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Professor Colin O'Dowd

BSc, PhD, DSc, FRMetS, FInstP, MRIA.

School of Physics,
National University of Ireland Galway
Phone: +353-91-493306
email: colin.odowdnuigalway.ie www.macehead.org
www.nuigalway.ie/c-caps

Brief Career Details

1987 B.Sc. Physics from NUI, Galway;
1987-1989 Research Assistant, NUI Galway;
1989-1992 Ph.D University of Manchester, Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST);
1992-1996   Research Associate UMIST;
1996-2002   Co Founder, Assistant Director of Centre for Marine & Atmospheric Research, and Senior
                  Research Fellow, University of Sunderland;
1999-2002 Senior Scientist and subsequently Professor of Physics, University of Helsinki;
2001-2004 Adjunct Professor NUI Galway;
2004-2008 Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway;
2009- Personal Professor of Physics, NUI Galway.

Director – Center for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, Environmental Change Institute, NUI Galway.
Chair – Mace Head Management Committee

Awards

(International) Smoluchowski Award for Aerosol Science, 2004
Fellow, Institute of Physics, 2006.
Doctorate of Science, University of Manchester, 2007
Fellow Royal Meteorological Society 2009
Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2011

Research Interests

Atmospheric aerosol formation, transformation and climate effects, air quality, climate – air quality interactions, air-sea exchange, biogeochemical cycling.
Measurements and modeling of aforementioned themes: ground based, ship based and aircraft based measurements using a range of aerosol samplers (including mass spectrometry, ground based remote sensing such as LIDAR, cloud-RADAR, profilers etc); and sophisticated modeling systems from process models up to climate models.

Editorial Activities

Joint Editor in Chief – Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 2000-2007
Guest Editor – Atmospheric Research, 2008-2009
Associate Editor – International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography

Membership of International Bodies

American Geophysical Union,
Institute of Physics (Chartered Physicist & Fellow),
European Geophysics Society,
GAef (German Aerosol Society),
European Aerosol Society,
Aerosol Society (UK & Ireland),
American Associate for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow).

Membership of International Committees

Co-Chair – International Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (2004-2013).
Chair – ACCENT Joint Research Programme on Aerosols: Air Quality-Climate Interactions (2004-2009)
International Scientific Steering Committee, IGBP-WCRP Joint Initiative Aerosols-Cloud-Precipitation-Climate (2006-present)
Executive Committee International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, (2004-present)
Ex-Offico Executive Committee Member International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (2004-present)
Chair: American Geophysical Union, Atmospheric Science Technical Committee – Aerosols & Clouds (2005-2007)
Atmospheric Science Executive Committee, American Geophysical Union (2000-2007)
Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Studies (SOLAS) National Co-ordinator (2003-2009)

Publications

Publications to date – 168 peer-reviewed, h-index 37

Publications to Date

Citations to Date

Selected Papers

Rosenfeld, D., U. Lohmann, G.B. Raga, C.D. O’Dowd, M. Kulmala, S. Fuzzi, A. Reissell, M. O. Andreae., Flood or drought: How do aerosols affect precipitation?, Science, Vol 231, DOI: 10.1126/science.1160606, 2008.

O’Dowd, C.D., J.L. Jimenez, R. Bahreini, R.C. Flagan J.H. Seinfeld, L. Pirjola, M. Kulmala, S.FG. Jennings and T. Hoffmann, Marine aerosols and iodine emissions, Nature, DOI 10.1038/nature03373, 2005.

O'Dowd, C.D., M.C. Facchini, F. Cavalli, D. Ceburnis, M. Mircea, S. Decesari, S. Fuzzi, Y.J. Yoon, and J.P. Putaud, Biogenically-driven organic contribution to marine aerosol, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature02959,. 2004.

O’Dowd, C.D., J.L. Jimenez, R. Bahreini, R.C. Flagan J.H. Seinfeld, L. Pirjola, M. Kulmala, S.FG. Jennings and T. Hoffmann, Marine particle formation from biogenic iodine emissions, Nature, 417, 632-636, 2002.

O’Dowd, C.D. P. Aalto, K. Hämeri, M. Kulmala, and Thorsten Hoffmann. Atmospheric particles from organic Vapours, Nature, 416, 497-498, 2002.

O'Dowd, C.D., J. Lowe, M.H. Smith and A.D. Kaye, The relative importance of sea-salt and nss-sulphate aerosol to the marine CCN population: An improved multi-component aerosol-droplet parameterisation. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 125, 1295-1313. 1999

O’Dowd, C.D., & G. de Leeuw, Marine Aerosol Production: a review of the current knowledge,, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2043, 2007

Semmler, S. Varghese, R. McGrath, P. Nolan, S. Wang, P. Lynch, C. O'Dowd, Regional climate simulations of North Atlantic cyclones: changes in frequency and intensity in a climate change scenario, Vol. 36: 1–16, 2008, doi: 10.3354/cr00732, , Climate Res., 2008

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National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
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