VIRTUAL| Student & Early Career Scientists Conference 2020
LOCATION
Webinar
The Royal Meteorological Society are pleased to announce the Student & Early Career Scientists Conference was held this year as a FREE virtual conference!
The Student and Early Career Scientists Annual conference provided an excellent opportunity for Masters, Undergraduate and PhD students, as well as early career scientists, working in fields related to meteorology to present their work in a friendly environment.
There was keynote speakers, poster sessions as well as sessions for oral presentations. Social breaks including a photographic competition. The conference provided you with the opportunity to get to know your fellow scientists chances for discussion on current issues and to network and share your opinions with other delegates.
The virtual conference was split between two days of two oral sessions and two poster sessions. More information regarding attending specific sessions was clarified once you have registered on our events page.
The Climate Press
The Climate Press is an outreach project run by PhD students at the University of Leeds. On the episode "A podcast on how to make a podcast", some tips and tricks on how to start you own podcast from scratch without any previous experience. From advice on web hosts to the podcast edition process, the producers talk about our their own experiences with The Climate Press, their first steps, guests and blogs. At the end all you need is a good idea and willingness to make it happen!
To view the episode, please click here.
To view "The Climate Press" website, please click here.
If you were unable to attend the Virtual Student and Early Career Scientist Conference this year, you are now able to watch all the videos here!
Chair: Shaun Dempsey
Monday 29th June
09:30 2016 Indian Monsoon Cloud Development Observed using Doppler Weather Radar
Alex Doyle, PhD Student, University of Reading
09:45 Investigating air-sea interaction in the Tropical North Atlantic using a novel combination of autonomous vehicles.
Elizabeth Siddle, PhD Student, University of East Anglia
10:00 Goldmine or Bust? Crowdsourced Meteorological Data for Atmospheric Science
Jonathan Coney, MRes Student, University of Leeds
10:15 Uncertainty Assessment of Open Source Gridded Precipitation Datasets: A Case Study at Bole Synoptic Station (Pre-recorded session)
Gertrude Gyamfi, Teaching Assistant, Kwame Nkrumanh University
Grace Esenam Affram, Research and Teaching Assistant, Kwame Nkrumanh University
Chair: Joshua Hampton and Tom Faherty
Monday 29th June
Air Quality
Chair: Tom Faherty
09.30 A new Met Office kilometre-scale national air quality forecast model
Benjamin Drummond, Scientist, Met Office
09.45 DOMestic Energy Systems and Technologies InCubator (DOMESTIC) and indoor air quality of the built environment
Jinghua Li, Researcher, University of Chester
Modelling
Chair: Joshua Hampton
10.00 Statistical methods to quantify and visualise the complex behaviour of clouds in the climate system
Rachel Sansom, 2nd year PGR, University of Leeds
10.15 Mechanisms of internal Atlantic Multidecadal Variability in HadGEM3-GC3.1
Wah Kin Michael Lai, PhD Student, University of Reading
10.30 The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the Aleutian Low
William Dow, PhD Student, University of Leeds
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
Monday 29th June, 10.45 – 11.15
This competition is open to those who register to attend this conference.
Entries will be reviewed by the Conference Delegates, Conference Organising Committee and Keynote Speakers who vote in the social refreshment break. The winner will be announced at the end of the conference on day two, closing remarks and prize winner announcement.
Chair: Kris Boykin
Monday 29th June, 11.15 - 11.50
11.15 Mars' Annular Polar Vortex
Emily Ball, PhD student, University of Bristol
11.20 What are the fine-scale features of the precipitation response to El Niño and what are the meteorological drivers behind this response?
