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British environmental physicist
David Fowler
,
CBE
,
FRS
(born 1 June 1950)
[1]
is a British
environmental physicist
, recognized as an authority on
atmospheric pollution
.
[2]
[3]
He specializes in
micrometeorology
, the land-atmosphere exchange of
trace gases
and
particles
, and the effects of
pollutants
on
vegetation
.
[4]
Education and career
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Fowler gained a B.Sc. in
environmental physics
at the
University of Nottingham
in 1972, followed by a Ph.D. at the same university in 1976, before moving to the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in
Edinburgh
(later incorporated into the
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
), where he spent the next four decades of his career. He has authored around 250 peer-reviewed papers.
[5]
[6]
Policy work
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Apart from scientific research, Fowler has also worked on the application of air quality science to public policy in both the UK and Europe.
[5]
He has been a member of around two dozen scientific committees, including the
Royal Society
Global Environmental Research Committee (of which he has been chair since 2011), and the
Air Quality Expert Group
, of which he is an ad-hoc member.
[7]
In 2008, Fowler chaired a committee of European air pollution experts to produce a major study of
ground-level ozone
for the Royal Society, which concluded "that existing emission controls will not be sufficient to reduce ozone concentrations to levels acceptable for human health and environmental protection" and called "for renewed global action to address ozone and its precursors".
[8]
Awards
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Fowler became an honorary professor of the University of Nottingham in 1991, was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 1999, and a
Fellow of the Royal Society
of London in 2002. He was awarded the
CBE
in 2005 for services to atmospheric sciences.
[5]
Selected publications
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- Fowler, David, ed. (2008).
Ground-level ozone in the 21st century: future trends, impacts and policy implications
(PDF)
. London: The Royal Society.
ISBN
978-0-85403-713-1
. Retrieved
3 June
2023
.
- Shindekk, D; Kuylenstierna, J; Vignati, E; van Dingenen, R; Annen, M; et al. (13 January 2012).
"Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security"
.
Science
.
335
(6065): 183?189.
Bibcode
:
2012Sci...335..183S
.
doi
:
10.1126/science.1210026
.
PMID
22246768
.
S2CID
14113328
. Retrieved
25 January
2022
.
- Fowler, David; Coyle, Mhairi; Skiba, Ute; Cape, J. Neil; Sheppard, Lucy; et al. (5 July 2013).
"The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century"
.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
.
368
(1621).
doi
:
10.1098/rstb.2013.0164
.
PMC
3682748
.
PMID
23713126
.
- Monks, P. S.; Archibald, A. T.; Colette, A.; Cooper, O.; Coyle, M.; et al. (13 August 2015).
"Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer"
.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
.
15
(15): 8889?8973.
Bibcode
:
2015ACP....15.8889M
.
doi
:
10.5194/acp-15-8889-2015
.
eISSN
1680-7324
.
hdl
:
20.500.11820/cc8e7611-fa81-42e4-b209-9a497864ea68
.
- Fowler, David; Pyle, John; Sutton, Mark; Williams, Martin (2020).
"Global Air Quality, past present and future: an introduction"
.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
.
378
(2183).
Bibcode
:
2020RSPTA.37890323F
.
doi
:
10.1098/rsta.2019.0323
.
PMC
7536034
.
PMID
32981444
.
- Fowler, David; Brimblecombe, Peter; Burrows, John; Heal, Mathew; Grennfelt, Peringe; et al. (30 October 2020).
"A chronology of global air quality"
.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
.
378
(2183).
Bibcode
:
2020RSPTA.37890314F
.
doi
:
10.1098/rsta.2019.0314
.
PMC
7536029
.
PMID
32981430
.
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