UGAMP
GROUP NEWS
Lancaster News
The new UGAMP group at the Environmental Science Department, Lancaster University, is gradually taking shape. The first post-doc is Chris Kroeger, who has joined us from ISPRA. Chris will be working on aerosol and dehydration processes at the tropical tropopause. Her first task will be to go to the Seychelles for 5 weeks as part of the APE-THESEO theory team. See the last UGAMP newsletter for details of APE-THESEO. The first PhD student on board is Kathryn Emmerson, who'll be looking at aerosol parametrizations for the UGAMP models. Recent measurements suggest that carbonaceous compounds contribute much of the tropospheric aerosol number distribution but most of the organic fraction appears to be 'complex organic matter' aka sludge.
Help is at hand, however, in the form of Nick Hewitt's group, also at Lancaster. John Sartin, a new PhD student with Nick and myself, has been making measurements of the emission of heavy organics (C12 compounds and above) from biogenic sources, and will be plugging the new numbers into models soon.
Finally, Bev Whitaker has joined us to manage the UK office of the Airborne Platform for Earth observation. APE organises scientific research using the high-flying Geophysica aircraft and so should hopefully provide lots of grist to the UGAMP mill.
Rob MacKenzie
University of Lancaster
R.MacKenzie@lancaster.ac.uk
