Dr. Matthew Blackett

Matthew Blackett completed his PhD at King's College, London, where he utilised his computing and geographic skills in the remote sensing of earthquakes and volcanoes. Following this, he completed a post-doctoral position, also at King's College, where he ran a project comparing urban energy balance models. During his time at King's College, Matthew was a tutor and lecturer both there and at the London School of Economics. Matthew started a lectureship at Coventry University in 2010 and since joining, has maintained his research interests and, given a research fellowship, was a visiting researcher at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 2012.

• Blackett, M., Wooster, M.J., and Malamud, B. (2011) 'Exploring land surface temperature earthquake precursors: A focus on the Gujarat (India) earthquake of 2001'. Geophysical Research Letters 38 (15), L15303.   
• Blackett, M., and Wooster, M.J. (2011) 'Evaluation of SWIR-based methods for quantifying active volcano radiant emissions using NASA EOS-ASTER data'. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 2, 51-79.    
• Grimmond, C.S.B., Blackett, M., and Best, M., Baik, J-J., Barlow, J., Beringer, J., Belcher, S.E., Bohnenstengel, S.I., Calmet, I., Chen, F., Coutts, A., Dandou, A., Fortuniak, K., Gouvea, M.L., Hamdi, R., Hendry, M., Kanda, M., Kawai, T., Kawamoto, Y., Kondo, H., Krayenhoff, E.S., Lee, S-H., Loridan, T., Martilli, A., Masson, V., Miao, S., Oleson, K., Ooka, R., Pigeon, G., Porson, A., Ryu, Y-H., Salamanca, F., Shashu-Bar, L., Steeneveld, G-J., Tombrou, M., Voogt, J., Young, D., and Zhang, N. (2010) Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison. MEGAPOLI Scientific Report 10-07. Deliverable 2.3.  
• Grimmond, G.S.B. , Tombrou, M., Voogt, J.A., Young, D.T., Zhang, N., Best, M.J., Baik, J.J., Belcher, S.E., Beringer, J., Bohnenstengel, S.I., Calmet, I., Chen, F., Coutts, A., Dandou, A., Fortuniak, K., Gouvea, M.L., Hamdi, R., Hendry, M., Kanda, M., Kawai, T., Kawamoto, Y., Blackett, M., Kondo, H., Krayenhoff, E.S., Lee, S.H., Loridan, T., Martilli, A., Masson, V., Miao, S., Oleson, K., Ooka, R., Pigeon, G., Porson, A., Ryu, Y.H., Salamanca, F., and Steeneveld, G.J. (2011) 'Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison'. International Journal of Climatology 31 (2), 244-272.   
• Grimmond, C.S.B., Blackett, M., Fortuniak, K., Gouvea, M.L., Hamdi, R., Hendry, M., Kawai, T., Kawamoto, Y., Kondo, H., Krayenhoff, E.S., Lee, S.H., Loridan, T., Martilli, A., Masson, V., Miao, S., Oleson, K., Pigeon, G., Porson, A., Ryu, Y.H., Salamanca, F., Shashua-Bar, L., Steeneveld, G.J., Tombrou, M., Voogt, J., Young, D., Zhangt, N., Best, M.J., Barlow, J., Baik, J.J., Belcher, S.E., Bohnenstengel, S.I., Calmet, I., Chen, F., and Dandou, A. (2010) 'The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First results from Phase 1'.Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 49 (6), 1268-1292. 
• Blackett, M. (2013) 'Review of the utility of infrared remote sensing for detecting and monitoring volcanic activity with the case study of shortwave infrared data for Lascar Volcano from 2001–2005'. In The Remote Sensing of Volcanoes and Volcanic Processes: Integrating Observation and Modelling. Ed. by Pyle, D.M., Mather, T.A., and Biggs, J. London: Geoological Society, Special Publications.