NCAS Long-term global change
Lead Research Organisation:
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Organisations
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Lead Research Organisation)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Earth Observation (Collaboration)
- British Antarctic Survey (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Rowan Sutton (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Kopp R
(2023)
The Framework for Assessing Changes To Sea-level (FACTS) v1.0: a platform for characterizing parametric and structural uncertainty in future global, relative, and extreme sea-level change
in Geoscientific Model Development
Kuhlbrodt T
(2023)
Historical Ocean Heat Uptake in Two Pairs of CMIP6 Models: Global and Regional Perspectives
in of Journal Climate
Kuhlbrodt T
(2024)
A glimpse into the future: The 2023 ocean temperature and sea-ice extremes in the context of longer-term climate change
in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Kushnir Y
(2019)
Towards operational predictions of the near-term climate
in Nature Climate Change
| Description | This programme has been influential in a number of different areas relating to long term changes to our atmosphere, by increasing the understanding of: 1. The fundamental processes that cause changes in the composition of the atmosphere. 2. The ways in which the composition of the atmosphere affects and responds to changes in climate on timescales from years to millenia. 3. The role of clouds in climate change. 4. The impacts of climate change, for example on sea level rise, weather patterns and the hydrological cycle. |
| Exploitation Route | The NCAS long term global change programme provides a foundation for a wide range of research activities in the academic community and also informs policy making on climate change. For example, NCAS leads the UK Earth System Modelling programme which led the the UK contribution to the sixth coupled model incomparison project, which underpins the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Government Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://ncas.ac.uk/our-science/long-term-global-change/ |
| Description | NCAS has made major contributions to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including co-leading (with the Met Office) the UK's contribution to the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) through the UKESM model and providing Lead Authors, Contributing Authors and reviewers for the report. Numerous NCAS long-term global change publications are cited in the report. NCAS contributions to National Public Good in relation to climate and air quality advice to government were recently rated by NERC as "exceeding expectations" NCAS has made major contributions to international policy work to control ozone depleting substances, detailed in a case study which scored 3.5 in the recent NERC Centre Evaluation. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Chemicals,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | EU Climate Science to Policy Workshop |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | EU climate policy advice |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | NERC National Capability Science Multi-Centre 1-year extension (FY 21/22): The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS) |
| Amount | £1,961,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | National Centre for Earth Observation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | National Oceanography Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK National Climate Science Partnership |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | NCAS has joined together with the other NERC Centres and the Met Office to form a new partnership - the UK National Climate Science Partnership - focused on climate science for solutions. A letter of intent has been signed by all the parties and a Vision Statement agreed. Announcement of the partnership was made by the BEIS CSA Paul Monks at COP26 in Glasgow. NCAS played a leading role in bringing about these developments, working particularly closely with NOC, UKCEH and the Met Office. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNCSP Vision Statement was developed by NCAS, NOC and UKCEH working with the Met Office. All the NERC Centres and the Met Office have signed the letter of intent and supported the announcement at COP26. The partners are currently working together to agree plans to develop the partnership and maximise its benefits to the UK. |
| Impact | Announcement at COP26: https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-researchers-join-forces-to-advance-scientific-climate-solutions/ The founding partners span the full range of environmental science. An important goal of the partnership is to build wider multi-disciplinary partnership to enable climate solutions. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | ACSIS Final Science Conference: The Changing North Atlantic Climate System and Its Importance for the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ACSIS final conference invited stakeholders from UK government and related bodies (e.g. UK Climate Change Committee) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | An overview of the Global Stocktake for the ESM2025 website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the ESM2025 website we published a newsletter about the UNFCCC Global Stocktake activity. This is a comprehensive assessment of all global efforts to mitigate and adapt to global heating. The newsletter raised awareness of the Global Stocktake, encouraging scientists and stakeholders to engage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Appointed to Transdisciplinary Advisory Board for European Joint Programming Initiative "Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe" (JPI Climate) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Transdisciplinary Advisory Board (TAB) consists of national and international members from academia and from relevant stakeholder groups. It advises the Governing Board on specific issues upon request. This overall Advisory Board is an important instrument to involve relevant stakeholder groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://jpi-climate.eu/governance/#transdisciplinary-advisory-board |
| Description | Blue Dot Music and Science Festival 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UKESM participated in the 2019 Blue Dot Music and Science Festival, held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, July 18 to 21 2019. (https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/home). The festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors and our stand, entitled 'UKESM: A Model Earth' consisted of a brilliant display, with puzzles, an interactive quiz and climate oriented games suitable for children and families. In addition, the primary attraction at the stand was the interactive Pufferfish globe, on which we displayed six videos illustrating different aspects of the coupled Earth system and future Earth system change. Among the videos shown, visitors had the opportunity to explore latest simulation results from the 1st version of the UK Earth system model (UKESM1), released to UK researchers last February 2019 (for more information visit https://ukesm.ac.uk/project-outcomes/model-releases/). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/profile/ukesm:-a-model-earth |
