Danny McCulloch (he/him)

I am currently a Postgraduate researcher working on the REFLECT project funded by ARIA with Jim Haywood and Anthony Jones (Met Office), and am part of the Aerosols, Clouds and Climate research group. I am investigating the dynamical effects of Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) via sea salt aerosol injection. To do this, I am using a mix of global and regional climate models.

I finished my PhD in Natural Sciences in 2026, which focused on understanding how large-scale circulation affects low clouds within Global Climate Models (GCMs). The work conducted in this PhD led to a publication in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) and several contributions to the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP), including a member of the local organising committee for the 2025 workshop in Exeter.

I previously did a Masters by Research in Physics at the UoE, where I worked on adapting the Met Office Unified Model (UM) GCM to the Martian climate system. This led to a publication in the journal Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) and several presentations, including an invited talk at the Met Office. Prior to that, I studied a BSc in Zoology at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus. During this, my interests were ocean systems and phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean. My dissertation was on ice-phytoplankton interactions around Antarctica.