“I greatly appreciate the freedom provided by the ESA Living Planet Fellowship to choose which scientific threads to follow. Meeting other Fellows outside of my field-of-expertise was an incredible way to learn about the diverse advances being made with ESA satellite measurements.” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, William was working as …
“The fellowship was a really important step in my career, giving me the freedom and time to pursue a higher-risk Earth Observation research goal. It was great to be part of a cohort with other ESA fellows, to learn about their work and exchange ideas. The support and guidance from my ESA project contacts was …
“The Living Planet Fellowship allowed me to continue in the direction I was pursuing previously, bringing some impactful work to completion. At the same time the networking opportunities allowed me to make new contacts and advance my career.” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Ivan was a Research Associate at the University …
Diane is a remote sensing scientist specialising in trace gas retrievals from satellite data, working as part of the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). Her background is in physics, having completed an MSc. degree in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham, before going on to complete a PhD within the Earth …
The annual European Geosciences Union General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event. Annually, it attracts over 14,000 scientists from all over the world, of which more than half are early career scientists. The EGU General Assembly 2019, taking place in Vienna (Austria) on 7–12 April 2019, will bring together geoscientists from …
“The fellowship provided me the opportunity to develop the first TROPOMI HDO data product and the first such product including cloudy scenes.” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Andreas was at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), working on the development of a a novel balloon-borne instrument for the measurement of HDO and …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Ivan Pakhotin. Ivan’s recent published work in magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling (MIC) using the unprecedented Swarm dataset has revealed that Alfven waves play a key role in MIC dynamics, with small scales carrying very significant amounts of energy. His recent preliminary work has further indicated that in fact most …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Diane Knappett. Global distributions of the methane (CH4) column average and carbon monoxide (CO) total column are observable by satellite shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrometers through detection of surface-reflected solar radiation. Observations by ENVISAT SCIAMACHY and GOSAT-TANSO have been exploited extensively to investigate biogenic, pyrogenic and anthropogenic sources …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Marco Bellacicco. Phytoplankton is considered to be responsible for approximately 50% of the planetary primary production and is at the basis of the trophic chain. Large scale factors such as climate, ocean circulation, and mostly anthropogenic activities, affect phytoplankton biomass and distribution. For all of these reasons, …
