France) and the Medway (United Kingdom) Applied Geochemistry, 23 (4). pp. 618-631. ISSN 0883-2927
Spencer, K.L., Cundy, A.B., Davies-Hearn, S., Hughes, R., Turner, S. and MacLeod, C.L. (2008) Physicochemical changes to sediments at Orplands Farm, Essex, UK, following 8 years of managed realignment Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 76 (3). pp. 608-619. ISSN 0272-7714
Labadie, P., Cundy, A.B., Stone, K.J.L., Andrews, M., Valbonesi, S. and Hill, E.M. (2007) Evidence for the migration of steroidal estrogens through river bed sediments Environmental Science and Technology, 41 (12). pp. 4299-4304. ISSN 1520-5851
Chepstow-Lusty, A.J., Frogley, M.R., Bauer, B.S., Leng, M.R., Cundy, A.B., Boessenkool, K.P. and Gioda, A. (2007) Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 (7). pp. 1178-1186. ISSN 0305-4403
Ramirez-Herrera, M.T., Cundy, A.B., Kostoglodov, V., Carrenza-Edwards, A., Morales, E. and Metcalfe, S. (2007) The first sedimentary record of Holocene sea-level change and tectonic deformation from the Guerrero Gap, Mexican Pacific coast Holocene, 17 (8). pp. 1221-1231. ISSN 0959-6836
Teasdale, P., Firth, C.F., Cundy, A.B., Collins, P.E.F. and Crondace, I.W. (2007) Is recent sea level rise accelerating? Testing the theory in Scotland In: INQUA XVII Congress, July - August 2007, Cairns.
Di Leonardo, R., Bellanca, A., Capotondi, L., Cundy, A.B. and Neri, R. (2007) Possible impacts of Hg and PAH contamination on benthic foraminiferal assemblages: an example from the Sicilian coast, central Mediterranean Science of the Total Environment, 388 . pp. 168-183. ISSN 0048-9697
Cundy, A.B., Lafite, R., Taylor, J.A., Hopkinson, L., Deloffre, J., Charman, R.O., Gilpin, M., Spencer, K.L., Carey, P.J., Heppell, C.M., Ouddane, B., De Wever, S. and Tuckett, A. (2007) Sediment transfer and accumulation in two contrasting saltmarsh/mudflat systems: the Seine estuary (France) and the Medway estuary (UK) Hydrobiologia, 588 (1). pp. 125-134. ISSN 0018-8158
Deloffre, J., Verney, R., Lafite, R., Lesueur, P., Lesourd, S. and Cundy, A.B. (2007) Sedimentation on intertidal mudflats at the mouths of macrotidal estuaries: sedimentation rhythms and their preservation Marine Geology, 241 . pp. 19-32. ISSN 0025-3227
Cundy, A.B., Sprague, D., Hopkinson, L., Maroukian, H., Gaki-Papanastassiou, K., Papanastassiou, D. and Frogley, M.R. (2006) Geochemical and stratigraphic indicators of late Holocene coastal evolution in the Gythio area, southern Peloponnese, Greece Marine Geology, 230 (3-4). pp. 161-177. ISSN 0025-3227
Sterken, M., Sabbe, K., Chepstow-Lusty, A.J., Frogley, M.R., Vanhoutte, K., Verleyen, E., Cundy, A.B. and Vyverman, W. (2006) Climate and land-use changes in Cuzco region (Cordillera Oriental, South East Peru) during the last 1200 years: a diatom-based reconstruction Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 165 (3). pp. 289-312. ISSN 0003-9136
Faulkner, D.W.S., Hopkinson, L. and Cundy, A.B. (2005) Electrokinetic generation of reactive iron-rich barriers in wet sediments: implications for contaminated land management Mineralogical Magazine, 69 (5). pp. 749-757. ISSN 0026-461X
Cundy, A.B., Hopkinson, L., Lafite, R., Spencer, K., Taylor, J.A., Ouddane, B., Heppell, C.M., Carey, P.J., Charman, R.O., Shell, D. and Ullyott, J.S. (2005) Heavy metal distribution and accumulation in two Spartina sp.-dominated macrotidal salt marshes from the Seine estuary (France) and the Medway estuary (UK) Applied Geochemistry, 20 (6). pp. 1195-1208. ISSN 0883-2927
Cundy, A.B. and Hopkinson, L. (2005) Electrokinetic iron pan generation in unconsolidated sediments: implications for contaminated land remediation and soil engineering Applied Geochemistry, 20 (5). pp. 841-848. ISSN 0883-2927
Howarth, R.J., Evans, G., Croudace, I.W. and Cundy, A.B. (2005) Sources and timing of anthropogenic pollution in the Ensenada de San Simón (inner Ría de Vigo), Galicia, NW Spain: an application of mixture-modelling and nonlinear optimization to recent sedimentation Science of the Total Environment, 340 (1-3). pp. 149-176.
