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Canada, Mexico, US; Europe: France, Poland, Sweden, UK, Africa: Burkina Faso) to support her numerical
modelling work (energy and water exchanges in urban areas). She is currently the lead expert for the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) Expert Team on ‘Urban and Building Climatology’. She is Past-
President of the International Association for Urban Climate.
Prof. Martin Wooster - joined the Department of Geography in 1998 on a lectureship funded by the NERC
Earth Observation Science Initiative (one of four such lectureships awarded nationally in the UK). In 2005
he was appointed Prof. at KCL, where he currently heads the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling
Research Group, consisting of ten full time academic staff and associated researchers. He holds a BSc in
Physics (Bristol) and an MSc in Remote Sensing (University of London), with a PhD in Earth Sciences
(Open University) that concentrated on the thermal remote sensing of active volcanoes. Prior to joining KCL
Martin worked at the Natural Resources Institute, at that time part of the UK Department for International
Development (DfID), where his work focused on the development of Earth Observation as part of the suite
of methods used for environmental monitoring in developing countries. This area of work remains a
particular interest, as does the use of infrared and thermal remote sensing approaches and their application to
a wide variety of environmental investigations. He has published in excess of 40 papers in peer-reviewed
journals on these subjects and sits on steering committees of the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility and the
NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Facility. Recent work in collaboration with others at KCL includes the
determination of sensible heat flux and other related parameters in urban areas from hyper spectral remote
sensing data.
Prof. Frank Kelly - holds the chair in Environmental Health at King’s College London and is Director of the
Environmental Research Group. For the last 10 years he has addressed the mechanisms underlying air
pollution related lung injury focusing on events occurring within the respiratory tract lining fluid
compartment of the lung. He is involved with a number of EU projects including HEPMEAP and until
earlier this year coordinated a MRC Cooperative Group investigating the mechanistic basis of particulate air
pollution toxicity. In addition to his research activity he is an active in a number of scientific bodies. He is
recent past President of the Society for Free Radical Research (Europe) for which he also served as Treasurer
for 6 years. He is currently a trustee and Board member of International Society for Free Radical Research, a
member of ESCODD (European Standardisation Committee on Oxidative DNA Damage) and EUROFEDA
(European Research on Functional Effects of Dietary Antioxidants. In addition to his academic work Prof.
Kelly has been involved in providing policy support advice to a number of expert bodies. He has advised the
World Health Organization Air Pollution Advisory Board on PM10, O3 and NO2 and participated in the
WHO air quality guideline global update in 2005. He is a member of EPAQS – the UK Expert Panel on Air
Quality Standards and he chairs the Air Pollution Research in London (APRIL) Health committee.
Sean Beevers - graduated with an engineering degree (Trent Polytechnic) and an MSc, in Atmospheric
Sciences (Univ. of East Anglia), and is currently studying for a PhD at King’s College London. Sean has
more than 10 years experience with air pollution measurement, emissions and air pollution modelling in
London and currently manages key London projects including: London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory
(LAEI) for the Greater London Authority; Congestion Charging Impacts assessment for Transport for
London; impacts of the Western Extension to the CZ and most recently the phased assessment of the
proposed London Low Emission Zone. Sean has submitted evidence to the Greater London Assembly, been
a member of the research committee looking at air pollution predictions of NOX and NO2 for DEFRA and
was a member of the Department for Transport project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow.
Selected relevant publications
Beevers, S. D., Carslaw, D. C., (2005): The impact of congestion charging on vehicle speed and its implications for
assessing vehicle emissions. Atmospheric Environment, 39, 6875-6884.
Beevers, S. D., Carslaw, D. C., (2005): The impact of congestion charging on vehicle emissions in London.
Atmospheric Environment, 39, 1-5.
Grimmond CSB, TR Oke (2002): Turbulent heat fluxes in urban areas: Observations and local-scale urban
meteorological parameterization scheme (LUMPS). J. of Applied Meteorology, 41, 792-810.
Offerle B, CSB Grimmond, K Fortuniak, W. Pawlak (2006): Intra-urban differences of surface energy fluxes in a
central European city. J. of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 125–136.
Offerle B, CSB Grimmond, K Fortuniak, K Kłysik, TR Oke (2006): Temporal variations in heat fluxes over a central
European city centre. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 84,103-116.
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