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 >
SC2024_37 The role of air-sea interactions in Indian monsoon depressions
Lead Supervisor: Kieran Hunt, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: k.m.r.hunt@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Andy Turner, University of Reading/NCAS, Ségolène Berthou, Met Office. Monsoon depressions (MDs) are synoptic-scale features that are responsible for…Read More >
SC2024_40 Hazardous Mediterranean Cyclones in the Current and Future Climate
Lead Supervisor: Suzanne Gray, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: s.l.gray@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisor: Claudio Sánchez, Met Office The Mediterranean basin is among the most cyclogenetic regions in the world and Mediterranean…Read More >
SC2024_41 New space-borne perspectives on the global carbon cycle: untangling role of complex vegetation canopies in novel satellite observations
Lead Supervisor: Tristan Quaife, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: t.l.quaife@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Becks Spake, University of Reading, Department of Biology, Brian Pickles, University of Reading, Department of Biology Understanding the global…Read More >
SC2024_35 Climate variability and societal responses in Pre-Columbian South America
Lead Supervisor: Joy Singarayer, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: j.s.singarayer@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisor: Frank Mayle, University of Reading, Geography and Environmental Sciences Photograph of agricultural terraces in current use in…Read More >
SC2024_38 How will extreme weather affect the energy sector in Europe under climate change?
Lead Supervisor: Reinhard Schiemann, University of Reading, National Centre for Atmospheric Science Email: r.k.schiemann@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: David Brayshaw, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology; Laurent Dubus, RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité, Paris;…Read More >
SC2024_36 Improved Analyses of Ocean Water Masses, Heat and Salinity Distributions
Lead Supervisor: Keith Haines, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology Email: k.haines@reading.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Daniel Lea, UK Met Office, Matthew Martin, UK Met Office Reconstructing present-day and past ocean temperature salinity and circulation…Read More >
SC2024_39 A Robotic Ecologist for Automated Habitat Monitoring
Lead Supervisor: Robert Siddall, University of Surrey, School of Mechanical Engineering Science Email: r.siddall@surrey.ac.uk Co-supervisors: Dr Ana Andries, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey; Prof. Stephen Morse, Centre…Read More >