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Chair of Carbon Management & Education: Dave Reay

Professor Dave Reay has been made Chair of Carbon Management & Education in the College of Science & Engineering.

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Professor Reay is Assistant Principal, Global Environment & Society. He also leads postgraduate teaching in the School of GeoSciences, directing face-to-face and online Masters programmes in Carbon Management.

Professor Reay studied marine biology at the University of Liverpool and graduated in 1994.

He gained a PhD with the British Antarctic Survey at the University of Essex, studying the response of Southern Ocean algae and bacteria to global warming.

His post-doctoral work at Essex investigated the impact of land use on the soil methane sink.

Professor Reay first worked for the University of Edinburgh in 2001, investigating the greenhouse gas emissions of nitrous oxide from agriculture.

He subsequently researched carbon fluxes in forests then became a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Fellow examining greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands and agriculture.

In 2008 Professor Reay became the University’s first lecturer in carbon management.

He is the author of the popular science books 'Climate Change Begins at Home', 'Your Planet Needs You' and 'Nitrogen and Climate Change'.

He is also the creator of the leading climate change website Greenhouse Gas Online.