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Professor Nigel Arnell has been appointed as the Walker Institute Director and will begin in August.
Professor Arnell is currently Head of the School of Geography at Southampton University and a key member of the Tyndall Centre.
He has been involved in climate change research since the late 1980s, his research focusing on the impacts of climate change on river flows, water resources and their management.
A lead author in the second, third and fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments, he has also contributed to the recent Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change.
Read the press release.
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Professor Nigel Arnell says of his appointment: "I am very pleased and honoured to be taking on the role of Director of the Walker Institute.
It's a very exciting time for climate science, with this year's publication of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, for example, and climate is rarely out of the news.
We clearly need to know more about how and why climate processes and characteristics will change over the next few years and decades, and try to estimate what the consequences of these changes might be for the economy, society and environment.
Reading has an excellent record in innovative and relevant climate and impacts science. I'm looking forward to developing this further and encouraging the new collaborations that are necessary for progress in this increasingly inter-disciplinary field. " |
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