Luke Beesley
Environmental Scientist
Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Luke Beesley is a researcher with a broad interest in soils, specifically improving degraded urban and contaminated soils using organic amendments. In this respect he is interested in how degraded brownfield sites may be reclaimed by the addition of recycled wastes, and how stabilisation using vegetation can be promoted on these sites. he is also very interested in new methodologies for monitoring environmental pollution. Most recently his direction of research has taken him towards biochar, and its potential to improve soils physically, chemically and biologically.
Research Interest
Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
Publications
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Beesley, L., (2012) Carbon storage and fluxes in existing and newly created urban soils., Journal of Environmental Management, 104, 158-165.
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Beesley, L.; Dickinson, N., (2011) Carbon and trace element fluxes in the pore water of an urban soil following greenwaste compost, woody and biochar amendments, inoculated with the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 43, 188-196.
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Beesley, L.; Marmiroli, M.; Pagaono, L.; Pigoni, V.; Fellet, G.; Fresno, T.; Vamerali, T.; Bandiera, M.; Marmiroli, N., (2013) Biochar addition to an arsenic contaminated soil increases arsenic concentrations in the pore water but reduces uptake to tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.), Science of the Total Environment, 454-455, 598-603.
