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James Pope James Pope

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 39085
Email address: eejop@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.127

Link to personal page

Biography

Project Details

Project Title: Pliocene constraints on future global and regional climate change

Supervisors: Prof. Alan Haywood, Daniel Lunt (Bristol University), Harry Dowsett (USGS) and Mat Collins (UK Met Office)

Start Date: 1st October 2009

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) University of Edinburgh (2004-2008)
  • MSc(R) University of Edinburgh (2008-2009) with a project in Climate Modelling.

Teaching Interests

 

Outreach

Outreach sessions where science is taken out to the public are a great way of communicating the science I am involved in and why I enjoy it.  My outreach interests focus mainly around school children at Key Stages 3-5 (11-18 years old).  I talk and organise activities around my main interests of climate and geology and the interactions between these two seemingly seperate subject areas.

Below I outline some of my main Outreach sessions undertaken so far. 

School of Earth & Environment Outreach Sessions

My main outreach work in the School of Earth & Environment has been through offering a climate modelling, palaeo-climate and geology session for school groups brought into the department.  The description below is taken from the programme for the 2012 Leeds Festical of Science. 

Hot Under The Collar
"Climate change is a 'hot' topic, but how do we known how the climate is likely to change in the next hundred years?  And how does todays climate compare with that of the past?  In this workshop we take a long view of the Earth's climate over geological time and find out how information on the climate from thousands or even millions of years ago is used to reduict future climate trends."

This session is part of the Leeds Festival of Science in 2011 & 2012 for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 students, using freely available internet resources and some geological materials as well as powerpoint presentation introducing key sections of the workshop.  

STEM Ambassador

I have been a STEM Ambassador since March 2011. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) Ambassadors are used to help promote the STEM subjects in schools to pupils of all ages, going voluntarilly into schools and speaking to classes. 

I have been involved in a couple of STEM sessions in schools looking at the evolution of our atmosphere since the formation of the Earth and the impact of large volcanic eruptions upon it and also a session on climate change and how it is studied and what the challenges are in the field.

More information on STEM Ambassadors is available from:
http://www.stemnet.org.uk/content/stem-ambassadors

My personal STEM Ambassador profile can be viewed at:

http://networking.stemnet.org.uk/user/6911

Publications

 

Pope, J.O., Collins, M., Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Hunter, S.J., Lunt, D.J., Pickering, S.J. & Pound, M.J. 2011. Quantifying Uncertainty in Model Predictions for the Pliocene (Plio-QUMP): Initial Results. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 309. pp.128-140