Outreach

We love talking about science, sharing our research outside the scientific community with anyone who is interested. Please see a list of the outreach activities we are / have been involved in:

• Wall Street Journal interview about the heatwave and drought in Europe “Europe Logs Record Heat, Struggles to Conserve Water”

• BBC Radio 5 Live interview about water shortage in England:

• Gulp! A children’s theatre production about water by The Bone Ensemble (under development) (Anne Van Loon & Doris Wendt).

• Talks for the University of the Third Age (Harborne & Edgbaston, 6 Mar 2019) and The Birmingham Association of Jewish Graduates (10 Mar 2019) about drought & people, water use & water saving: download presentation here.

• Presentation at the Trent Regional Flood & Coastal Committee (Lucinda Capewell, Jan 2019)

• QUEST piece on “How can society build resilience to increasingly extreme hydrological events?” (Anne Van Loon, Rosie Day, Mel Rohse).

• Presentation at the Open University Geological Society East Midlands branch (15 Dec 2018) about “Groundwater Drought in UK & Europe”: download presentation here. (Anne Van Loon & Doris Wendt)

• Radio interview Campo Abierto TV & Radio Minagri (Chile, Nov 2018) on “Sequía hidrología“.

• Birmingham Heroes campaign on Water Crisis.

• RGS-IBG Teachers CPD event – “Water in a changing world” (10 Jul 2018): download presentation here.

• Opinion piece for The Observer on the Cape Town water crisis (4 Feb 2018): “Let Cape Town revolutionise the way we think about water“.

• Girls in STEM day at the University of Birmingham (13 Sept 2017), workshop on “How your garden influences flooding”: download presentation here.

• Interview UNAM on “Sequía en el Anthropoceno” (Mexico, 3 Jan 2017).

• WURtalk (28 Sept 2016): see here.

• Contribution to Circle of Blue piece on “Why asking ‘how much rain will end the drought?’ is the wrong question” (21 Jul 2015).

• Blogs:
  • “Data drought or data flood” on the EGU/AGU WaterUnderground blog
  • “Snow drought” on the European Drought Centre
  • “Drought & Water Scarcity” at Oxfam (by Sally Rangecroft)
  • “Drought in the Anthropocene” on TravellingGeologist