| Description | COP26 EU side-event online 'Ensuring an effective Global Stocktake: what role for civil society & the climate science community?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | EU side-event with 2 other organisations. the audience included EU officials, researchers, NGOs. There were several follow up questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.vo-europe.eu/assets/docs/COP26_EU_SIDE_EVENTS_PROGRAMME.pdf |
| Description | COP26 Public Engagement in Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UKESM was invited to participate in a number of activities related to COP26, which included a presence in the COP26 Green Zone. This was the part of the conference which was open to the public, and was housed in the Glasgow Science Centre. The Green Zone featured over 200 events and 100 exhibitors, including the COP26 Universities Network and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKESM was on the COP26 Universities Network stand on 8 November, and on the UKRI stand on 9 November. The Team developed a series of climate storyboards for use at the COP26 and 2 climate change quizzes as ways to engage a broad public. The UKRI stand raised the profile of Earth System modelling with several senior research and policy people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukesm.ac.uk/portfolio-item/ukesm-at-cop26/ |
| Description | Chair, Met Office Hadley Centre Science Review Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) Science Review Group (SRG) brings together leading scientists from UK and international academia to carry out an independent review of the climate research carried out by the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (MOHCCP) to advise its government customers on the quality, robustness and relevance of our science outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/how-met-office-science-is-reviewed |
| Description | Climate Education Summer University, Toulouse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | One-week long hands-on workshop based on active pedagogies that address a broad variety of topics around climate change and modelling, considering both its physical and human dimensions. Each edition of the Climate Education Summer University (CESU) welcomes around 30 teachers and teacher trainers from around Europe, which will later disseminate the new knowledge and set up school projects aimed at implementing climate change mitigation and/or adaptation actions in their own countries and communities. Participants of the CESU will also be invited to contribute to the development of a new set of educational resources focused on climate modelling and climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.esm2025.eu/education-and-professional-development/climate-education-summer-universities/ |
| Description | Climate Teach-In to DEFRA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The activity provide climate policymakers in the DEFRA department of UK government with an overview of how Earth system and climate models are developed and used |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Development of Science Plan for World Climate Research Programme Lighthouse Activity on Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As Co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme Lighthouse Activity on Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change I co-led the development of the international Science Plan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wcrp-climate.org/epesc |
| Description | EU Science is Wonderful online exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the CRESCENDO European project, team members participated in an online exhibition complete with information booth, digital products, online quiz and links to an adaptation game as well as running seminars. The exhibition was open to schools and the public from all over Europe. We had several teachers who were interested in the schools engagement work we have on our web site at https://climatechangewechange.crescendoproject.eu/ A number of other people were interested to find out more about earth System Modelling and a few were interested in making contacts in the UK, which we followed up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/events/science-wonderful-2020_en |
| Description | Engaging Users: Climate Impacts Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UKESM held a workshop in December 2021 that brought together UKESM scientists with UK-based impacts researchers in the domains : water resources, wildfires, climate and air quality, marine ecosystems and sea level rise. The workshop started to identify key simulations and data required to support future impact assessments in the UK. This will deliver new information and collaborations to expand the level of UKESM support to UK research and provides a stepping stone to the research in our new LTSM, TerraFIRMA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | I'm a Scientist - stay at home platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 'I'm a Scientist' is an online, student-led STEM enrichment activity. It connects school students with scientists through energetic real-time text based chats. This platform is funded by Wellcome with support from UKRI and other funders. Team members participated in some of the general science sessions and in the Planet Earth Zone in 2021. There was amazing engagement from children in schools and in the open schools session. Children could find out about our research, as well as, careers in science and what scientists were like as people! Quite a few children were really well informed and had taken action about climate change, others were amazed to learn new things about climate change and the importance of acting on it. Contact was also made with a science teacher who will help advise the UKESM project on areas related to providing engagement with school age children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://about.imascientist.org.uk/ |
