Hawkins, Professor Ed

Advanced NERC Fellow

Address

University of Reading

Department of Meteorology

University of Reading

Earley Gate

Whiteknights Road

Reading

RG6 6ET

 
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677
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@ed_hawkins
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+44 118 378 7991  
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http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~ed/  
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Ed Hawkins is a professor of climate science within NCAS at the University of Reading. He is a Lead Author for the forthcoming IPCC 6th Assessment Report and leads the Weather Rescue citizen science project. He created the viral 'climate spiral' and 'warming stripes' visualisations of climate change, which have been used worldwide, including during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Ed was awarded the RMetS Climate Communication Prize in 2017, the Royal Society Kavli Medal in 2019, the RMetS Hugh Robert Mill award in 2023 and was made an MBE for services to climate science and science communication in 2019. 

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