Current Post: Professor

Room Number: 01.37F

Telephone: 01603 592018 (+44 1603 592018)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: w.sturges@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Joint Sector Head - Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
• Course Director, BSc/MSci Climate Science

Research Interests

Trace gases in the atmosphere and their importance for stratospheric ozone depletion, global warming, and as components of regional and long-range air pollution; Long-term trends in trace gases from ground stations, and from air trapped in deep polar snow and ice cores.


Biography

Since obtaining my PhD from Lancaster University in 1984, I have worked in Canada (Environment Canada), the USA (University of Colorado and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), and the UK (University of Essex), before settling at UEA in 1993. In recent years, I have been leading a long-running European project to reconstruct historic atmospheric chemical change from polar firn and ice (FIRETRACC and CRYOSTAT, from 1997 – 2005). I have participated in most of the CEC-funded stratospheric research programmes since SESAME, up to the present SCOUT-Ozone. I am also currently involved in EU and NERC-funded projects based at our own observatory at Weybourne.

I manage a Marie Curie Early Stage Training network jointly hosted by UEA and the British Antarctic Survey, and teach atmospheric chemistry to undergraduate and graduate classes. I am a Chapter Lead author of the upcoming WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Deletion 2006. I am a founder member of the open-access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Editor of the “New Directions” column in Atmospheric Environment.


Significant Publications

• Worton, D.R., W.T. Sturges, J. Schwander, R. Mulvaney, J.-M. Barnola, and J. Chappellaz (2006) 20th century trends and budget implications of chloroform and related tri-and dihalomethanes inferred from firn air. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6(10), SRef-ID: 1680-7324/acp/2006-6-2847.
• Reeves, C.E., W.T. Sturges, G.A. Sturrock, K. Preston, D.E. Oram, J. Schwander, R. Mulvaney, J.-M. Barnola, and J. Chappellaz (2005) Trends of halon gases in polar firn air: Implications for their emission distributions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5(8), SRef-ID: 1680-7324/acp/2005-5-2055.
• Law, K.S., and W.T. Sturges, Halogenated Very Short-Lived Substances (2006) in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, in press.
• Sturges, W.T., H.P. Mclntyre, S.A. Penkett, J. Chappellaz, J.-M. Barnola, R. Mulvaney, E. Atlas, and V. Stroud (2001) Methyl bromide, other brominated methanes, and methyl iodide in polar firn air. Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics, 106(D2), 1595-1606. DOI:  10.1029/2000JD900511
• Braunlich, M., O. Aballanin, T. Marik, P. Jockel, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, J. Chappellaz, J.M. Barnola, R. Mulvaney, and W.T. Sturges (2001) Changes in the global atmospheric methane budget over the last decades inferred from C-13 and D isotopic analysis of Antarctic firn air (2001) J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 106(D17), 20465-20481. DOI: 10.1029/2001JD900190
• Sturges, W.T., T.J. Wallington, M.D. Hurley, K.P. Shine, K. Sihra, A. Engel, D.E. Oram, S.A. Penkett, R. Mulvaney, and C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer (2000) A potent greenhouse gas identified in the atmosphere: SF5CF3, Science, 289(5479), DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5479.611.

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