SOLAS

Management

Howard Cattle is Director of the CLIVAR ICPO. He chairs the SOLAS steering committee.

Juan Brown is Director of the British Oceanographic Data Centre. His interests cover estuarine, shelf seas and deep-sea physical oceanography and the interaction and implications for fisheries, nutrient/plankton dynamics and sediment/contaminant transport.

John Burrows is head of the Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry section at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany. The section is composed of several science teams investigating the fields of trace gas analysis using Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) and other methods, aerosol analysis, and satellite data retrieval and scientific support for the GOME and SCIAMACHY projects.

Lucy Carpenter is a member of the Chemistry Department at York University. Her expertise is in atmospheric chemistry, sources and sinks of reactive halogen compounds; field instrumentation, particularly chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques; air-sea trace gas exchange; numerical modelling of tropospheric chemistry. She is also a member of the NERC Peer Review College.

Tony Cox is a member of the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge. His research involves laboratory studies of gas phase and heterogeneous chemical reactions of atmospheric relevance, modelling and interpretation of atmospheric chemical and physical processes and pollution of the atmosphere on global and local scales. He is the science co-ordinator of NERC's Polluted Troposphere and COSMAS programmes.

Angela Hatton is a research fellow based at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and is Project Leader - Marine Biogenic Trace Gases. Her research interests include: dimethylsulphide biogeochemistry and the role of marine bacteria; anaerobic microsites within the pelagic ocean; sedimentation as a sink for biogenic sulphur; photochemistry; methylamines and the role of trimethylamine-N-oxide; and processes linking the biogeochemical cycles of sulphur, nitrogen and carbon.

Peter Liss is a member of the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA. He heads the trace gas biogeochemistry group and specific research interests are the chemistry of natural waters and their exchange process with the atmosphere. He is also the Chairman of the International SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee.

Colin Murrell is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Warwick University and head of the Murrell Research Group. His research interests include physiological and molecular biological studies on nitrogen fixation and ammonia assimilation in methylotrophic bacteria, the development of molecular genetic techniques in studying bacteria, the pathways of propane metabolism, biotransformations and bacterial metabolism of halomethanes.

Mike Pilling's research interests centre on chemical kinetics and applications in atmospheric chemistry, combustion and interstellar chemistry. He is a member of the Chemistry Department, University of Leeds and Director of NCAS Distributed Institute for Atmospheric Composition.

Mike Smith is professor of atmospheric physics within the School of the Environment at the University of Leeds. His original background was in cloud physics, which has developed into a broad interest in atmospheric aerosol particles. These interests include the formation, composition and cloud-nucleating activity of aerosol particles, the heterogeneous chemical processing of aerosol particles and trace gases in clouds, and the role of aerosols in global climate change. He is especially interested in sea spray generation of particles over the ocean and air-sea fluxes of heat, momentum and moisture.

Robert Upstill-Goddard is a senior lecturer in marine biogeochemistry in the School of Marine Science and Technology at Newcastle University. His research interests include: the role of the marine system in the global cycles of climatically active trace gases (including sulphur gases (principally COS & CS2), nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4)); parameterisation of air-sea gas exchange and the understanding of large-scale oceanographic processes through the use of purposefully released tracers (SF6, 3He, Rhodamine dyes etc); the role of the bacterioneuston in air-sea trace gas exchange; and the reactivity and photochemistry of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in freshwater and marine environments and implications for global biogeochemistry.

Douglas Wallace is head of the Marine Biogeochemistry Division at the Institute for Marine research in Kiel, Germany. His research involves studies of oxygen production and consumption on continental shelves; nutrient cycling; anthropogenic halocarbon tracers; air-sea exchange of gases; arctic oceanography; groundwater tracing; carbon dioxide in the oceans. He is also a member of the International SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee.

Jim Gunson (retired December 2007) is a research scientist at the Hadley Centre of the Met Office. He is involved in developing a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model with a fully interactive carbon cycle to simulate dimethylsulphide feedbacks, and also the effects of dust deposition, on global climate. His interests include investigating the sensitivity of models of oceanic biogeochemical processes to the availability of observations, and quantifying feedbacks in global climate models.
Stephen Belcher (retired June 2007) is a reader in meteorology at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. He has interests in the physical aspects of air sea interaction, including dynamics of ocean waves and their wind forcing, and Langmuir circulations in the ocean mixed layer. He was recently awarded the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanography for his contributions to these topics.
Steve Thorpe (retired January 2006) is an honorary professor at the University of Wales, Bangor and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. His expertise is in the study of upper ocean turbulence, breaking waves, bubbles and acoustic methods of observation.