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About the Editors
research on organic matter fluorescence properties of karst groundwaters, uK rivers, and,
finally, engineered systems such as drinking and waste water treatment systems.
DArren M. reYnOlDs leads a research group within the centre for research in Biosciences
and sits on the scientific Advisory Board for the institute of Bio-sensing technology at the
university of the West of england, Bristol. He is a multidisciplinary scientist concerned
with the development of technology platforms for applications in the fields of environment/
agri-food and health. reynolds’s research interests include the development of optical
technologies and techniques for environmental and biological sensing and bio-prospecting
applications. He is currently involved in the development and use of synthetic biology
(bioluminescent reporter bacteria) for the discovery and characterization of bacteriophage
and to assess their potential use as a bio-control/antimicrobial in the health and agri-food
sectors. He is developing, in collaboration with industrial partners, in situ fluorescence
sensors to help further understand the role of dissolved organic matter in underpinning the
microbial processes in aquatic systems though time.
rOBert g. M. sPencer is Assistant scientist at the Woods Hole research center, Falmouth,
Massachusetts. He is an earth system scientist whose research encompasses both aquatic
geochemistry and biogeochemistry, focused predominantly on the carbon and nitrogen
cycles. the majority of his research centers on the interface between the hydrosphere and
biosphere over environmental time scales within natural systems. spencer is a highly interdisciplinary scientist and uses a suite of analytical techniques to examine the influence of
physical, chemical, and biological processes – especially watershed hydrology, ecosystem
processing, global climate change, and land use change – on the carbon and nitrogen cycles
within aquatic and terrestrial environments. A major focus of spencer’s current research
is examining controls on the export, processing, and fate of organic matter in the critical
zone from the tropics to the Arctic, from soils and glaciers through rivers and estuaries and
into the ocean. spencer has utilized organic matter fluorescence extensively in this research
for delineating sources and degradation histories of organic matter, as well as to improve
resolution of components of the organic matter pool (e.g., dissolved organic carbon and
biomarkers).
About the Editors
research on organic matter fluorescence properties of karst groundwaters, uK rivers, and,
finally, engineered systems such as drinking and waste water treatment systems.
DArren M. reYnOlDs leads a research group within the centre for research in Biosciences
and sits on the scientific Advisory Board for the institute of Bio-sensing technology at the
university of the West of england, Bristol. He is a multidisciplinary scientist concerned
with the development of technology platforms for applications in the fields of environment/
agri-food and health. reynolds’s research interests include the development of optical
technologies and techniques for environmental and biological sensing and bio-prospecting
applications. He is currently involved in the development and use of synthetic biology
(bioluminescent reporter bacteria) for the discovery and characterization of bacteriophage
and to assess their potential use as a bio-control/antimicrobial in the health and agri-food
sectors. He is developing, in collaboration with industrial partners, in situ fluorescence
sensors to help further understand the role of dissolved organic matter in underpinning the
microbial processes in aquatic systems though time.
rOBert g. M. sPencer is Assistant scientist at the Woods Hole research center, Falmouth,
Massachusetts. He is an earth system scientist whose research encompasses both aquatic
geochemistry and biogeochemistry, focused predominantly on the carbon and nitrogen
cycles. the majority of his research centers on the interface between the hydrosphere and
biosphere over environmental time scales within natural systems. spencer is a highly interdisciplinary scientist and uses a suite of analytical techniques to examine the influence of
physical, chemical, and biological processes – especially watershed hydrology, ecosystem
processing, global climate change, and land use change – on the carbon and nitrogen cycles
within aquatic and terrestrial environments. A major focus of spencer’s current research
is examining controls on the export, processing, and fate of organic matter in the critical
zone from the tropics to the Arctic, from soils and glaciers through rivers and estuaries and
into the ocean. spencer has utilized organic matter fluorescence extensively in this research
for delineating sources and degradation histories of organic matter, as well as to improve
resolution of components of the organic matter pool (e.g., dissolved organic carbon and
biomarkers).