Dr Peter Abrahams

Senior Lecturer
BSc Geography and Geology
PhD in Environmental Geochemistry Photograph of Dr Peter Abrahams.

Contact

Email: pwa@aber.ac.uk
Office: C9
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 584
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities

  • Coursework Extension Officer

Teaching Areas

Module coordinator for:

  • Environmental Science Fieldwork (ES20320)
  • Soil, Geochemistry And Environment (GG33020)
  • Environmental Law And Assessment (ES30310)

Contributes to:

  • Global Ecology And Soil Systems (GG10410)

Research

Applied Geochemistry:  Trace elements in soils, their geographical distribution and environmental implications; Soils and human health; Geoarchaeology.

Biography

Dr Peter Abrahams graduated with a BSc Geography and Geology Joint Honours degree from the University of Manchester, before going to Imperial College, (University of London), to undertake a PhD in environmental geochemistry. Following a further 3 years at Imperial College as a Research Assistant, he went to the University of East Anglia as a Senior Research Associate working on an acid rain project before coming to UWA (now Aberystwyth University) in 1986. His main teaching is in soil science, with a special emphasis on applied environmental issues that reflect his research interests.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2011

  1. Abrahams PW. 2011. Involuntary soil ingestion and geophagia: a source and sink of mineral nutrients and potentially harmful elements to consumers of earth materials. Applied Geochemistry. DOI

2010

  1. Abrahams PW, Entwistle JA, Dodgshon RA. 2010. The Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project: simultaneous multi-element analysis of former settlement and arable soils by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 17: 231-248.
  2. Abrahams PW. 2010. ‘Earth eaters’: ancient and modern perspectives on human geophagy. In: Soil and Culture: pp. 369-398.
  3. Smith KM, Dagleish MP, Abrahams PW. 2010. The intake of lead and associated metals by sheep grazing mining-contaminated floodplain pastures in mid-Wales, UK: II. Metal concentrations in blood and wool. Science of the Total Environment 408: 1035-1042. DOI

2009

  1. Smith KM, Abrahams PW, Dagleish MP, Steigmajer J. 2009. The intake of lead and associated metals by sheep grazing mining contaminated floodplain pastures in mid-Wales, UK: Soil ingestion, soil-metal partitioning and potential availability to pasture herbage and livestock. Science of the Total Environment, 407: 3731-3739.
  2. Entwistle JA, McCaffrey KJW, Abrahams PW. 2009. Three-dimensional (3D) visualisation: the application of terrestrial laser scanning in the investigation of historical Scottish farming townships. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 860-866.

2008

  1. Abrahams PW. 2008. Environmental impacts concerning the selenium content of foods. Health Benefits of Ogranic Food: Effects of the Environment., : 88-118.

2006

  1. Abrahams PW. 2006. Soil, geography and human disease: a critical review of the importance of medical cartography. Progress in Physical Geography, 30: 490-512.
  2. Abrahams PW, Follansbee MH, Hunt A, Smith B, Wragg J. 2006. Iron nutrition and possible lead toxicity: An appraisal of geophagy undertaken by pregnant women of UK Asian communities. Applied Geochemistry, 21: 98-108.

2005

  1. Abrahams PW. 2005. Geophagy and the involuntary ingeston of soil. Essentials of Medical Geology: Impact of the Natural Environment on Public Health., : pp435-458.