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Research associates

 

The Walker Institute is made up of a core team of three: the Director, the research and business co-ordinator and the communications manager.

Researchers from across the University are associates of the Walker Institute.

 

Senior associates and Walker research fellows are listed below.

  people

Understanding the climate system

Climate processes

Dr Richard Allan
  Water vapour, clouds, radiation

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

Dr David Grimes
  Monitoring African rainfall and its impacts

+44 (0)118 378 6693 d.i.f.grimes@...

Dr 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@....

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@...

Prof Jonathan Gregory
  Cyrosphere, sea level rise, climate sensitivity

+44 (0)118 378 7376 j.m.gregory@....

Prof Sir Brian Hoskins
  Dynamics of weather and climate

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

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@....

 

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

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@....

 

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@....

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@....

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@....

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

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

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

r.yao@reading.ac.uk

+44 (0) 118 378 8606

Dr Abbas Elmualin
  Sustainable design and construction

a.a.elmualim@reading.ac.uk

+44 (0) 118 378 7344

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

l.schweber@reading.ac.uk

+44 (0) 118 378 8567

Dr Erdal Turkbeyler
  Sustainability and the built environment

e.turkbeyler@reading.ac.uk

+44 (0) 118 378 5417

Adaptation

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@....

Economics

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@....

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

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