A UK Climate Resilience Programme 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 unless otherwise stated.
For links to videos and slides from past webinars, see the pink section below (or go directly to the webinars playlist for recordings on our YouTube channel).
Title: Putting resilience into Manchester Climate Change Agency (see event listing)
Speaker: Paul O’Hare (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Title: Choices for the future of UK climate information: project findings (see event listing)
Speaker: Murray Dale (JBA) (plus responder tbc)
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SUMMER BREAK
Title: The Economic Case for Climate Change Adaptation
Speakers: Paul Watkiss (Paul Watkiss Associates) and Nigel Miller (Defra) (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Meghan Alexander (UEA, Tyndall Centre) and Tim Rayner (UEA, Tyndall Centre). Respondent: Tom Handysides (Defra)
Title: Explaining the adaptation gap in the UK: The hidden story of policy lock-ins (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Megan Bickle (Defra), Natalie Roberts (Defra) and Liz Bergere (Defra)
Title: UK Climate Change Risk Assessments and working towards NAP3 (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Louise Wilson (Met Office) and Nicola Golding (Met Office) with respondents Katy Peat (Defra) and Michiko Hama (MeteoSwiss)
Title: Developing a National Framework for Climate Services for the UK (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Lea Berrang Ford (University of Leeds and LA of Chapter 16, Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions) and Diana Reckien (University of Twente and CLA of Chapter 17, Decision Making Options for Managing Risk). Respondent: Richard Millar (Head of Adaptation and Climate Science, Climate Change Committee)
Title: IPCC WGII report – Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability: insights and implications (Part 2) (See event listing for slides and webinar recording)
(In collaboration with the Priestley International Centre for Climate)
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Speakers: Mike Morecroft (Natural England and CLA of Chapter 2, Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and their Services) and Daniela Schmidt (University of Bristol and CLA of Chapter 13, Europe). Respondent: James Pearce-Higgins (Director, Science, British Trust for Ornithology)
Title: IPCC WGII report – Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability: insights and implications (Part 1) (See event listing for slides and webinar recording)
(In collaboration with the Priestley International Centre for Climate)
Speakers: Professor Martin Evans (University of Manchester), Tim Thom (Yorkshire Peat Partnership)
Title: Understanding the microbial communities of resilient peatlands (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Professor Hayley Fowler (University of Newcastle), Lizzie Kendon (UK Met Office), Murray Dale (JBA) and Xiaodong Ming (loughborough University)
Title: FUTURE-DRAINAGE (1-3pm GMT, see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Jamie Hannaford (UK Centre for Hydrology and Ecology) with a stakeholder response from Stuart Allen (Environment Agency)
Title: Enhanced future FLows and Groundwater (eFLaG): a climate service to enhance the resilience of the water sector to drought events (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Andrew Carr and Chris Bishop (DEFRA)
Title: UK Government Approaches for Domestic Adaptation and Resilience (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speaker: Rachel Perks (Met Office)
Title: Coastal Defender (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speaker: James Cooper (University of Liverpool)
Title: Erosion hazards in river catchments (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Louise Wilson and Nicola Golding (both Met Office)
Title: Framing the Framework: Addressing the need for a UK National Framework For Climate Services (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Kathryn Brown (UK Climate Change Committee) and Richard Betts (Met Office)
Title: UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Richard Pywell (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and Julian Gold (Farm Manager in Oxfordshire)
Title: CROP-NET: Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Murray Dale (JBA Consulting Limited) and Briony Turner (Space4Climate)
Title: Climate services standards and value (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Áine Ní Bhreasail and David Howlett from The High Level Climate Champions Race to Resilience team
Title: Race to Resilience: an introduction to the global campaign for non-state actors (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Dr Peter Hunter (University of Stirling), Professor Andrew Tyler (University of Stirling) and Dr Claire Neil (SEPA)
Title: Delivering resilience to climate-related impacts on water quality through Earth observation (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speakers: Youssef Nassef (UNFCCC Secretariat), Dr Louise Ellis (University of Leeds), Liam Upson (COP26 Unit, Cabinet Office)
Title: COP26: Implications for enhancing resilience (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
Speaker: Mike Davies (UCL); stakeholder response from April Cole (Care Quality Commission)
Title: Overheating in care homes (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
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 recording)
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 recording)
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 recording)
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 recording)
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 recording)
Speakers: Claire Scannell/Lizzie Kendon (Met Office)
Title: Urban climate change and climate services (see event listing for slides and webinar recording)
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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