IAGP - Key Persons
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- Professor of Earth System Modelling
Andy Ridgwell is Professor of Earth System Modelling and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. Although in practice spending most of his time tending to the every need of 6 cats, his research addresses fundamental questions surrounding the past and future controls on atmospheric CO2, and the nature of the relationship between CO2, climate, global biogeochemical cycles, and life. He is also closely involved in research into future ocean acidification impacts and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of geoengineering. His develops his own numerical analytical tools ('Earth system models') to ask questions and test hypotheses regarding the functioning of the Earth system. Andy Ridgwell is Leader of the Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE).
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Affiliated Postgraduate Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Research Associate in the Understanding Risk Research Group at Cardiff University
- Researcher / Cardiff University
Adam Corner is a Research Associate in the Understanding Risk Research Group at Cardiff University. His research looks at how people evaluate arguments and evidence, the communication of climate change, and the public understanding of emerging areas of science such as nanotechnology and geoengineering. Adam is very interested in the application of psychological and social scientific research to practical questions such as the effective communication of climate change, and the psychological barriers to engaging in pro-environmental behaviours. Adam writes regularly for the Guardian. Link to Adam's latest articles.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Co - Investigator / University of Lancaster
- Researcher at the Lancaster Environment Centre
Andrew Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University. Climate change mitigation strategies rely on predictions from a range of models in order to inform appropriate future courses of action. However, as we all know, we are uncertain about what the future holds and we will probably have to correct any chosen course of action as new information becomes available. We therefore need frameworks that are both predictive and corrective. Andrew Jarvis's current work explores how feedback control could provide a useful framework for analyzing the hybridization between the predictive and corrective steps of candidate mitigation strategies. He is the world leader on the ‘climate change as control' research and has recently published a series of papers on climate model emulation (e.g. Jarvis and Li, [2010]). He leads a NERC-funded project on using satellite data to retrieve global fields for components of the surface energy balance (Jarvis et al. submitted ACPD) which has direct bearing on the online monitoring and control of geoengineering.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Research Associate at the Lancaster Environment Centre
- Researcher / Lancaster University
David Leedal is a Research Associate at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. His research interests are systems dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, and data visualization. David's research investigates the application of systems dynamics and control to the broad problem of geoengineering. Among many others, he is looking to answer questions such as: If applied, how can we make sure we achieve specific targets during a geoengineering campaign? How quickly would geoengineering methods need to be applied or removed to avoid tipping points? What effect would model uncertainty have on the design and implementation of a geoengineering scenario? David's previous research has investigated flood risk management. This focused on uncertainty in flood modelling; specifically, how to reduce, estimate, communicate, and eventually manage it. He is applying some of these methods within the IAGP project.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Research Fellow
- Researcher / University of Leeds
Julia Crook is a Research Fellow within the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. Julia's PhD thesis considered zonal patterns of climate feedbacks and their role in polar amplification. She has experience of comparing general circulation models and observations, and running UK Met Office Climate Models. As a member of the IAGP team, she is examining the effectiveness and side effects of geoengineering proposals using these climate models.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Researcher / Cardiff University
Moving from Cardiff University in September 2013 Karen Parkhill is now based in the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at Bangor University. Karen is a human geographer who uses innovative qualitative methods to examine risk perception and how the public socially construct and engage with environmental and technocratic risks. Such risks include: energy technologies such as civil nuclear power; renewables; climate change and geoengineering. She is also interested in how the public engages with/resists notions of low carbon lifestyles and low carbon transitions, including examining how they themselves consume/perceive energy. The interaction of place, space and context underpins and flows throughout all of these interests.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Research Fellow
- Researcher / University of Leeds
Lawrence Jackson is a Research Fellow within the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. Lawrence's PhD thesis considered trends in diurnal temperature range over land. As a member of the IAGP team, Lawrence is using the UK Met Office climate models to examine the effectiveness and side effects of geoengineering proposals.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Researcher
- Researcher / Lancaster University
Maia Galarraga is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. A philosopher by background her research interests range from environmental philosophy to the philosophy of technology and continental philosophy. Her PhD thesis (from Lancaster University) sought to develop an ontological account of philosophy of technology drawing on the thought of M. Heidegger and C. Castoriadis. Her research interest in climate engineering has enabled her to combine an interest in the environment with a curiosity for technology. Together with a team of other social science and humanities scholars based at Lancaster she is currently working on a collaborative project (‘Imagination and Innovation in Climate Science'). Combining empirical research tools, with her philosophical background, will enable Maia and her Lancaster colleagues to unearth the range of non-technical and heterogeneous assumptions that drive IAGP's research.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Research Associate
- Researcher / University of Bristol
Michelle Felton is a Research Associate at the Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE) at the University of Bristol. Michelle's research interests are in hydrology and palæoclimatology.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Project Manager
- Co - Investigator
