Walker Institute  

Research associates

  In this section
 

 

 

Research associates

   

Understanding the climate system

Climate processes

Dr Richard Allan
  Water vapour, clouds, radiation

+44 (0)118 378 7762  rpa@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk

Prof Ellie Highwood   Aerosols and climate

+44 (0) 118 378 6688 e.j.highwood@.....

Dr Robin Hogan
  Clouds and climate

+44 (0)118 378 6416 r.j.hogan@...

Prof George Marston   Aerosols and climate, atmospheric chemistry +44 (0) 118 378 6343 g.marston@...

 

Dr Christian Pfrang   Aerosols and climate +44 (0) 118 378 8789 c.pfrang@...

 

Prof Keith Shine   Climate and radiation, impact of aircraft on climate

+44 (0)118 378 6074 k.p.shine@....

Dr Anne Verhoef
  Soil/vegetation/climate interactions

+44 (0)118 378 6074 a.verhoef@....

Prof Mark Hodson
  Biogeochemistry of soils and contaminated environments; earthworms

+44 (0)118 378 6074 m.e.hodson@....

Dr Liz Shaw   Soil microbiology  
Dr Joanna Clark
  Soil carbon

+44 (0)118 378 6074 j.m.clark@....

Climate variability and change

Prof Julia Slingo
  Tropical climate, monsoons

+44 (0)118 378 8424 j.m.slingo@....

Prof Lesley Gray
  Sun's role in climate, upper atmosphere

+44 (0)118 378 7991 l.j.gray@...

Dr Andrew Charlton Perez   Upper atmosphere climate  
Prof Jonathan Gregory
  Cyrosphere, sea level rise, climate sensitivity

+44 (0)118 378 5602 j.m.gregory@....

Prof Sir Brian Hoskins
  Dynamics of weather and climate

+44 (0)118 378 8953 b.j.hoskins@...

Dr Nicholas Klingaman
  Queensland rainfall variability and change +44 (0)118 378 4652 n.p.klingaman@.......
Dr John Methven
  Large scale circulation, storms, atmospheric chemistry

+44 (0)118 378 6015 j.methven@....

Dr Valerio Lucarini
  Climate dynamics, statistical physics and applied maths

+44 (0)118 378 6015 v.lucarini@....

Dr Remi Tailleux
  Oceanography

+44 (0)118 378 8328 r.g.j.tailleux@....

Dr Maria Shahgedanova   Glaciers and climate change, Extratropical Eurasia, urban climate  
 

Improving predictions of climate

Seasonal to decadal predictions of climate

Dr Keith Haines
  Effective use of observations to initialise climate forecasts

+44 (0)118 378 8742 kh@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk

Prof Rowan Sutton
  Predictability of European climate, ocean thermohaline circulation

+44 (0)118 378 8337 r.sutton@...

Climate modelling

Dr Pier Luigi Vidale
  Developing high resolution global climate models

+44 (0)118 378 7844 p.l.vidale@...

Extremes and hazardous weather

Professor Stephen Belcher
  Joint Met Office Chair in Weather Systems

+44 ( 0)118 378 6646 s.e.belcher@...

Dr Ben Lloyd-Hughes   Developing local and regional predictions of hazardous weather

+44 (0)118 378 7997 B.LloydHughes@...

Dr Jane Strachan
  Hurricanes and other extreme events, links with insurance

+44 (0)118 378 6014 j.strachan@....

Dr Kevin Hodges   Mid-latitude storms  
 

The impacts of our changing climate

Agriculture

Prof Richard Ellis

 

  Impacts of climate change on crops

+44 (0)118 378 8488 r.h.ellis@...

Prof Tim Wheeler
  Impacts of climate on food crops, seasonal crop forecasting

+44 (0)118 378 8495 t.r.wheeler@....

Prof Mike Gooding   Climate change impacts on cereal crops +44 (0) 118 378 8487 m.j.gooding@....
Prof Peter Gregory   Global food security

+44 (0) 118 378 7095 p.j.gregory@...

