Prof Mike Wood's Outputs (66)

Estimation of the excess lifetime cancer risk from radon exposure in some buildings of Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq (2017)
Journal Article
Abojassim, A., Mraity, H., Husain, A., & Wood, M. (2017). Estimation of the excess lifetime cancer risk from radon exposure in some buildings of Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq. Ядерна фізика та енергетика. Âderna fìzika ta energetika, 18(3), 276-286. https://doi.org/10.15407/jnpae2017.03.276

A number of international health organizations consider the exposure to residential radon as the second main cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoking. It was found that there is no database on radon concentrations for the Kufa Technical Institute... Read More about Estimation of the excess lifetime cancer risk from radon exposure in some buildings of Kufa Technical Institute, Iraq.

Selecting passive dosimetry technologies for measuring the external dose of terrestrial wildlife (2017)
Journal Article

Dosimeters attached to wild animals can be used to validate regulatory assessment approaches and models for estimating radiation exposure of wild animals. Such measurements are also necessary to ensure that robust dose-effect relationships can be dev... Read More about Selecting passive dosimetry technologies for measuring the external dose of terrestrial wildlife.

Transfer parameters for ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants in a terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystem (2017)
Journal Article

A system for the radiological protection of the environment (or wildlife) based on Reference Animals and Plants (RAPs) has been suggested by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). To assess whole-body activity concentrations... Read More about Transfer parameters for ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants in a terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystem.

A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research (2017)
Journal Article

An understanding of animal behaviour is important if conservation initiatives are to be effective. However, quantifying the behaviour of wild animals presents significant challenges. Remote-sensing camera traps are becoming increasingly popular surve... Read More about A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research.

Aquatic live animal radiotracing studies for ecotoxicological applications : addressing fundamental methodological deficiencies (2017)
Journal Article

The use of live animal gamma radioisotope tracer techniques in the field of ecotoxicology allows laboratory studies to accurately monitor contaminant biokinetics in real time for an individual organism. However, methods used in published studies for... Read More about Aquatic live animal radiotracing studies for ecotoxicological applications : addressing fundamental methodological deficiencies.

Dose assessment in environmental radiological protection : state of the art and perspectives (2017)
Journal Article

Exposure to radiation is a potential hazard to humans and the environment. The Fukushima accident reminded the world of the importance of a reliable risk management system that incorporates the dose received from radiation exposures. The dose to huma... Read More about Dose assessment in environmental radiological protection : state of the art and perspectives.

Do fungi need to be included within environmental radiation protection assessment models? (2017)
Journal Article

Fungi are used as biomonitors of forest ecosystems, having comparatively high uptakes of anthropogenic and naturally occurring radionuclides. However, whilst they are known to accumulate radionuclides they are not typically considered in radiological... Read More about Do fungi need to be included within environmental radiation protection assessment models?.

Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Stowell, D., Wood, M., Stylianou, Y., & Glotin, H. (2016, September). Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge. Presented at 26th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Salerno, Italy

Many biological monitoring projects rely on acoustic detection of birds. Despite increasingly large datasets, this detection is often manual or semi-automatic, requiring manual tuning/postprocessing. We review the state of the art in automatic bird s... Read More about Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge.

The transfer of 137Cs, Pu isotopes and 90Sr to bird, bat and ground-dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl exclusion zone (2016)
Journal Article

Protected species are the focus of many radiological environmental assessments.
However, the lack of radioecological data for many protected species presents a
significant international challenge. Furthermore, there are legislative restrictions on... Read More about The transfer of 137Cs, Pu isotopes and 90Sr to bird, bat and ground-dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Strategies for engaging with future radiation protection professionals: a public outreach case study (2015)
Journal Article

It is evident that there is a nuclear skills shortage within the UK, and logically it can be assumed that the shortfall extends to the radiation protection arena. Plans for nuclear new-build and the decommissioning of existing nuclear sites will requ... Read More about Strategies for engaging with future radiation protection professionals: a public outreach case study.

Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models (2015)
Journal Article
Beresford, N., Wood, M., Vives i Batlle, J., Yankovich, T., Bradshaw, C., & Willey, N. (2016). Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 151(Part 2), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.022

We will never have data to populate all of the potential radioecological modelling parameters required for wildlife assessments. Therefore, we need robust extrapolation approaches which allow us to make best use of our available knowledge. This paper... Read More about Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models.

