Annette Bolton

Institute for Environmental Science & Research · Risk and Response

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry was used to analyze the individual chambers from tests of foraminiferal fossil and plankton tow Globigerinoides ruber from the southwest Pacific Ocean, from latitudes 3°S to 42°S. The variability of Mg/Ca between chambers of an individual (intraindividual) and individuals of the same popul...

Anthropogenic climate change has been described as the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. Our planet is expected to continue to warm over the next 100 years and this will result in changes to our weather in New Zealand. This review summarises a number of health risks projected from a changing climate that could impact on future g...

The East Asian Monsoon (EAM) impacts storms, freshwater availability, wind energyproduction, coal consumption, and subsequent air quality for billions of people across Asia. Despite itsimportance, the EAM's long‐term behavior is poorly understood. Here we present an annually resolvedrecord of EAM variance from 1584 to 1950 based on radiocarbon cont...

Awareness of impending climate catastrophe has greatly increased over the last 30 years. Increasing awareness, however, has not translated into decreasing but instead increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper aims to shed new light on this perplexing and ultimately destructive positive correlation. It does so by applying a new interpretation...

This is the Royal Society of NZ's expert guidance on climate change and health.

Four hundred years of reconstructed sea surface temperatures (SST) from a coral located off the coast of Vietnam show significant multi-decadal to centennial-scale variability in wet and dry seasons. Wet and dry season SST co-vary significantly at multi-decadal timescales, and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) explains the majority of vari...

This report examines at a high level health care waste using data from district health boards (DHB) in Aotearoa New Zealand. The report uses data from waste weights, audits and a survey from sustainability managers to understand the barriers and opportunities to create a more circular economy of health care waste in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Improving the sustainability of New Zealand's housing stock is a significant challenge. Economic, indoor climate and energy use data indicates the affordability, healthiness and environmental impacts of new and existing houses in New Zealand are relatively poor compared with other OECD countries. Poor performance is largely due to the building ener...

A natural hazard and climate change vulnerability and adaptation tool was applied in Tonga to identify health and health system-related climate and natural hazards, and to create and prioritize adaptation strategies and opportunities. During a 2-day multi-sectoral workshop, expert stakeholders prioritized the most extreme health-related and health...

Climate change is affecting New Zealand and the health of New Zealanders as many factors that contribute to our health and well-being are threatened by climate change. Over time, increasing climate change will lead to our health being impacted more severely, and more of us will be affected. Direct effects from climate change include increased expos...

In recent decades, rapid industrial developments have increased lead (Pb) inputs to the South China Sea (SCS). To quantify the increasing variability, we investigated 170 years of skeletal Pb and Pb isotopes from an offshore, central Vietnamese coral. The Pb/Ca in the coral was 10-16 nmol/mol before the mid-1950s and increased to more than 30 nmol/...

In recent decades, rapid industrial developments have increased lead (Pb) inputs to the South China Sea. To quantify the increasing variability, we investigated 170 years of skeletal Pb and Pb isotopes from an offshore, central Vietnamese coral. The Pb/Ca in the coral was 10–16 nmol/mol before the mid-1950s and increased to more than 30 nmol/mol by...

Annual radiocarbon from a massive Porites lutea coral collected from Hon Tre Island, Vietnam, South China Sea (SCS) was analyzed over a ~100-yr-long period from AD 1900 to 1986. The pre-bomb results from 1900–1953 show a steady Δ 14 C value of –54.4±1.8‰ ( n =60). These values are similar to coral records located in the central and southern SCS and...

The relationship between decadal to centennial changes in ocean circulation and climate is complicated by the limited and intermittent instrumental climate record in the Indo-Pacific and particularly in the marginal South China Sea. Therefore, coupled ocean‐atmosphere general circulation models continue to have large uncertainty in this region. We...

In situ measurements of Mg/Ca, Zn/Ca, Mn/Ca, and Ba/Ca in Globigerinoides bulloides and Globigerina ruber from southwest Pacific core top sites and plankton tow are reported and their potential as paleoproxies is explored. The modern samples cover 20� of latitude from 34�S to 54�S, 7–19�C water temperature, and variable influence of subantarctic (S...

We have produced a high-resolution, millennial record of the trace element chemistry and stable oxygen and carbon isotope composition of Globigerinoides ruber and Globigerina bulloides from the Southwest Pacific Ocean during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 33 to 29, including the super-warm interglacial MIS-31. During MIS-31, southern hemisphere solar...

Wood dust data held in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) National Exposure DataBase (NEDB) were reviewed to investigate the long-term changes in inhalation exposure from 1985 to 2005. In addition, follow-up sampling measurements were obtained from selected companies where exposure measurements had been collected prior to 1994, thereby providing...

Estimated incidence rates for occupational skin disease in the U.K. are provided by voluntary surveillance schemes involving dermatologists and occupational physicians. These rates allow monitoring of occupational dermatoses, and intervention planning aimed at reducing workplace risks. To summarize occupational skin disease reported to The Health a...

To compare assignment of occupational pesticide and solvent exposure using self-reported data collected by a computer assisted personal interview (CAPI) with exposure based on expert assessment of job codes. To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a CAPI to collect individual occupational exposure data. Between 2001 and 2004, 1495 part...

RR460 - Trends in inhalation exposure mid 1980s till present