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List of works by Heather A. Viles

A Multi Proxy Investigation of Moisture, Salt, and Weathering Dynamics on a Historic Urban Boundary Wall in Oxford, UK

A New Technique to Evaluate and Quantify Modified Solution Kinetics of Calcareous Materials After Sulphuric Acid Pre-Treatment and Urban Exposure

article by Shelley J. Wilkins et al published January 2002 in Studies in Conservation

A chemical, morphological and mineralogical study on the interaction between hemp hurds and aerial and natural hydraulic lime particles: Implications for mortar manufacturing

A laboratory study of Equotip surface hardness measurements on a range of sandstones: What influences the values and what do they mean?

scientific article published in 2019

A multi-method investigation of temperature, moisture and salt dynamics in tafoni (Tafraoute, Morocco)

scientific article published in 2015

A new technique for evaluating short-term rates of coastal bioerosion and bioprotection

A review of the nature, role and control of lithobionts on stone cultural heritage: weighing-up and managing biodeterioration and bioprotection

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

A temperate reef builder: an evaluation of the growth, morphology and composition ofSabellaria alveolata(L.) colonies on carbonate platforms in South Wales

article

Absorption of Airborne Particulates and Pollutants by Ivy (Hedera helix L) in Oxford, UK

Algal 'greening' and the conservation of stone heritage structures.

scientific article

An Assessment of the Role of an Open Shelter in Reducing Soiling and Microbial Growth on the Archaeological Site of the Bishop’s Palace, Witney, England

article

Are Nature-based Solutions for Built Heritage Conservation Resilient to Climate Change? The Response of Grass-based Soft Caps in Britain and Ireland to Future Climate Scenarios

scientific article published in 2024

Assessing the Long-term Success of Reigate Stone Conservation at Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London

article published in 2020

Beyond geomorphosites: trade-offs, optimization, and networking in heritage landscapes

scholarly article published 23 May 2013

Bioconstruction, bioerosion and disturbance on tropical coasts: coral reefs and rocky limestone shores

Biofilms and case hardening on sandstones from Al-Quwayra, Jordan

scientific article published in 2004

Biogeomorphology

Biogeomorphology: Past, present and future

scientific article published in October 2020

Bioprotection and disturbance: Seaweed, microclimatic stability and conditions for mechanical weathering in the intertidal zone

Book review

Building Stone Condition Monitoring Using Specially Designed Compensated Optical Fiber Humidity Sensors

Can 234U-230Th dating be used to date large semi-arid tufas? Challenges from a study in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia

article by Abigail E.C. Stone et al published 23 November 2010 in Journal of Quaternary Science

Can plants keep ruins dry? A quantitative assessment of the effect of soft capping on rainwater flows over ruined walls

article

Can stone decay be chaotic?

Catastrophic Limestone Decay at the Central Sanctuary of Iupiter Dolichenus at Dülük Baba Tepesi in Southern Turkey: Causes and Implications for Future Conservation

article

Changing patterns of soiling and microbial growth on building stone in Oxford, England after implementation of a major traffic scheme.

scientific article published on 3 March 2006

Channel Flow Cell Studies of the Inhibiting Action of Gypsum on the Dissolution Kinetics of Calcite: A Laboratory Approach with Implications for Field Monitoring.

scientific article published on April 2001

Channel flow cell studies on the evaluation of surface pretreatments using phosphoric acid or polymaleic acid for calcite stone protection

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Communicating geomorphology: global challenges for the twenty-first century

scientific article published in 2013

Comparing the effectiveness of hyperspectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy: a case study on Armenian manuscripts

scientific article published on 6 July 2018

Conceptual modeling of the impacts of climate change on karst geomorphology in the UK and Ireland

Cool barnacles: Do common biogenic structures enhance or retard rates of deterioration of intertidal rocks and concrete?

