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In December 2008, I moved to Research Computing Services. However, I'm still happy to answer questions relating to my modelling work

Research Areas

C.V.

Current Work

I am in the Centre for Atmospheric Science group (see also cloudbase server web pages) at the University of Manchester (formerly a UMIST department) working on modelling aerosol over the UK to help determine its effects on regional health and climate, and to help key stakeholders take informed decisions.

I have been developing the US EPA CMAQ Models-3 and associated software, with particular focus on building and running CMAQ MADRID for the UK domain. A paper on this is work is in preparation. At the fifth annual CMAS conference, October 2006, I was awarded, as acknowledge of "significant contributions", the Community Modeling and Analysis (CMAS) Award "to recognize your outstanding achievements in advancing and promoting the ideals of the community modelling paradigm".

I previously worked in the Dept. of Computer Science at the Univ. of Manchester, UK, where my field of expertize was high performance computing. I was key researcher for the softIAM project between Centre for Novel Computing and the Tyndall Centre developing a community integrated assessment model (cIAM) for climate research and have helped the Southampton Oceanographic Centre with optimization of their ocean modelling code, occam, and developing Ovaltine, an application for determining the overheads of an OpenMP code with respect to a sequential version of the same code. I have also undertaken project work for the University of Manchester's Cathy Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research on data sensitivity and the Mobile Systems Architecture (MSA) group on wireless network simulations.

More of my computer science related projects

figure: CMAQ MADRID
CMAQ MADRDID uses (eg) 8 sections to represent each aerosol

 

photo: michael in mallorca

Recent Publications

working hard again

Some Bane History

Academic

Born 1965, the usual "O" and "A" levels, a year at AERE Harwell, 3 years Physics BSc at Birmingham University, a summer at SERC Daresbury, 1 year Numerical Analysis and Computing MSc ("A Survey of Modern Numerical Methods to Solve Differential Algebraic Equations") followed by a 3-4 year PhD ("Linear Algebra and Asynchronous Polynomial Zero-finding Algorithms on Transputers").

Employment

A year at Theoretical Physics Department at AERE Harwell, a summer at SERC Daresbury. After University I spent time campaigning on the environment being working for 2 years at Manchester Area Resource Centre, looking after the PC LAN, doing computer consultancy, and running courses on "Introduction to Computers and Windows 95", "Advanced Windows 95", "Getting to Grips with PageMaker", "Introduction to the Internet", "Basic Web Page Design", "MS Word" and several bespoke courses.

I worked at Manchester Computing, supporting the SGI Origin2000 service, particularly kilburn.mcc.ac.uk [now replaced by an upgrade] and forming the UK OpenMP working group. I also helped users on the CSAR (high performance computing with Cray T3E and Origin2000). I was at Manchester Computing from August 1998 until the end of 1999.

Left Manchester Computing at the end of 1999 to go and perform research and undertake project work within Centre for Novel Computing (CNC) in the Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Manchester. I left CNC in 2004 to move to Atmospheric Science, UMIST (now Univ of Manchester).

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