| Academic degree: | Dr. | | Last name: | Cape | | First name: | J. Neil | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | Edinburgh Research Station | | Department: | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | | Position: | | | Street, Number, POB: | Bush Estate | | Postal code, City: | EH26 0QB Penicuik, Midlothian | | State: | | | Country: | UNITED KINGDOM | | Phone: | +44 (0) 131 445 8533 | | Fax: | +44 (0) 131 445 3943 | | E-mail address: | jnc@ceh.ac.uk | | Url: | http://www.edinburgh.ceh.ac.uk | | Curriculum vitae: | Group leader: Atmospheric Chemistry and Plant Effects
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The chemistry of the atmosphere has changed in response to human activities, and whereas air pollution was once seen as a purely local phenomenon, its role as a contributor to global effects on the atmosphere is now recognised. Long-range transport of pollution leads to the deposition of plant nutrients and toxic materials in places remote from their sources, causing modification of the environment in ways that affect plant and animal life.
My research is concerned with different aspects of the processes that occur from the emission of pollutants, their chemical transformations in the atmosphere, deposition at the earth’s surface and their subsequent effects. I have a particular interest in the interactions between vegetation and the atmosphere that occur at leaf surfaces.
- Emissions and deposition of organic compounds, in particular those related to biological processes, such as oxygenated volatile organic compounds
- Organic nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere, and deposition in rain
- Artefacts in sampling and chemical analysis of air pollutants and wet deposition
- Photo-oxidants and their behaviour, with particular interests in nitrous acid (HONO) and the removal of ozone (O3) on leaf surfaces
- Factors controlling the concentration of mercury in the atmosphere
- Large-scale (both space and time) distributions of pollutants in the atmosphere and deposition to ecosystems
- Effects of air pollutants, particularly those containing nitrogen, on vegetation, and methods for detecting such effects (biomonitoring)
The results of my research advise national and international policy on the control of air pollution and the potential long-term consequences. | | Areas of interest: | | trichloroacetic acid | | ecology and hydrology | | |
| | Articles: | 13 ESPR (4) 276-286 (2006), Progress in Understanding the Sources, Deposition and Above-ground Fate of Trichloroacetic Acid (11 pp)
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