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  1. Effects of basalt and biochar addition on base cations and trace metals in plants and soil in an urban field trial

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Rory Doherty

  2. Innovative Bioelectrochemical Systems for Sustainable Remediation in Smart Cities

    Article • October 2025, Emerald

    Dr Rory Doherty

  3. Civic Synergy

    Article • October 2025, Emerald

    Prof Aidin Salamzadeh, Dr Rory Doherty

  4. Increased soil CO2 emissions after basalt amendment were partly offset by biochar addition in an urban field experiment

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Rory Doherty

  5. Supplementary material to "Increased soil CO2 emissions after basalt amendment were partly offset by biochar addition in an urban field experiment"

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Rory Doherty

  6. Developing a molecular tool for evaluating the status of petrochemical-contaminated soils using functional gene ratio strategy

    Article • Letters in Applied Microbiology, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rory Doherty

  7. Microbial fuel cells to monitor natural attenuation around groundwater plumes

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  8. Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: A systematic review

    Article • Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Rory Doherty

  9. Niche specialisation and aerobic trace gas utilising microbes in Movile Cave

    Article • Karst Science Days Symposium Proceedings, December 2024, Emil Racovită Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Romania

    Dr Rory Doherty

  10. Thermochemical characterisation of hydrochar from agricultural waste and its efficiency as a supplement with solid fuel

    Article • Biomass and Bioenergy, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  11. Using oral bioaccessibility measurements to refine risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in topsoils across an urban area

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  12. Bio-Electrochemical Systems to Monitor Biodegradation around Groundwater Plumes

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Rory Doherty

  13. A nose for trouble: ecotoxicological implications for climate change and disease in Saiga antelope (S. t. tatarica)

    Article • Minerals and the Environment, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  14. Sustainable resource recovery and process improvement in anaerobic digesters using hydrochar: A circular bio‐economic perspective

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Rory Doherty

  15. 2.3 Biocellular Concrete Façade

    Article • May 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Rory Doherty

  16. Investigating ingestion risks from soils and vegetables grown in urban lead-contaminated soil, and mitigation by soil amendments

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Rory Doherty

  17. Uncertainty with Varying Subsurface Permeabilities Reduced Using Coupled Random Field and Extended Theory of Porous Media Contaminant Transport Models

    Article • Water, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rory Doherty

  18. Bio‐electrochemical Systems for Monitoring and Enhancement of Groundwater Bioremediation

    Article • September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Rory Doherty

  19. Occurrence of methane-oxidizing bacteria and methanogenic archaea in earth’s cave systems—A metagenomic analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Rory Doherty

  20. Author Correction: Soil δ13C and δ15N baselines clarify biogeographic heterogeneity in isotopic discrimination of European badgers (Meles meles)

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  21. Soil δ13C and δ15N baselines clarify biogeographic heterogeneity in isotopic discrimination of European badgers (Meles meles)

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  22. Pyrolysis Kinetic Modeling of a Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) Encapsulant Found in Waste Photovoltaic Modules

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, September 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Rory Doherty

  23. Heavy metal (PTE) ecotoxicology, data review: Traditional vs. a compositional approach

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  24. Ultrafine Magnetic Particles: A DIET-Proxy in Organic Rich Sediments?

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, February 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Rory Doherty

  25. Optimization of the Groundwater Remediation Process Using a Coupled Genetic Algorithm-Finite Difference Method

    Article • Water, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Rory Doherty

  26. Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Aetiology and Its Relation with Waterborne Environmental Toxins: An Investigation via Compositional Balances

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  27. The Routledge Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rory Doherty

  28. Potentially toxic element accumulation in badgers (Meles meles): a compositional approach

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  29. Technical challenges and opportunities in realising a circular economy for waste photovoltaic modules

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  30. Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin is associated with environmental urbanisation in Belfast, UK

    Article • Minerals and the Environment, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  31. Investigating the influence of environmental factors on the incidence of renal disease with compositional data analysis using balances

    Article • Applied Computing and Geosciences, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  32. ULTRAFINE MAGNETIC PARTICLES CHARACTERIZATION AS A PROXY OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AT A BROWNFIELD

    Article • May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Rory Doherty

  33. Assessment of the energy recovery potential of waste Photovoltaic (PV) modules

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty, Dr Kevin Morgan

  34. Optimal remediation design and simulation groundwater flow coupled to contaminant transport using genetic algorithm and radial point collocation method (RPCM)

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  35. Enhancement of gasworks groundwater remediation by coupling a bio-electrochemical and activated carbon system

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  36. Radiological characterisation of alkali-activated construction materials containing red mud, fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  37. Analysis of viral and bacterial communities in groundwater associated with contaminated land

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  38. Radiological evaluation of industrial residues for construction purposes correlated with their chemical properties

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  39. Combined use of geophysical and geochemical methods to assess areas of active, degrading and restored blanket bog

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  40. Organic composition and multiphase stable isotope analysis of active, degrading and restored blanket bog

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  41. Radiological evaluation of by-products used in construction and alternative applications; Part I. Preparation of a natural radioactivity database

    Article • Construction and Building Materials, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  42. The relationship between historical development and potentially toxic element concentrations in urban soils

    Article • Environmental Pollution, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  43. From raw materials to NORM by-products

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Pavlo Kryvenko, Dr Rory Doherty

  44. The environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in western Taiwan and coastal waters: evaluation with a fugacity-based model

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  45. Microbial ecology and geoelectric responses across a groundwater plume

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Rory Doherty

  46. Resistivity and induced polarization monitoring of biogas combined with microbial ecology at a brownfield site

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Rory Doherty

  47. Introduction to special section: Characterization and monitoring of subsurface contamination

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Rory Doherty, Chi Zhang

  48. The effects of lead sources on oral bioaccessibility in soil and implications for contaminated land risk management

    Article • Environmental Pollution, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Rory Doherty

  49. When are total concentrations not total? Factors affecting geochemical analytical techniques for measuring element concentrations in soil

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  50. Integrated earth resistivity tomography (ERT) and multilevel sampling gas: a tool to map geogenic and anthropogenic methane accumulation on brownfield sites

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  51. Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in an Urban Soil Dataset

    Article • January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Rory Doherty

  52. Comparison of methods used to calculate typical threshold values for potentially toxic elements in soil

    Article • Minerals and the Environment, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  53. Self-potential signatures associated with an injection experiment at an in situ biological permeable reactive barrier

    Article • Near Surface Geophysics, December 2010, EAGE Publications

    Dr Rory Doherty

  54. Monitoring microbial sulfate reduction in porous media using multipurpose electrodes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Rory Doherty

  55. A microbial fuel cell in contaminated ground delineated by electrical self-potential and normalized induced polarization data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Rory Doherty

  56. Spectral induced polarization signatures of abiotic FeS precipitation

    Article • Geophysics, July 2010, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Rory Doherty

  57. Performance of a Sequential Reactive Barrier for Bioremediation of Coal Tar Contaminated Groundwater

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Rory Doherty

  58. Microbial analysis of soil and groundwater from a gasworks site and comparison with a sequenced biological reactive barrier remediation process

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, May 2007, Wiley

    Dr Rory Doherty

  59. Development of modified flyash as a permeable reactive barrier medium for a former manufactured gas plant site, Northern Ireland

    Article • Environmental Geology, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  60. Toxicity Assessment of a Former Manufactured Gas Plant

    Article • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, July 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rory Doherty

  61. 15. Observed and modelled hydraulic aquifer response to slurry wall installation at the former gasworks site, Portadown, Northern Ireland, UK

    Article • January 2002, ICE Publishing

    Dr Rory Doherty