Palmer Group News and Press

• November 22 2011: Anthony Bloom passes his PhD viva.
• October 2011: Rob Trigwell get a distinction for his MSc.
• June 2011: Eddy Barrett gets a first-class degree! Off to University of Colorado in September after spending the summer working on BORTAS-B.
• April 2011: Paul Palmer appointed a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge from September 2011 for 12 months.
• January 2011: Rob Trigwell joins the group as a MSc student.

• October 2010: James Barlow joins the group as PhD student.
• September 2010:Catherine Hardacre joins the group as a PDRA.
• August 2010:Claire Bulgin passed her PhD viva will flying colours!
• July 2010: Paul Palmer to receive the 2010 Zeldovich Medal from the COSPAR Scientific Commission A for "young scientists who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in their field of research." (UofEd URL)
• May 2010: Eddy Barratt secures a prestigious undergraduate science bursary from the Nuffield Foundation.
• January 2010: Publicity for Anthony's Science paper feature in
  • Time Magazine
  • BBC
  • Reuters
  • New.com.au
  • Guardian Newspaper, Financial Times
  • Local Metro newspaper "Boffins say the hotter it is, the hotter it gets"
  • Environmental Research Web [with pics of the authors]
  • Scientific American
  • National Public Radio[MP3]
  • The Ecologist

• Dec-ish, 2009: Anthony Bloom's paper about methane accepted by Science magazine.
• June 25th, 2009: Paul Palmer promoted to Professor of Quantitative Earth Observation.
• June 19th, 2009: Mike Barkley has won a NERC postdoctoral fellowship!!
• June 1st, 2009: Mark Parrington (Toronto University) joins the group to work on the BORTAS project.
• May 1st, 2009: Stephan Matthiesen (Edinburgh University) joins the group as BORTAS project manager.
• March, 2009: Anthony Bloom has been selected for a "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" summer fellowship to work at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan to analyse new satellite measurements of atmospheric methane from the Greenhouse Observing SATellite (GOSAT).
• February 2009: Work mentioned "Accounting from Above," The Economist, February 12th.
• January/February 2009: Group work on the GOSAT and OCO instruments receives media attention (BBC, Guardian, The Scotsman, Economist)
• January 2009: Win Trivitayanurak (Carnegie Mellon University) joins the group to work on the NERC APPRAISE ACES project.

• November 2008: Annemarie Fraser (Toronto University) joins the group to work on the NERC National Centre for Earth Observation.
• October 2008: Paul Palmer awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

• Summer 2007: Michael Barkley invited to attend the 9th Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS).