Dr George Manville

George is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate group at the University of Exeter, working with Prof. Dan Partridge and in close collaboration with the UK Met Office. His current research focuses on using Lagrangian modelling and machine learning techniques to investigate potential source regions of natural aerosols and their precursors, as part of the UK NERC CloudSense and EU Horizon CleanCloud projects. He combines Lagrangian transport modelling with observational datasets and Earth system model output to attribute aerosol signals to specific source regions and processes, with particular emphasis on marine and remote environments. His broader research interests include the marine sulfur cycle, air-sea exchange of biogenic trace gases, polar climates, and reducing uncertainties in natural aerosol representation in climate models. His work sits within the broader surface ocean lower atmosphere study (SOLAS) science research framework, a community in which he has been actively engaged for several years.

George received his PhD from the University of Exeter, where he studied the oceanic variability of the biogenic trace gas dimethylsulfide (DMS), its sea-to-air transfer, and the implications for marine aerosols, clouds, and the global radiation balance. He has led field-based research conducting DMS measurements in the Southern Ocean marginal ice zone, produced the first global analysis of controls on seawater DMS spatial variability, co-authored the latest global seawater DMS climatology, and worked extensively with Earth system models. Prior to his current role, he held a postdoctoral position in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University, working in the Atmospheric Chemistry group at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. There, he led an international collaborative effort to develop the first global atmospheric DMS observational dataset and contributed to the development of the GFDL Atmospheric and Earth System Models.

By integrating observational and modelling approaches and working closely with both communities internationally, his research aims to reduce uncertainties in natural aerosol emissions and aerosol-cloud interactions in climate models. His work contributes to community initiatives within the SOLAS programme and SCOR working groups, including BEPSII and CIce2Clouds.

Key Projects and Groups

• UK NERC project: The Uncertainty in Climate Sensitivity due to Clouds (CloudSense)
• EU Horizon Europe Cluster 5 project: Clouds and climate transitioning to post-fossil aerosol regime (CleanCloud)
• US NOAA program: Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) Initiative
• South African project: Southern oCean seAsonaL Experiment (SCALE)
• Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
• SCOR working group: Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (CIce2Clouds)
• SCOR working group: Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at Sea Ice Interfaces (BEPSII)