Below is a list of my older presentations with links to the event pages for many. I hope to update this before long but it's not a high priority.
Year: 2015
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
28/01/2015 | Adaptation Planning Service workshop | Understanding Risk in the Context of Uncertainty |
08/01/2015 | Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling Workshop. A NERC funded workshop run by Erica Thompson in the London School of Economics and Political Science. | Challenges in the Interpretation of Ensembles: Why Good Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
05/01/2015 | Non-equilibrium
Dynamics of Climate: linking models to data A CliMathNet / Network plus workshop at Dartington, Devon. |
On Quantifying the changing shape of climate |
Year: 2014
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
04/12/2014 | Lorenz Center at Leiden University: Climate Variability: from Data and Models to Decisions | Searching for Robust Information in Climate Change Science |
29/09/2014 | Long range memory in climate - project meeting in Norway | Initial Condition Uncertainty in Nonautonomous Systems |
24/09/2014 | Deltas in Times of Climate Change II conference in Rotterdam | Future Weather in the Context of Climate Services and Climate Modelling |
01/09/2014 | PRISE-CARIAA Project Meeting | Models, Prediction, Uncertainty and Observations |
25/08/2014 | GCAP Oxford Adaptation Academy | From Climate Chaos to Decisions (This was one day of teaching.) |
04/07/2014 | Disaster
Risk Governance and Earth System Governance: How do they relate? |
Models and Prediction |
05/06/2014 | "Managing Severe Uncertainty" project day in the department of philosophty at LSE | Searching for Robust Information in Climate Change Science |
21/03/2014 | King's College London, Earth and Environmental Dynamics Group | Searching for Robust Information in Climate Change Science |
10-12/03/2014 | CIRCLE 2 Adaptation Frontiers Conference | 1) Mapping
Adaptation-Relevant Changes in Local Climate 2) Quantifying Climate Science Uncertainty: From Model Ensembles to Expert Elicitation |
12/02/2014 | Imperial College London, Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change | Searching for Robust Information in Climate Change Science |
6-7/02/2014 | Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions | Getting More From Observations for Adaptation Planning |
14/01/2014 | Risk Management and Climate Change Policy Seminar, Institute of Actuaries and LSE Grantham Research Institute. Held at The Law Society. Organised by Nick Silver and Simon Dietz. | Risk in Climate Models |
13/01/2014 | Foreign and Commonwealth Office organised meeting at the Royal Society to meet with a delegation from China’s Expert Committee on Climate Change | Climate Science |
8-10/01/2014 | Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling Workshop. A NERC funded workshop run by Erica Thompson and Emma Suckling in the London School of Economics and Political Science. | Challenges in the Interpretation of Ensembles: Why Good
Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
Year: 2013
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
16-18/12/2013 | Re-Thinking National Climate Scenarios Workshop. Reading University but organised by Suraje Desai and James Porter at Leeds. | Painting Pictures of the Future |
July 2013 | Warwick University, EPSRC Netwrok Plus | Climate prediction: The challenges of using imperfect nonlinear models for an extrapolatory problem |
July 2013 | CliMathNet Conference, Exeter University | Talk:
The role of initial condition ensembles in quantifying model climate
under climate change Poster: Robustness and Relevance in Observed Changes in Climatic Distributions |
07/05/2013 | Tromsų University, Norway | Climate Science to Inform Climate Adaptation |
13/03/2013 | EQUIP workshop at the Royal Society | Equiping Users while Maintaining the Credibility of Climate Science |
02/02/2013 | Chicago University | How big an ensemble do we need to quantify the climate of a climate model? |
Year: 2012
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
Oct. 2012 | Edinburgh University | Can today's climate model ensembles characterise a
model's climate? |
July 2012 | DCMIP summer school, Boulder,USA | 3 lectures on Ensembles and Uncertainty. |
July 2012 | Climate Systems Analysis Group, Cape Town University | Challenges in the Interpretation of Climate Ensembles: Why Good Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
April 2012 | European Geophysical Union Conference | Presentation:
Linearity, climate sensitivity and climate changes in the surface
temperature field Poster: Evaluating the sensitivity of local temperature distributions to global climate change |
March 2012 | Tromsų University, Norway | Evaluating the influence of climate change on local climatic distributions |
March 2012 | Department of Physics, Warwick University. | The Search for Relevance and Robustness in Climate Change Science |
March 2012 | Liverpool University | The Shape of Climates to Come |
Feb 2012 | Brighton Science Festival | Confidence from Uncertainty: How to interpret climate science |
Year: 2011
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
Dec 2011 | Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), UK. | Risks of Misdirection:The Pitfalls in Climate Model Interpretation |
June 2011 | Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research Symposium, Plymouth | Climate Forcing And Uncertainty |
June 2011 | International Symposium on Forecasting, Prague. | 1) Climate Change Forecasting: How to Interpret
Multi-Model Climate Ensembles 2) Limits to the Forecastability of Climate Change and Its Consequences |
May 2011 | Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges, Colorado, USA. | Seeking and Extracting Relevant Information: Linking Natural Science, Social Science and Policy |
May 2011 | CIRES, National Oceanographic And Atmospheric Administration NOAA) and University of Colorado, USA | Challenges in the Interpretation of Climate Ensembles: Why Good Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
Mar 2011 | Southampton University | Challenges in the Interpretation of Climate Ensembles: Why Good Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
Feb 2011 | Reading University | Challenges in the Interpretation of Climate Ensembles: Why Good Statistical Methods Aren't Enough |
Jan 2011 | Humanitarian Futures Programme session at the EQUIP (End-to end Quantification of Uncertainty for Impacts Predication) project meeting | Tolerating the Right Kind of Uncertainty: Some Views and Perspectives |
Year: 2010
Date | Location / Conference / Workshop | Title |
Oct 2010 | Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen University | Extracting Regional Climate Predictions from Grand Ensembles |
Sept 2010 | Judge Business School, Cambridge University | Climate Change Complexity: Assumptions - Hidden, Ignored and Dismissed |
July 2010 | International Meeting of Statistical Climatology (IMSC) in Edinburgh | The inapplicability of traditional statistical methods for analysing climate ensembles |
May 2010 | Modul University, Vienna | Communicating Climate Science |
May 2010 | Tromsų University, Norway | Climate Change: Controversy, Communication and Debate |
May 2010 | Tromsų University, Norway | Climate Prediction: Lessons from Simple Non-Linear Systems |
Feb 2010 | Statistical and Applied Mathematical Science Institute (SAMSI), USA | Challenges in the Extraction of Decision Relevant Information from Multi-Decadal Ensembles of Global Circulation Models |