UNFCCC COP27 Again this year, Scenario students took part in the Climate Action Studio run by the Walker Institute at the University of Reading, where doctoral students immerse themselves in…Read More >
Improving forecast flood maps using earth observation data
Cohort 7 student Helen Hooker brings research into practice during a placement with JBA Consulting In August 2022, devastating, widespread flooding in Pakistan displaced 33 million people. The Pakistan floods…Read More >
Reflections on COP26
James Hill visited the COP26 Green Zone in Glasgow as part of a group of Scenario DTP students. As Glasgow was busy, they stayed in Troon and commuted in. These…Read More >
COP26
Scenario DTP students are engaging with COP in a number of ways this year. 4 students joined the Walker Institute, in the Blue Zone. 14 students took part in the…Read More >
Reflections on a PhD journey
Matthew Kaan Alkan is a member of Scenario Cohort 3, who recently defended his thesis in Chemical Ecology. He took part in the Scenario Student Twitter Take Over where he…Read More >
Advice to new PhD students
As we get ready to welcome SCENARIO Cohort 7 in September, here are some good advice and top tips for new PhD students from Scenario graduates Rebecca Emerton and Kirsten…Read More >
Flood Foresight Placement
Scenario alumna Holly Turner recently carried out a 3-month placement with JBA Consulting as part of their Flood Foresight team. The placement was part of NERC’s National Productivity Investment Fund…Read More >
COP25 and COP CAS
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) is taking place in Madrid from 2-13 December. Carys Cunningham and Elaine Halliday, Scenario Cohort 6 PhD students, are attending as part of the…Read More >
YES19 Young Entrepreneurs Scheme
YES is an innovative global competition developed to raise awareness among postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers of how ideas from science and engineering can be commercialised. For this first time…Read More >
Training in Polar Fieldword with the British Antarctic Survey
In August 2019, Scenario Cohort 4 PhD student Joe Watson was selected to take part in the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Advanced Training Short Course: Safe and effective fieldwork in…Read More >
Jet Stream Study Confirms Aircraft Turbulence Risk
Cohort 5 student Simon Lee is the lead author of a paper published in Nature providing evidence that climate change is having a greater impact on the jet stream than…Read More >
Future Invaders
SCENARIO student Tomos Jones won a Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for his stand on Future Invaders – potentially invasive garden plants. Read more about Tomos’s project…Read More >
SC2023_02 The impact of high resolution modelling on mineral dust forecasts over West Africa using the ECMWF integrated forecast system
Lead Supervisor: Dr Claire Ryder, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: c.l.ryder@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Dr Angela Benedetti (ECMWF), Professor Helen Dacre (University of Reading), Dr Guigma Kiswendsida (Red Cross Climate…Read More >
SC2023_06 Climate Feedbacks through reactive greenhouse gases
Lead Supervisor: Bill Collins, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: w.collins@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Michaela Hegglin, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Fiona O’ Connor, Met Office Hadley Centre Apostolos Voulgarakis,…Read More >
SC2023_03 Plastics in karst groundwater systems
Lead supervisor: Louise Maurice, British Geological Survey, Wallingford Office Email: loma@bgs.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Dan Lapworth, British Geological Survey Tom Bond, University of Surrey Richard Cross, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology…Read More >
SC2023_05 Smarter ensembles for solar wind forecasts
Lead Supervisor: Mathew Owens, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: m.j.owens@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Luke Barnard, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Siegfried Gonzi, Met Office Mike Marsh, Met Office More…Read More >
SC2023_07 Are tropical waves an untapped source of predictability in the tropics?
Lead Supervisor: John Methven, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Email: J.Methven@reading.ac.uk Co-Supervisors: Tom Frame, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Anne McCabe, Met Office Nigel Roberts, Met Office More…Read More >
SC2023_08 How do environmental factors and hazards affect the vulnerability, reliability and resilience of small-water supply infrastructure?
Lead Supervisor: Katherine Pond, University of Surrey, School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering Email: k.pond@surrey.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Donald John MacAllister, British Geological Survey Donya Hajializadeh, University of Surrey, School of…Read More >