Robert Hilton

I am a geochemist who studies how weathering, erosion and anthropogenic activities impact the transfer of elements from rocks to soils, rivers and the oceans. Our group in Earth Sciences focus on the carbon cycle, tracking carbon in many forms (organic, inorganic, particulate, dissolved, gaseous) across landscapes, and seeking to understand how climate change impacts land-to-ocean carbon transfers. We've worked in river catchments across scales, including a recent research focus on the Mackenzie River Basin.

We have a number of projects relevant to coupled biogeochemical and hydrological processes, including:

- RIV-ESCAPE - "RIVEr emissions of greenhouse gases from warming landSCAPES" - an ERC Consolidator project seeking to quantify CO2 and CH4 emissions from Arctic and high latitude settings 

- Climate drivers and impacts of oxidative weathering - NERC and Leverhulme-funded research on carbon and metal transfers associated with rock organic matter and sulfide oxidation

- Enhanced mineral weathering climate solutions and their impacts on stream and river chemistry