Emma Sanig, Student (Undergraduate dissertation) now completing MSc, University of Birmingham
11.25 Marine Forecast Accuracy Improvement Techniques
Katie Hodge, Graduate trainee scientist, Met Office
11.30 Study of Propagation of Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation from Western Coast to Eastern Coast over Indian Peninsula during Indian Summer Monsoon
Lakshmi Kalavappilly Sajan, Master of research (MRes) student, University of Leeds
Chair: Paloma Trascasa Castro & Jinghua Li
Monday 29th June
11.15 How important are Post-Tropical Cyclones to European Windstorm Risk?
Elliott Sainsbury, PhD student, University of Reading
11.20 The role of increasing vertical resolution on the detection and attribution of North Atlantic storms
Erin Walker, PhD student, University of Bristol
11.25 Effects of cumulus physics, nudging and air-sea flux parameterizations using ERA5 as initial and boundary conditions on the intensity and trajectory of Typhoon Haiyan (2013)
Rafaela Jane Delfino, Dual PhD Student, University of Reading and University of the Philippines-Diliman
11.30 Evaluation of a prediction for road surface conditions by METRo model with ASOS
Taeyoon Eom, Student, Integrated Circuit Design Lab., Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
11.35 How is human-induced climate change altering extreme wildfire events?
Zhongwei Liu, PhD researcher, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Monday 29th June, 12.00- 13.00
Chair: Paloma Trascasa Castro
Monday 29th June, 13.00-13.35
13.00 Inferring London’s Methane Emissions from Atmospheric Measurements
Daniel Hoare, PhD student, University of Bristol
13.05 Extracting likely scenarios from high resolution forecasts in real-time
Kris Boykin, PhD student, University of Reading
13.10 Which Dynamical Factors Influence the Seasonal Predictability of Winter Windstorms over the North Atlantic/European Region?
Lisa Degenhardt, PhD student, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham UK
13.15 Using model nudging to constrain rapid adjustment radiative forcing from short-lived anthropogenic pollutants
Max Coleman, First year PhD student, University of Reading
13.20 Future drought risk in East Anglia: from the meteorological to the impact perspective
Nele Reyniers, PhD student, University of East Anglia
Chair: Joanna Raymond & Kris Boykin
Monday 29th June, 13.45- 15.10
Tamsin Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Carla Denyer, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol West & Councillor for Clifton Down
Julieanna Powell- Turner, Centre for Research into Environmental Science and Technology, University of Chester
Joseph Howe, Thornton Energy Research Institute
Chair: Tom Faherty
Monday 29th June, 15.15 – 16.00
Chair: Joanna Raymond
Tuesday 30th June
09.30 Quantifying methane fluxes and their source using a Bayesian inverse model and observations of co-emitted tracers
Alice Ramsden, PhD Student, University of Bristol
09.45 What is the cause of a spontaneous rapid climate change in transient simulations of the last ice age to the present?
Brooke Snoll, MRes Student, University of Leeds
10.00 Using remote sensing to assess the climate mitigation potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Viola Heinrich, PhD Student, University of Bristol
10.15 Mountain forest change and the impact on the water cycle of large river basins (Pre-recorded presentation)
Xinyue He, PhD Student, University of Leeds
10.30 Climate change and the extreme heat related impacts on the London Underground infrastructure (Pre-recorded presentation)
Sarah Greenham, PhD Student, University of Birmingham
Chair: Amethyst Johnson & Ben Pickering
Tuesday 30th June
Dynamics
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
09.30 Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure systems by Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction models
Akshay Deoras, PhD Student, University of Reading
09.45 Climatology and Structure of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Southern West Africa
Michael Baidu, PhD Researcher, University of Leeds
10.00 Tides of the Polar Mesosphere-Lower-Thermosphere: Observations and model comparisons
Shaun Dempsey, PhD Student, University of Bath
10.15 Can we wave goodbye to parameterisations?
Timothy Banyard, PhD Student, University of Bath
Meteorological Applications
Chair: Ben Pickering
10.30 Using aircraft accidents and incidents to evaluate the skill of clear-air turbulence diagnostics
Mark Prosser, PhD Researcher, University of Reading
10.45 User-defined regimes: improving forecasts of good drying weather for farmers in Oxfordshire
Alicia Gleeson, Meteorologist, Lake Street Consulting Ltd
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
Tuesday 30th June, 11.00 - 11.30
This competition is open to those who register to attend this conference.
Entries will be reviewed by the Conference Delegates, Conference Organising Committee and Keynote Speakers who vote in the social refreshment break. The winner will be announced at the end of the conference on day two, closing remarks and prize winner announcement.
