{"id":1446,"date":"2025-10-23T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:40:23","slug":"lucas-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/lucas-ellison\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Lucas Ellison<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1361 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot.png 1179w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot-187x300.png 187w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot-639x1024.png 639w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot-768x1231.png 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2025\/09\/lucas_headshot-958x1536.png 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lucas Ellison is a PDRA at the University of Reading, where he uses outputs from climate model ensembles to quantify uncertainties in current and future vegetation predictions arising from the stochastic nature of climate. 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