Global environmental change; environmental sustainability; impacts of stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation; air pollution effects; climate change impacts; vegetation-atmosphere gas exchange; renewable energy; interdisciplinary research in environmental change and sustainability
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (1982) Thesis title: Primary
production and photosynthesis of Phragmites australis at Slapton Ley, Devon
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter
Research Officer, Biology Section
Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Leatherhead
Sep 1979-Apr 1989
Project Leader, Terrestrial Effects Group
National Power Technology and Environmental Centre
Mar 1989-Apr 1992
Senior Scientific Officer
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE), Monks Wood
Apr 1992-Aug 1997
Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
Sep 1997-Oct 2000
Director, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
Oct 2000-Feb 2007
Senior Lecturer
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
Oct 2000-Aug 2011
Reader in Natural Sciences
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
Aug 2011- present
Quantifying photochemical emissions of atmospheric gases from the estuarine and marine environment
McLeod, A.
6/07/15 – 31/12/17
UK-based charities
The role of ultraviolet photobiology in the oceanic methane paradox
McLeod, A.
1/10/14 – 28/02/15
UK-based charities
Fraser, W.T., Blei, E., Fry, S.C., Newman, M.F., Reay, D.S., Smith, K.A. and McLeod, A.R., 2015. Emission of methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and short‐chain hydrocarbons from vegetation foliage under ultraviolet irradiation. Plant, cell & environment, 38(5), pp.980-989.
Keppler, F., Vigano, I., McLeod, A., Ott, U., Früchtl, M. and Röckmann, T., 2012. Ultraviolet-radiation-induced methane emissions from meteorites and the Martian atmosphere. Nature, 486(7401), pp.93-96.
Messenger, D.J., Fry, S.C., Yamulki, S. and McLeod, A.R., 2012. Effects of UV-B filtration on the chemistry and decomposition of Fraxinus excelsior leaves. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 47, pp.133-141.
Aphalo, P.J., Albert, A., Björn, L.O., McLeod, A., Robson, T.M. and Rosenqvist, E. eds., 2012. Beyond the visible: a handbook of best practice in plant UV photobiology. Helsingin yliopisto.
Bloom, A.A., Lee‐Taylor, J., Madronich, S., Messenger, D.J., Palmer, P.I., Reay, D.S. and McLeod, A.R., 2010. Global methane emission estimates from ultraviolet irradiation of terrestrial plant foliage. New Phytologist, 187(2), pp.417-425.