Chair: Jinghua Li and Ben Pickering
Tuesday 30th June, 11.30-12.05
11.30 On the linearity of the stratospheric and Euro-Atlantic sector response to ENSO
Paloma Trascasa Castro, PhD student, University of Leeds
11.35 Estimating charges on aerosols near the surface of Venus
Amethyst Johnson, student, University of Manchester
11.40 Study of the meteorological profile of Ahmedabad City and its relation to air pollutant dispersion in the city.
Dhyey Solanki, Research intern, Global Centre of Environment and Energy (GCEE), Ahmedabad University (AU) Rudradutt Thaker, Student, Global centre for Environment and Energy (GCEE), Ahmedabad University Mihir Prajapati, Student, Global centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University
11.45 Investigating how the U.S. insurance industry could be impacted by the use of comprehensive flood maps: Hurricane Harvey Case Study
Steph Hodsman, GIS and Hazard Mapping Specialist, JBA Risk Management Ltd
11.50 Meteorological Influences on Lightning Strength in a Changing Climate
Isabel Smith, Final year undergraduate on an integrated Masters, University of Reading
11.55 Weatherproofing for a smarter, resilient, and more sustainable agri-sector
Joanna Raymond, PhD student, University of East Anglia
Tuesday 30th June, 12.15-14.00
Chair: Hannah Brown & Shaun Dempsey
Tuesday 30th June, 14.00-15.00
Clare Nasir, Met Office
Podcasting for climate science- Motivation, benefits, and outreach
Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey
The world of journals
Becky Hemmingway, ECMWF
Closing Remarks and Prize Winners Announcement
Chair: Liz Bentley
Tuesday 30th June, 15.15 - 16.00
Tuesday 30th June, 16.00
Call for papers
Abstracts submissions are now closed!
If you would like to submit an abstract, please contact conferences@rmets.org.
We take abstracts from undergraduate students, graduate students and early career scientists in fields related to meteorology and climate. We accept a broad range of work from meteorology, atmospheric physics and climate science and encourage the submission of work in its preliminary stages.
Download detailed guidelines and a list of keywords to include with your abstract from the Resources section at the bottom of this page.
If you have submitted an abstract these will be reviewed by the committee in early March.
Photo: © Josephine Cobden. Student Conference Photo Competition Winner 2019
Resources
The Royal Meteorological Society are pleased to announce the Student & Early Career Scientists Conference was held this year as a FREE virtual conference!
The Student and Early Career Scientists Annual conference provided an excellent opportunity for Masters, Undergraduate and PhD students, as well as early career scientists, working in fields related to meteorology to present their work in a friendly environment.
There was keynote speakers, poster sessions as well as sessions for oral presentations. Social breaks including a photographic competition. The conference provided you with the opportunity to get to know your fellow scientists chances for discussion on current issues and to network and share your opinions with other delegates.
The virtual conference was split between two days of two oral sessions and two poster sessions. More information regarding attending specific sessions was clarified once you have registered on our events page.
The Climate Press
The Climate Press is an outreach project run by PhD students at the University of Leeds. On the episode "A podcast on how to make a podcast", some tips and tricks on how to start you own podcast from scratch without any previous experience. From advice on web hosts to the podcast edition process, the producers talk about our their own experiences with The Climate Press, their first steps, guests and blogs. At the end all you need is a good idea and willingness to make it happen!
To view the episode, please click here.
To view "The Climate Press" website, please click here.
If you were unable to attend the Virtual Student and Early Career Scientist Conference this year, you are now able to watch all the videos here!
Chair: Shaun Dempsey
Monday 29th June
09:30 2016 Indian Monsoon Cloud Development Observed using Doppler Weather Radar
Alex Doyle, PhD Student, University of Reading
09:45 Investigating air-sea interaction in the Tropical North Atlantic using a novel combination of autonomous vehicles.
