Further information EUROTRAC-2 Young Scientist Award:
The winners of the EUROTRAC-2 Young Scientist Award, each of whom will receive a prize of EUR 2000 and a certificate, are:
Lise Marie Frohn, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Denmark Christian George, CNRS-LACE, Villeurbanne, France Paul Monks, University of Leicester, UK Eiko Nemitz, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK Andreas Stohl, Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway
Lise Marie Frohn has a PhD in geophysics from the University of Copenhagen and is a scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Environment at the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Denmark. In her work on the development of chemistry-transport models for hemispheric as well as regional and local dispersion of air pollution, she was involved with three EUROTRAC-2 subprojects: GLOREAM, CAPMAN and GENEMIS. Lise Marie had a central role in the development of the DEHM/REGINA model, which is a comprehensive long-range and high-resolution 3-D chemistry-transport model. One of the applications of the model is the detailed mapping of the impact of atmospheric deposition of air pollutants on the marine environment. She was one of the leading scientists in two EU projects that quantified the atmospheric nitrogen deposition for the North Sea and Kattegat and studied its effects on ecosystems in inner Danish waters (oxygen depletion and algal blooms), as well as management options to reduce these effects. She also carried out projections of emissions based on technology scenarios, which formed part of a national integrated assessment modelling study aimed at supporting the Danish national evaluation of European emission reduction strategies.
Christian George is a research scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire d'Application de la Chimie à l'Environnement (CNRS-LACE) at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon. Following his PhD in physical chemistry at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, he was a post-doctoral fellow in atmospheric chemistry at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung, Hannover. The basic motivation of his research within the EUROTRAC-2 subproject CMD was to develop an understanding of multiphase or heterogeneous reactions, i.e. reactions that take place at the gas-liquid, liquid-solid, or gas-solid interfaces found in the atmosphere. Working in close collaboration with modellers and with other colleagues who perform field studies, Christian developed innovative techniques to investigate these reactions in the laboratory. He was an active member of the CMD steering committee and was instrumental in the creation of a new European Science Foundation scientific programme entitled Interdisciplinary Tropospheric Research: from the Laboratory to Global Change (INTROP), which is supported by more than 20 European countries. He is currently acting as the chair of that programme.
Paul Monks is a Reader in physical chemistry and Earth observation science at the University of Leicester, UK, where he is responsible for teaching and research in the areas of atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics/spectroscopy. Following his D.Phil. in chemistry from the University of Oxford, Paul was a research associate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, carrying out research in astro- and atmospheric chemistry. During a two-year period as a senior research associate at the University of East Anglia, Paul worked as a project scientist for SOAPEX (Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry Experiments) and was responsible for field instrumentation as well as the analysis and interpretation of data of relevance to tropospheric photochemistry in the remote marine boundary layer. Paul was an active member of the TOR-2 steering group and the work that he carried out as part of the subproject has given a better understanding of the budget of ozone and in particular the role of photochemistry in driving the composition of the troposphere over Europe. This work has made a direct contribution to policy development by looking at the scientific underpinning of regional abatement strategies. Within the EUROTRAC-2 subproject TROPOSAT, Paul was the leader of the task group devoted to the synergistic use of different instrumentation and platforms for tropospheric measurements. Paul has been a principal investigator on many international projects and was the project co-ordinator for the EU Framework Programme 5 (FP 5) project TROTREP (Tropospheric Ozone and Precursors, Trends, Budgets and Policy). He now plays a leading role within ACCENT, the EU FP 6 Network of Excellence that largely grew out of EUROTRAC-2.
Eiko Nemitz, who is of German nationality, is a senior scientific officer and group leader for ‘Aerosols and Micrometeorology’ in the Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK. Following a BSc in pure and applied physics with emphasis on atmospheric physics and meteorology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), he did his PhD as a postgraduate research student at CEH Edinburgh on the surface / atmosphere exchange of ammonia and chemically interacting species. His research interests include the measurement and modelling of surface / atmosphere exchange of gases and aerosols, including heavy metals; application and development of new micrometeorological flux measurement techniques and instrumentation for a range of gases and aerosols; interaction of surface / atmosphere exchange and chemical inter-conversions; gas / aerosol equilibria; secondary aerosol formation from biogenic and agricultural precursor gases. His work during EUROTRAC-2 in the BIATEX-2 subproject has made internationally leading contributions to the quantification and process study of surface / atmosphere exchange fluxes of aerosols with vegetation surfaces. In particular, he pioneered the application of micrometeorological techniques to measure pollutant fluxes in the urban environment.
