Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during term time, on Mondays at 12:00 (normally an external speaker), and on Tuesdays at 13:00 (an internal speaker, such as a member of staff, postdoctoral or PhD researcher). 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.
In addition, on Fridays during term time we host a weekly weather and climate discussion (WCD) meeting:
Friday Weather and Climate Discussion
Monday DEPARTMENTAL seminar programme
Mondays 12:00 to 12:50 – Spring 2023
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01 in the Brian Hoskins Building)
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams (External Seminar Series channel)
* Note that the speaker will present remotely via Microsoft Teams for seminars marked with an asterisk
For additional information contact Robert Lee and Annika Reintges
| 9 Jan 2023 * | Inez Ponce de Leon Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines |
Going beyond information packaging in climate change communication |
| 16 Jan | Martin De Kauwe University of Bristol |
Can we predict drought-induced tree mortality? |
| 23 Jan | Alison Ming University of Cambridge |
Processes controlling year to year variability in the tropical lower stratosphere |
| 30 Jan | Edmund Henley Met Office |
Space weather forecasting at the Met Office |
| 6 Feb | Will Gray IPSL Sciences Laboratory of Climate and the Environment (LSCE), France |
Poleward shifts in the northern and southern westerly winds over the last deglaciation |
| 13 Feb | Fiona Johnson University of New South Wales, Australia |
Droughts and flooding rains: statistical post processing to better under future hydrological extremes |
| 20 Feb * | Juan Pedro Mellado González University of Hamburg, Germany |
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| 27 Feb | Christian Buckingham University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA |
Revisiting symmetric instability |
| 6 Mar | Lea Svendsen Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research & University of Bergen, Norway |
Pacific influence on Arctic Climate on decadal timescales |
| 13 Mar * | Vandana Singh Framingham State University, MA, USA |
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| 20 Mar * | Diego Miralles Ghent University, Belgium |
Land feedbacks and their influence on droughts and heatwaves |
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers
Tuesday lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 – Spring 2023
Location: 1L61, Brian Hoskins Building
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams, on the Internal (Tuesday) Seminar Series channel
For additional information contact Jake Aylmer and Dhirendra Kumar
| 10 Jan | Jonathan Gregory | SuperHome truths about domestic energy efficiency |
| 17 Jan | Will Farren | Megafauna, Climate Change and Dryland Ephemeral Rivers |
| 24 Jan | Annika Reintges | Spiciness of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre affects the AMOC response to the NAO in CMIP6 |
| 31 Jan | Nigel Arnell | Worst case climate scenarios for the UK |
| 07 Feb | Natalie Harvey | Can decision theory help end-users take the appropriate action in an emergency? |
| 14 Feb | No seminar | |
| 21 Feb | Julia Mindlin | Plausible drying and wetting scenarios for summer rainfall in Southeastern South America: A storyline approach |
| 28 Feb | Ed Hawkins | Learning about present-day climate risks from extreme weather events of the past |
| 07 Mar | Emily Black | Drought in a future climate |
| 14 Mar | Claire Ryder | How much desert dust gets into aircraft engines? |
| 21 Mar | Shammi Akhter | How Well do High-resolution Global Climate Models (GCMs) Simulate Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal? |
Click here for the latest lunchtime seminar schedule in PDF format