Elizabeth Siddle, PhD Student, University of East Anglia
10:00 Goldmine or Bust? Crowdsourced Meteorological Data for Atmospheric Science
Jonathan Coney, MRes Student, University of Leeds
10:15 Uncertainty Assessment of Open Source Gridded Precipitation Datasets: A Case Study at Bole Synoptic Station (Pre-recorded session)
Gertrude Gyamfi, Teaching Assistant, Kwame Nkrumanh University
Grace Esenam Affram, Research and Teaching Assistant, Kwame Nkrumanh University
Chair: Joshua Hampton and Tom Faherty
Monday 29th June
Air Quality
Chair: Tom Faherty
09.30 A new Met Office kilometre-scale national air quality forecast model
Benjamin Drummond, Scientist, Met Office
09.45 DOMestic Energy Systems and Technologies InCubator (DOMESTIC) and indoor air quality of the built environment
Jinghua Li, Researcher, University of Chester
Modelling
Chair: Joshua Hampton
10.00 Statistical methods to quantify and visualise the complex behaviour of clouds in the climate system
Rachel Sansom, 2nd year PGR, University of Leeds
10.15 Mechanisms of internal Atlantic Multidecadal Variability in HadGEM3-GC3.1
Wah Kin Michael Lai, PhD Student, University of Reading
10.30 The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the Aleutian Low
William Dow, PhD Student, University of Leeds
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
Monday 29th June, 10.45 – 11.15
This competition is open to those who register to attend this conference.
Entries will be reviewed by the Conference Delegates, Conference Organising Committee and Keynote Speakers who vote in the social refreshment break. The winner will be announced at the end of the conference on day two, closing remarks and prize winner announcement.
Chair: Kris Boykin
Monday 29th June, 11.15 - 11.50
11.15 Mars' Annular Polar Vortex
Emily Ball, PhD student, University of Bristol
11.20 What are the fine-scale features of the precipitation response to El Niño and what are the meteorological drivers behind this response?
Emma Sanig, Student (Undergraduate dissertation) now completing MSc, University of Birmingham
11.25 Marine Forecast Accuracy Improvement Techniques
Katie Hodge, Graduate trainee scientist, Met Office
11.30 Study of Propagation of Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation from Western Coast to Eastern Coast over Indian Peninsula during Indian Summer Monsoon
Lakshmi Kalavappilly Sajan, Master of research (MRes) student, University of Leeds
Chair: Paloma Trascasa Castro & Jinghua Li
Monday 29th June
11.15 How important are Post-Tropical Cyclones to European Windstorm Risk?
Elliott Sainsbury, PhD student, University of Reading
11.20 The role of increasing vertical resolution on the detection and attribution of North Atlantic storms
Erin Walker, PhD student, University of Bristol
11.25 Effects of cumulus physics, nudging and air-sea flux parameterizations using ERA5 as initial and boundary conditions on the intensity and trajectory of Typhoon Haiyan (2013)
Rafaela Jane Delfino, Dual PhD Student, University of Reading and University of the Philippines-Diliman
11.30 Evaluation of a prediction for road surface conditions by METRo model with ASOS
Taeyoon Eom, Student, Integrated Circuit Design Lab., Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
11.35 How is human-induced climate change altering extreme wildfire events?
Zhongwei Liu, PhD researcher, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Monday 29th June, 12.00- 13.00
Chair: Paloma Trascasa Castro
Monday 29th June, 13.00-13.35
13.00 Inferring London’s Methane Emissions from Atmospheric Measurements
Daniel Hoare, PhD student, University of Bristol
13.05 Extracting likely scenarios from high resolution forecasts in real-time
Kris Boykin, PhD student, University of Reading
13.10 Which Dynamical Factors Influence the Seasonal Predictability of Winter Windstorms over the North Atlantic/European Region?
Lisa Degenhardt, PhD student, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham UK
13.15 Using model nudging to constrain rapid adjustment radiative forcing from short-lived anthropogenic pollutants
Max Coleman, First year PhD student, University of Reading
13.20 Future drought risk in East Anglia: from the meteorological to the impact perspective
Nele Reyniers, PhD student, University of East Anglia
Chair: Joanna Raymond & Kris Boykin
Monday 29th June, 13.45- 15.10
Tamsin Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Carla Denyer, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol West & Councillor for Clifton Down
Julieanna Powell- Turner, Centre for Research into Environmental Science and Technology, University of Chester
Joseph Howe, Thornton Energy Research Institute
Chair: Tom Faherty
Monday 29th June, 15.15 – 16.00
Chair: Joanna Raymond
Tuesday 30th June
09.30 Quantifying methane fluxes and their source using a Bayesian inverse model and observations of co-emitted tracers
Alice Ramsden, PhD Student, University of Bristol
09.45 What is the cause of a spontaneous rapid climate change in transient simulations of the last ice age to the present?