Factors in organisational environmental management system implementation – Developed vs. Developing country contexts (2014)
Journal Article
Kola-Lawal, C., Wood, M., Alo, B., & Clark, A. (2014). Factors in organisational environmental management system implementation – Developed vs. Developing country contexts. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2(4), 408-421. https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.2014.02.0032

Country specificities and national cultures influence Environmental Management Systems (EMS) implementation and pro-environmental behaviour in organisations. Previous studies have focused on organisations in developed or emerging economies, creating... Read More about Factors in organisational environmental management system implementation – Developed vs. Developing country contexts.

Predicting exposure of wildlife in radionuclide contaminated wetland ecosystems (2014)
Journal Article

Many wetlands support high biodiversity and are protected sites, but some are contaminated with radionuclides from routine or accidental releases from nuclear facilities. This radiation exposure needs to
be assessed to demonstrate radiological prote... Read More about Predicting exposure of wildlife in radionuclide contaminated wetland ecosystems.

A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles (2014)
Journal Article
Beresford, N., & Wood, M. (2014). A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 138, 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.08.012

A major source of uncertainty in the estimation of radiation dose to wildlife is the prediction of internal radionuclide activity concentrations. Allometric (mass-dependent) relationships describing biological half-life (T1/2b) of radionuclides in or... Read More about A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles.

Spatial analysis of Carbon-14 dynamics in a wetland ecosystem (Duke Swamp, Chalk River Laboratories, Canada) (2014)
Journal Article
Yankovich, T., King-Sharp, K., Carr, J., Robertson, E., Killey, R., Beresford, N., & Wood, M. (2014). Spatial analysis of Carbon-14 dynamics in a wetland ecosystem (Duke Swamp, Chalk River Laboratories, Canada). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 137, 173-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.07.007

A detailed survey was conducted to quantify the spatial distribution of 14C in Sphagnum moss and underlying soil collected in Duke Swamp. This wetland environment receives 14C via groundwater pathways from a historic radioactive Waste Management Area... Read More about Spatial analysis of Carbon-14 dynamics in a wetland ecosystem (Duke Swamp, Chalk River Laboratories, Canada).

Evaluating summarised radionuclide concentration ratio datasets for wildlife (2013)
Journal Article

Concentration ratios (CRwo-media) are used in most radioecological models to predict
whole-body radionuclide activity concentrations in wildlife from those in environmental media. This
simplistic approach amalgamates the various factors influencing... Read More about Evaluating summarised radionuclide concentration ratio datasets for wildlife.

Plutonium in wildlife and soils at the Maralinga legacy site : Persistence over decadal time scales (2013)
Journal Article

The mobility of plutonium (Pu) in soils, and its uptake into a range of wildlife, were examined using recent and ~25 year old data from the Taranaki area of the former Maralinga weapons test site, Australia. Since its initial deposition in the early... Read More about Plutonium in wildlife and soils at the Maralinga legacy site : Persistence over decadal time scales.

Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., Smith, K., & Wood, M. (2013). Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 133, 60-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.07.005

Over recent years, a number of approaches have been developed that enable the calculation of dose rates to animals and plants following the release of radioactivity to the environment. These approaches can be used to assess the potential impacts of a... Read More about Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories.

The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife (2013)
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An IAEA handbook presenting transfer parameter values for wildlife has recently been produced. Concentration ratios (CRwo-media) between the whole organism (fresh weight) and either soil (dry weight) or water were collated for a range of wildlife gro... Read More about The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife.

Uncertainty analysis in a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis tool for river catchment management (2011)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Wood, M., Linstead, C., & Maltby, E. (2011). Uncertainty analysis in a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis tool for river catchment management. Environmental Modelling and Software, 26(4), 395-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.09.005

The importance of uncertainty analysis has been increasingly recognised, due to the influence of uncertainties in data, models and expert judgements. However, the successful integration of uncertainty analysis into multi-criteria analysis (MCA) has r... Read More about Uncertainty analysis in a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis tool for river catchment management.