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, e-pub ahead of print (accepted manuscript).
• 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).