Dr Martin Lukac   Climate change impacts on natural and agricultural ecosystems, carbon cycle and sequestration

 

m.lukac@........

Dr Hannah Jones   Crop science, production and adaptation

+44 (0) 118 378 6056 h.e.jones@...

Prof Michael Shaw   Plant disease and climate change

+44 (0)118 378 8093 m.w.shaw@....

Dr Irene Mueller-Harvey   Animal health and greenhouse gas emissions.

+44 (0)118 378 6619 i.mueller-harvey@....

Biodiversity

Dr Alastair Culham
  Climate change and plant biodiversity

+44 (0)118 378 6390 a.culham@....

Dr Steven Jury   European & Mediterranean flora

+44 (0) 118 378 8169 s.l.jury@...

Prof Ken Norris
  Impacts of climate change, land-use and agriculture on biodiversity

+44 (0)118 378 6535 k.norris@....

Dr Phil Baker   Animal behaviour and ecology

+44 (0) 118 378 4566 p.j.baker@.....

Water

Prof Nigel Arnell
  Impact of climate change on global water resources

+44 (0)118 378 7392 n.w.arnell@....

Prof Steven Mithen
  iInfluence of climate on development within the semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa.

+44 (0)118 378 6102 s.j.mithen@....

Prof Andrew Wade
  Hydrology, water quality and links with aquatic ecosystems, groundwater and river pollution

+44 (0)118 378 7315 a.j.wade@....

Dr David Mason   River and coastal flooding  

Cities

Dr Janet Barlow
  Urban and boundary layer meteorology

+44 ( 0)118 378 6022 j.f.barlow@...

Dr Runming Yao
  Sustainability and the built environment

+44 (0) 118 378 8606 r.yao@reading.ac.uk

Dr Abbas Elmualin
  Sustainable design and construction

+44 (0) 118 378 7344 a.a.elmualim@...

Dr Libby Schweber
  Sustainability, socio-technical networks, sociology of organizations

l.schweber@...

+44 (0) 118 378 8567

Dr Erdal Turkbeyler
  Sustainability and the built environment

e.turkbeyler@......

+44 (0) 118 378 5417

Dr Tijana Blanusa
  Plants and the built environment

t.blanusa@.....

+44 (0) 118 378 8379

Adaptation, resilience and development

Dr Marina Della Giusta
  Human behavioural responses to climate change

+44 (0)118 378 5068 m.dellagiusta@...

Dr Henny Osbahr
  Social science aspects of climate change adaptation and disaster management

+44 (0)118 378 8314 h.osbahr@....

Dr Alex Arnall
  Climate change adapation and rural development

+44 (0)118 378 8369

a.h.arnall@....

Dr Chuks Okereke
  Climate change governance and international development

 

Dr Ruth Evans
  Social vulnerabilities and poverty, Africa and UK

 

Dr Emily Boyd
  Climate change governance, resilienceand development

 

Dr Giuseppe Feola
  Climate change adapation in the agriculture sector

 

Dr Jessica Budds
  Water resources and social exclusion, particularly in South America.

 

Economics

Dr Nick Bardsley
  Climate change economics

+44 (0)118 378 4545

n.o.bardsley@...

Dr Maria Plotnikova
  Economic impacts of climate change

+44 (0)118 378 5053

m.plotnikova@...


Underpinning expertise

       

Earth Observation

Prof Alan O'Neill
  Director of the National Centre for Earth Observation

+44 (0)118 378 6728/8317 swsonill@...

Prof Robert Gurney
  Director of the Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC)

+44 (0)118 378 8741

rjg@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk

Statistical services

Dr Fiona Underwood
  Application of statistics to climate, agriculture and ecology

+44 (0)118 378 7927 f.m.underwood@....

Computational Science

Dr Hong Wei
  Understanding remotely sensed images

+44 (0)118 378 7927

h.wei@....

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Get Adobe Reader
 
 

Email: walker_info@reading.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)118 378 7380 Copyright © 2006 Walker Institute. All rights reserved.

University of Reading