Environmental Research Group
Who's Who in ERG? - Dr Sean Beevers
Dr Sean Beevers
Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Modelling
Environmental Research Group
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building
150 Stamford Street
London
SE1 9NH
Tel: 020 7848 4009
Fax: 020 7848 4045
Email: sean.beevers@kcl.ac.uk
Role
I manage the air quality modelling group within ERG and am a senior lecturer within the MRC centre. The focus of the modelling group
is assessing the air quality impacts of transport strategies in London
(Mayors Air Quality Strategy)
and the development
of an emissions and modelling capability at spatial scales ranging from European to local street scale.
Research Interests
ERG are currently involved
with the AQMEII project, an international model intercomparison exercise and are providing model concentrations across Europe and the US.
I am also currently involved in the development of new generation of emissions
inventories in the UK. Being a member of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) consortium, I have
contributed to each of the HEI funded research projects looking at transport strategies and health in London.
The exposure outputs from ERG's air quality model continue to be used widely within and outside the MRC centre and include
exposure to NO2 and PM around Heathrow, Particle Matter (PM) and Oxidative Potential (OP) exposure in London and NO2 and PM in
London for the HEI. ERG's emissions inventory capability is also providing inputs to the EU projects MEGAPOLI and BRIDGE.
Finally, I have also undertaken research which assesses the impacts on air pollution of measures to tackle
climate change, which was used as part of the evidence provided at the Copenhagen climate change conference.
Future interests include the development of highly spatially and temporally resolved air quality models and
to combine these with equivalent exposure models based upon unique datasets in London.
Research Grants
- Research Council 2010 - 2014
Tool for Characterising Multi-Pollutant Patterns of Exposure
for use in Environmental Health Studies.
As part of the Traffic proposal, ERG will develop a small scale air pollution
model within the Meso-scale model CMAQ as well as detailed exposure modelling in London.
- European Community 2009 - 2012
BRIDGE – Sustainable Urban planning Decision support accounting for urban Metabolism.
MEGAPOLI – Megacities: Emission, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLIution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation.
- Department of Health 2009-2010
Establishing the association between health impacts and oxidative potential in London.
- Defra 2009-2010
Emissions vs. measurement trends in the UK and Europe. Developing Ozone deposition modelling in the UK.
- Biomedical Research Centre 2010 - 2012
Investigation of the relationship between health impacts due to air quality and social deprivation in London
- London Authority/Transport for London 2009-2010
Modelling the impact of the Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy, Low Emissions zone, development of the London Atmospheric Emissions inventory.
Selected Publications
Atkinson RW, Barratt B, Armstrong B, Anderson HR, Beevers SD, Mudway IS, Green D, Derwent RG, Wilkinson P, Tonne C, Kelly FJ.
The impact of the Congestion Charging Scheme on ambient air pollution concentrations in London. Atmospheric Environment 43: 5493-5500, 2009
Woodcock J, Roberts I, Edwards P, Armstrong B, Banister D, Beevers SD, Chalabi Z, Cohen A, Franco O, Haines A, Hickman R, Lindsay G, Mittal I,
Mohan D, Tiwari G, Tonne C, Woodward A. 2009. Impact on Public Health
effects of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Urban Land Transport. Lancet 2009; 374:1930-43.
Beevers SD, Carslaw DC, Westmoreland E and Mittal H. 2009. Air pollution and emissions trends in London.
Report produced for DEFRA by King’s College London, Environmental Research Group and Leeds University, Institute for Transport studies.
Maheswaran R, Pearson T, Smeeton NC, Beevers SD, Campbell MJ, Wolfe CD. Impact of Outdoor Air Pollution on Survival After Stroke
Population-Based Cohort Study. Stroke 2010:DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.567743
Kelly FJ, Anderson HR, Armstrong B, Atkinson RW, Barratt B, Beevers SD, Mudway IS, Green D, Derwent RG, Tonne C, Wilkinson P.
An assessment of the impact of the Congestion Charging Scheme on air quality in London –
Part 1: Emissions modeling and analysis of air pollution measurements. Health Effects Institute (in press) 2010
Kelly FJ, Anderson HR, Armstrong B, Atkinson RW, Barratt B, Beevers SD, Mudway IS, Green D, Derwent RG, Tonne C, Wilkinson P.
An assessment of the impact of the Congestion Charging Scheme on air quality in London –
Part 2: Analysis of particulate filters for oxidative potential. Health Effects Institute (in press) 2010
Kelly FJ, Anderson HR, Armstrong B, Atkinson RW, Barratt B, Beevers SD, Mudway IS, Green D, Derwent RG,
Tonne C, Wilkinson P. The LEZ baseline Study. Health Effects Institute (in press) 2010
Tonne C, Beevers SD, Kelly FJ, Jarup L, Wilkinson P, Armstrong B. An approach for estimating the health
effects of changes over time in air pollution:
an illustration using cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in London. Occup Environ Med 2010 (in press)
Working Groups
Co investigator of DEFRA’s emissions inventory research project.
Contributor to the model inter-comparison exercises currently underway at DEFRA and in Europe/US (AQMEII).
Reviewer for Atmospheric Environment and for the HEI.
Research Highlights
Presentation to the Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) research meeting to establish future research priorities.
Wide ranging study of the air pollution impacts of transport strategies, in support of the Mayors Air Quality Strategy.
Establishing the key differences in emissions and measurement trends in London as part of research for DEFRA.
Modelling the air quality and health benefits of tackling climate change and its use at the Copenhagen climate conference.
Media coverage
The publication of the draft Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy, which was widely publicised in the media.
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