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Duncan Lyster

Meet...Duncan Lyster

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
4 March 2025
Professor Neil Bowles with the Lunar Thermal Mapper

Lunar Thermal Mapper ready for launch

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.
25 February 2025
Northern Lights

Why are we seeing the Northern Lights more often?

Dr Carly Howett speaks to Oxford Sparks in their first podcast of 2025
13 January 2025
Image of Saturn and Jupiter

Citizen science reveals insight into Jupiter

Citizen science reveals that Jupiter’s colourful clouds are not made of ammonia ice
6 January 2025
Professor Ray Pierrehumbert

Professor Pierrehumbert awarded Cassini Medal

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the European Geosciences Union Jean Dominique Cassini Medal, the EGU’s highest award for recognition of achievement in the planetary sciences.
21 November 2024
Professor Myles Allen CBE

Global warming 'could end in a generation'

Climate change could be halted within a generation if the energy companies selling fossil fuels were required to dispose responsibly of the waste CO2 they generate, the climate scientist who led the first work on Net Zero has said.
18 November 2024
Associate Professor Hannah Christensen

Professor Christensen recognised by AMS

Associate Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
28 August 2024
Professor David Marshall

Professor Marshall receives teaching award

Professor David Marshall has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards.
15 July 2024
Dr Carly Howett

Timekeeping on the moon

Dr Carly Howett, Associate Professor of Space Instrumentation, answers Oxford Sparks’ big question: what time is it on the moon?
4 July 2024
Dr Shruti Nath

Meet...Shruti Nath

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; here, we meet climate scientist Dr Shruti Nath
2 July 2024
High resolution climate model

AI-led science innovation protects communities hit by climate change

Climate scientists from the Department of Physics have joined forces with the United Nations World Food Programme and intergovernmental and national forecasting agencies to pioneer a transformative initiative.
25 June 2024
An example of a next generation, high resolution and local climate model created by Oxford researchers.

Next-gen weather forecasting to measure human impact

National forecasting centres like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behaviour is aggravating major events like floods, heatwaves and storms.
30 May 2024
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