A UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCRP) lunchtime webinar series in which both researchers and stakeholders participate. The webinars showcase projects conducted for UKRI and by the Met Office for the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme and thematic topics.
All webinars are on Wednesdays and run from 12.00-13.00. For links to videos and slides from past webinars, see pink section below (or go directly to the webinars playlist for recordings on our YouTube channel).
Title: COP26: Implications for enhancing resilience (see event listing)
Speakers: Youssef Nassef (UNFCCC Secretariat), Dr Louise Ellis (University of Leeds), Liam Upson (COP26 Unit, Cabinet Office)
Chair: Jason Lowe
Title: Delivering resilience to climate-related impacts on water quality through Earth observation
Speaker: Peter Hunter (University of Stirling)
Chair: TBC
Title: Surface water flood ‘nowcasting’ for emergency services in a changing climate
Speaker: Dapeng Yu (Loughborough University)
Chair: Jason Lowe
Title: Climate services standards and value
Speaker: Murray Dale (JBA Consulting Limited)
Chair: TBC
Title: CROP-NET: Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields
Speaker: Richard Pywell (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
Chair: Suraje Dessai
Title: UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3)
Speakers: Kathryn Brown (UK Climate Change Committee) and Richard Betts (Met Office)
Chair: TBC
Title: Erosion hazards in river catchments
Speaker: James Cooper (University of Liverpool)
Chair: Jason Lowe
Speaker: Mike Davies (UCL); stakeholder response from April Cole (Care Quality Commission)
Title: Overheating in care homes (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speakers: Harriet Orr and Alex Cutler (Environment Agency)
Title: Climate resilience and the national flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speakers: Paul Sayers (Sayers and Partners); stakeholder response from Mike Steel (Environment Agency)
Title: Simulating spatially coherent widespread flood events across the UK (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speaker: Liz Sharp (University of Sheffield); stakeholder response from Lee Pitcher (Yorkshire Water)
Title: The feasibility of domestic raintanks contributing to urban flood resilience (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speakers: Julien Harou (University of Manchester); stakeholder response from Steve Moncaster (Water Resources East)
Title: Seeking water resource resilience at national, regional and landscape scales in England and Wales (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speakers: Jon Stenning (Cambridge Econometrics); stakeholder response from Paul Sayers (Sayers and Partners)
Title: UK-SSPs: setting out socioeconomic trajectories for climate resilience research (see event listing for slides and webinar links)
Speakers: Claire Scannell/Lizzie Kendon (Met Office)
Title: Urban climate change and climate services (see event listing)
Speaker: Professor Lisa Collins (University of Leeds) and Karro Food Group Ltd
Title: Smart systems approaches for climate resilient livestock production (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Dr Neil MacDonald (University of Liverpool) and Dr Thomas Kjeldsen (University of Bath)
Title: Building UK climate resilience through bridging the qualitative-quantitative data divide (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Don Monteith (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) and Fraser Leith (Scottish Water)
Title: Forecasting risk of environmental exacerbation of dissolved organic matter – building climate change resilience (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Robert Nicholls (Tyndall Centre, UEA) and Charlotte Thompson (CoastalRes Consortium)
Title: Coastal Resilience to Flood and Erosion Hazard: A Demonstration for England (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Declan Conway (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), Dr Alistair Nesbitt (Vinescapes), Dr Kate Gannon (GRI), Prof Steve Dorling (University of East Anglia)
Title: Characterising and adapting to climate risks in the UK wine sector (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Andrew Charlton-Perez (University of Reading)/Mark Harrison (Met Office)
Title: Understanding heat related mortality (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speakers: Simon Brown / Daniel Cotterill (Met Office)
Title: Statistical analysis and attribution of impact relevant climate extremes (see event listing for slides and videos of webinar)
Speaker: Professor Nick Pidgeon and Christina Demski (Cardiff University), with Frances Pimenta (Defra)
Title: Understanding UK perceptions of climate risk and resilience (see event listing for videos of webinar)
Speaker: Prof Richard Betts, MBE (University of Exeter and Met Office), and Kathryn Brown (Committee on Climate Change)
Title: Gathering the evidence for the 3rd UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (See event listing for slides and videos of the webinar)
Speakers: Prof Rachel Warren (Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia), Alan Kennedy-Asser and Jeff Price, with a response by Gemma Holmes, Committee on Climate Change
Title: IMPRES: Impacts and risk assessment to better inform resilience planning (See event listing for slides and videos of the webinar)
Speakers: Dr Kate Lonsdale, UK Climate Resilience Champion, and Tom Hughes, Senior Policy Advisor, National Infrastructure Commission
Title: Creating climate resilience in the UK: What does this mean, and how might we achieve it? (See event listing for slides and videos of the webinar)
Speakers: Professor Hayley Fowler, Professor of Climate Change Impacts, Newcastle University (Project PI) and Murray Dale, Technical Director and Chartered Meteorologist, JBA
Title: FUTURE-DRAINAGE: Ensemble climate change rainfall estimates for sustainable drainage (See event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Dr Freya Garry, Climate Scientist, Met Office and Dr Tom Denbigh (Defra)
Title: How will multiple climate hazards impact UK food over the 21st Century? (See event listing for slides and webinar recording plus answers to Q&A)
Speakers: Professor Nigel Arnell, Professor of Climate Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading and Brendan Freeman (Committee on Climate Change)
Title: Indicators of changing climate risk in the UK (See event listing for slides and webinar recording)
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A UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCRP) lunchtime webinar series in which both researchers and stakeholders participate. The webinars showcase projects conducted for UKRI and by the Met Office for the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme and...
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UK Climate Resilience Programme Webinar Series 2021 Date: 24 March, 12-1pm GMT Speakers: Mike Davies (UCL); stakeholder response from April Cole (Care Quality Commission) Chair: Kate Lonsdale See links to a video of the webinar and...
