AEROSOL GROUP
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Professor Ellie HighwoodProfessor in Climate Physics |
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Dr Nicolas Bellouin
Associate Professor in Climate Processes
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Dr Claire RyderNERC Independent Research Fellow
The Role of Coarse Mineral Dust Particles in the Climate System
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Dr Laura WilcoxSenior Research Scientist
Regional climate effects of anthropogenic aerosol changes
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Dr Will DaviesPost Doctoral Research Assistant
Producing quantitative estimates of radiative forcing of greenhouse gasses with respect to pre-industrial times
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Dr Gillian ThornhillPost Doctoral Research Assistant
SAMBBA - South American Biomass Burning Analysis
The impact of biomass burning aerosols on clouds in a climate model
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Dr Ross HerbertPost Doctoral Research Assistant
CLARIFY - Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Interactions and Forcing
LES modelling of biomass burning aerosol and its impact on stratocumulus clouds
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Dr Velle TollPost Doctoral Research Assistant
VOLCCANO - VOLcanoes for Constraining Cloud Aerosol iNteractiOns
Understanding aerosol-cloud interactions using volcanic eruptions
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Dr Geoff CaoPost Doctoral Research Assistant
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Dr Andrew PrataPost Doctoral Research Assistant
Developing a proof-of-concept tool that will enable the calculation of along-flight volcanic ash dosage
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James MollardPost Doctral Research Assistant
Aerosol Satellite Validation over central western Africa for DACCIWA
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Past members
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Steven AbelResearch Student "The radiative properties and direct effect of Southern African biomass burning aerosols" Steve successfully defended his thesis in October 2004 and now works at the UK Met Office in Exeter. |
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Duncan AckerleyPDRA "Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO)" Having completed his PhD and a 2 year Postdoc position in the group, Duncan moved to work as a regional climate scientist at NIWA in Wellington, NZ.
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Michelle CainResearch Student "Transport and processing of chemicals and aerosols in the West African monsoon region" Michelle gained her doctorate in 2009 and moved to a PDRA on the RONOCO project at Cambridge University. |
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Nicky ChalmersPDRA
Following a PDRA on the global radiative effects of aerosols using satellite retrievals, Nicky now works at the UK Met Office in Exeter. |
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Jolene CookPhD Student
"The radiative properties of aerosol over the Northern Mediterranean." Jolene succesfully defended her thesis in November 2007 and moved to a position in the radiation group.
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Anna EstevePost Doctoral Research Assistant
The radiative impact of aerosols: linking measurements and models
Anna worked in the group as part of a Spanish National Fellowship, and now works as a lecturer at the University of Valencia.
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Angus FerraroPhD Student
Atmospheric responses to geoengineering in the stratosphere
(co-supervised by Dr Andrew Charlton-Perez)
Angus successfully completed his Viva in the group and is now working at the University of Exeter.
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Dr Liang GuoPost Doctoral Research Assistant (SAPRISE)
The impact of aerosol on the Indian Monsoon
Liang now works in the Meteorology Department.
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Bethan HarrisPhD Student "Effect of supervolcanoes on climate" Bethan successfully gained her thesis in 2009, worked in the group on the ADIENT project for 1 year and moved to work as a researcher on climate related programmes at the BBC. |
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Madhavi KarumudiPDRA Madhavi was co-ordinator for DIAC-UKAAN and also investigated aerosol characteristics and global atmospheric electrical activity at Reading using measurements of the atmospheric electric field and aerosol mass concentration.
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Eunice LoPhD Student "The effects and effectiveness of stratospheric aerosol injection" Eunice completed her PhD in 2017 and now works at the University of Bristol. |
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Megan NorthwayPDRA Megan worked on the ADIENT project which is quantifying aerosol optical properties around the UK and across EUROPE. She now lives in Japan with her family.
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Steve RumboldPDRA Steve worked on the APPRAISE project developing and tested a benchmark radiative transfer model for the UK Atmospheric Aerosol community. He now works at the Met Office in Exeter.
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Nicola StuberPDRA Nicola worked on the EU FP6 project, QUANTIFY, using the Unified Model to look at the climate effect of aerosols. She was also a member of the Radiation and Climate Processes group. Nicola left in 2010 for new adventures!
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Julia TindallPhD Student "The tropical substratosphere" Julia successfully defended her thesis in February 2004 and is now working at the University of Bristol. |
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Chris WebberPhD Student "Linking pollution, meteorology and climate change" After completing his PhD in 2017, Chris moved to a job at the University of Hertfordshire in the Department of Physics and Mathematics. |
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Margaret WoodagePDRA "SWAMMA - Saharan West African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses"
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