Contact

• workRoom A24b Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 67398
• fax0115 95 15249
• Virginia.Panizzo@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://virginiapanizzo.wordpress.com

Expertise Summary

Ginnie is a freshwater ecologist and stable isotope geochemist whose work focuses on environmental change and biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In tandem with her research on algal proxies, she is interested in reconstructing the impact that humans and climate change have had on freshwater environments over the past c. 2000 years.

Ginnie works very closely with the British Geological Survey of which she is a Visiting Research Associate, sitting on the board of the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. She is also the Vice Chair of the International Paleolimnological Association.

Ginnie's research focuses on:

• Reconstructing and quantifying human impacts (pollution and nutrient enrichment) on freshwater systems
• Understanding aquatic ecosystem functioning (diatoms and algal biomarkers) and its relationship with climate change and human disturbance
• Constraining biogeochemical cycling of silica and carbon in freshwater ecosystems
• Developing and applying diatom isotope geochemistry δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O and δ³⁰Si in environmental reconstructions

Teaching Summary

Ginnie's teaching reflects her research experience, being focused on disentangling human versus natural climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Ginnie's teaching covers both in the field… read more

Research Summary

Current research grants:

2019-2024: Co-I on a GCRF Hub entitled "Living Deltas" (PI Newcastle). The Hub brings £1.2 million of funding to Nottingham (of a total of £15,287,248). Nottingham Lead Panizzo.

2020-2022: UKIERI-DST Partnership Development Workshop Call "Water for all: Addressing issues surrounding water quality, quantity and waste water treatment in India." c. £10,000 to Nottingham. UK PI Panizzo and Indian PI Barooah (Assam Agricultural University).

2019-2022: National Geographic Explorer Grant: The origins and history of Lake Linumunsut, Maliau Basin, Borneo ($28,853). PI Panizzo, Co-I Frings (GFZ), Suhaimi and Pounsin (Maliau Basin).

2018-2020: NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Steering Committee "Understanding human-driven ecosystem change in tropical Southeast Asia" (IP-1815-0618), £46,000 Co-I Panizzo

Consult the research tab above for further details.

Selected Publications

• MOORHOUSE, HEATHER L., ROBERTS, LUCY R., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., BARKER, PHILIP, SALEHIN, MASHFIQUS, DO, THU NGA, NGUYEN THANH, PHONG, RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD FEISAL, GHOSH, TUHIN, DAS, SOURAV, HACKNEY, CHRISTOPHER, SALGADO, JORGE, ROY, MANOJ, OPEL, AFTAB, HENDERSON, ANDREW C. G. and LARGE, ANDY R. G., 2021. Tropical Asian mega-delta ponds: Important and threatened socio-ecological systems Geo: Geography and Environment. 8(2), e00103
• HENDERSON, ANDREW C. G.AND DAS, SOURAVAND GHOSH, TUHINAND PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N.AND MOORHOUSE, HEATHER L.AND ROBERTS, LUCY R.AND WALTON, RICHARD E.AND ZHENG, YINGAND BASS, ADRIAN M.AND MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, 2021. The Indian Sundarbans: Biogeochemical Dynamics and Anthropogenic Impacts. In: DAS, SOURAVAND GHOSH, TUHIN, ed., Estuarine Biogeochemical Dynamics of the East Coast of India Springer International Publishing. 239-260
• BRIDDON, CHARLOTTE L., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, METCALFE, SARAH E., PANIZZO, VIRGINIA, LACEY, JACK, ENGELS, STEFAN, LENG, MELANIE, MILLS, KEELY, SHAFIQ, MUHAMMAD and IDRIS, MUSHRIFAH, 2020. Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro-climate over the past 150 years GEO-GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT. 7(1),
• TRINH, ANH DUC, DO, THU NGA, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE and LENG, MELANIE J., 2020. Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES. 34(22), 4239-4250

• View all publications

Current research grants:

2019-2024: Co-I on a GCRF Hub entitled "Living Deltas" (PI Newcastle). The Hub brings £1.2 million of funding to Nottingham (of a total of £15,287,248). Nottingham Lead Panizzo.

Previous research grants:

2020-2022: UKIERI-DST Partnership Development Workshop Call "Water for all: Addressing issues surrounding water quality, quantity and waste water treatment in India." c. £10,000 to Nottingham. UK PI Panizzo and Indian PI Barooah(Assam Agricultural University).

