Professor Grant Allen - Challenge 4

Grant Allen is a professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Manchester. After completing a PhD in satellite remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere at the University of Leicester in 2005, he took up a PDRA to study tropical convection and pollution transport at the University of Manchester (2005-2008) and aerosol-cloud interaction in the South East Pacific (2008-2011). Following a fully-funded NERC independent fellowship (2011-2015) and a lectureship at the University of Manchester to study London's air quality from aircraft remote sensing, Grant's research interests moved into quantifying methane emissions from Arctic summer wetlands and from urban environments, culminating in the global carbon emissions scope of currently-active projects. Grant uses research aircraft, bespoke UAVs, and satellite remote sensing as measurement tools to quantify greenhouse gas fluxes through a range of projects funded by NERC, United Nations, Environment Agency and UK Government BEIS, including work to monitor greenhouse gases and methane from UK fracking activities. This includes the development of novel flux accounting models, instrumentation, and sampling platform approaches.

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