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Walker Institute external speakers

The Walker Institute has a series of seminars from outside speakers.

These take place at 1pm in the Nike Lecture, Agriculture Building. See directions.

If you would like to attend please email Kathy Maskell.

 

Seminars: Spring term 2011

Tues 17 th January, 1-2pm, Met Dept LT

Dr John Gathenya – Rockefeller Research Fellow

Met Dept seminar: Climate change adaptation in Africa (title to be finalised)

 

Weds 18 th January, 1-2pm, John Nike LT, Agriculture

Dr Mariane Diop-Kane Senegalese Met Service (ANAM) – Weather/climate forecasting in West Africa and working with rural communities.

 

Weds 1 st Feb, 1-2pm, John Nike LT, Agriculture

Professor Peter Cooper - "Evidence-based adaptation to climate change in East Africa: Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities".

 

 

Friday 9 th March, 1-2pm, Met Dept LT

Professor Carl Wunsch, ocean circulation/modeling – title to be finalised.

 

Seminars: Autumn term 2011

Date

 

Speaker

 

Title

Weds 2nd Nov 2011   Prof Chris Rapley, UCL   Communicating climate science
         
Fri 11th Nov (joint seminar with the Centre for Food Security)  

John Ingram, NERC Food Security Leader, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

 

Food Security and Planetary Boundaries

 


 

 

Seminars: Spring and summer term 2011

Date

 

Speaker

 

Title

11th May 2011   Dr Michael White, Nature  

Publishing in Nature

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23rd March   Dr Mike Keil, Ofwat  

Regulating climate change - plugging the gap between science and solutions

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16th March   Tom Downing, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership  

Adaptation signatures - pathways of adapting well

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23rd Feb 2011

 

  Jeremy Watson, ARUP  

Climate Change - a Critical Driver for Policy and Practice in the Built Environment

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26th Jan 2011   Damian Carrington, Guardian and Observer   Why scienitists must talk to the media!

 

 

Autumn term 2010

Weds 24th November 2010

"The Department for Energy and Climate Change - a view from the inside"
Dr Tim Chatterton, Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment (ISHE), University of the West of England, Bristol.

 

Weds 27th October 2010

David Warrilow, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Climate Change Science and Policy

 

Spring and summer term 2010

 

Date

 

Speaker

 

Title

POSTPONED

  David Warrilow, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)   Climate Change Science and Policy
         
Weds 24th Feb   Nic Marks, New Economic Foundation   The Happy Planet Index
         
Weds 24th March   Tim Reader, Environment Agency and Jason Lowe, Met Office   Flood protection for London through the 21st century
         

POSTPONED

  Jeremy Watson, ARUP   Climate Change - a Critical Driver for Policy and Practice in the Built Environment
         
Weds 26th May   Kathryn Packer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)   Adapting to Climate Change in the UK
         
Weds 30th June   Sir John Lawton, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP)   Adapting Institutions to Climate Change

 

 

December 2009

2nd Dec at 1pm: Walker Institute external speaker


Professor Rob Wilby, Loughborough University
"Adaptation in the face of climate uncertainties"

Nike Lecture Theatre, Agriculture

All welcome, but please book by emailing j.genney@reading.ac.uk

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November 2009

18th Nov at 1pm: Walker Institute external speaker

Dr David Lenaghan, National Grid
"Catching the Wind in a Grid"

Nike Lecture Theatre, Agriculture

All welcome, but please book by emailing j.genney@reading.ac.uk

 

 
 
 

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