Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during each semester, on Tuesdays at 13:00 (an internal speaker, such as a member of staff, postdoctoral or PhD researcher), and on Wednesdays at 14:00 (normally an external speaker, moving to Monday’s at 12:00 from Autumn 2024). These are usually held in the Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, room GU01, in the Brian Hoskins Building. Subject to capacity limits, both series are open to all. Click on the links below for the latest seminar schedules. Occasional seminars outside of the regular schedules are normally announced via e-mail within the department.
Wednesday departmental seminars
In addition, on Fridays during each semester we host a weekly weather and climate discussion (WCD) meeting:
Friday Weather and Climate Discussion
Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 – Summer 2024
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams, on the Internal (Tuesday) Seminar Series channel
For additional information or to arrange a seminar contact Jake Aylmer and Dan Shipley
16 Apr | No Seminar | |
23 Apr | Natalie Ratcliffe | The mystery of coarse mineral dust transport in observations and models |
30 Apr | Cancelled | |
7 May | Guest speaker: Aïda Diongue-Niang National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Senegal. IPCC AR6 WGI Lead Author and AR7 WGI Vice-Chair | Climate change in Africa: Observed and projected changes, impacts |
14 May | Adam Gainford | Nature vs Nurture: What can we learn about the convective-scale spread problem from looking at the global ensemble? |
21 May | Hannah Croad | Exploring the dynamics of summer-time Arctic cyclones and sea ice interaction |
28 May | Ieuan Higgs | Complex network and machine learning to improve marine ecosystem modelling and data assimilation |
4 Jun | No seminar | |
11 Jun | James Weber | The role of biogenic volatile organic compounds on climate and in climate change mitigation |
Click here for the latest Lunchtime Seminar schedule in PDF format
Wednesday Departmental seminar programme
Wednesdays 14:00 to 14:50 – Summer 2024
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams (External Seminar Series channel)
For additional information or to arrange a seminar contact Xiaocen Shen and Hripsime Mkrtchyan
17 Apr | No Seminar | |
24 Apr | Aurore Porson Met Office |
The UK Testbed 2023: a review of the activities, Science and Services outcomes |
1 May | Guillaume Roullet Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France |
Recent advances in ocean modelling: transport, dissipation and PV dynamics |
8 May | Ralph Lorenz Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US |
Dragonfly: A Relocatable Rotorcraft Lander for Titan |
15 May | Tiffany Shaw University of Chicago, US |
Moving beyond the mean to understand circulation extremes under climate change |
22 May* | Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School, US |
Advancements in Arctic Climate Modeling and Sub-Seasonal to Decadal Prediction |
29 May | No Seminar | |
5 June | No Seminar |
* remote speaker
Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers