VIRTUAL | Weather Stories from the Archives
LOCATION
Virtual Meeting
SPEAKER: Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool
Georgina Endfield is Professor of Environmental History and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Impact for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool, England. She has worked on a range of environmental and climate history and historical climatology projects over the past two decades. Her expertise is in the use of historical records and sources for the reconstruction of climate variability over time. She has drawn on a variety of sources and oral history approaches to investigate the histories of climate variability in a variety of spatial and temporal contexts in Mexico and in southern Africa and to explore the timing, impacts of and responses to extreme weather events across the UK.
SUMMARY: This talk focuses specifically on experiences of unusual or extreme weather events as recorded through historical documentary sources. The presentation will consider the different ways in which people have written about and described (or depicted) the weather, how they have recorded, anticipated and predicted the weather and how they have tried to understand it. Particular attention is paid to accounts of extreme or unusual weather events across the UK over the past 400 years.
The talk will be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minute question and answer session.
Registration
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. As part of the registration process you will be asked to provide personal information (name and contact email address). Any information you provide to us will only be used by The Royal Meteorological Society and appointed representatives.
Multiple registrations made with the same email address are no longer accepted online. Every registration must have a different name AND a unique email address.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome.
If you have any queries with regards to this event or require any further information please contact us at meetings@rmets.org
SPEAKER: Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool
Georgina Endfield is Professor of Environmental History and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Impact for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool, England. She has worked on a range of environmental and climate history and historical climatology projects over the past two decades. Her expertise is in the use of historical records and sources for the reconstruction of climate variability over time. She has drawn on a variety of sources and oral history approaches to investigate the histories of climate variability in a variety of spatial and temporal contexts in Mexico and in southern Africa and to explore the timing, impacts of and responses to extreme weather events across the UK.
SUMMARY: This talk focuses specifically on experiences of unusual or extreme weather events as recorded through historical documentary sources. The presentation will consider the different ways in which people have written about and described (or depicted) the weather, how they have recorded, anticipated and predicted the weather and how they have tried to understand it. Particular attention is paid to accounts of extreme or unusual weather events across the UK over the past 400 years.
The talk will be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minute question and answer session.
Registration
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. As part of the registration process you will be asked to provide personal information (name and contact email address). Any information you provide to us will only be used by The Royal Meteorological Society and appointed representatives.
Multiple registrations made with the same email address are no longer accepted online. Every registration must have a different name AND a unique email address.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome.
If you have any queries with regards to this event or require any further information please contact us at meetings@rmets.org