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Conference

Want to be a Meteorologist?

DATE

Saturday 23 June 2018
10:00 - 16:00

Add Event to Calendar: Google

LOCATION

Institute of Physics
80 Portland Place
London
W1B 1NT
United Kingdom

On the 23rd July the RMetS held a careers information day for young people aged 14-20. It was a splendid day with an exciting mix of high quality presentations covering early careers in forecasting and academia, as well as more in depth talks on space weather, sting jets and storm naming.

The day was advertised widely on social media and through schools and careers services country wide. This was reflected in the geographical spread of attendees as well as in how they said they had heard of the event.

The Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Reading were represented in our Course ‘speed dating ‘ session which really engaged the young people.

The Institute of Physics kindly supported the event, allowing us to use their central London venue for the day.

All the talks from the day have been recorded and will remain as a permanent resource for students interested in a meteorology career.

Programme

9.30 Registration
10.00 Daniel Brener, University of Edinburgh Introduction
10.05 John Hammond, Co-founder of weathertrending My Life in Meteorology
10.40 Emily Potter, British Antarctic Survey My Early Career
11.00 Alice Gill, Met Office My Early Career
11.20 Craig Poku, University of Leeds Post Graduate Research
11.40 Rebecca Jones, BP My Early Career
12.00 Lunch Break
12.45 Course Speed Dating - Representatives from undergraduate and postgraduate courses including the Universities of Birmingham, Reading, Leeds, UEA and Edinburgh.
13.30 Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office Storm Naming and Communicating Risk
14.00 Dr. Ambrogio Volonte, University of Reading Sting Jets
14.30 Dr. Simon Foster, Imperial College London Space Weather
15.00 Panel discussion Why become a Meteorologist?
15.25 Daniel Brener Final remarks
15.30 Close of Event

 

Event Sponsors

IOP logo

Conference Presentations

Morning Session

10.05 - My Life in Meteorology
John Hammond, Co-founder of weathertrending

10.40 - My Early Career
Emily Potter, British Antarctic Survey

11.00 - My Early Career
Alice Gill, Met Office

11.20 - Post Graduate Research
Craig Poku, University of Leeds

11.40 - My Early Career
Rebecca Jones, BP

Afternoon Session

13.30 - Storm Naming and Communicating Risk
Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office

14.00 - Sting Jets
Dr. Ambrogio Volonte, University of Reading

14.30 - Space Weather
Dr. Simon Foster, Imperial College London

15.00 - Why become a Meteorologist?
Panel Discussion

Resources

10.05 - John Hammond
pdf 929.25 KB
10.40 - Emily Potter
pdf 7.27 MB
11.00 - Alice Gill
pdf 387.69 KB
11.20 - Craig Poku
pdf 2.01 MB
11.40 - Rebecca Jones
pdf 1.32 MB
13.30 - Becky Hemingway
pdf 7.27 MB
14.00 - Ambrogio Volonte
pdf 5.68 MB

On the 23rd July the RMetS held a careers information day for young people aged 14-20. It was a splendid day with an exciting mix of high quality presentations covering early careers in forecasting and academia, as well as more in depth talks on space weather, sting jets and storm naming.

The day was advertised widely on social media and through schools and careers services country wide. This was reflected in the geographical spread of attendees as well as in how they said they had heard of the event.

The Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Reading were represented in our Course ‘speed dating ‘ session which really engaged the young people.

The Institute of Physics kindly supported the event, allowing us to use their central London venue for the day.

All the talks from the day have been recorded and will remain as a permanent resource for students interested in a meteorology career.

Programme

9.30 Registration
10.00 Daniel Brener, University of Edinburgh Introduction
10.05 John Hammond, Co-founder of weathertrending My Life in Meteorology
10.40 Emily Potter, British Antarctic Survey My Early Career
11.00 Alice Gill, Met Office My Early Career
11.20 Craig Poku, University of Leeds Post Graduate Research
11.40 Rebecca Jones, BP My Early Career
12.00 Lunch Break
12.45 Course Speed Dating - Representatives from undergraduate and postgraduate courses including the Universities of Birmingham, Reading, Leeds, UEA and Edinburgh.
13.30 Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office Storm Naming and Communicating Risk
14.00 Dr. Ambrogio Volonte, University of Reading Sting Jets
14.30 Dr. Simon Foster, Imperial College London Space Weather
15.00 Panel discussion Why become a Meteorologist?
15.25 Daniel Brener Final remarks
15.30 Close of Event

 

Event Sponsors

IOP logo

Conference Presentations

Morning Session

10.05 - My Life in Meteorology
John Hammond, Co-founder of weathertrending

10.40 - My Early Career
Emily Potter, British Antarctic Survey

11.00 - My Early Career
Alice Gill, Met Office

11.20 - Post Graduate Research
Craig Poku, University of Leeds

11.40 - My Early Career
Rebecca Jones, BP

Afternoon Session

13.30 - Storm Naming and Communicating Risk
Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office

14.00 - Sting Jets
Dr. Ambrogio Volonte, University of Reading

14.30 - Space Weather
Dr. Simon Foster, Imperial College London

15.00 - Why become a Meteorologist?
Panel Discussion

Resources

10.05 - John Hammond
pdf 929.25 KB
10.40 - Emily Potter
pdf 7.27 MB
11.00 - Alice Gill
pdf 387.69 KB
11.20 - Craig Poku
pdf 2.01 MB
11.40 - Rebecca Jones
pdf 1.32 MB
13.30 - Becky Hemingway
pdf 7.27 MB
14.00 - Ambrogio Volonte
pdf 5.68 MB

DATE

Saturday 23 June 2018
10:00 - 16:00

Add Event to Calendar: Google

LOCATION

Institute of Physics
80 Portland Place
London
W1B 1NT
United Kingdom

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