The Giorio Group

Water is one of the main atmospheric components, present in the form of vapour, rain, cloud, fog droplets, and deliquescent atmospheric aerosols (hygroscopic aerosol at high humidity). The presence of a liquid water phase in the atmosphere promotes reactions that would not occur otherwise. One important class of reactions is complexation of metals by organic ligands.

Ice cores have provided information on the past atmosphere on a time scale dating back to 800,000 years ago. We are interested in terrestrial and marine biogenic emissions, their atmospheric fate and potential information they can unfold when found in ice cores from the polar regions.

The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society's food and textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In the Centre for Landscape Regeneration we use novel, low-cost methodologies to assess greenhouse gases emissions with a focus on protecting the Fenlands, expanding habitats in the Cairngorms, and protecting the Lake District as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Air pollution epidemiology has so far primarily relied on fixed outdoor air quality monitoring stations and static populations which cannot capture the high heterogeneity of personal exposure, as individuals move between different microenvironments spending as much as 90% of their time indoors at home and school/work.