Andreas Stohl who is now a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway, did his master’s degree and PhD in meteorology at the University of Vienna, then moving to the University of Munich as an assistant professor where he became involved with EUROTRAC-2. His work, which was involved with three EUROTRAC-2 subprojects: TOR-2, TROPOSAT and EXPORT-E2, focussed on large-scale atmospheric transport processes and their impact on the chemical composition of the troposphere. Two processes were mainly studied: stratosphere-troposphere exchange, which has been known for a long time as an important factor for the tropospheric ozone budget, and intercontinental pollution transport, a relatively new field of research that Andreas helped to shape. This work has shown that natural processes are less important for pollution levels than previously thought, but intercontinental pollution transport is of major importance and must be managed internationally in order to comply with future air quality standards. The source codes of his major modelling tools, FLEXTRA and FLEXPART, have been made available to the scientific community and are now used by an estimated 50 research groups worldwide. Andreas has been the principal investigator on many projects within the German and EU atmospheric research programmes and was the project co-ordinator for the EU FP 5 project STACCATO (Influence of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange in a Changing Climate on Atmospheric Transport and Oxidation Capacity). From July 2003 to November 2004 he was a research associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Lise Marie Frohn has a PhD in geophysics from the University of Copenhagen and is a scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Environment at the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Denmark. In her work on the development of chemistry-transport models for hemispheric as well as regional and local dispersion of air pollution, she was involved with three EUROTRAC-2 subprojects: GLOREAM, CAPMAN and GENEMIS. Lise Marie had a central role in the development of the DEHM/REGINA model, which is a comprehensive long-range and high-resolution 3-D chemistry-transport model. One of the applications of the model is the detailed mapping of the impact of atmospheric deposition of air pollutants on the marine environment. She was one of the leading scientists in two EU projects that quantified the atmospheric nitrogen deposition for the North Sea and Kattegat and studied its effects on ecosystems in inner Danish waters (oxygen depletion and algal blooms), as well as management options to reduce these effects. She also carried out projections of emissions based on technology scenarios, which formed part of a national integrated assessment modelling study aimed at supporting the Danish national evaluation of European emission reduction strategies.
Christian George is a research scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire d'Application de la Chimie à l'Environnement (CNRS-LACE) at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon. Following his PhD in physical chemistry at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, he was a post-doctoral fellow in atmospheric chemistry at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Aerosolforschung, Hannover. The basic motivation of his research within the EUROTRAC-2 subproject CMD was to develop an understanding of multiphase or heterogeneous reactions, i.e. reactions that take place at the gas-liquid, liquid-solid, or gas-solid interfaces found in the atmosphere. Working in close collaboration with modellers and with other colleagues who perform field studies, Christian developed innovative techniques to investigate these reactions in the laboratory. He was an active member of the CMD steering committee and was instrumental in the creation of a new European Science Foundation scientific programme entitled Interdisciplinary Tropospheric Research: from the Laboratory to Global Change (INTROP), which is supported by more than 20 European countries. He is currently acting as the chair of that programme.
Paul Monks is a Reader in physical chemistry and Earth observation science at the University of Leicester, UK, where he is responsible for teaching and research in the areas of atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics/spectroscopy. Following his D.Phil. in chemistry from the University of Oxford, Paul was a research associate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, carrying out research in astro- and atmospheric chemistry. During a two-year period as a senior research associate at the University of East Anglia, Paul worked as a project scientist for SOAPEX (Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry Experiments) and was responsible for field instrumentation as well as the analysis and interpretation of data of relevance to tropospheric photochemistry in the remote marine boundary layer. Paul was an active member of the TOR-2 steering group and the work that he carried out as part of the subproject has given a better understanding of the budget of ozone and in particular the role of photochemistry in driving the composition of the troposphere over Europe. This work has made a direct contribution to policy development by looking at the scientific underpinning of regional abatement strategies. Within the EUROTRAC-2 subproject TROPOSAT, Paul was the leader of the task group devoted to the synergistic use of different instrumentation and platforms for tropospheric measurements. Paul has been a principal investigator on many international projects and was the project co-ordinator for the EU Framework Programme 5 (FP 5) project TROTREP (Tropospheric Ozone and Precursors, Trends, Budgets and Policy). He now plays a leading role within ACCENT, the EU FP 6 Network of Excellence that largely grew out of EUROTRAC-2.
Eiko Nemitz, who is of German nationality, is a senior scientific officer and group leader for ‘Aerosols and Micrometeorology’ in the Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Edinburgh, UK. Following a BSc in pure and applied physics with emphasis on atmospheric physics and meteorology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), he did his PhD as a postgraduate research student at CEH Edinburgh on the surface / atmosphere exchange of ammonia and chemically interacting species. His research interests include the measurement and modelling of surface / atmosphere exchange of gases and aerosols, including heavy metals; application and development of new micrometeorological flux measurement techniques and instrumentation for a range of gases and aerosols; interaction of surface / atmosphere exchange and chemical inter-conversions; gas / aerosol equilibria; secondary aerosol formation from biogenic and agricultural precursor gases. His work during EUROTRAC-2 in the BIATEX-2 subproject has made internationally leading contributions to the quantification and process study of surface / atmosphere exchange fluxes of aerosols with vegetation surfaces. In particular, he pioneered the application of micrometeorological techniques to measure pollutant fluxes in the urban environment.
Andreas Stohl who is now a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway, did his master’s degree and PhD in meteorology at the University of Vienna, then moving to the University of Munich as an assistant professor where he became involved with EUROTRAC-2. His work, which was involved with three EUROTRAC-2 subprojects: TOR-2, TROPOSAT and EXPORT-E2, focussed on large-scale atmospheric transport processes and their impact on the chemical composition of the troposphere. Two processes were mainly studied: stratosphere-troposphere exchange, which has been known for a long time as an important factor for the tropospheric ozone budget, and intercontinental pollution transport, a relatively new field of research that Andreas helped to shape. This work has shown that natural processes are less important for pollution levels than previously thought, but intercontinental pollution transport is of major importance and must be managed internationally in order to comply with future air quality standards. The source codes of his major modelling tools, FLEXTRA and FLEXPART, have been made available to the scientific community and are now used by an estimated 50 research groups worldwide. Andreas has been the principal investigator on many projects within the German and EU atmospheric research programmes and was the project co-ordinator for the EU FP 5 project STACCATO (Influence of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange in a Changing Climate on Atmospheric Transport and Oxidation Capacity). From July 2003 to November 2004 he was a research associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.