Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during each semester, 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 each semester 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 2025
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 Deepak Gopalakrishnan, Rhidian Thomas, and Alex Baker
| 22 Apr (Tues*) | Matthew England University of New South Wales |
Drivers of the unprecedented North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023 |
| 28 Apr | (No seminar – EGU week) | – |
| 01 May (Thur*) | Steve Willington / Rebekah Hicks / Brent Walker Met Office |
The forecast process employed by Operational Meteorologists working in the Met Office Expert Weather Hub |
| 06 May (Tues*) | Steph Hay University of Exeter |
TBC |
| 12 May | Henrik Melin Northumbria University |
Charting New Waters: JWST Observations of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune |
| 19 May | Beena Balan Sarojini University of Oxford |
TBC |
| 27 May (Tues*) | TBC | TBC |
| 02 Jun | Simon Clark |
TBC |
| 09 Jun | Harrison Cook |
TBC |
| 12 Jun (Thur*) | Gabi Hegerl University of Edinburgh |
TBC |
Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers
Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays* 13:00 to 13:50 (BST) – Summer 2025
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
| 23 Apr (Wed*) | Deepak Gopalakrishnan | A comprehensive evaluation of biases in convective-storm parameters in CMIP6 models over North America |
| 29 Apr | Sadie Bartholomew | VISION: towards seamless integration of model, satellite and in-situ observation data |
| 7 May (Wed*) | Linda Hirons | A co-production approach to understanding, predicting and communicating high impact weather events across Africa |
| 13 May | Mike Lockwood | Junk on the final frontier |
| 20 May | Chris Scott | One hundred years of Appleton’s Ionosphere |
| 28 May (Wed*) | Free slot | |
| 3 Jun | Laura Baker | Understanding the predictability of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation using dynamical seasonal forecast models and machine learning techniques |
| 10 Jun | Bryan Lawrence | TBD |
*We shift to Wednesdays (same time and place) in weeks with a bank holiday Monday
Click here for the latest Lunchtime Seminar schedule in PDF format