Staff Profile
Dr Clare McCann
Research Associate
- Email: clare.mccann@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 4890
- Address: School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
3rd Floor
Devonshire Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Background
Qualifications
2007 - 2012 PhD Civil Engineering (Environmental), Newcastle University
2006 - 2007 MSc Environmental Engineering, Newcastle University
2002 - 2006 BSc Geography, Queens University Belfast
Positions
2012 - 2013 Research Environmental Engineer, Newcastle University
2011 - 2012 Research Associate, Durham University
2010 Research Assistant in Biogeochemistry Field Studies, Newcastle University
PhD supervision
Peter Leary
Start date: 22 September 2014
Research area: Geoscience
Title: Microbial diversity and function in radionuclide contaminated soils and sediments
Memberships
The American Chemical Society
The Society for General Microbiology
Research
Research Interests
Manganese oxides
Metal, PAH and radionuclide contaminated land and remediation technologies
Lithological controls on soil microbial communities
Soil remineralization
Use of waste minerals for sustainable brownfield remediation
Impact of pollutants upon soil microbial functioning
Soil health
Publications
- Johnson KL, McCann CM, Wilkinson JL, Jones M, Tebo BM, West M, Elgy C, Clarke CE, Gowdy C, Hudson-Edwards KA. Dissolved Mn(III) in water treatment works: Prevalence and significance. Water Research 2018, 140, 181-190.
- McCann CM, Peacock CL, Hudson-Edwards KA, Shrimpton T, Gray ND, Johnson KL. In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2018, 342, 724-731.
- Johnson KL, McCann CM, Clarke CE. Breakdown of organic contaminants in soil by manganese oxides: A short review. In: IAM Ahmed and KA Hudson-Edwards, ed. Redox-reactive Minerals: Properties. Reactions and Applications in Clean Technologies. Middlesex: Mineralogical Society, 2017, pp.313-356.
- McCann CM, Wade MJ, Gray ND, Roberts JA, Hubert CRJ, Graham DW. Microbial Communities in a High Arctic polar desert landscape. Frontiers in Microbiology 2016, 7, 419.
- Johnson KL, McCann CM, Clarke CE. Breakdown of organic contaminants using Mn oxide minerals. In: I.A.M. Ahmed and K.A. Hudson-Edwards, ed. Redox-active Minerals: Properties, Reactions and Applications in Clean Technologies. European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2015. In Press.
- McCann CM, Gray ND, Tourney J, Davenport RJ, Wade MJ, Finlay N, Hudson-Edwards KA, Johnson KL. Remediation of a historically Pb contaminated soil using a model natural Mn oxide waste. Chemosphere 2015, 138, 211-217.
- McCann CM, Gray ND, Tourney J, Davenport RJ, Wade M, Finlay N, Husdon-Edwards KA, Johnson KL. Natural MnOx wastes as a novel remediation technology for Pb contaminated soils. In: 247th ACS National Meeting and Exposition. 2014, Dallas, TX, USA: American Chemical Society.
- Gray ND, McCann CM, Christgen B, Ahammad SZ, Roberts JA, Graham DW. Soil geochemistry confines microbial abundances across an Arctic landscape; Implications for net carbon exchange with the atmosphere. Biogeochemistry 2014, 120(1-3), 307-317.
- Chi Fru E, Gray ND, McCann C, Baptista JDC, Christgen B, Talbot HM, El Ghazouani A, Dennison C, Graham DW. Effects of copper mineralogy and methanobactin on cell growth and sMMO activity in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Biogeosciences 2011, 8, 2887-2894.
- Eibes G, McCann C, Pedezert A, Moreira M, Feijoo G, Lema J. Study of mass transfer and biocatalyst stability for the enzymatic degradation of anthracene in a two-phase partitioning bioreactor. Biochemical Engineering Journal 2010, 51(1-2), 79-85.
- Tourney J, Dowding C, Worrall F, McCann C, Gray N, Davenport R, Johnson K. Mn oxide as a contaminated-land remediation product. Mineralogical Magazine 2008, 72(1), 513-513(1).