Events
Regular Events
- Thursday lunchtime seminars
- Palaeoclimate seminars
- Palaeoclimate reading group
Battarbee lectures
The annual Rick Battarbee Lecture Series started in 2012 to acknowledge and celebrate the huge contributions Rick has made to physical geography. Past lectures have been given by Professor John Dearing (2012), Professor Erik Jepesson (2013), Professor Sheri Fritz (2014), Dr Dick Wright (2015), Dr Alistair Seddon (2016). Professor Eric Wolff FRS (2017). Future confirmed lectures are to be given by Professor Dame Georgina Mace (2018), Professor Melanie Leng (2019).
Special Events
 | This meeting with the Royal Meteorological Society will delve into climates of the recent geological past, from before instrumental records began and when global environmental conditions were different from today. We will address some of the mechanisms that have caused Earth's climate to vary substantially since the cold last glacial maximum (21 thousand years ago, when vast ice sheets covered much of the globe), culminating in the warm climate of the present. The meeting will focus on periods of rapid (decadal-centennial) environmental change, and will offer insights into the modelling and data tools that enable researchers to investigate these past climate states. We will also discuss how researching past climate states and addressing the drivers of past climate transitions could help us to better understand how climate may evolve in the future. |
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