Shane Daly

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

April 25th marked the return of the School of Earth and Environment/ Chemistry meetings with the beginning session focused on the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere area of the atmosphere in the Chemistry seminar room. 3 speakers gave their talks over an hour and a half period: Chris Kelly – Chemistry-climate model simulations of a mesospheric-lower thermospheric source […]


Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

A return journey was made to Kühlungsborn from mid-September to mid-October. The goal was to continue lidar measurements but for nickel (Ni) this time rather than aluminium oxide (AlO). During the March-May 2017 observations, no observable AlO layer was measured. Instead an upper limit value of AlO was obtained which entailed taking the detection limit […]


Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

Are you a fan of the Northern lights? Maybe you’re a rocket connoisseur! Then the International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR) is perfect for you. This was the 13th installation of the workshop and it took place from the 18th – 22nd September in the seaside resort of Kühlungsborn, Germany. The […]


Wednesday, September 6th, 2017

If one were to judge science based off of published papers, it would be assumed the work of a scientist was always productive. No issues would ever occur, no instrument would break and no model would crash. In reality, we don’t live in a scientific utopia. Troubleshooting and maintenance represents part of the everyday. Laser […]


Friday, June 16th, 2017

Germany. The land of efficiency, beer and lederhosen. For myself however, it was an opportunity to do some cutting-edge research in a country renown for scientific innovation. Some beer was still enjoyed along the way. The goal of the fieldwork was to successfully measure the aluminium and nickel layers in the upper atmosphere, a region […]