Prof Martyn Tranter

BSc, PhD(UEA)

Professor of Geography

Contact

Office: B1, 12 Berkeley Square
Tel: +44 (0)117 3314119
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: m.tranter@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

Biogeochemical processes in the cryosphere, sub-ice sheet hydrology and hydrochemistry.

Selected publications

Skidmore, M, Tranter, M, Tulaczyk, S & Lanoil, B. 'Hydrochemistry of ice stream beds - evaporitic or microbial effects?', Hydrological Processes, 24 (4), (pp. 517-523), 2010. ISSN: 1099-1085 10.1002/hyp.7580

Raiswell, R, Benning, LG, Davidson, L, Tranter, M & Tulaczyk, S. 'Schwertmannite in wet, acid and oxic microenvironments beneath polar and polythermal glaciers', Geology, 37, (pp. 431-434), 2009. ISSN: 1943-2682 10.1130/G25350A.1

Stibal, M, Anesio, AM, Blues, CJD & Tranter, M. 'Phosphatase activity and organic phosphorus turnover on a high Arctic glacier', Biogeosciences, 6, (pp. 913-922), 2009. www.biogeosciences.net/6/913/2009/

Wadham, JL, Tranter, M, Tulaczyk, S & Sharp, M. 'Subglacial methanogenesis: a potential climatic amplifier?', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, (pp. 1-16), 2008. ISSN: 0886-6236 10.1029/2007GB002951