Profile

I’m from and live in North Devon with my family, including my dog Pixie (she’s a crazy Spaniel 🐶). I love playing hockey and studying Geography, it was my favourite subject at school  ❤🌍. I’ve been to lot’s of amazing places around the world on fieldwork including the Amazon Rainforest, Iceland and New Zealand! I even got to travel to Disney World in Florida to present my research! I’m a secret gaming geek (shhh don’t tell anybody) and love playing Fifa, although Tomb Raider is my favourite!

My dog Pixie!

Me on a glacier in Iceland!

I have just started a job as a climate scientist at the Met Office in Exeter. I work in the international team, working with scientists around the world to develop climate services that help people understand the potential impacts of climate change. This is important work as it helps people to understand the climate science that the Met Office produces and assist them to prepare and adapt for a changing climate.

I am just about to graduate as a doctor of fire! The research I did for this will help scientists to understand how a fire behaves when burning different plants and wood. I got to set fire to trees and plants in the laboratory and in America with firefighters in forests so that I could watch and study how the fire changed. This is important as climate change could result in  more damaging fires in the future that could affect a greater number of people and more of the environment.

Fire experiment in the USA.

Wood on fire in the laboratory!

I get up before the sun rises and travel to work, all after a nice cup of tea of course! I like to spend the first couple of hours at work replying to emails from scientists and organisations I’m working with, I also check my calendar and prepare for meetings I have during the day. I will usually have a number of meetings during the day, this involves chatting to scientists about the work that they are doing and how we can work together to create climate services to take to countries such as China. I also have video and telephone calls with scientists all over Europe. At the moment we are organising a climate change festival in Latvia! I’m also in charge of the twitter account for one of our projects, so this involves checking twitter in the morning and tweeting about climate change and climate science!

I also get to do a lot of training to learn new skills and go to exciting talks from amazing scientists. I also get to work on STEM events such as I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here!, communicating with local schools and local communities about climate change.

I love learning and teaching people about climate change, and part of my job is to communicate climate science. I’ve found that reading and writing isn’t always the best form of communication, interactive and practical ways of communicating science can be fun, stimulating and also super educational!

I would like to visit my local college and run a climate change workshop for students. During this workshop I would get the students to think of and develop a board or card game based on climate science and then use the money to have it professionally created.