ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE RESEARCH CENTRE (ECRC), UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE LONDON (ECRC-UCL)
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Responsible scientist
R. W. Battarbee
E-mail:
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Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom
Phone: ,
Fax:
Professor of Environmental Change,
Director of ECRC. Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science
and Letters; Royal Geographical Society Back Award for Acid Rain
Research; Chairman, Department of the Environment Critical Loads
Advisory Sub-group on Freshwaters; member NERC Committee on
Global Environmental Change; member, NERC Steering Group,
Palaeoclimate of the last glacial/inter-glacial cycle Special
Topic; member, NERC Terrestrial and Freshwater Science and
Technology Board; member British Ecological Society Council;
member Royal Society BICER Committee (Lake Baikal Research);
research leader IGBP-PAGES PEPIII and LIMPACS initiatives;
associate Editor, Journal of Paleolimnology; Editorial Board,
Journal of Biogeography Letters, Fennia, Journal of
Ecology. Co-editor of 4 research volumes; published over 170
scientific papers and reports, including 6 in Nature and 6 in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Members
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Neil Rose
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E-mail:nrose@geog.ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: +44-171-436 9,
Fax: +44 171 380 7
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Leicester University: B.sc (Hons)
Chemistry with Geochemistry (1984 University College London -
PhD: Fly-ash particle characterisation (1991). Experience:
1984-1987: British Antarctic Survey - Limnologist. 1991 -
present: Research Fellow at ECRC, UCL. EC projects: AL:PE I
(1991- 1993) & II (1993-1995), MOLAR (1996-1999), FLAME
(1993-1996) Project co-ordinator. Main activities: Airborne
particle analysis and source apportionment; Global temporal and
spatial distribution of fly-ash particulates; lake water and
sediment chemistry; palaeolimnology. His research work has been
undertaken throughout Europe and also in China and
Antarctica. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers. |
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Dr Martin Kernan
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E-mail:mkernan@geog.ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: +44-207- 679,
Fax: +44-207 679 7
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London School of Economics: BSc (Hons) Geography; University
College London. PhD, Predicting surface water critical loads at
the catchment scale (1998). Experience: 1992-2001 Research
Fellow at Environmental Change Research Centre, University
College London. Main activities: surface water acidification,
empirical modelling using multivariate statistical techniques
and GIS. Involved in National Programmes "Acidification
of freshwaters: the role of nitrogen and prospects for recovery"
(Department of Environment) and "Biological significance and
uncertainty: analysis of critical load exceedance of freshwaters
at catchment scale" (NERC Environmental Diagnostics). |
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Gina Clarke
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E-mail:gina.clarke@ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: ,
Fax:
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Chris Curtis
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E-mail:ccurtis@geog.ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: ,
Fax:
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Mike Hughes
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E-mail:m.hughes@geog.ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: +44-020-76795,
Fax: +44-020-76797
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BSc (first) Environmental Science, Bradford University
MSc Applied Remote Sensing and GIS, Cranfield University
Work experience as NOAA AVHRR data manager, reseach assistant on various EU remote sensing / GIS projects |
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Dr Simon Patrick
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E-mail:spatrick@geog.ucl.ac.uk,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: +44-207-43692,
Fax:
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Overall co-ordinator of the EMERGE project and the AL:PE and MOLAR (EU Mountain Lake projects) before that. |
Tasks:
The co-ordinator for EMERGE; convene the thematic work programme
on "evaluation"; convene the "regionalisation: biological response
to environmental; gradients" work package (WP
4); co-convene the work package for databases and dissemination
(WP 10); and organise the
harmonisation programme for the diatom component of the work programme.
ECRC-UCL is responsible for the programme of intensive sampling
at the Experimental field site in Scotland (Lochnagar) and undertakes
the field sampling associated with the "up-scaling" theme at Classification
and Validation lakes in the Scottish Lake District as well as Greenland,
Rila and Retezat Lake Districts in collaboration with local teams.
ECRC-UCL analyses diatoms from sites in Scotland and Norway; deposition
and lake water chemistry analyses in Scotland; and co-ordinate the
lake sediment coring component of fieldwork in Bulgaria and Romania.
With NIVA, ECRC-UCL is responsible for the
dynamic modelling for acidification component of the programme;
database design and GIS applications; and with UB-DE
co-ordinates the statistical analysis of EMERGE data. EMERGE activities
is fully integrated with national programmes on surface water acidification
and atmospheric deposition funded by the UK Department of Environment.
Lake Districts:
Recent Publications:
| Freshwater quality, naturalness and
palaeolimnology |
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Battarbee, R.W. (1997)
In: Freshwater quality: defining the indefinable?, Eds P.J. Boon
& D.L. Howell. Stationery Office Edinburgh, pp. 155-171.
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| Numerical tools in
palaeolimnology - progress, potentialities, and
problems |
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Birks, H.J.B. (1998)
Journal of Palaeolimnolgy 20, 307-332.
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| Predicting Freshwater Critical Loads of Acidification
the Catchment Scale: An Empirical Model |
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Kernan, M., Allott,
T.E.H. & Battarbee, R.W.
(1998) Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 105, 31-41.
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| The characterisation of carbonaceous fly-ash particles
from major European fossil-fuel types and applications to
environmental samples |
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Rose, N.L., Juggins, S. &
Watt, J. (1999), Atmospheric Environment. 33, 2699-2713.
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