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Nine selected co-authored journal articles, including two 2026 papers, plus a separately identified book chapter. This is a selected research record, not a total career publication count.

9 articles
2026
Applied Geochemistry · 205 · 106863

Geochemical Modeling of CO₂ Sequestration via Weathering of Steel Slag: Reactive Transport and Mineralization Dynamics

Cosgun, E.; Campbell, J.; McBride, A.; Wade, P.; Van der Spek, M.; Renforth, P.

Reactive transport and mineral carbonation in steel slag.

Peter’s contribution: Co-author. Peter's supplied professional profile describes adapting PHREEQC scripts and extending thermodynamic and kinetic data for this study; the publication record does not independently allocate those tasks.

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2026
Cambridge Prisms: Carbon Technologies · 2 · e3

A novel soil porewater extraction technique for enhanced rock weathering products: SATuration–Centrifugation

Skov, K.; Radková, A.; Agace, K.; et al., including Wade, P.

A published porewater-extraction study for enhanced-weathering research.

Peter’s contribution: Writing, review and editing. This is not an attribution of method invention or experimental validation to Peter.

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2025
Frontiers in Climate

Quantifying potential carbon dioxide removal via enhanced weathering using porewater from a field trial in Scotland.

McBride, A. L.; Skov, K.; Wade, P.; et al.

Field-trial porewater and potential carbon-removal quantification.

Peter’s contribution: Formal analysis; writing, review and editing.

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2024
PLOS ONE

Initial agronomic benefits of enhanced weathering using basalt: A study of spring oat in a temperate climate.

Skov, K.; Wardman, J.; Healey, M.; et al., including Wade, P.

Basalt amendment and agronomic responses in a temperate field setting.

Peter’s contribution: Co-authored publication; follow the full record for author and contribution details.

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2022
Frontiers in Climate

Enhanced Weathering Using Basalt Rock Powder: Carbon Sequestration, Co-benefits and Risks in a Mesocosm Study with Solanum tuberosum.

Vienne, A.; Poblador, S.; Portillo-Estrada, M.; Hartmann, J.; Ijiehon, S.; Wade, P.; Vicca, S.

Experimental study of enhanced weathering, co-benefits and risks.

Peter’s contribution: Help with data analysis and PHREEQC modelling; contributions to interpretation and writing.

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2021
Applied Geochemistry

Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering.

Lewis, A. L.; Sarkar, B.; Wade, P.; et al.

Basalt properties, mineral reactivity and nutrient-element release.

Peter’s contribution: Co-authored publication; follow the full record for author and contribution details.

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2020
Global Change Biology

Increased yield and CO₂ sequestration potential with the C₄ cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

Kelland, M. E.; Wade, P. W.; Lewis, A. L.; et al.

Basalt-amended soil, crop response and sequestration potential.

Peter’s contribution: Co-authored publication; follow the full record for author and contribution details.

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2020
Nature

Potential for large-scale CO₂ removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands.

Beerling, D. J.; Kantzas, E. P.; Lomas, M. R.; Wade, P.; et al.

Research on the potential for enhanced weathering with croplands.

Peter’s contribution: Co-authored publication; follow the full record for author and contribution details.

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2004
Water SA

Gold tailings as a source of water-borne uranium contamination of streams: the Koekemoerspruit (Klerksdorp goldfield, South Africa) as a case study. Part I: Uranium migration along the aqueous pathway.

Winde, F.; Wade, P.; van der Walt, I. J.

Mine tailings, aqueous pathways and uranium mobility.

Peter’s contribution: Co-authored publication; follow the full record for author and contribution details.

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Study findings are not promises of outcomes at another site. Co-authorship, individually credited work and acknowledged technical input are different kinds of evidence. Publications are not client case studies for this practice.

Additional publication · Book chapter

Water Issues from a System Dynamics Perspective

Peter Wade and Saeid Eslamian

Chapter 25 in Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity: Environmental Impacts and Analysis of Drought and Water Scarcity, CRC Press.

The publisher’s table of contents identifies Peter as a chapter co-author. This is a book chapter, not an additional journal article.

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