Naomi Vaughan is IAGP Project Manager, a Lecturer at University of East Anglia and a Senior Research Associate with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Her PhD thesis on the subject of climate change mitigation and geoengineering included an extensive review of the literature (submitted to Climatic Change) on geoengineering proposals and provides a synthesis of the major issues and specifically how they interact with mitigation. Lenton & Vaughan [2009] was the first paper to calculate the potential maximum effectiveness of the range of published geoengineering proposals in terms of radiative forcing. Vaughan is the Co-ordinator for the GeoEngineering Assessment and Research (GEAR) initiative at the University of East Anglia. Naomi is a Project Partner to the EU FP7 project, EU TRACE which began in June 2012. This pan-European research programme is charged with assessing the current knowledge of geoengineering from the trans-disciplinary perspective of the natural sciences, engineering, economics, ethics, politics and law, and communicating the findings to a broad international audience.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Co - Investigator
Olivier Boucher leads the Climate, Chemistry and Ecosystems team at the Met Office Hadley Centre. His research is about Earth System modelling with a focus on biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system and their relevance to climate mitigation policies. His research interests include climate change, aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions, atmosphere-biosphere couplings and biogeochemical feedbacks in the Earth System, impact of irrigation on climate, impact of aviation on climate, climate mitigation policies, climate metrics, and geoengineering. He has been involved as an author with several past international reports on climate change including the IPCC Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere (1999), the IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) and the 2002 WMO report on ozone. He is a Coordinating Lead Author of the 'Cloud and Aerosol' chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
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- Director
- Member of the IAGP Advisory Panel
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- DPhil Researcher
- Postgraduate Researcher / University of Oxford
Edward Pitt is a DPhil researcher within the Department for Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. As part of the IAGP, he is researching the measurement of geoengineering technologies.
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- Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Researcher
- Postgraduate Researcher / University of Leeds
Annabel Jenkins is a PhD Researcher within the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS) in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. She is undertaking a PhD into the physical science aspect of potential geoengineering proposals and aims to develop a comprehensive strategy for determining potential effectiveness and side effects, utilising climate modelling in collaboration with the UK Met Office.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Researcher
- Affiliated Postgraduate Researcher / University of Leeds
Jayne Windeatt is a PhD Researcher within the Doctoral Training Centre in Low Carbon Technologies,School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Leeds.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Researcher
- Affiliated Postgraduate Researcher
Rob Bellamy is a PhD Researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia. His research explores public participation in the social appraisal of climate geoengineering interventions, under the supervision of Professor Tim Lenton, Dr Jason Chilvers and Dr Naomi Vaughan. Prior to Rob's PhD he was lead author of the UK's first comprehensive Climate Adaptation Tool during his term as Climate Adaptation Officer at the Norfolk Climate Change Partnership.
Based within the within the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds Rosaleen McDonnell works with a series of research projects.
Nick Pidgeon is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group within the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. His work looks at risk, risk perception, and risk communication and as such his research is interdisciplinary at the interface of social psychology, environmental sciences, and science and technology studies. He currently researches public responses to energy technologies (e.g. nuclear power, renewable energy), climate change risks, and climate geoengineering. He has led numerous policy oriented projects on issues of public responses to environmental risk issues and on ‘science in society' for UK Government Departments, the Research Councils, the Royal Society, and Charities. He is a member of the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change's Science Advisory Group (SAG), and theme leader for the Climate Change Consortium for Wales.
Piers Forster is a Professor of physical climate change and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. His research group, based in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, has extensive collaborations with the Met-Office Hadley Centre and is actively expanding research to understand various climate feedbacks using a range of climate models. Research closely related to geoengineering proposals has been undertaken, looking at cloud modification by contrails, sea spray (Korhonen et al., 2010) and the role of volcanic aerosols (Forster & Collins, 2004). His research also links to climate impacts and policy via the joint Leeds-LSE centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. He has been involved as author, reviewer or contributor with several past international reports on climate change, including IPCC climate assessments and WMO ozone assessments, most recently as a coordinating lead author of the "atmospheric composition and radiative forcing" chapter of the 2007 IPCC fourth assessment report, as a coordinating lead author of the WMO (2010) ozone assessment report and a lead author of the current IPCC fifth assessment report. He has spent time working overseas, particularly at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Engineering Science and Senior Research Fellow
Richard Darton is Professor of Engineering Science and Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Chemical Engineering at Keble College, University of Oxford. Current research interests lie in the use of metrics for multi attribute quantification of complex issues started with his work in an expert group which produced the Institution of Chemical Engineers' widely used Sustainability Metrics for manufacturing operations. Subsequently he has worked on methodologies for creating sets of indicators, with applications in palm oil, and motor car transport systems, and on the public acceptability of sustainable energy technologies which have influence on the landscape. He is involved with Oxford's work on geoengineering in the James Martin Institute of the 21st Century (funded, but yet to be announced), building on his expertise in resource efficiency and large-scale chemical engineering processes. In November 2005 he gave the Hartley Lecture at the Royal Society on the subject of Sustainability Metrics.
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Project Administrator / University of Leeds
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- Member of the IAGP Project
- Postgraduate Researcher / University of Bristol
Job Titles:
- Member of the IAGP Advisory Panel
- the Oxford Engineering Programme