Helen Hooker
@hooker_helen
Researcher @UniRdg_Met 🌦@UniRdg_water ☔️ | Flood forecasting | Climate change | Tropical cyclones | Former @POST_UK Fellow | 🏊♀️ 🚴♀️ 🏃♀️
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12-11-2012 20:59:53
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Happy writers at our @ecmwf Water @ Reading #WritingRetreat
Many fabulous journal articles now in progress ✍️ 💪
Alternatively, from a real expert:
'Cloud seeding did not cause Dubai floods'
Check out the comments from Reading Meteorology meteorologist, Professor Maarten Ambaum:
reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Expe…
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Join us for the Peter Wolf Early Careers Symposium on 8-9th May at Bristol University.
Register here: forms.office.com/r/kufEbLaR7T.
Talk/poster submission deadline is 8th April. Do tell us/show us what you've been up to!
#bhs #EarlyCareer #UniversityofBristol
Congratulations to @unirdg_DARC student Helen Hooker for passing her PhD viva today! I failed in my supervisor's duty to take a post-viva photo, so instead here is a picture of her at work on her PhD by artist Hugo Dalton Studio
Tropical Storm #Filipo can be seen below making its way towards #Mozambique , where it is predicted to make landfall soon.
Captured by our #Meteosat10 satellite over 48 hours between 09 and 11 March 🛰️
Track its movements here: youtube.com/watch?v=dPe2wD…
#EO #EarthFromSpace
🚨Next Tuesday we are holding an evidence session on flooding.
▪️We will examine issues including the impact of climate change on flooding risks, and sufficiency of public investment in flood defences.
📺Watch live from 2:30pm: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/74…
committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/e…
This week's Social Metwork Reading Meteorology blog features Helen Hooker who discusses the carbon offsetting report she recently published for POST (UK Parliament): socialmetwork.blog/2024/02/09/pos…
Check out our latest blog post from Ieuan Higgs looking at some applications machine learning is finding in data assimilation research!
research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/2024/…
🚨 #MachineLearning #AI Job alert Uni of Reading ECMWF
Want to revolutionise land surface hydrology in Earth System models? 🌍
5 year postdoc position - apply by 19 Feb 2024
Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction research programme #AFESP
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jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM942/pos…
(1) currently 307 #floodwarnings and 334 flood alerts across the UK. River levels are still rising in many places. Check your flood risk check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/alerts-and-war…. At risk? See thread below 👇
Interested in a PhD next year on summer European flooding, extreme storms, and climate change? Based at the University of Reading with myself, Alison Key from UKCEH, Rob Lamb from JBA and Ben Harvey from NCAS. Apply before 12 Jan - click image for details. research.reading.ac.uk/scenario/sc202…
PhD studentships available DARC - Data Assimilation Research Centre . We're looking for talented, enthusiastic students with backgrounds in maths, physics, engineering and computer science for our Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction programme.
Deadline 7 Jan. research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system-p…
Fully funded Natural Environment Research Council studentships available for Autumn 2024 entry with Scenario. Including scholarships for Home candidates from Black, Asian or minoritised ethnic communities Uni of Reading University of Surrey British Geological Survey UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ZSL Science
research.reading.ac.uk/scenario/apply/