| Description | Introduction to UK Chemistry Aerosol (UKCA) Model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Our Introduction to UK Chemistry Aerosol (UKCA) Model course provides practical experience of running a community chemistry-aerosol climate model. The UKCA model is based on the Met Office Unified Model and the atmospheric composition module of the UK Earth System Model. You will receive support from expert UKCA users at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and gain experience of setting up and running experiments on the model. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lectures to university undergraduate students in Artificial Intelligence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was 2 lectures to introduce Earth system modeling to undergraduate students at Birmingham University studying Artificial Intelligence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Member of Editorial Board for 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022, presented at COP27 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series is an annual synthesis highlighting essential advances in climate change research, from natural and social sciences, with high policy relevance. The report has been launched every year since 2017 at the climate COP, with participation of the UNFCCC Executive Secretary. This joint initiative of Future Earth, The Earth League, and The World Climate Research Programme, is a collective effort to support the diffusion of the most relevant and up-to-date climate change science to policymakers, negotiators, and the general public. See: https://10insightsclimate.science/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://10insightsclimate.science/ |
| Description | Met Office Science Profession Fair - UKESM stand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from the UKESM/TerraFIRMA team presented information about Earth System modelling including a quiz on climate change in the Met Office at an open event to promote different areas of science. This was helpful to make new connections with colleagues in the Met Office working in different areas and to promote what UKESM/TerraFIRMA aims to do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | New Scientist Live Exhibition, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UKESM/TerraFIRMA joined forces with the European Union funded ESM2025 project for a stand at the New Scientist Live Exhibition "the world's greatest festival of ideas and discoveries" on 7-9 October at the ExCeL Centre in London. Both projects work complementarily on Earth System modelling using the models to develop climate simulations to help design climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. Our exhibition stand "Predicting Climate Change" used the amazing 3D globe from the National Oceanography Centre to explore how the oceans, atmosphere and land are changing and could change in the future due to the impacts of climate change. The Office of Climate Education (OCE) from Paris brought along some fun and yet serious games on the carbon cycle & Earth System Models, especially aimed at children. Three tablets and a large screen were used for interactive quizzes - which proved to be really popular, especially when a competitive element was introduced by using the Kahoot platform. A team of 21 project researchers and climate science communicators were on-hand to speak to the public during the 3-day exhibition. It was a real team effort with people from across the projects representing organisations including: Meteo-France, Office of Climate Education, Met Office, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (Reading and Leeds), National Oceanography Centre, National Centre for Earth Observation, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the University of Exeter. The 3-day event received 21,191 in-person attendees and another 2,195 international viewers online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukesm.ac.uk/portfolio-item/new-scientist-live-engaging-the-public/ |
| Description | Panel member at COP26 session on the future of climate modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The session on the future of climate modelling was held in the Science Pavillion in COP26 in Glasgow and also live streamed worldwide. I contributed my perspective and contributed to the Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate/cop/science-pavilion |
| Description | RMetS: Climate change curriculum audit - Media Studies GCSE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Climate change audit of GCSE media studies to identify areas for inclusion of climate change related issues into the curriculum. Part of the RMetS audit. I think the aim is for climate change issues to be diffused into lots of relevant subjects. At the moment the English curriculum contains very little about climate change and mainly only through Geography (which tends to be an optional subject) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | STEM Ambassador Video for GCSE Choices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Personal perspective on careers choice in Chemistry. 5 min video produced for distribution through STEM Ambassadors portal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tutoring an A level student, as part of the Access Project and the NCAS Community for Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A level student tutoring scheme, to support learning and engagement in STEM subject areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UKESM presentation to water sector via the Future Water Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on climate impacts and their relevance to the water sector. Led to follow up connection with climate services/impacts colleagues in the Met Office. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Work experience with A level students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 1 day focused on the communication of climate change. The 3 students focused on some activities, such as, new earth system game devised by project partners, ESM2025, a rehashed infographic for the IPCC AR6 and video storyboard explainers for climate change. The activities led to interesting discussions about how to present information and gave an insight into some climate science issues, in one case correcting a misunderstanding about sea ice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | World Cafe at the ESM2025 general assembly in 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this World Cafe in Paris in June 2022, CRESCENDO scientists sat together with stakeholders from the climate policy field to discuss current questions and policies. With the participants distributed to sit togetehr at several different tables, and mixing people every 20 minutes, the aim was to enable direct and open dialogue between Earth system scientists and policy stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | • Co-organizer (with UK Climate Change Committee and UK Climate Resilience Programme champions) of the major multi-disciplinary conference "Is the UK on track to adapt to climate change?", October 2020 (see https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/learn-more/conference-is-the-uk-on-track-to-adapt-to-climate-change/) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a major online conference with excellent participation (approx 500 registered) from science and policy communities interested in adaptation and resilience. See https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/learn-more/conference-is-the-uk-on-track-to-adapt-to-climate-change/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/learn-more/conference-is-the-uk-on-track-to-adapt-to-climate-change/ |