Current Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching:

I am UHI module leader for:

• Climate Change
• Climate, Land and People
• Quantitative Research and Data Analysis

I also teach the following modules:

• Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
• Physics and Meteorology (for the Access to Merchant Navy course
• An evening class "Understanding the Weather"

Research:

I currently contributing towards the following funded research projects:

• SASKA ("Search for an Astronomical Site in Kenya")
• OCTES ("Opportunities for Community groups Through Energy Storage"), which is a new European Union Framework 7 Northern Periphery Project, involving partners from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Finland and Iceland.
• Director of Studies (Main supervisor for PhD student Mark Bradley)

Past projects:

• SUSPLAN European Union Framework 7 sustainable energy integration

project (2009-2010).

• Greenspace Green building program (2009-2011)
• STARTWAVE (Studies in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Water Vapour Effects) at the University of Bern, Switzerland (2005-2008).
• FriOWL (University of Fribourg Overwhelmingly Large Telescope), Switzerland, 2002-2009.
• The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), site testing and climate variability astudy (2005)
• Canadian pressure observations and circulation variability: links to air temperature, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario (2000-2002)
• The Canadian Cryosphere Information Network and the State of the Canadian Cryosphere projects
• The ground heat flux of a bog in the northern Netherlands
• The urban heat island of Dublin city during the summer months
• Climate, weather and health in the Western Isles