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Deterioration risk of dryland earthen heritage sites facing future climatic uncertainty

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Does Area keep you awake at night?

article by Heather Viles published December 2004 in Area

Durability of anti-graffiti coatings on stone: natural vs accelerated weathering

scientific article

Dust particulate absorption by ivy (Hedera helix L) on historic walls in urban environments

scientific article

Editorial

Eukaryotic Microorganisms and Stone Biodeterioration

Evaluating the Condition of Sandstone Rock-Hewn Cave-Temple Façade Using In Situ Non-invasive Techniques

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Evaluating the Effects of Open Shelters on Limestone Deterioration at Archaeological Sites in Different Climatic Locations

scholarly article by Cristina Cabello-Briones published in April 2017

Evaluating the role of ivy (Hedera helix) in moderating wall surface microclimates and contributing to the bioprotection of historic buildings

article published in 2011

Experimental testing of the durability of lime-based mortars used for rendering historic buildings

Exploring the influence of biofilm on short-term expansion and contraction of supratidal rock: an example from the Mediterranean

scientific article published in 2014

Exposing drying patterns: using electrical resistivity tomography to monitor capillary rise in sandstone under varying drying conditions

Facies evidence of hydroclimatic regime shifts in tufa depositional sequences from the arid Naukluft Mountains, Namibia

article

Global environmental change and the biology of heritage structures

article by Heather Viles & Nick A. Cutler published 12 May 2012 in Global Change Biology

Impact of colour on the bioreceptivity of granite to the green alga Apatococcus lobatus: Laboratory and field testing

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Implications of future climate change for stone deterioration

scholarly article by Heather Viles published 2002 in Geological Society Special Publication

In Situ, Non-Destructive Testing for Evaluating the Role of Pointing Mortar in Preventive Conservation Strategies. A Case-Study on Reigate Stone at the Wardrobe Tower, Tower of London

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

Innovative applications of laser scanning and rapid prototype printing to rock breakdown experiments

scientific article published in 2008

Integrated Strategy to Assess Conservation Treatments on Sandstone

article by Davide Gulotta et al published 27 May 2020 in Studies in Conservation

Integrated digital photography and image processing for the quantification of colouration on soiled limestone surfaces in Oxford, England

article

Integrating nature-based solutions and the conservation of urban built heritage: Challenges, opportunities, and prospects ⬇️

Interannual, decadal and multidecadal scale climatic variability and geomorphology

article by Heather Viles published April 2003 in Earth-Science Reviews

Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Stone: ASMOSIA 5

Is Ivy Good or Bad for Historic Walls?

Landscapes and Landforms of Namibia

article published in 2015

Linking weathering and rock slope instability: non-linear perspectives

scientific article published in 2012

Low impact surface hardness testing (Equotip) on porous surfaces - advances in methodology with implications for rock weathering and stone deterioration research

article by Katrin Wilhelm et al published 18 January 2016 in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Microbial geomorphology: A neglected link between life and landscape

Microclimate and weathering in the central Namib Desert, Namibia

Modelling the impact of changing atmospheric pollution levels on limestone erosion rates in central London, 1980–2010

scholarly article by Rob Inkpen et al published December 2012 in Atmospheric Environment

Naming conventions in geomorphology: contributions and controversies in the sandstone landscape of Zhangjiajie Geopark, China

article

Non-destructive sampling of rock-dwelling microbial communities using sterile adhesive tape.

scientific article

Oxford stone revisited: causes and consequences of diversity in building limestone used in the historic centre of Oxford, England

article

Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: The city as an emerging landform

Photographic monitoring of soiling and decay of roadside walls in central Oxford, England

Polymer coatings to passivate calcite from acid attack: polyacrylic acid and polyacrylonitrile

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Population-level zoogeomorphology: the case of the Eurasian badger (Meles melesL.)

article published in 2015

Predicting the long-term durability of hemp-lime renders in inland and coastal areas using Mediterranean, Tropical and Semi-arid climatic simulations

