Eddy (Eddie) Graham

I am an Award-Winning (2013, 2015, and 208) Lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland.

I am also joint Editor-in-Chief of the RMetS / Wiley journal Weather.

General interests: Meteorology (weather), Climate, Climate Change, Astronomy (Site Selection, Site Testing).

Specifically: Clouds, Water Vapour, Climate Reanalyses, WRF met model, Meteorological Observation and Systems, Astronomical Site Testing and Site Characterisation.

I speak English (native tongue), Irish (school-level), Scottish Gaelic (conversational), French (formerly fluent), German (conversational in High & Swiss German), Spanish (conversational) and a little Italian.

I have worked on the following research projects:

• European Southern Observatory (ESO)  - Meteoscope project scientist (2017-2018) - awardee winner
• Kenyan Optical Telescope Initiative (KoTi) - international project consortium member and STFC awardee winner (2018-2019)
• UAEREP (United Arab Emirates Rain Enhancement Programme) joint awardee winner $5.5 million, (2018)
• Astronomical and Atmospheric Site Testing, Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38205, Spain (sabbatical grant, 2017)

• NASA Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Stornoway ground station (2015-).. read more

• SEPA Volcanic Ash Emissions in Scotland; Stornoway ground station (2016-).. read more

• SASKYA ("Search for an Astronomical Site in Kenya") - Principal Investigator (2011- ), uing climate model reanalysi data, including Carnegie Trust travel grant awardee

• Link between Weather, Climate and Health in the Outer Hebrides

• SuLA and SECRE EU Northern Periphery Programme projects (2012-2014)

• OCTES ("Opportunities for Community groups Through Energy Storage"), which is a new European Union Framework 7 Northern Periphery Project, involving partners from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Finland and Iceland (2011-2013)

• The Greenspace Green Building Research Program (2009-2011) - weather, climate, buildings and reducing emissions

• STARTWAVE (Studies in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Water Vapour Effects) and Alpine Thunderstorms, University of Bern, Switzerland (2005-2008) - reearching clouds and water vapour

• FriOWL (European Southern Observatory), Switzerland (2002-2008): Searching for a site for the OWL and E-ELT telescopes (PhD thesis)

• The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), site testing and climate variability study (2005)

• Canadian pressure observations and circulation variability: links to air temperature (2000-2005)

• The Canadian Cryosphere Information Network and State of the Canadian Cryosphere projects: Plotting real-time Canadian snow and ice information live on the web.

• The micro-meteorology of a bog site in the Netherlands (Masters' dissertation)

• The urban heat island of Dublin city during the summer months (Undergraduate dissertation)