Short CV - John Moncrieff

John B. Moncrieff

Science and Engineering, The University of Edinburgh

School of GeoSciences

Date of first Appointment to the University: 1 January 1985

Dates of Promotion: Oct. 1997 Senior Lecturer; Oct. 1998 Reader; Sep 2006 Professor of Micrometeorology

University Education & Degrees Awarded

1978 B.Sc. (Hons) Geography Class II.I, University of Edinburgh

1983 Ph.D. University of Nottingham. Supervisors: J.L Monteith, M.H. Unsworth

Career since graduation:

1981-83 Research Assistant (NERC & ARC), Environmental Physics Unit, Nottingham University

Apr 1983-Dec 1984 Mathematical Modeller, Air Pollution Div., Warren Spring Laboratory, Stevenage

Jan. 1985 "New Blood" Lecturer in Micrometeorology, University of Edinburgh.

Major research interests:

• Land-atmosphere exchange of radiatively-active trace gases;
• Planetary boundary layer modelling (PBL) in response to surface forcing;
• Lagrangian dispersion models of pollutant transport in the PBL;
• Coherent structures and models of surface layer interactions;
• Environmental physics of organisms and their heat balance.

Principal recent research grants

• # Award Body Ref. No. Brief Title of Research Amount Awarded (£k) PI Dates
• 34 NERC NE/G00725X/1 Impacts of nitrogen deposition on the forest carbon cycle: from ecosystem manipulations to national scale predictions 803 Co-PI 1/6/09-31/5/14
• 33 NERC NE/F017294/1 Remote sensing of solar induced fluorescence and the Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) for carbon uptake in two contrasting forest ecosystems 506 Co-PI 1/10/08-30/09/11
• 32 EC FPVI IMECC – Infrastructure for the Measurements of the European Carbon Cycle 181 1st PI 1/4/07-30/3/11
• 31 NERC NE/D005795/1 Arctic Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling across multiple Scales (ABACUS)
(Consortium, 546 K Total to Edinburgh, 200 K to Micrometeorology) 200 PI 1/6/06-31/5/09
• 30 EC FPVI Forest-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen compounds (NitroEurope) 178 1st PI 1/2/06-31/1/10

Recent papers:

• Clement, R.J., Burba, G.G., Grelle, A., Anderson, D. and Moncrieff, J.B. (2009) Improved Trace Gas Flux Estimation Through IRGA Sampling Optimization. Ag Forest Meteorol. , 149, 623-638. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.008
• Hill, T. C., M. Williams, and Moncrieff, J.B. (2008), Modeling feedbacks between a boreal forest and the planetary boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15122, doi:10.1029/2007JD009412
• Smith, P., Fang, C., Dawson, J.J.C. and Moncrieff, J.B. (2008) Inmpact of global warming on soil organic carbon. Advances in Agronomy. 97, 1-43.
• Magnani, F. et al, incl Moncrieff, J.B. (2007) The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests. Nature doi:10.1038/nature05847
• Wingate, L., Seibt, U., Moncrieff, J.B., Jarvis, P.G. and Lloyd, J. (2007) Variations in 13C discrimination during CO2 exchange by Picea sitchensis branches in the field. Plant, Cell and Environment 30, 600-616 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01647.x
• McNaughton, K.G., Clement, R.J. and Moncrieff, J.B. (2007) Scaling properties of velocity and temperature spectra above the surface friction layer in a convective boundary layer. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 14, 257-271.
• Ball, T., Smith, K. and Moncrieff, J.B. (2007) Effect of stand age on greenhouse gas fluxes from a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) chronosequence on a peaty gley soil. Global Change Biology. 13, 2128-2142 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01427.x

Taught Undergraduate Courses:

• Meteorology 1
• Soil, Water and Atmospheric Processes
• Environmental Pollution
• Land-Atmosphere Interactions

PhD Research Students as 1st Supervisor: Mark Sutton, Pete McCracken, Dominic McCafferty, Sophie Hale, Changming Fang, Jon Massheder, Colin Lloyd, Robert Clement, Kumar Chittabithini, Emma Mcloughlin

PhD students current: James Howie, Tom Wade, Luke Smallman

Current Admin Duties:

• Director of Studies
• Course Organiser - Soil, Water and Atmosphere Processes 2h
• Course Organiser - Land-Atmosphere Interactions
• Chairman - Board of Examiners BSc Ecological Science
• Convenor - GeoSciences Board of Studies
• Head of Research Group - Edinburgh Earth Observatory
• Convenor - College Library Committee
• University Library Committee