GreenHouse
Gas Online came about due to the apparent gap in scientific information
on greenhouse gases available on the web. As a greenhouse gas
scientist I was disappointed with the lack of a comprehensive
and up to date greenhouse gas science web resource and, having
a few website building skills myself, thought I'd have a go.
What I have produced still falls short of ideal, but it at least
provides a great way for me to keep track of, and catalogue, new
research on greenhouse gases and global warming. In designing
Greenhouse Gas Online my aim has been to provide information primarily
useful to greenhouse gas researchers like myself. Hopefully, much
of the information will be useful to non-scientists as well.
I have tried to keep the overall format of the site consistent
with that used by my funding body, the Natural Environment Research
Council (UK), but they bear no responsibility for any content
here. Greenhouse Gas Online is the fourth website I have produced,
but the first relating directly to my job. Who knows?, in the
long term it may become a key web based resource for future greenhouse
gas scientists, in the mean time I just hope you enjoy the site...
Brief Biog
Dave Reay was born in Hampshire, in 1972. He studied Marine Biology
at Liverpool University and graduated in 1994. He went on to gain
a PhD jointly with the British Antarctic Survey and Essex University
studying the response of Southern Ocean algae and bacteria to
temperature change. After gaining his doctorate he continued working
as a post-doc at Essex, investigating the impact of land-use on
the soil methane sink. In 2001 he moved to Edinburgh University
to investigate emissions of the greenhouse gas 'nitrous oxide'
from agriculture, then carbon dioxide fluxes in forests, and continues
to work there as a NERC research
fellow in the School of Geosciences. He is also designer and editor
of a popular Southern
Ocean website. He enjoys running, Test Match Special, and
writing stories for his daughters. Dave is now heading up a new
Masters programme on Carbon
Management due to start in September 2008.