2019-2022: National Geographic Explorer Grant: The origins and history of Lake Linumunsut, Maliau Basin, Borneo ($28,853). PI Panizzo, Co-I Frings (GFZ), Suhaimi and Pounsin (Maliau Basin).

2017-2020: Newton Research Partnership NERC-NAFOSTED (total 447K with 337k from NERC): "Assessing human impacts on the Red River system, Vietnam, to enable sustainable management". The project has partners at BGS (CEG linkages) and the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology. PI McGowan with Co-Is Panizzo (Nottingham), Leng (NIGL), Vane (BGS) (NE/P014577)

2015-2018: Anne McLaren Research Fellowship (PI Panizzo) entitled "Silicon cycling in mangrove systems". Awarded £89,000 from the University with additional matched funding (c. £15,000) from the BGS

2012-2015: NERC Standard Grant entitled "Silicon isotope records of recent environmental change and anthropogenic pollution from Lake Baikal, Siberia" NE/J00829X/1 (PI Swann, with Dr. McGowan and Research Co-I Panizzo [Nottingham], Dr Priestnall [Nottingham], Dr. Mackay [UCL], Dr. Horstwood [NIGL] and Prof. Leng [NIGL]).

Facilities funding:

2024: NEIF 2736.1023 - Assessing anthropogenic impacts to biogeochemical cycling at a protected tropical wetland (Loktak Lake, India) - Awarded £32,550. PI Panizzo

2018-2020: NIGFSC: IP-1815-0618: Understanding human-driven ecosystem change in tropical Southeast Asia. Awarded £46,000 Co-I Panizzo

2017-2019: NIGFSC: IP-1731-0517: Biogeochemical cycling in a tropical, wetland lake: addressing missing links in the global Si cycle. Awarded £41,250. Panizzo (PI), Engels, McGowan (Nottingham), Pashley and Horstwood (BGS).

2016-2019: NIGFSC: IP-1586-1115: Understanding the Si isotope systematics of mangrove forests: quantifying their ready supply to tropical, coastal ocean regions and their impact on global CO₂ budgets. Awarded £15,750. Panizzo (PI), Pashley and Horstwood (BGS).

Ginnie's teaching reflects her research experience, being focused on disentangling human versus natural climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Ginnie's teaching covers both in the field experience as well as in the lab and classroom. Ginnie actively teaches in the following modules in the School of Geography:

• Planet Earth: Exploring the Physical Environment
• Geographical Field Course
• The Changing Environment (Convenor)
• Third Year Fieldcourse (Convenor)
• Tropical Enviornments in the Anthropocene
• Research tutorial
• First year tutorials
• Dissertation supervision
• MSc Environmental Leadership and Management (dissertation supervisor)

Current PhD students

Hamish Duncalf-Youngson: "Assessing the impacts of aquaculture and pesticide use in a protected tropical wetland (Loktak Lake, India)"

Mingjie Sun: "Reconstructing cultural eutrophication and 20^th Century land use impacts on the ecology of the Winum Gulf, Lake Victoria"

