Academic Duties - Richard P. Allan
Teaching (see also...)
- MT2CC1A The Science of Climate Change (co-convenor) 2009-present
- MTMG16 Climate Change (convenor) 2010-present
- Additional Activities
- External Teaching activities
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- Developing and running 3-4 core lectures
- setting and marking essays/coursework
- setting and marking exam questions
- setting online formative assessment
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- coordinate programme
- 4-7 lectures inc group work and coordinating programme
- set problem classes
- set and mark exam papers
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- MT1CC Introduction to Meteorology (contributor)
- MT37A BSc dissertations: supervising, marking
- MTMG99 MSc dissertations: supervising, marking
- MTMG05 MSc Team Projects: supervising and marking
- MTMG04 Current Weather and Climate Discussion contributor
- MTMA40 Module supporter
- Peer Observation
- Exam scrutiny committee
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- NCAS ES4 Spring school (2010-2011)
- Water vapour in the climate system (WAVACS) summer school, Corsica (2009)
- Climate Change course - Randolph College, Reading (2008)
- MISU (Stockholm) PhD lecture course (2007)
Tutoring
- BSc Tutor
- MSc tutor
- BSc dissertation supervision
- MSc dissertation supervision
- MSc team project supervision
- PhD/MPhil students
- PhD monitoring committees
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- Andrew King (2010/11)
- Robert Graham (2010/11)
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- Christopher Lattimore, Katie McLean, Nurulinani Haji Jahari (2011)
- Jessica Day, Belinda Bates (2010)
Dissertation Supervision
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- A. Doran (2011)
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- David Vogel (2011/12) visiting from ETH | MSc dissertation
- Hlobsile Sikhosanna (2011)
- Chris Burton (2011) | MSc dissertation
- Simon Rogerson (2010, distinction)
- Ian Hissett (2009)
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- Earth's Energy Imbalance (2011)
- Changing Water Cycle (2009)
PhD Supervision
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- Kerian Ferreira (with Nigel Arnell, 2011-)
- Ross Maidment (with David Grimes, 2009-2012)
- Claire Barber (with Mark Ringer, Met Office CASE supervisor, 2008-2012)
- Nicky Chalmers (with Robin Hogan, PhD 2011)
- Helen Whitall (with Tony Slingo and Ali Bharmal, MPhil 2010)
- Ruth Comer (with Tony Slingo, PhD, 2008)
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- James Taylor (Chair, 2010-)
- Simon Rogerson (2010-)
- Peter Hill (Chair, 2009-)
- Adrian Champion (Chair, 2009-)
- Kaah Menang (Chair, 2009-)
- Tom Philp (2009-)
- Helen White (2006-2009)
- Peter Henderson (2006-2009)
- Ruth Comer (2005-2008)
Management
- PDRAs
- Staff Development Reviewing
- Mentoring
- Additional Activities
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- PREPARE PI: PDRA (Matthias Zahn, 2010-2013)
- CASCADE Co-I: PDRA (Kevin Pearson, with Robin Hogan, 2008-2011)
- FENNEC Co-I: PDRA (Claire Ryder, with Ellie Highwood, 2010-2013)
- HadIR/MW JCWRP PI: PDRA (Viju John, with Roger Saunders, Met Office, 2009-2014)
- PAGODA Joing PI: PDRA (Chunlei Liu, 2010-2013)
- CALM PI: PDRA (Charlie Williams, 2011-2012)
- HYDEF Co-I: PDRA (David Lavers, with Andrew Wade)
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- Laura Wilcox (2012-)
- Ben Harvey (2012-)
- David Brayshaw (2012-)
- Maria Valdivieso (2012-)
- Hilary Wellar (2011)
- Margaret Woodage (2009-2010)
- Kevin Pearson (2009-2010)
- Ali Bharmal (2009)
- Joanna Futyan (2009)
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- Maria Valdivieso (2011-)
- Ali Bharmal (2009)
- Joanna Futyan (2009)
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- promotions committee
- Research Excellence Framework reviewer
- Interview Panels: Chair, member and sifting
- Coordinating NCEO-NCAS climate and outreach
- P2P Procurement authorisation responsibility for NCAS
- Deputy Fire Warden
External Activities
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, contributing author and reviewer (2004-2013)
- Improving Hydrological Predictions Steering Group committee (Met Office)
- Meetings and special issues
- Peer review
- External membership
- PhD examinations
- Seminars and lectures(more details...)
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- ISSI meeting on Earth Energy Flows and Special Issue of Surveys of Geophysics(2010-2012)
- Environmental Research Letters (2010)
- AGU Fall meeting session (2009)
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- Grant applications (NERC, NSF, Swiss National Science)
- Journal articles (including Nature, J.Climate, etc)
- Journal of Climate Associate Editor (2008-)
- NERC peer review college (2006-2010)
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- Member of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget science team (1999-)
- Associate member of CERES science team (2003-)
- Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)
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- Kwun Chan, Imperial College
- Alessandro Ipe, RMIB, Belgium (2011)
- Tim Andrews, Leeds (2010)
- Rachel Holley, University of Reading (2009)
- Nicolas Clerbeau, RMIB, Belgium (2008)
- Laila Read, Imperial College (2004)
Meetings
- Internal
- External
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- Weekly and termly Meteorology staff meeting
- NCAS weekly meetings and monthly senior staff meeting
- Occasional: Radiation, TAMSAT, NCEO
- Walker Associates meetings
- Weekly departmental seminars
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- External Seminars
- AGU and EGU International Conferences
- ISSI and WAVACS workshops
- RMetS and IOP focussed meetings
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- GERB and CERES science team meetings
- Met Office Improving Hydrological Predictions steering committee
- NCAS, NCEO and RMetS annual national meeting
- Changing Water Cycle
- Additional meetings/workshops
Public Engagement and outreach
- Coordinate Meteorology department Outreach activities
- Continuing Education Courses (OUCE)
- Additional activities (schools talks, media interviews, etc), for example:
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- run Year 10/12 schools day
- coordinate requests for outreach activities (schools visits, etc)
- Develop NCAS Climate Public Engagement Strategy
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- Introduction to Weather and Climate (10 2-hour lectures and marking, 2007-present)
- Climate Change: past, present and future (10 2-hour lectures and marking, 2007-present)
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- Media interviews, e.g. BBC radio 4 | Reuters | Daily India | Discovery News |
- Frontier Science Lecture at Association of Science Teachers National Conference (2011)
Training
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
- Media Training
- Interviewing
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Richard P. Allan Location: Department of Meteorology (2U15)