The OCRN has long had a reputation for engaging with the best climate researchers from across the world. To celebrate this global network and to showcase the high quality research of Oxford’s academics we have been running a series of annual lectures covering the full spectrum of the physical climate system, the impacts of climate change and potential solutions.
2021
Speaker: Prof. Richard Alley (Penn State University)
Title: Tipping Thwaites Glacier? Ice sheets and the potential for rapid sea-level rise
Watch Richard’s lecture here >>
2020
Speaker: Prof. Valérie Masson-Delmotte (LSCE, France)
Title: Climate sciences to inform great choices
2019
Speaker: Prof. David Battisti (University of Washington)
Title: From global to local – the relationship between global climate and regional warming
Watch David’s lecture here >>
2018
Speaker: Prof. Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton University)
Title: Deep Water, Shallow Understanding: Managing the Risk from Sea Level Rise
2017
Speaker: Prof. ‘Ram’ Veerabhadran (Scripps Inst.)
Title: Climate change: an existential problem?
2016
Speaker: Prof. Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
Title: Hurricanes and Climate Change
2015
Speaker: Prof. Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia
Title: Understanding CO2 emissions trends & carbon-climate feedbacks using historical data
2014
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Stocker (University of Bern)
Title: Global Warming: Too late for limits?
