Role

Dr Marc Coleman is a Senior Research Scientist at NPL. In addition to his role at NPL, Marc is convener of a European working group mandated with standardising emissions monitoring by FTIR and sits on the Quality Task Group of the Source Testing Association.

Current interests

Marc has over ten years' experience at NPL. He leads spectrometric research in the science area of environmental measurement and his interests encompass direct measurement of emission sources and the impact of emissions on the atmosphere. Marc's focus is mainly on the techniques of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS) investigating, calibration / validation techniques, computation of synthetic spectra from fundamental spectroscopic parameters, and uncertainty evaluation. This work is carried out within the application areas of regulatory emissions (e.g. chemical plant), carbon capture and storage studies, remote sensing (e.g. of area source emissions such as those from landfill), and determining radiative balance of the atmosphere through solar observation.

Biography

Marc has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bath and a PhD in Catalytic Chemistry, from the University of Reading and Queen's University Belfast. He was awarded Chartered Chemist (CChem) status by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010.

Marc is a leading UK scientist in the use of FTIR in emissions monitoring. He has written a standard for the Environment Agency on the quality assurance of FTIR emissions monitoring for regulatory compliance and he is overseeing the application of FTIR for the NPL emissions monitoring teams. He is the lead scientist for analysis of complex VOCs for industry, using GC Mass Spectrometry. Marc also works on open-path FTIR for various applications such as security.

Before joining NPL, Marc completed a Fellowship jointly sponsored by Johnson Matthey plc and MEL Chemicals at the Queen's University Belfast on novel catalyst discovery. He also spent time at ICI working as a formulation chemist. Since joining NPL Marc has been nominated to represent UK interests on a range of standardisation groups including several operated by CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation).

Recent publications

• Absolute High Spectral Resolution Measurements of Surface Solar Radiation for Detection of Water Vapour Continuum Absorption
  Gardiner, T.D., Coleman, M.D., et al
  Philosophical Transactions Royal Society A, 370, 2590-2610 (2012)
• Assessment of the Consistency of H₂O Line Intensities over the Near-Infrared using Sun-Pointing Ground-Based Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
  Tallis, M. Coleman, T. Gardiner, I.V. Ptashnik and K.P. Shine
  Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 112, 2268 (2011)
• Infrared Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Measurements of Hydrocarbon Emissions
  R. Robinson, T. Gardiner, F. Innocenti, P. Woods and M. Coleman
  Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 13, 2213 (2011)
• Demonstrating Equivalence of an Alternative Method for SO₂ Emissions Monitoring Using NPL's Stack Simulator Facility
  M.D. Coleman, R.A. Robinson, M. Williams, R. Elliott, M. Clack and A. Curtis
  PowerPlant Chemistry, 12, 218 (2010)
• Sensitivity of Model-Based Quantitative FTIR to Instrumental and Spectroscopic Database Error Sources
  M. Coleman and T. Gardiner
  Vibrational Spectroscopy, 51, 177 (2009)
• Evaluation of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Ozone Trends over Western Europe from Ground-Based FTIR Network Observations
  C. Vigouroux, M. De Mazière, P. Demoulin, C. Servais, F. Hase, T. Blumenstock, I. Kramer, M. Schneider, J. Mellqvist, A. Strandberg, V. Velazco, J. Notholt, R. Sussmann, W. Stremme, A. Rockmann, T. Gardiner, M. Coleman and P. Woods
  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 6865 (2008)

Contact details

Email: marc.coleman@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6828