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Professor Myles Allen

Professor Myles Allen appointed Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment

Professor Myles Allen has been appointed Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment at Gresham College.
24 May 2022
Professor Myles Allen

Professor Myles Allen appointed CBE

Professor Myles Allen has been recognised in the 2022 New Year's Honours
4 January 2022
Professor Philip Stier

Professor Stier elected president of Atmospheric Sciences division of EGU

Professor Philip Stier, Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford, has been elected President of the Atmospheric Sciences division of the European Geosciences Union, the leading organisation for Earth, planetary and space science resear
8 December 2021
Professor Philip Stier

Professor Stier recognised by IOP

Professor Philip Stier has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Edward Appleton Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a pro
29 November 2021
Professor Tim Palmer

Professor Palmer awarded IOP honorary fellowship

Professor Tim Palmer has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his long and remarkable career
29 November 2021
Illustration of Manabe

Commentary: Pierrehumbert on Manabe and the Nobel

Having followed in his footsteps at the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Halley Professor of Physics Raymond Pierrehumbert reflects on Syukuro Manabe’s Nobel Prize-winning work
29 November 2021
Image of Earth from space

Latest NASA mission key for climate

Oxford physicists are delighted to hear that NASA has confirmed its latest Earth science mission: Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS).
18 November 2021
Clouds

Commentary: Dr Watson-Parris on AI for climate good

Dr Duncan Watson-Parris and Professor Philip Stier in the Department of Physics are bringing together leading researchers from around the world for a United Nations ITU AI for Good: AI for Climate Science
16 November 2021
Professor Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

Obituary: Professor van Oldenborgh

It is with great sadness that the Department of Physics shares the passing of Professor Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics and a highly regarded and warmly respected colleague.
15 October 2021
Professor Lesley Gray

Professor Lesley Gray elected President of RMetS

Currently vice-president, Professor Lesley Gray will take up the presidency of the Royal Meteorological Society for two years from October 2022
10 August 2021
Professor Philip Stier and Karman vortices

Professor Philip Stier: climate and the clouds

A profile of leading climate scientist Professor Philip Stier
28 June 2021
Dr Antje Weisheimer

Dr Antje Weisheimer awarded Buchan Prize

Dr Antje Weisheimer has been awarded the Buchan Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society
8 June 2021
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