Overview

I am a multi-disciplinary Postdoctoral Researcher, based in The Bioeconomy Centre. 

A member of the Exeter Microbial Biofuels Group (EMBG) I use Imaging Flow Cytometry (IFC) to characterise bacterial phenotypes. I also use IFC to detect  environmental proxies such as pollution particles, microplastics and pollen in a raneg of environemntl samples including lake sediments, ice cores and even fatbergs. I am currently working in collaboration with Swansea University to develop an automated way to classify pollen in the environment, combinging IFC and AI.  

My research is mainly focused on exploring human-environment relationships. I have reconstructed air pollution histories that span the Industrial Revolution to present day using urban pond sediments in northwest, UK, and in China. These records reveal how air pollution has changed over time as the urban landscape has evoved. I have also mapped pollution deposition using  the geomagentic properties of contemporary dusts. 

Publications:

Barnes, C., Power, A.L., Barber, D., Tennant, R.K., Jones, R.T., Lee, G.R., Hatton, J., Elliott, A., Zaragoza-Castells, J.,  Haley, S., Doan, M., Carpenter, A.E., Rees, P. & Love, J. (2023) Deductive Automated Pollen Classification in Environmental samples via Exploratory Deep Learning and Imaging Flow Cytometry. New Phytologist. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19186

Power, A.L.,  Tennant. R.K, Stewart, A.G., Gosden, C., Worsley, A.T., Jones, R., & Love, J. (2023) The evolution of atmospheric particulate matter in an urban landscape.  Scientific Reports. 13: 8964 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35679-3

Porter, A., Barber, D., Hobbs, C., Love, J., Power, A.L., Bakir, A., Galloway, T.S. & Lewis, C. (2023). Uptake of microplastics by marine worms depends on feeding mode and particle shape but not exposure time. Sci Total Environ, 857(Pt 1): 159287 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159287

Zheng, X., Schmidt, A.H., Du, J., Xue Qiao, Power, A., Grosvenor, M.J., & Ya, T. (2022) Response of lake water nutrient condition to anthropogenic activities from 1871 to 2013 in the Jiuzhaigou World Natural Heritage Site, China. Journal of Paleolimnology 68, 345–360 http://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-022-00248-7

Tennant. R.K., Power, A. L., Burton, S.K., Sinclair, N, Parker, D.A., Jones, R.T., Lee, R., Love, J (2022). In-situ sequencing reveals the effect of storage on lacustrine sediment microbiome demographics and functionality. Environmental Microbiome, 17 (1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00400-w

Power, A.L.,  Barber, D.G., Groenhof. S.R., Wagley, S., Lui, P., Parker, D.A. and Love, J. (2021) The application of Imaging Flow Cytometry for characterisation and quantification of bacterial phenotypes. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.  11: 716592. http://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.716592

Scott, A., Ballesteros, L.S., Bradshaw, M., Tsuji, C., Power, A., Lorriman., Love,J., Paul, D., Herman, A., Emanueli, C. and Richardson, R.J. (2021) In Vivo Characterization of Endogenous Cardiovascular Extracellular Vesicles in Larval and Adult Zebrafish. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 41: 2454-2468. http://doi.org/10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.316539

Wagley, S., Morcrette, H., Kovacs-Simon, A., Yang, Z.R., Power A., Tennant, R.K., Love, J., Murray, N., Titbal, R.W. and Butler, S.S. (2021) Bacterial dormancy: a subpopulation of viable but non-culturable cells demonstrates better fitness for revival. PLOS Pathogens. 17(1): e1009194. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009194

Langley, B., Halloran, P., Power, A., Rickaby, R.E., Chana, P., Diver, P., Thornalley, D., Hacker, C and Love, J. (2020) A new method for isolating and analysing coccospheres within sediments. Scientific Reports 10: 20727 http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77473-5

Fogwill, C.J., Turney, C.S.M. Menviel, L., Baker, A., Weber, M.E., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z.A,. Golledge, N.R., Etheridge, D., Rubino, M., Thornton, D.P., van Ommen, T.D., Moy, A.D., Curran, M.A.J., Davies, S., Bird, M.I., Munksgaard, N.C., Rootes, C.M., Millman, H., Vohra, J., Rivera, A.,  Mackintosh, A., Pike, J., Hall, I.R., Bagshaw, E.A., Rainsley, E. Bronk Ramsey, C., Montinari, M., Cage, A., Harris, M.R.P., Jones, R., Power, A.,. Love, J., Young, J., Weyrich, L.S.  Cooper. A. (2020) Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience: 13, 489–497 http://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0

Power, A.L.  & Worsley, A.T. (2019) Historical Urban Pollution IN Urban Pollution Charlesworth. S. & Booth, C.A. (Eds) Urban Pollution, Wiley Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119260493.ch2

Dickinson, A.W., Power, A., Hansen, M.G., Brandt, K.K., Piliposian, G., Appleby, P., O'Neill, P.A., Jones, R.T., Sierocinski, P., Koskella, B. & Vos. M (2019) Heavy metal pollution and co-selection for antibiotic resistance: A microbial palaeontology approach. Environment International132: 105117.  http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105117

Power, A.L., Tennant, R.K., Jones, R.T., Yang, Ya., Du, Jei., Worsley, A.T., Love, J. (2018) Monitoring Impacts of Urbanisation and Industrialisation on Air Quality in the Anthropocene Using Urban Pond Sediments Front. Earth Sci. 6:131. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00131

Tennant, R.K., Ayine, M,L., Power, A.L., Gilman, J.A., Hewlett, M., James, P.B.C., Singleton, C., Parker, D.A., Love, J. (2019) Hybrid Sequencing Approach Completes the Genome Sequence of Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus JW 200. Microbiol Resour Announc. 8:3 http://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01530-18

Power, A.L., Love, J., Jones, R. & Worsley, A.T. (2014) Investigating historical releases of industrial combustion particles using urban ponds. ProScience. (Conference Proceedings 1st International Conference on Atmospheric Dust- DUST 2014) 1 pp. 201-206.

Power, A.L., Worsley, A.T. & Booth, C.A. (2009) Magneto-biomonitoring of intra-urban spatial variations of particulate matter using tree leaves. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 31 pp. 315-325. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-008-9217-2

Power, A.L. &  Worsley, A.T. (2009) Using man-made ponds to reconstruct a 150-year history of air pollution in northwest England. Environmental Geochemistry and Health.  32 pp. 327-338.

Booth, C.A., Winspear, C.M., Fullen, M.A., Worsley, A.T., Power, A.L. & Holden, V.J. (2007) A pilot investigation into the potential of mineral magnetic measurements as a proxy for urban roadside particulate pollution. IN Brebbia, C.A. (ed). Air Pollution XV. Southampton: Wessex Institute Press. pp. 391-400.

Power, A.L., Worsley, A.T., Booth, C.A. & Farr, K.M. (2006) Preliminary insights of magneto-biomonitoring (Tilia europaea and Acer pseudoplatanus) as an alternative roadside particulate air pollution technology. IN Longhurst, J.W.S. & Brebbia, C.A. (eds) Air Pollution XIV. Southampton: Wessex Institute Press. pp. 525-534.

Qualifications

PhD (2011) - Edge Hill University

BSc Environmental Science (2004) - University of Wolverhampton

Links

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