VIRTUAL MEETING | Understanding The Weather of 2020
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Virtual Meeting
UPDATE | Registration has now closed for this meeting. Please email conferences@rmets.org to register and receive the joining link.
SPEAKER | Peter Gibbs, Meteorologist and broadcaster
BIOGRAPHY | Meteorologist and broadcaster Peter Gibbs spent more than 30 years as a front line forecaster with the UK’s Met Office and as one of the BBC national weather presenting team.
Peter’s first job as a meteorologist was running the weather observation programme at the British Antarctic Survey’s remote Halley research station in Antarctica in the early 1980s, spending two consecutive winters on the ice. He returned to Antarctica in 2016 to report on the global importance of the science programme at Halley for the BBC’s flagship science show ‘Horizon’.
Peter has worked with a number of organisations to try to modernise and improve access to weather and climate services across Africa, which has the potential to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. He sits on the board of the University of Reading’s Walker Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute developing policy to enable communities to build resilience to climate change especially in the global south.
Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading.
ABSTRACT | This presentation will review the weather of 2020, highlighting notable events both in the UK and globally, and discussing this in the context of climate change and La Nina. This is a shorter ‘taster session’ version of the Society’s popular ‘Understanding the weather’ series and will suit all Royal Meteorological Society members, from young to old.
This meeting is being held during a lunch time hour 12:00-13:00. The event process remains the same, whereby you will receive the joining link for the meeting 24 hours in advance, if registering before the 31st March, or on the day of the event if registering between the evening of the 30th and the morning of the 31st .
The presentation will last for approximately 45 minutes, with a 15 minute Q&A session at the end.
VIRTUAL MEETING | Understanding The Weather of 2020 | Recording
UPDATE | Registration has now closed for this meeting. Please email conferences@rmets.org to register and receive the joining link.
SPEAKER | Peter Gibbs, Meteorologist and broadcaster
BIOGRAPHY | Meteorologist and broadcaster Peter Gibbs spent more than 30 years as a front line forecaster with the UK’s Met Office and as one of the BBC national weather presenting team.
Peter’s first job as a meteorologist was running the weather observation programme at the British Antarctic Survey’s remote Halley research station in Antarctica in the early 1980s, spending two consecutive winters on the ice. He returned to Antarctica in 2016 to report on the global importance of the science programme at Halley for the BBC’s flagship science show ‘Horizon’.
Peter has worked with a number of organisations to try to modernise and improve access to weather and climate services across Africa, which has the potential to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. He sits on the board of the University of Reading’s Walker Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute developing policy to enable communities to build resilience to climate change especially in the global south.
Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading.
ABSTRACT | This presentation will review the weather of 2020, highlighting notable events both in the UK and globally, and discussing this in the context of climate change and La Nina. This is a shorter ‘taster session’ version of the Society’s popular ‘Understanding the weather’ series and will suit all Royal Meteorological Society members, from young to old.
This meeting is being held during a lunch time hour 12:00-13:00. The event process remains the same, whereby you will receive the joining link for the meeting 24 hours in advance, if registering before the 31st March, or on the day of the event if registering between the evening of the 30th and the morning of the 31st .
The presentation will last for approximately 45 minutes, with a 15 minute Q&A session at the end.