Cundy, A.B. and Stewart, I.S. (2004) Dating recent colluvial sequences with 210Pb and 137Cs along an active fault scarp, the Eliki Fault, Gulf of Corinth, Greece Tectonophysics, 386 (3-4). pp. 147-156. ISSN 0040-1951
Murray, J.W., Alve, E. and Cundy, A.B. (2003) The origin of modern agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages: evidence from a stratified fjord Estuarine coastal and shelf science, 58 (3). pp. 677-697. ISSN 0272-7714
Rosales-Hoz, L., Cundy, A.B. and Bahena Manjarrez, J.L. (2003) Heavy metals in sediment cores from a tropical estuary affected by anthropogenic discharges: Coatzacoalcos estuary, Mexico Estuarine coastal and shelf science, 58 (1). pp. 117-126. ISSN 0272-7714
Spencer, K., Cundy, A.B. and Croudace, I.W. (2003) Heavy metal distribution and early-diagenesis in salt marsh sediments from the Medway Estuary, Kent, UK Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 57 (1-2). pp. 43-54. ISSN 0272-7714
Cundy, A.B., Croudace, I.W., Cearreta, A. and Irabien, M.J. (2003) Reconstructing historical trends in metal input in heavily-disturbed, contaminated estuaries: studies from Bilbao, Southampton Water and Sicily Applied geochemistry, 18 (2). pp. 311-325. ISSN 0883-2927
Hopkinson, L. and Cundy, A.B. (2003) FIRS(ferric iron remediation and stablisation): a novel electrokinetic technique for soil remediation and engineering Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments (CL:AIRE).
Warwick, P.E., Croudace, I.W., Howard, A.G., Cundy, A.B., Morris, J. and Doucette, K. (2003) Spatial and temporal variation of tritium activities in coastal marine sediments of the Severn estuary (UK) In: Warwick, P., ed. Environmental radiochemical analysis II. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, pp. 92-104. ISBN 0854046186
Cundy, A.B., Croudace, I.W., Warwick, P.E., Oh, J.S and Haslett, S.K. (2002) Accumulation of COGEMA-La Hague-derived reprocessing wastes in French salt marsh sediments Environmental Science & Technology, 36 (23). pp. 4990-4997. ISSN 0013-936X
Cundy, A.B., Long, A.J., Hill, C.T., Spencer, C. and Croudace, I.W. (2002) Sedimentary response of Pagham Harbour, southern England to barrier breaching in AD 1910 Geomorphology, 46 (3-4). pp. 163-176. ISSN 0169-555x
Pirrie, D., Power, M.R., Wheeler, P.D., Cundy, A.B., Bridges, C. and Davey, G. (2002) Geochemical signature of historical mining: Fowey Estuary, Cornwall, UK Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 76 (1). pp. 31-43. ISSN 0375-6742
Cearreta, A., Irabien, M.J., Ulibarri, I., Yusta, I., Croudace, I.W. and Cundy, A.B. (2002) Recent salt marsh development and natural regeneration of reclaimed areas in the Plentzia Estuary, N. Spain Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 54 (5). pp. 863-886. ISSN 0272-7714
Pirrie, D., Power, M.R., Rollinson, G., Cundy, A.B. and Watkins, D.C. (2002) Impact of mining on the sediment geochemistry and mineralogy of the Helford river, Cornwall Geoscience in South West England, 10 (3). pp. 323-328. ISSN 0566-3954
Lee, S.V. and Cundy, A.B. (2001) Heavy metal contamination and mixing processes in sediments from the Humber Estuary, Eastern England Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 53 (5). pp. 619-636. ISSN 0272-7714
Warwick, P.E., Cundy, A.B., Croudace, I.W., Bains, M.E.D. and Dale, A.A. (2001) The uptake of iron-55 by marine sediment, macroalgae, and biota following discharge from a nuclear power station Environmental Science and Technology, 35 (11). pp. 2171-2177. ISSN 0013-936X
Collins, P.E.F., Turner, S.D. and Cundy, A.B. (2001) High-resolution reconstruction of recent vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean microtidal wetland: implications for site sensitivity and palaeoenvironmental research Journal of Coastal Research, 17 (3). pp. 684-693. ISSN 0749-0208
Dominey-Howes, D.T.M. and Cundy, A.B. (2001) Tsunami risk in the Aegean Sea and the role of the systematic field, laboratory and documentary studies: the case of the 1956 Tsunami In: Hebenstreit, Gerald T., ed. Tsunami research at the end of a critical decade. Advances in natural and technological hazards research, 18 . Kluwer Academic. ISBN 1402002033

