The listings below are for climate-related events across the University of Leeds.
If you have an event that you’d like us to promote, email the details to climate@leeds.ac.uk
The Met Office are inviting postgraduate students and early-career researchers to visit their HQ in Exeter on the afternoon of Friday 15th March 2019 to find out more about their work. In particular the work of their research programme and to meet some of their scientists. This could be of use to staff and students...
Joint GCRF-AFRICAP / Priestley Centre knowledge-sharing event GCRF-AFRICAP is a major programme to make agriculture and food production in sub-Saharan Africa more productive, sustainable and resilient to climate change. Topic: Facilitating socio-ecological change using participatory video action research in Malawi Watch a half-hour film ‘Holding Hands’ made by Malawian smallholder farmers, with the support of Pierre Moorsom,...
ICAS external seminar Abstract Future changes in tropical precipitation are predicted to be dominated by shifts in patterns of rainfall rather than increases or decreases related to “thermodynamic” variables or changes in the overall strength of atmospheric circulation. In this talk, a new compositing scheme and simple theory that links potential future changes in rainfall...
Abstract The land biosphere is acting as a significant brake on the rise in atmospheric CO2 by absorbing carbon. Historically, the existence of this land sink came as a bit of a surprise. Here Ralph Keeling will review why we believe that this sink exists, how it might relate to changes in land photosynthesis at the global...
Priestley PhD researcher Pierre Moorsom will introduce a participatory film called Holding Hands, made by Malawian smallholder farmers. The film was funded by a Priestley Centre Pump Priming Fund award. “The power to make change often appears to be out of our hands. Working together to reclaim power in our local contexts, can be the...