Professor Mark Tibbett

Chair of Soil Ecology
Location: Building 37, Cranfield campus
E: mark.tibbett@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x 2991
Environmental Science and Technology

Current activities

Professor Mark Tibbett is a soil ecologist with a wide range of interests related to plants-soil interactions and feedbacks, mycorrhizas, decomposition (including taphonomy) and microbially mediated processes in soil. His research portfolio includes soil carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, metals in the soil-plant system, food security, bioremediation, metallophytes and mine site reclamation.

He is currently working on a number of projects related to early ecosystem development on mine wastes, the remediation of terrestrial hydrocarbon spills and the effect of soil fertility (chemical and biological) on plant community structure and succession, plant acquisition of soil phosphorus, forensic taphonomy, soil carbon and CO2 respirometry, and metal uptake by plants and fungi.

Mark is an active participant in number of professional bodies and has reviewed for over 30 international journals and over ten research funding bodies. He is associate editor on the international journals Soil Research, Australian Journal of Botany and Restoration Ecology and is currently guest editor for special issues of Agriculture Ecosystems Environment (on Land Restoration) and Plant and Soil (Rhizosphere 3). He is also co-editing a two-volume fully review conference proceeding Mine Closure 2011 (the proceedings of the sixth international conference on Mine Closure) to be published later this year.