Welcome to the NCAS Early Careers Symposium

A welcome from the organising committee, short introductory session, and some icebreaker activities

Includes a short break

Lunch

Lunch in the Sky Lounge

Short talks: People & science

• Putting people at the heart of climate storytelling | Ilze Millere

• Progressing your research career in Africa: Challenges, opportunities, and the power of networking | Kenedy Silverio

• Enhancing urban climate adaptation using the Community Earth System Model | Yuan Sun

• “I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here” | Eliza Karlowska

Break & Poster session

An opportunity for attendees to share their work by presenting their posters

Workshops

• Interview skills | Lisa Banton & Eliza Karlowska

• Climate communications | Ilze Millere

Includes short breaks

Showcase

• Interactive session on progressing a research career in Africa | Kenedy Silverio

• Simulation and comparisson of energy fluxes on Earth vs other planets | Hannah-Jane Wood

Closing words

Dinner

A buffet dinner at the boardgame cafe, Chance & Counters

Welcome back

Short talks: Extreme events

• Storylines of historical extreme weather in a warmer world | Rhidian Thomas

• Rare events algorithm study of extreme double jet summers and their connection to heatwaves over the North Hemisphere | Valeria Mascolo

• Evaluating the forecast skill of machine-learning weather prediction models across a selection of extreme UK windstorms | James Hewitt

• Gridding historical rainfall from observations over the British and Irish Isles | Dagmawi Asfaw

Followed by a break

Workshops (running parallel)

• Grant writing | Alex Archibald

• Mental health in research and academia | Oleg Kozhura

Followed by a break

Short talks: Atmospheric composition

• Investigating the impact of energetic particle precipitation on middle atmosphere climate chemistry | Rebecca Coulson

• Modelling the enhancement of methane oxidation through the addition of chlorine | Kathryn Vest

• Ambient air pollution and household combustion in Ago Egun, Bariga, Lagos State, Nigeria | Aminat Yisa

• TBC | Edward Bearman

• Improving wildfire carbon monoxide emission estimates through top-down modelling | Ben Bradley

Lunch

Lunch in the Sky Lounge

Workshops

• Generative AI | Oleg Kozhura

• How to make work impactful | Jai Sandhu & Hugh Coe

Includes a short break

Wrap up & final words