Brooke Snoll, MRes Student, University of Leeds
10.00 Using remote sensing to assess the climate mitigation potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Viola Heinrich, PhD Student, University of Bristol
10.15 Mountain forest change and the impact on the water cycle of large river basins (Pre-recorded presentation)
Xinyue He, PhD Student, University of Leeds
10.30 Climate change and the extreme heat related impacts on the London Underground infrastructure (Pre-recorded presentation)
Sarah Greenham, PhD Student, University of Birmingham
Chair: Amethyst Johnson & Ben Pickering
Tuesday 30th June
Dynamics
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
09.30 Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure systems by Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction models
Akshay Deoras, PhD Student, University of Reading
09.45 Climatology and Structure of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Southern West Africa
Michael Baidu, PhD Researcher, University of Leeds
10.00 Tides of the Polar Mesosphere-Lower-Thermosphere: Observations and model comparisons
Shaun Dempsey, PhD Student, University of Bath
10.15 Can we wave goodbye to parameterisations?
Timothy Banyard, PhD Student, University of Bath
Meteorological Applications
Chair: Ben Pickering
10.30 Using aircraft accidents and incidents to evaluate the skill of clear-air turbulence diagnostics
Mark Prosser, PhD Researcher, University of Reading
10.45 User-defined regimes: improving forecasts of good drying weather for farmers in Oxfordshire
Alicia Gleeson, Meteorologist, Lake Street Consulting Ltd
Chair: Amethyst Johnson
Tuesday 30th June, 11.00 - 11.30
This competition is open to those who register to attend this conference.
Entries will be reviewed by the Conference Delegates, Conference Organising Committee and Keynote Speakers who vote in the social refreshment break. The winner will be announced at the end of the conference on day two, closing remarks and prize winner announcement.
Chair: Jinghua Li and Ben Pickering
Tuesday 30th June, 11.30-12.05
11.30 On the linearity of the stratospheric and Euro-Atlantic sector response to ENSO
Paloma Trascasa Castro, PhD student, University of Leeds
11.35 Estimating charges on aerosols near the surface of Venus
Amethyst Johnson, student, University of Manchester
11.40 Study of the meteorological profile of Ahmedabad City and its relation to air pollutant dispersion in the city.
Dhyey Solanki, Research intern, Global Centre of Environment and Energy (GCEE), Ahmedabad University (AU) Rudradutt Thaker, Student, Global centre for Environment and Energy (GCEE), Ahmedabad University Mihir Prajapati, Student, Global centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University
11.45 Investigating how the U.S. insurance industry could be impacted by the use of comprehensive flood maps: Hurricane Harvey Case Study
Steph Hodsman, GIS and Hazard Mapping Specialist, JBA Risk Management Ltd
11.50 Meteorological Influences on Lightning Strength in a Changing Climate
Isabel Smith, Final year undergraduate on an integrated Masters, University of Reading
11.55 Weatherproofing for a smarter, resilient, and more sustainable agri-sector
Joanna Raymond, PhD student, University of East Anglia
Tuesday 30th June, 12.15-14.00
Chair: Hannah Brown & Shaun Dempsey
Tuesday 30th June, 14.00-15.00
Clare Nasir, Met Office
Podcasting for climate science- Motivation, benefits, and outreach
Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey
The world of journals
Becky Hemmingway, ECMWF
Closing Remarks and Prize Winners Announcement
Chair: Liz Bentley
Tuesday 30th June, 15.15 - 16.00
Tuesday 30th June, 16.00
Call for papers
Abstracts submissions are now closed!
If you would like to submit an abstract, please contact conferences@rmets.org.
We take abstracts from undergraduate students, graduate students and early career scientists in fields related to meteorology and climate. We accept a broad range of work from meteorology, atmospheric physics and climate science and encourage the submission of work in its preliminary stages.
Download detailed guidelines and a list of keywords to include with your abstract from the Resources section at the bottom of this page.
If you have submitted an abstract these will be reviewed by the committee in early March.
Photo: © Josephine Cobden. Student Conference Photo Competition Winner 2019