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Biography
Penelope Pickers is a Research Fellow in ENV at UEA. She has a BSc in Oceanography (University of Southampton), a MSc in Climate Change (UEA), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (UEA).
Her primary research focus is on using atmospheric O2 measurements to understand carbon cycle processes, including ocean-atmosphere exchange of CO2 and anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions.
She is currently working on the DARE-UK, PARIS and POLYGRAM projects.
Administrative Roles
Chair of the Researchers' Affairs Forum 2017-2020
Teaching Roles
Regular guest lecturer for 'The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change' and 'Modern Methods in Air Pollution Science' modules.
Key Research Interests
Main research interests include the carbon cycle, climate change, and ocean biogeochemistry.
Research Group or Lab Membership
Penelope Pickers is currently working with Grant Forster (UEA) and Andrew Manning (UEA), and has previously worked with Corinne Le Quéré (UEA), Bill Sturges (UEA), Samuel Hammer (University of Heidelberg), Ingeborg Levin (University of Heidelberg), and Alexander Knohl (University of Göttingen).
She is a co-supervisor of ENV Ph.D. student Leigh Fleming.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
1 Aug 2023 → …
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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OXY-MOBILE: a mobile atmospheric O2 and CO2 community asset for carbon cycle research
Pickers, P., Forster, G., Manning, A., Marca, A. & Etchells, A.
Natural Environment Research Council
1/05/24 → 30/04/28
Project: Research
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Process Attribution of Regional Emissions
Pickers, P., Manning, A., Marca, A. & Adcock, K.
1/01/23 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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POLYGRAM - POLYisotopologues of GReenhouse gases: Analysis and Modelling
Forster, G., Kaiser, J., Manning, A., Marca, A., Pickers, P. & Hewitt, M.
Natural Environment Research Council
14/11/20 → 13/05/26
Project: Research
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Communicating Environmental Solutions: bringing together the language of science and the science of language
1/08/21 → 31/07/22
Project: Internal Funding › NERC Discipline Hopping
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Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century
Le Quéré, C., Manning, A., De-Gol, A., Pickers, P. & Wright, R.
1/06/19 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
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Direct high-precision radon quantification for interpreting high frequency greenhouse gas measurements
Kikaj, D., Chung, E., Griffiths, A. D., Chambers, S. D., Forster, G., Wenger, A., Pickers, P., Rennick, C., O'Doherty, S., Pitt, J., Stanley, K., Young, D., Fleming, L. S., Adcock, K., Safi, E. & Arnold, T., 13 Jan 2025, In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions. 18, 1, p. 151–175 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Atmospheric oxygen as a tracer for fossil fuel carbon dioxide: a sensitivity study in the UK
Chawner, H., Saboya, E., Adcock, K. E., Arnold, T., Artioli, Y., Dylag, C., Forster, G. L., Ganesan, A., Graven, H., Lessin, G., Levy, P., Luijkx, I. T., Manning, A., Pickers, P. A., Rennick, C., Rödenbeck, C. & Rigby, M., 9 Apr 2024, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 24, 7, p. 4231–4252 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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12 years of continuous atmospheric O2, CO2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in the United Kingdom
Adcock, K. E., Pickers, P. A., Manning, A. C., Forster, G. L., Fleming, L. S., Barningham, T., Wilson, P. A., Kozlova, E. A., Hewitt, M., Etchells, A. J. & Macdonald, A. J., 28 Nov 2023, In: Earth System Science Data. 15, 11, p. 5183–5206 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diurnal variability of atmospheric O2, CO2 and their exchange ratio above a boreal forest in southern Finland
Faassen, K. A. P., Nguyen, L. N. T., Broekema, E. R., Kers, B. A. M., Mammarella, I., Vesala, T., Pickers, P. A., Manning, A. C., de Arellano, J. V-G., Meijer, H. A. J., Peters, W. & Luijkx, I. T., 19 Jan 2023, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 23, 2, p. 851–876 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluating the performance of a Picarro G2207-i analyser for high-precision atmospheric O2 measurements
Fleming, L. S., Manning, A. C., Pickers, P. A., Forster, G. L. & Etchells, A. J., 24 Jan 2023, In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 16, 2, p. 387–401 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Atmospheric oxygen as a tracer for fossil fuel carbon dioxide: a sensitivity study in the UK
Chawner, H. (Creator), Adcock, K. (Creator), Arnold, T. (Creator), Artioli, Y. (Creator), Dylag, C. (Creator), Forster, G. (Creator), Ganesan, A. (Creator), Graven, H. (Creator), Lessin, G. (Creator), Levy, P. (Creator), Luijx, I. T. (Creator), Manning, A. (Creator), Pickers, P. (Creator), Rennick, C. (Creator), Rödenbeck, C. (Creator) & Rigby, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 1 Mar 2023
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Gridded fossil CO2 emissions and related O2 combustion consistent with national inventories
Jones, M. (Creator), Andrew, R. M. (Creator), Peters, G. P. (Creator), Janssens-Maenhout, G. (Creator), De-Gol, A. (Creator), Dou, X. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Pickers, P. (Creator), Ciais, P. (Creator), Patra, P. K. (Creator), Chevallier, F. (Creator) & Le Quéré, C. (Creator), Zenodo, 13 Sept 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4277266, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4277266
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