Dwayne Heard awarded Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize for 2017
Professor Dwayne Heard from the University of Leeds has won the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Environment Prize for 2017. Dwayne has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to understanding the chemistry of the earth's atmosphere.
Dwayne and his team have developed laser-based field instruments to measure free-radicals in the atmosphere, and deployed instruments in over 25 campaigns in places like Antartica, Borneo and Cape Verde.
NCAS meteorologists help Land Rover BAR to bring the Cup home.
Researchers from one of the UK’s foremost atmospheric research institute are helping Sir Ben Ainslie’s Land Rover BAR sailing team in their bid to win the America’s Cup sailing competition for Britain.
The researchers, from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), are helping the Land Rover BAR meteorologists to use a complex weather prediction system to its full potential. The flexible and efficient computer model will provide accurate weather forecasts over the Bermuda venue for the America’s Cup challenge in summer 2017.
Director of NCAS, Professor Stephen Mobbs says: ‘Our researchers are experts at using this particular model, which means they know exactly how to tweak it so it’s as accurate as possible. We hope this collaboration allows the race team to maximise their chances in this year’s America's Cup’.
Jonathan Gregory elected for Royal Society Fellowship
Jonathan Gregory has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. Jonathan is a climate scientist for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and is based at the University of Reading. A Royal Society fellowship recognises scientists who have made outstanding contributions to science, and become pioneers in their field.
Jonathan's research looks at large-scale multi-decedal physcial processes of change in the climate system, and uses three-dimensional global models and observational evidence. He has made significant contributions to refining the concept and the evaluation of climate sensitivity (the magnitude of warming caused by increases in greenhouse gases), and to the projection of future sea-level change from ocean warming, ocean circulation change, and loss of ice on land (glaciers and ice-sheets).