Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during term time, 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). 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 term time 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/projected changes and knowledge gaps |
| 14 May | Adam Gainford | Nature vs Nurture: Understanding the impact of the driving ensemble on under-dispersive convective-scale precipitation forecasts |
| 21 May | Hannah Croad | Fundamental mechanisms of summer-time Arctic cyclone growth and sea ice interaction |
| 28 May | Ieuan Higgs | Complex network and machine learning to improve marine ecosystem modelling and data assimilation |
| 4 Jun | James Weber | The composition and climate impacts of widescale tree planting |
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 |
TBD |
| 15 May | Tiffany Shaw University of Chicago, US |
TBD |
| 22 May* | Maslowski Wieslaw Naval Postgraduate School, US |
TBD |
| 29 May | ||
| 5 June | No Seminar |
* remote speaker
Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers