I am the Senior External Programmes Manager in the Research Development and Support Team (ReDS) at BAS. I am responsible primarily for post-award project management, with a main focus on Arctic related projects.
The majority of externally funded (outside of NERC) projects at BAS are funded by the European Union through Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. In addition we have several large scale programmes funded by NERC. I am responsible for ensuring smooth running of these projects and insuring financial and technical reports are submitted, as well as the most of the funding is made within the projects through enabling collaborations and communications, and disseminating the work of the project to wider stakeholder audiences.
I am a co-lead of the EU Polar Cluster, a collaboration of 27 projects funded through the EC, and permanent members EPB, APECS, SIOS.
Main projects include
NERC:
Coordinator for the RoSES and CloudSense programmes
Work Package Leader for DEFIANT, BIOPOLE,
EU:
WP leader for Arctic PASSION and OCEAN:ICE
Also oversea the delivery of all projects funded through the EC that BAS is involved in.
Currently 32 projects.
Past projects include:
ICE-ARC – Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change – www.ice-arc.eu – 12M euro project coordinated by BAS (Jeremy Wilkinson) 2014-17.
I am the Programme Manager, and Work Package 6 leader, funded for half my time on ICE-ARC. Programme Administrator: Katie Gosling. Other BAS staff: Vicky Hamilton Morris (sea-ice physicist), Andy Tait (engineering – buoy builds), Heather Martin (comms).
EU-PolarNet – Coordinating Action from H2020 on Arctic and Antarctic science challenges, infrastructure platforms and availability, and stakeholder engagement and dissemination. Coordinated by AWI. Programme Administrator: Ruth Driver-Breen.
iSTAR – NERC consortium project investigating Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
IGS2015 Cambridge – co-leading the Local Organising Committee with Andy Smith (iStar PI) for the International Glaciological Society symposium in August 2015 in Cambridge.
+several other projects e.g. ACCESS, MASE, Polar Ice, SPACESTORM, CACHE EMBRIC, IMCOnet, Best Penguins, REVEAL, EUFAR2, ONR-MIZ.
History:
August 2009 – January 2014:
BAS: Ice2sea Programme Manager:
Ice2sea was an EU FP7 funded project, lead by Prof David Vaughan, to constrain predicitions of future sea-level rise for the next 200 years. It has 10M euros funding from the EU, from 2009-2013. See www.ice2sea.eu for more information.
2006 – 2009:
BAS: SOLCLI:
Working with Martin Jarvis in the Holistic group at BAS. Working on the SOLCLI consortium project studying solar variability effects on climate change, on the global atmosphere from the stratosphere to thermosphere. http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/icas/research-themes/atmospheric-chemistry-and-aerosols/groups/atmospheric-chemistry/projects/solcli/
2002 – 2006:
PhD at the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, University College London. Thesis title: Gravity Waves and Small Scale Structure of the High-Latitude Upper Atmosphere.
1998 – 2002:
MPhys – Physics with Astronomy, University of Southampton.
Qualifications and memberships
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Association of Research Managers and Administrators member
Institute of Physics associate member
Current focus, through project management rather than direct research, is on the Arctic.
Previous focus on the upper atmosphere, particularly over Scandinavia, and effects of climate change.
ICE-ARC – Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change – www.ice-arc.eu – 12M euro project coordinated by BAS (Jeremy Wilkinson) 2014-17.
EU-PolarNet – Coordinating Action from H2020 on Arctic and Antarctic science challenges, infrastructure platforms and availability, and stakeholder engagement and dissemination. Coordinated by AWI.
iSTAR – NERC consortium project investigating Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
Aruliah, A.L., Griffin, E.M., McWhirter, I., Aylward, A.D., Ford, E.A.K., Charalambous A., Kosch M.J., Davis, C.J., Howells, V.S.C., First tristatic studies of meso-scale ion-neutral dynamics and energetics in the high-latitude upper atmosphere using collocated FPIs and EISCAT radar, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L03802, (2004), doi: 10.1029/2003GL018469.
Aruliah, A.L., Griffin, E.M., Aylward, A.D., Ford, E.A.K., Kosch M.J., Davis, C.J., Howells, V.S.C., Pryce, E., Middleton, H., & Jussila, J., First direct evidence of meso-scale variability on ion-neutral dynamics co-located tristatic FPIs and EISCAT radar in Northern Scandinavia, Annales Geophysicae, 23, 147-162, (2005).
McWhirter, I., Griffin, E.M., Aruliah, A.L., Ford, E.A.K., Charalambous, A., & Kosch, M., Optical Instrumentation of the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, University College London, Proceedings of the 17th ESA/PAC Symposium, ESA SP-590, 315-319, (2005).
Ford, E.A.K., Aruliah, A.L., Griffin, E.M., & McWhirter, I., Thermospheric gravity waves in Fabry-Perot Interferometer measurements of the 630.0nm OI line, Annales Geophysicae, 24, 555-566, (2006).
Ford, E.A.K., Gravity waves and small scales structure of the high latitude upper thermosphere, Ph.D. thesis, University of London , (2006).
Griffin, E.M., Kosch, M.J., Aruliah, A.L., Kavanagh, A., McWhirter, I., Senior, A., Ford, E.A.K., Davis, C.J., Abe, T., Kurihara, J., Kauristie, K., & Ogawa, Y., Combined Ground-Based Optical Support For The Aurora (DELTA) Sounding Rocket Campaign, Earth, Planets and Space, (DELTA Special Issue), 58, 1113-1121, (2006).
Ford, E.A.K.; Aruliah, A.L.; Griffin, E.M.; McWhirter, I.;. 2007 High time resolution measurements of the thermosphere from Fabry-Perot Interferometer measurements of atomic oxygen. Annales Geophysicae.
Ford, E.A.K.; Aruliah, A.L.; Griffin, E.M.; McWhirter, I.;. 2008 Statistical analysis of thermospheric gravity waves from Fabry-Perot Interferometer measurements of atomic oxygen. Annales Geophysicae.
Hibbins, R.E., Jarvis, M.J. & Ford, E.A.K., QBO influence on long-period planetary waves in the Antarctic upper mesosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D09109, doi:10.1029/2008JD011174, (2009).
Ford, E.A.K., Hibbins, R.E., & Jarvis, M.J. QBO effects on Antarctic mesospheric winds and polar vortex dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L20801, doi:10.1029/2009GL039848 (2009).
Arctic PASSION brought together international partners, including Indigenous and local communities, to improve how we monitor the rapidly changing Arctic and make environmental data freely available to those who need it.
OCEAN:ICE studies how Antarctic ice and Southern Ocean processes drive sea-level rise and influence global climate, using new data and advanced ice–ocean–climate models.
The recent extreme swings in Antarctic sea ice extent emphasise the need to increase our knowledge of the drivers and climate implications of Antarctic sea ice loss.
BIOPOLE studies how climate change is affecting the release of nutrients from the polar regions, and their redistribution around the world’s oceans.
Southern Ocean Clouds improves climate models by studying cloud processes over the Southern Ocean to reduce global prediction errors.
The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration unites global scientists to study Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier, predict sea-level rise, and inform climate action worldwide.
CACHE-ITN pushed forward our understanding of calcium production in warmer more acidic marine environments.
SPACESTORM is a collaborative project to model space weather events and find ways to mitigate their effects on satellites.
physicists, chemists, biologists, economists, and sociologists from 21 institutes in 11 countries across Europe assess the rapid retreat and collapse of Arctic sea-ice cover
Science on the move – the mission to understand the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
