Members

Professor Clare Murphy
Director
P: 02 4221 5065
E: clare_murphy@uow.edu.au
Remote sensing of atmospheric composition using ground-based Fourier-transform spectroscopy. Atmospheric impacts of bushfires. Understanding sources and fates of trace gases in the atmosphere and impacts on air quality.
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Dr Nicholas Deutscher
Deputy Director
P: 02 4221 4104
E: nicholas_deutscher@uow.edu.au
Column and surface measurements of greenhouse gases. Novel profiling applications of greenhouse gases measurement techniques. Atmospheric transport modelling of greenhouse gases. Combining multiple scale and multiple tracers to optimise flux estimates within atmospheric transport models.
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Associate Professor Jenny Fisher
P: 02 4221 5484
E: jenny_fisher@uow.edu.au
Chemical transport modeling of atmospheric composition and mercury biogeochemistry. Integration of model output with observational datasets including surface, airborne, and satellite. Focus on atmospheric impacts of human activity, natural processes, and their interactions.
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Associate Professor Nicholas Jones
P: 02 4221 5808
E: nicholas_jones@uow.edu.au
Remote sensing of atmospheric composition using ground-based methods (NDACC). Validation of satellite data relevant to atmospheric chemistry (e.g. ACE, GOME, SCIAMACHY, ENVISAT). Mathematical inverse methods as applied to analysis of spectroscopic data. Development of analysis code from spectroscopic data (SFIT4).
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Emeritus Professor David Griffith
P: 02 4221 3515
E: david_griffith@uow.edu.au
Atmospheric composition, especially greenhouse gases and their isotopic variations. Solar remote sensing, in situ measurements using optical (infrared) techniques. Sources and sinks of greenhouse gas emissions, especially in agriculture. Validation of satellite measurements of greenhouse gases.
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Associate Professor Stephen Wilson
P: 02 4221 3505
E: stephen_wilson@uow.edu.au
Spectroscopic studies of atmospheric chemistry, including irradiance measurements, aerosol optical depth and differential optical absorption spectroscopy. Studies of regions from the clean marine through to urban atmospheres.
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Dr Frances Phillips
P: 02 4221 4104
E: frances_phillips@uow.edu.au
Quantifying local sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, with focus on agricultural systems and methods for mitigating emissions. Interest in developing methods to measure fugitive emissions from coal mining and coal seam gas production.
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Dr Christopher Caldow
E: christopher_caldow@uow.edu.au
Investigation of global biogeochemical cycles, particularly greenhouse gas sources and sinks. Measurement of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere along with greenhouse gas partial pressure measurements in inland waters, estuaries and oceans. Atmospheric composition, meteorology and water biogeochemistry. Drivers of greenhouse gas fluxes and the development of strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Dr Rebecca Buchholz
E: buchholz@ucar.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Honorary Postdoc Research Associate Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, UOW

Dr Scott Chambers
E: szc@ansto.gov.au
ANSTO
Honorary Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, UOW

Dr Ian Galbally
E: ian_galbally@uow.edu.au
Honorary Professorial Fellow, UOW
Post Retirement Fellow, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

Dr Alan Griffiths
E: agf@ansto.gov.au
ANSTO
Honorary Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, UOW

Dr Elise-Andree Guerette
E: elise-andree.guerette@csiro.au
CSIRO
Honorary Fellow, UOW

Dr Ruhi Humphries
E: Ruhi.Humphries@csiro.au
CSIRO
Honorary Fellow, UOW

Dr Sam Marx
P: 02 4221 5318
E: sam_marx@uow.edu.au
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, UOW

Dr Paolo Sebastianelli
E: paolo_sebastianelli@uow.edu.au
Honorary Fellow, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, UOW

Dr Ann Stavert
E: Ann.stavert@csiro.au
CSIRO
Honorary Fellow, UOW

Professor Adam Trevitt
P: +61 2 4221 5545
E: adam_trevitt@uow.edu.au

Dr Voltaire Velazco
E: voltaire_velazco@uow.edu.au

Dr Alastair Williams
P: 02 9717 3694
E: alastair.williams@ansto.gov.au
Research Leader, ANSTO
Honorary Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, UOW

  • Shyno Susan John, PhD Thesis: Variability of carbon monoxide in Australia from satellite and ground-based measurements
  • Jhonathon Ramirez Gamboa, PhD Thesis: Improving our understanding of biogenic emissions in south-east Australia.
  • Maria Paula Perez-Pena, PhD Thesis: Effects of new carbonyl photolysis mechanisms on atmospheric chemistry model estimates
  • Dominique Bally Kpokro (joint with University of Surrey, UK), PhD Thesis: Contaminated Networks: Mercury Contamination, Supply and Informal Entrepreneurial Gold Mining Networks in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Lily Sheridan, PhD Thesis: Intercontinental Air Pollution Transport: A Southern Hemisphere Perspective

Graham Kettlewell
E: grahamk@uow.edu.au

Travis Naylor
E: naylort@uow.edu.au

Recent alumni from the Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry have gone on to a wide range of roles:

PhD Alumni

Jesse Greenslade (2020) – now at the Bureau of Meteorology

Doreena Dominick (2019) - now research assistant at UOW
Beata Bukosa (2019) - now at National Institute for Water and Atmosphere, NZ

Christopher Caldow (2018) - previously at LSCE (Finance), now at CSIRO
Maximilien Desservettaz (2018) - previously at CSIRO, now at the Cyprus Institute

Elise Andree-Guerette (2016) - now at CSIRO

Ruhi Humphries (2015) - now at CSIRO

Rebecca Buchholz (2014) - now at National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)

MSc/MRes/MPhil Alumni

Neil Page (2018 - MRes, 2021 - MPhil) - now at Air Labs Environmental

Christopher Roulston (2018) - now at CSIRO