Dr Dave Reay

Senior Lecturer in Carbon Management

Your Planet Needs You! - Children's book on climate change

Your Planet Needs You! A Kid's Guide to Going Green Macmillan Children's Books. Out now.

MSc programme

MSc in Carbon Management Nominated for a EUSA teaching award 2009 and 2010.

Out Now In Paperback and E-book

Climate Change Begins at Home - Life on the Two-way Street of Global Warming. Published by Macmillan.

Translated into Japanese and Korean. Shortlisted for Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year.

Other books now out

Greenhouse Gas Sinks Reay, Hewitt, Smith and Grace (Eds). CABI Publishing.

E-mail: David.Reay@ed.ac.uk

Dave Reay studied Marine Biology at Liverpool University and graduated in 1994. He went on to gain a PhD 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 fluxes in forests, and went on to become a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Fellow examining greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands and agriculture. In 2008 Dave became the university's first lecturer in carbon management and became a senior lecturer in 2009. He is designer and editor of the leading climate change science website Greenhouse Gas Online and Google UK's top Southern Ocean website. He enjoys running (on an annual basis), Test Match Special, and writing stories for his daughters.

Research Interests

• Greenhouse gas sinks and interactions
• Nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture (IPCC input: Fourth Assessment Report WGIII and Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories)
• Methane oxidation in soils
• Microbial ecology, incl. that of methanotrophs, methanogens, nitrifiers and denitrifiers
• Diffuse water pollution
• Land use impacts on greenhouse gas fluxes
• Climate change impacts on land use and adaptation strategies

Research Groups

Global Change

Centre for Environmental Change and Sustainability

Responsibilities

• Programme director of the MSc in Carbon Management at University of Edinburgh
• Co-director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Council Chevening Fellowship Scheme 'Finance and Investment in a Low Carbon Economy'
• British Council Scotland Advisory Committee
• Lecturer on climate change for undergraduate and MSc courses at University of Edinburgh
• Reviewer for the journals Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Reports Climate Change, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Atmospheric Environment, Global Change Biology, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Plant and Soil, Environmental Science and Technology, Climate Research, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Environmental Quality, and Water, Air and Soil Pollution
• External reviewer for DEFRA
• External reviewer for the Natural Environment Research Council
• External reviewer for the National Science Foundation
• External reviewer for the British Council
• Fellowship reviewer for the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
• Grant reviewer for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Rapporteur for the Economic and Social Research Council
• Expert witness, House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee
• Reviewer and columnist for the Times Higher Education Supplement
• Expert witness, Scottish Parliament Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee
• Climate change consultant for Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Climate change consultant for the Life Centre, Newcastle, UK
• Author for the Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment
• Reviewer for CABI Publishing
• Reviewer for Earthscan Publishing
• External reviewer, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
• Member of the British Council
• Member of the Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability
• Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Lead author, European Nitrogen Assessment