• MOORHOUSE, HEATHER L., ROBERTS, LUCY R., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., BARKER, PHILIP, SALEHIN, MASHFIQUS, DO, THU NGA, NGUYEN THANH, PHONG, RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD FEISAL, GHOSH, TUHIN, DAS, SOURAV, HACKNEY, CHRISTOPHER, SALGADO, JORGE, ROY, MANOJ, OPEL, AFTAB, HENDERSON, ANDREW C. G. and LARGE, ANDY R. G., 2021. Tropical Asian mega-delta ponds: Important and threatened socio-ecological systems Geo: Geography and Environment. 8(2), e00103
• HENDERSON, ANDREW C. G.AND DAS, SOURAVAND GHOSH, TUHINAND PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N.AND MOORHOUSE, HEATHER L.AND ROBERTS, LUCY R.AND WALTON, RICHARD E.AND ZHENG, YINGAND BASS, ADRIAN M.AND MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, 2021. The Indian Sundarbans: Biogeochemical Dynamics and Anthropogenic Impacts. In: DAS, SOURAVAND GHOSH, TUHIN, ed., Estuarine Biogeochemical Dynamics of the East Coast of India Springer International Publishing. 239-260
• SWANN, GEORGE E. A., PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., PICCOLROAZ, SEBASTIANO, PASHLEY, VANESSA, HORSTWOOD, MATTHEW S. A., ROBERTS, SARAH, VOLOGINA, ELENA, PIOTROWSKA, NATALIA, STURM, MICHAEL, ZHDANOV, ANDRE, GRANIN, NIKOLAY, NORMAN, CHARLOTTE, MCGOWAN, SUZANNE and MACKAY, ANSON W., 2020. Changing nutrient cycling in Lake Baikal, the world's oldest lake PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 117(44), 27211-27217
• TRINH, ANH DUC, DO, THU NGA, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE and LENG, MELANIE J., 2020. Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES. 34(22), 4239-4250
• BRIDDON, CHARLOTTE L., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, METCALFE, SARAH E., PANIZZO, VIRGINIA, LACEY, JACK, ENGELS, STEFAN, LENG, MELANIE, MILLS, KEELY, SHAFIQ, MUHAMMAD and IDRIS, MUSHRIFAH, 2020. Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro-climate over the past 150 years GEO-GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT. 7(1),
• LUU THI NGUYET MINH, DO THU NGA, MATIATOS, IOANNIS, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA NATALIE and TRINH ANH DUC, 2020. Stable isotopes as an effective tool for N nutrient source identification in a heavily urbanized and agriculturally intensive tropical lowland basin BIOGEOCHEMISTRY. 149(1), 17-35
• DUONG, TT, NGUYEN, HY, LE, TPQ, NGUYEN, TK, TRAN, TTH, LE, ND, DANG, DK, VU, TN, PANIZZO, V and MCGOWAN, S, 2019. Transitions in diatom assemblages and pigments through dry and wet season conditions in the Red River, Hanoi (Vietnam) Plant Ecology and Evolution. 152(2), 163-177
• PANIZZO, V. N., ROBERTS, S., SWANN, G. E. A., MCGOWAN, S., MACKAY, A. W., VOLOGINA, E., PASHLEY, V. and HORSTWOOD, M. S. A., 2018. Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilization in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 1562-1578
• PANIZZO, V.N., SWANN, G.E.A., MACKAY, A.W., PASHLEY, V. and HORSTWOOD, M.S.A., 2018. Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal Quaternary Science Reviews. 190, 114-122
• ROBERTS, S.L., SWANN, G.E.A., MCGOWAN, S., PANIZZO, V.N., VOLOGINA, E.G., STURM, M. and MACKAY, A.W., 2018. Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia. PLOS ONE. 13, e0208765
• VAN HARDENBROEK, M., CHAKRABORTY, A., DAVIES, K. L., HARDING, P., HEIRI, O., HENDERSON, A. C. G., HOLMES, J. A., LASHER, G. E., LENG, M. J., PANIZZO, V. N., ROBERTS, L., SCHILDER, J., TRUEMAN, C. N. and WOOLLER, M. J., 2018. The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: Current understanding, challenges, and future directions QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS. 196, 154-176
• SWANN, GEORGE E. A., MACKAY, ANSON W., VOLOGINA, ELENA, JONES, MATTHEW D., PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., LENG, MELANIE J., SLOANE, HILARY J., SNELLING, ANDREA M. and STURM, MICHAEL, 2018. Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS. 189, 210-222
• SUTTON, JILL N., ANDRE, LUC, CARDINAL, DAMIEN, CONLEY, DANIEL J., DE SOUZA, GREGORY F., DEAN, JONATHAN, DODD, JUSTIN, EHLERT, CLAUDIA, ELLWOOD, MICHAEL J., FRINGS, PATRICK J., GRASSE, PATRICIA, HENDRY, KATHARINE, LENG, MELANIE J., MICHALOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N. and SWANN, GEORGE E. A., 2018. A Review of the Stable Isotope Bio-geochemistry of the Global Silicon Cycle and Its Associated Trace Elements FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE. 5,
