Contact Dr Melissa Ladyman
- Tel: +44 (0) 1793 785772
- Email: m.ladyman@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Explosives and Munitions
Background
Dr Melissa Ladyman graduated from Edinburgh University with an MChem degree in Chemistry with a Year in Europe. Her undergraduate degree included a year placement at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille where she undertook research into potential medications for tuberculosis and depression. She gained a PhD in the development of Fluorescent Assays for Biological Analysis also from The University of Edinburgh.
Melissa joined Cranfield University in 2015 and works in the Environmental Science Group within the Life Assessment Group in Cranfield Defence Chemistry.
Current activities
The Environmental Sciences group at Cranfield Defence Chemistry is interested in the fate and transport of energetic materials in soil, air and water environments. The group focuses on developing controlled laboratory methods to represent the real environment. Some areas of research include soil columns, dissolution experiments, degradation and weathering, demilitarisation, treatment of contaminated water and risk assessment.
The group has also been involved in coordinating a NATO soil sampling workshop showcasing the Multi-Increment Sampling method at Cranfield University at Shrivenham and COTEC sites. Videos of the event are available at the following web address.
Shorter promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7fA0XR7bU&t=45s
Longer educational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfQ3nnPkUIg&t=3s
The group runs a suite of IEMA accredited environmental courses for defence acquisition (https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/Courses/Short/Defence-and-Security/Environmental-Awareness-and-Compliance-in-Defence), and is involved in teaching on various MSc and short courses including the Explosives, Ordnance and Engineering MSc (https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/taught/explosives-ordnance-engineering).
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Persico F, Temple T, Ladyman M, Gilroy-Hirst W, Guiterrez-Carazo E & Coulon F (2022) Quantitative environmental assessment of explosive residues from the detonation of Insensitive High Explosive filled 155 mm artillery shell, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Available online 11 January 2022. Dataset/s: https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.15066633.v1
- Collet G, Ladyman MK, Hazael R & Temple TJ. (2021) The use of a predictive threat analysis to propose revisions to existing risk assessments for precursor chemicals used in the manufacture of home-made explosives (HME), Heliyon, 7 (12) Article No. e08343.
- Fawcett-Hirst, W., Temple, TJ., Ladyman, MK., Coulon & F. (2021) A review of treatment methods for insensitive high explosive contaminated wastewater, Heliyon, 7 (7) Article No. e07438.
- Galante EB, Mai N, Ladyman MK, Gill PP, Temple TJ & Coulon F (2021) Evaluation of small-scale combustion of an insensitive high explosive formulation containing 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO), 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) and 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), Journal of Energetic Materials, 39 (1) 85-99.
- Fawcett-Hirst W, Temple TJ, Ladyman MK & Coulon F (2020) Adsorption behaviour of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine, 2,4-dinitroanisole and 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one on commercial activated carbons, Chemosphere, 255 (September) Article No. 126848.
- Temple T, Cipullo S, Galante E, Ladyman M, Mai N, Parry T & Coulon F (2019) The effect of soil type on the extraction of insensitive high explosive constituents using four conventional methods, Science of the Total Environment, 668 (June) 184-192.
- Ladyman MK, Temple TJ, Piperakis MM, Fawcett-Hirst W, Gutierrez-Carazo E & Coulon F (2019) Decision framework for the environmental management of explosive contaminated land, Science of the Total Environment, 690 (November) 730-738.
- Temple T, Ladyman M, Mai N, Galante E, Ricamora M, Shirazi R & Coulon F (2018) Investigation into the environmental fate of the combined Insensitive High Explosive constituents 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN), 1-nitroguanidine (NQ) and nitrotriazolone (NTO) in soil, Science of the Total Environment, 625 (June) 1264-1271.
- Temple T, Goodwin C, Ladyman MK, Mai N & Coulon F (2018) Optimised accelerated solvent extraction of hexahydro‐1, 3, 5‐trinitro‐1, 3, 5 triazine (RDX) from polymer bonded explosives, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 43 (11) 1171-1177.
- Kumar M, Ladyman MK, Mai N, Temple T & Coulon F (2017) Release of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) from polymer-bonded explosives (PBXN 109) into water by artificial weathering, Chemosphere, 169 (February) 604-608.
- Walsh MR, Temple T, Big, MF, Tshabalala SF, Mai N & Ladyman M (2017) Investigation of energetic particle distribution from high-order detonations of munitions, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 42 (8) 932-941.
- Ladyman M, Mai N & Temple T (2017) Estimating explosive contamination from live-fire munitions using multi-increment sampling in Alaska, Explosives Engineering (December).
- Ladyman M, Temple T, Gill P & Galante E (2017) The UK Ministry of Defence Project Orientated Environmental Management System (POEMS), Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 42 (1) 36-43.
- Ladyman MK, Walton JGA, Lilienkampf A & Bradley M (2016) Fluorescent Formazans and Tetrazolium Salts – Towards Fluorescent Cytotoxicity Assays, Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, 19 (5) 384-391.
- Maguenea GM, Jakhlala J, Ladyman M, Vallina A, Ralambomananaa DA, Bousqueta T, Maugeinb J, Lebibic J & Pélinski L. (2010) Synthesis and antimycobacterial activity of a series of ferrocenyl derivatives, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 46 (1) 31-38.
Books
- Temple TJ, Ladyman MK (eds), (2020) Global approaches to environmental management on military training ranges, Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing, ed. 1.
- Bortone I, Coulon F, Fawcett-Hirst W, Ladyman M & Temple T (2019) Scientific principles of environmental management. In: Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges, IOP Publishing, p. 1-1-1-25.
