EI Seminars
The Environmental Intelligence Seminar Series is a joint initiative of the CDT and the Exeter Environmental Intelligence Research Network. The series of weekly seminars showcases EI research across all disciplines at the University of Exeter and provides a platform for external organisations to share their interests in EI with our community.
Term 1
| Date | No. | Contributor | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu Oct 6th | 1.1 | Student Panel | A panel of CDT students will each present their work and take part in a chaired discussion. |
Building One: Constantine Leventis Room | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 13th | 1.2 |
Dan Bebber and Mohsin Raza |
'Climate change, biotic yield gaps and disease pressure in cereal crops.' | Harrison 170 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 20th | 1.3 | Benno Simmons | 'Biodiversity, data science and AI.' | Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 27th | 1.4 | Regan Early | 'Why do species live where they do?' | Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Fri Nov 4th | 1.5 | Jim Haywood | 'From volcanoes and wildfires through to geoengineering: the wide-ranging role of aerosoles in the climate system.' | Laver LT6 | 13:00-14:30 |
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Thu Nov 10th |
1.6 |
Main talk from Max Falkenberg followed by a short talk from Ben Dennes |
Max - 'Climate polarisation during COP on Twitter.' Ben - 'Facebook Advertising and misinformation during COP27: A report from the Climate War Room.' |
Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
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Thu Nov 17th |
1.7 | Hugh Williamson | 'Responsible Plant Data Linkage.' | Harrison 102 | 15:00-16:30 |
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Thu Nov 24th |
1.8 |
Ute Schuster CANCELLED |
'Marine carbon biogeochemistry under climate change.' |
Building One: Pearson Room
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15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Dec 1st | 1.9 | Jennifer Catto | 'High impact weather in a changing climate.' | Harrison 102 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Dec 8th | 1.10 | Anna Harper | 'Using emulators of carbon cycle models to predict ecosystem services.' | Building One: Pearson Room | 15:00-16:30 |
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Wed Dec 14th |
1.11 | Georgie Bennett and Kyle Roskilly | 'SENSUM: Smart SENSing of landscapes Undergoing hazardous hydrogeomorphic Movement.' | Physics 124 |
11:45-13:15 |
Term 2
Main contributors lined up for Term 2 include:
- Keith Challis, Remote Sensing Coordinator - External, National Trust
- Joel Freedman, Head of Innovation Services - External, Satellite Applications Catapult
- Peter Melville-Shreeve, Lecturer in Engineering & Entrepreneurship
- Tim Lenton, Director Global Systems Institute (GSI)
- James Dyke, Assistant Director Global Systems Institute
- Catherine Butler, Senior Lecturer Education & Research
- Peter Challenor, Professor in Mathematics and Statistics and PI on the Excalibur EXA-UQ project
- Ben Lambert, Senior Lecturer, mathematician, statistician and epidemiologist
- Cedric Mesnage, Turing-Exeter Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Term 2 EI Seminars will have an improved format, the first hour will cover talks and the last 30 minutes will be for discussion.
A main contributor will speak for 30-40 minutes followed by a second contributor, drawn from our EI CDT PhD student community, who will speak for 10-12 minutes.
| Date | No. | Contributors | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu Jan 19th | 2.1 |
Josh Redmond (PhD Student) |
Peter - 'Decision making with uncertain models.' Josh - 'Using Diffusion Models for Remote Sensing Anonymisation.' |
Physics 124 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Feb 2nd | 2.2 |
Alice Wells (PhD Student) |
Ben - 'Using statistics to understand the epidemology of mosquito-borne diseases.' Alice - 'The Raikoke Eruption: including ash in model simulations reveals improved agreement to observations.' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Feb 9th | 2.3 |
Sara Sjosten - (PhD Student) CANCELLED |
Catherine - 'Social science concepts for environmentally sustainable transitions – tools for critical thinking' Sara - 'Modeling biotic-abiotic ecosystem feedbacks in deep time'. |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Feb 16th | 2.4 |
Joel Freedman Frederica Poznansky (PhD Student) |
Joel - TBC Frederica - TBC |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
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Thu Feb 23rd |
2.5 |
Cedric Mesnage TBC - (PhD Student) |
Cedric - 'Project Darwin : Species identification accuracy optimisation with automated copy-pasting for camera-trap images.'
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Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
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Thu Mar 2nd |
2.6 |
Chris Kerry (PhD Student) |
Tim - ‘Positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points.’ Chris - TBC |
Laver LT3 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 9th | 2.7 |
Guy Lomax (PhD Student) |
James - TBC Guy - TBC |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 16th | 2.8 |
TBC Margaret Bolton (PhD Student) |
TBC Margaret - TBC |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 23rd | 2.9 |
Keith Challis Arthur Vandervoort (PhD Student) |
Keith - TBC Arthur - TBC |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
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Thu Mar 30th |
2.10 |
Ned Westwood (PhD Student) |
Peter - 'From Loggers to Levers: When will the internet of things help manage stormwater overflows and reduce flood risk?' Ned - TBC |
Laver LT6 |
14:30-16:00 |
Term 3
Main contributors lined up for Term 3 include:
- Rachel Franklin, Professor of Geographical Anaylsis, Newcastle University (External)
- Stevienna de Saille, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sheffield (External)
- Ute Schuster, Associate Professor in Physical Geography
| Date | No. | Contributors | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu May 4th | 3.1 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu May 11th | 3.2 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu May 18th | 3.3 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu May 25th | 3.4 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu June 1st | 3.5 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Jun 8th | 3.6 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu June 15th | 3.7 | TBC | TBC | Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |