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Dr Mick Kelly is a visiting fellow with the Climatic Research Unit in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Meteorology at Reading University, Mick Kelly undertook postgraduate research on climatic change at the newly-formed Climatic Research Unit. Awarded a doctorate in 1976, he pursued an interdisciplinary research path with the Climatic Research Unit, focusing on the causes of climatic change, combining both empirical and modelling approaches, and the societal relevance of climate variability. He served as Director of Graduate Studies for the University of East Anglia, 2004-7. Leaving the University of East Anglia in March 2007, he is now a consultant with Tanelorn Associates in Northland, New Zealand, where, with his wife Sarah Granich, he manages 65 acres of regenerating native forest. He is an associate staff member of the Stockholm Environment Institute. Author of over one hundred scientific publications, Mick Kelly was a member of the team that produced the definitive temperature record used in global warming detection studies. He has contributed to various international reviews of the global warming and nuclear winter issues. His primary research areas include: global warming, volcanic effects, solar influences, the El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon, and other potential causes of climatic change; climate prediction; climate history, particularly during the instrumental era; climate and development, including vulnerability studies; and environment and society. His research in these areas has been funded by British Petroleum, the Central Electricity Generating Board, the US Department of Energy, the Greater London Council, Greenpeace International, and the Natural Environment Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the MacArthur Foundation, the British Academy and the Asia Pacific Global Change Network, amongst others. Mick Kelly is undertaking a long-term training, information provision and research programme directed towards strengthening the capacity of developing nations to respond to climate change. This work is currently focused on the nations of Indochina. He is technical advisor to the Indochina Global Change Network. Concerned that all sectors of society have access to scientific information, Mick Kelly has appeared frequently on radio and television and has written and presented a number of programmes for BBC Radio, including an account of fieldwork in Vietnam. He has also acted as scientific consultant on a number of TV documentaries, including "Can Polar Bears Tread Water" which won a prestigious Prix Italia award. Mick Kelly is co-founder and editor of Tiempo, a bulletin on global warming and the Third World, and the related Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary. He has authored various briefing documents on climate issues for non-governmental organizations, including The Heat Trap for Friends of the Earth in 1988 and Halting Global Warming for Greenpeace in 1990. He is, with John Gribbin, author of a popular account of the threat posed by global warming, "Winds of Change" (Headway, 1989). |