Dr David Assinder

Lecturer in Ocean Sciences

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Room: 401 Westbury Mount      Phone: 01248 382854

E-mail: d.assinder@bangor.ac.uk

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I graduated in Environmental Sciences from Lancaster University in 1979 and undertook my PhD on radionuclide behaviour in the estuarine environment at Lancaster between 1979 and 1982. I became a Visiting Fellow at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada during 1983 investigating nuclear discharges to Canadian and Arctic waters. In 1984 and 1985 I worked in the Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol as a postdoctoral researcher examining organic compounds and their availability from coal.

In 1985 I moved to the School of Ocean Sciences as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer until 2007, then School Administrator/Deputy College Manager until 2018 and finally back into teaching in 2018.

I am interested in all aspects of marine biogeochemistry but have specialised in marine and estuarine pollution particularly in relation to radionuclides, but also metals and plastics. Particular areas of interest include the occurrence, transport and fate of natural and artificial radionuclides in terrestrial and marine ecosystems including assessing the radiation dose to humans using coastal areas. This has encompassed work in relation to Sellafield and Springfields discharges to the Irish Sea and the fate of Chernobyl-derived radionuclides in the environment.

I have been employed by the QAA to undertake reviews of teaching quality in the UK and I am a STEM Ambassador with a particular interest in addressing issues related to harassment of staff and students in UK Universities.

  1. 1988
  2. Published

    Stepwise chemical degradations of a UK bituminous coal

    Shaw, P. M., Brassell, S. C., Assinder, D. J. & Eglinton, G., Apr 1988, In: Fuel. 67, 4, p. 557-564

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. 1987
  4. Published

    Ymbelydredd ym Môr Iwerddon

    Assinder, D., 1987, In: Y Gwyddonydd. 25, 2, p. 53-58 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

  5. 1985
  6. Published

    Plutonium in intertidal coastal and estuarine sediments in the Northern Irish Sea

    Aston, S. R., Assinder, D. J. & Kelly, M., 1985, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 20, 6, p. 761-771

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Tidal variations in dissolved and particulate phase radionuclide activities in the Esk estuary, England, and their distribution coefficients and particulate activity fractions

    Assinder, D. J., Kelly, M. & Aston, S. R., 1985, In: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 2, 1, p. 1-22

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. 1984
  9. Published

    Conservative and non‐conservative behaviour of radionuclides in an estuarine environment, with particular respect to the behaviour of plutonium isotopes

    Assinder, D. J., Kelly, M. & Aston, S. R., 1984, In: Environmental Technology Letters. 5, 1, p. 23-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 1983
  11. Published

    Behaviour of plutonium in the inter tidal sediments of the eastern Irish Sea

    Assinder, D., 1983, Ecological aspects of radionuclide release. Coughtrey, PJ., Bell, JNB. & Roberts, TM. (eds.). 3 ed. British Ecological Society, Vol. Special Publication . 8 p. (Special Publication of the British Ecological Society).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  12. 1981
  13. Published

    Plutonium occurrence and phase distribution in sediments of the Wyre estuary, northwest England

    Aston, S. R., Assinder, D. J., Stanners, D. A. & RAE, JE., 1981, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 12, 9, p. 308-314

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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