Gates Cambridge Scholar Profile – Rachel Pike

  • April 7, 2010

A four minute profile of Gates Scholar Rachel who works in the Centre for Atmospheric Science studying the effects of large scale biofuel production on atmospheric chemistry. Rachel hopes to find out what a (partially) biomass-dependent energy future will mean for our climate and air quality, as realized in a global chemistry-climate model.

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