Grant Edwards

Biography

Grant is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Sciences, within the Faculty of Science at Macquarie University. He is the convenor of the Climate Science program within the Department. Grant has Bachelor of Applied science and Master of Applied science degrees, specializing in Environmental Fluid Mechanics from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his Doctorate in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology specialty, with the Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Canada, where he was also a Research Associate until his appointment as faculty with the Department of Environmental Engineering, at the University of Guelph. His Ph.D. research resulted in the patenting with co-inventors, of a diode laser based trace gas sensor suitable for micrometeorological air-surface exchange research. Grant began his research career carrying out both full scale and laboratory experimentation and short range dispersion modelling studies in air pollution and boundary layer meteorology. Since then he has been involved in micrometeorology research and air-surface exchange measurement associated with various biogeochemical cycles in natural ecosystems and ecosystems impacted by anthropogenic activity. His research achievements are associated with many of the global environmental issues facing us today such as climate change, atmospheric mercury, agricultural pollution, atmospheric particulate matter, and industrial pollution.

Research Interest

My research interests are related to global environmental issues such as climate change, atmospheric mercury, agricultural pollution, atmospheric particulate matter, and industrial pollution. In particular, to the measurement and modelling of the air-surface exchange of trace gases and particulates and the furthering of our understanding of the biogeochemical cycles related to these global environmental issues. More specifically, to processes on spatial scales horizontally from local to regional and vertically from the surface to the top of the Planetary Boundary layer. The complexity of these issues necessarily requires an interdisciplinary approach. I have applied my expertise in micrometeorology/boundary layer meteorology/climatology/biogeochemistry to interdisciplinary research in both natural ecosystems and ecosystems impacted by anthropogenic activity. My research has been international in scope and has made major impacts in several areas; Climate Change, Atmospheric mercury, Agricultural Pollution, Boundary layer meteorology, and air pollution meteorology/air quality/industrial pollution.