Presentations - David Stainforth

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



Contact details:
Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change and the Environment,
London School of Economics,
Houghton Street,
London,
WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7622
Email: d(dot)a(dot)stainforth at lse.ac.uk