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Quantitative morphologic analysis of boulder shape and surface texture to infer environmental history: A case study of rock breakdown at the Ephrata Fan, Channeled Scabland, Washington

scholarly article

Reconceptualising the role of organisms in the erosion of rock coasts: A new model

article

Recovery of lichen-dominated soil crusts in a hyper-arid desert

Rock-protecting seaweed? Experimental evidence of bioprotection in the intertidal zone

article

Rock-weathering by the lichenLecidea auriculata in an arctic alpine environment

scientific article published in 1995

Sandstone geomorphology of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa, in a global context

Scale issues in weathering studies

article published in 2001

Self-organized or disorganized? Towards a general explanation of cavernous weathering

scientific article published in 2005

Simulating weathering of basalt on Mars and Earth by thermal cycling

scholarly article

Soiling and decay of N.M.E.P. limestone tablets

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Soiling and microbial colonisation on urban roadside limestone: a three year study in Oxford, England

Solar system: Cracking up on asteroids

scientific article published in Nature

Stone-built heritage as a proxy archive for long-term historical air quality: A study of weathering crusts on three generations of stone sculptures on Broad Street, Oxford

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Stress histories control rock-breakdown trajectories in arid environments

scholarly article

Surface hardness as a proxy for weathering behaviour of limestone heritage: a case study on dated headstones on the Isle of Portland, UK

article by Katrin Wilhelm et al published May 2016 in Environmental Earth Sciences

Technology and geomorphology: Are improvements in data collection techniques transforming geomorphic science?

The Changing Façade of Magdalen College, Oxford: Reconstructing Long-Term Soiling Patterns from Archival Photographs and Traffic Records

The Effect of Surface Pretreatment with Polymaleic Acid, Phosphoric Acid, or Oxalic Acid on the Dissolution Kinetics of Calcium Carbonate in Aqueous Acid

The Etendeka Plateau

The Influence of Salt on Handheld Electrical Moisture Meters: Can They Be Used to Detect Salt Problems in Porous Stone?

The Search for a Signature of Life on Mars: A Biogeomorphological Approach

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The characterisation of eukaryotic microbial communities on sandstone buildings in Belfast, UK, using TRFLP and 454 pyrosequencing

article published in 2013

The influence of multi-scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert

The influence of structural organization of epilithic and endolithic lichens on limestone weathering

scientific article published in 2017

The influence of the type of lime on the hygric behaviour and bio-receptivity of hemp lime composites used for rendering applications in sustainable new construction and repair works

scientific article

The many faces of Reigate Stone: an assessment of variability in historic masonry based on Medieval London’s principal freestone

article published in 2020

The nature and pattern of debris liberation by salt weathering: A laboratory study

scientific article published in 1995

The role of playas in pedogenic gypsum crust formation in the Central Namib Desert: a theoretical model

article

The role of rock surface hardness and internal moisture in tafoni development in sandstone

article

The roles of salt (sodium nitrate) and fog in weathering: a laboratory simulation of conditions in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile

article

The spatial organization and microbial community structure of an epilithic biofilm.

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

The use of the Schmidt Hammer and Equotip for rock hardness assessment in geomorphology and heritage science: a comparative analysis

scholarly article

Thermal blanketing by ivy (Hedera helix L.) can protect building stone from damaging frosts.

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Tufa and Travertine

Underlying issues on the selection, use and conservation of building limestone

Urban Air Pollution and the Deterioration of Buildings and Monuments

scholarly article

Using Handheld Moisture Meters on Limestone: Factors Affecting Performance and Guidelines for Best Practice

Visualizing geomorphology: improving communication of data and concepts through engagement with the arts

scholarly article by Stephen Tooth et al published 28 July 2016 in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Weathering Systems

article published in 2011

Weathering and the global carbon cycle: Geomorphological perspectives

Weathering hazards

Wind-driven rain and future risk to built heritage in the United Kingdom: Novel metrics for characterising rain spells

scholarly article by Scott Allan Orr published in November 2018

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