• ROBERTS, SARAH L., SWANN, GEORGE E. A., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, PANIZZO, VIRGINIA N., VOLOGINA, ELENA G., STURM, MICHAEL and MACKAY, ANSON W., 2018. Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia PLOS ONE. 13(12),
• PANIZZO, V. N., SWANN, G. E. A., MACKAY, A. W., PASHLEY, V. and HORSTWOOD, M. S. A., 2018. Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS. 190, 114-122
• PANIZZO, V. N., ROBERTS, S., SWANN, G. E. A., MCGOWAN, S., MACKAY, A. W., VOLOGINA, E., PASHLEY, V and HORSTWOOD, M. S. A., 2018. Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilization in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY. 63(4), 1562-1578
• PANIZZO V.N., SWANN, G.E.A., MACKAY, A.W., VOLOGINA, E., ALLEMAN, L., ANDRE, L., PASHLEY, V.H. and HORSTWOOD, M.S.A., 2017. Constraining modern day silicon cycling in Lake Baikal. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 31, 556-574
• PANIZZO, V.N., SWANN, G.E.A., MACKAY, A.W., VOLOGINA, E., STURM, M., PASHLEY, V. and HORSTWOOD, M.S.A., 2016. Insights into the transfer of silicon isotopes into the sediment record Biogeosciences. 13, 147-157
• PANIZZO, V.N., CRESPIN, J., CROSTA, X., SHEMESH, A., MASSÉ, G., YAM, R., MATTIELLI, N. and CARDINAL, D., 2014. Sea ice diatom contributions to Holocene nutrient utilization in East Antarctica Paleoceanography. 28,
• PANIZZO, V.N., MACKAY, A.W., ROSE, N., RIOUAL, P. and LENG, M., 2013. Recent palaeolimnological change from Lake Xiaolongwan, north-east China: climatic versus anthropogenic forcing Quaternary International. 290-291, 322-334
• MACKAY, A.W., BEZRUKOVA, E.V, BOYLE, J.F, HOLMES, J.A., PIOTROWSKA, N., PIOTROWSKA, N., PIOTROWSKA, N., TARASOV, P. and WHITE, D., 2013. Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia Quaternary International. 290-291, 45-56
• WANG, L., MACKAY, A.W., LENG, M.J., RIOUAL, P., PANIZZO, V.N., LU, H., GU, Z., CHU, G. and HAN, J., 2013. Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ13C from Erlongwan maar Lake, Northeast China Organic Geochemistry. 54, 62-68
• SHILLAND, E. M., IRVINE, L., MALCOLM, I. A., MARAZZI, L., PANIZZO, V. N. & SALGADO, J, 2012. The United Kingdom Acid Waters Monitoring Network Data Report for 2010-2011 (year 23). Report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Contract EPG 1/3/160) ENSIS Ltd. Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London, London..
• WANG, L., RIOUAL, P., PANIZZO, V.N., LU, H., GU, Z., CHU, G., YANG, D., HAN, J., LIU, J., MACKAY, A.W., 2012. A 1000-year record of environmental change in NE China, indicated by diatom assemblages from maar lake Erlongwan Quaternary Research. 78, 24-34
• BENNION, H., GOLDSMITH, B., CLARKE, G., RAWCLIFFE, R., ROSE, N., MCGOWAN, S, WILLBY, N., DAVIDSON, T., SAYER, C., PANIZZO, V., ROE, K, 2010. Using novel palaeolimnological techniques to define lake conservation objectives for three Cheshire meres Final report to Natural England, ECRC Research Report No. 146..
• PTITSYN, A.B., RESHETOVA, S.A., BABICH, V.V., DARYIN, A.V., KALUGIN, I.A., OVCHINIKOV, D.V., PANIZZO, V., AND MYGLAN, V.S, 2010. Palaeoclimate chronology and aridization in the Transbaikalia for the last 1900 years Geography and Natural Resources. 31(2), 144-147
• MACKAY, A.W., KARABANOV, E. KHURSEVICH, G., LENG, M., MORLEY, D.W., PANIZZO, V., SLOANE, H.J. & WILLIAMS, D., 2008. Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: an application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica Journal of Quaternary Science. 23, 365-374
• PANIZZO, V., JONES, V., BIRKS, H.J.B., BROOKS, S., BOYLE, J., AND LENG, M., 2008. An early Holocene, multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Lake Holebudalen, southern Norway The Holocene. 18(5), 805-819
• PANIZZO, V., MACKAY, A., SSEMMANDA, I., AND LENG, M., 2008. A recent palaeoecological reconstruction of Lake Bujuku, Uganda: a remote, tropical, alpine lake Journal of Paleolimnology. 40, 325-338
• MASLIN, M., AUSTIN, P., DICKSON, A., MURLIS, J., OWEN, M., AND PANIZZO, V., 2007. Audit of UK Greenhouse Gas emissions to 2020: will current Government policies achieve significant reductions? UCL Environmental Institute Publication commissioned by Channel Four.
• RESHETOVA, S.A., BEZRUKOVA, E.V, PANIZZO, V.N., HENDERSON, A.C.G, PTITSYN, A.B., DARYIN, A.V. and KALUGIN, I.A., Reconstructed Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Central Transbaikal area, based on pollen records from Lake Arakhley Geography and Natural resources. 34(2), (In Press.)