Keeping It Cool

I’m PhD student at Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU). Bachelor and Master Thesises also were conducted at RSHU. From 2002 I give practical lessons of “Physics of the Atmosphere” for 2 course students in English in RSHU and from 2003 –“Mesometeorology and Nowcasting” for 4 course students in English and Russia in RSHU.
Scientific interests: long-term trends of temperature, geopotential height, zonal wind, stratosphere, lower mesosphere, stationary and traveling planetary waves, climate change. Due to teaching practice– mesometeorology also.

Well it was really good to meet everyone at our St Petersburg workshop. Thank you for sharing your research ideas and information about your present projects. I am hoping to provide some information soon about what funding opportunities are available to our group and provide some ideas about what is hot in the world of ‘keeping it cool.’ This should provide us with plenty of encouragement to write proposals/ talk further after the Russian representatives visit the U.K.

Dear all, the webcasts I recorded in May are finally ready, to watch and listen to them you need Adobe Flash and a sound card installed. Feel free to comment and give your feedback!

Edward Hanna (5.2 MB)

Chris Clark (4.0 MB)

Felix Ng (9.4 MB)

Richard Levine (2.7 MB)

Clare Jones (1.5 MB)

Barry Lomax (1.5 MB)

Noel Robertson’s interview will be available on a later stage.

Hi, I am a  PhD student at RSHU, land hydrology department. also I’m working as a research scientist at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Intsitute (AARI). More than 5 years in a frame of AARI expedition I have a field-works at Svalbard, there I study glaciers and Svalbard rivers. My basic fields of interest are snow research; glacier hydrology; glacier mass balance; glacier drainage systems; Suspended sediments; Polar Regions.

Mel Knight will soon start a new job position as a project officer helping to promote research on global environmental change.  She will help to identify significant funding opportunities, develop networks of researchers and help to prepare funding applications.  She will be part of a team dedicated to developing and strengthening research within interdisciplinary groups on many issues including future climate change.

She gained her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2004 on the topic of Climate change in the 21st century and the impact on continental dunefield activity.  This required the input of GCM climate data into models of sand dune activity to generate different scenarios of how the Kalahari Desert may look over the 21st Century.  Since then she has worked on applications concerned with wind erosion risk and the impacts of a changing climate on vegetation in Australia (a far cry from cold regions)!  She also has experience in working on sustainability issues at the landscape scale and has successfully written reports along with colleagues for various public sector organisations on this topic.  Her work has been published in Nature, Geomorphology and Landscape Research.