Andrew Russell

Public Engagement and Professional Responsibilities

Royal Meteorological Society Here's my RMetS page with details of the meetings I organise as the chairman of the local centre. I also sit on the national RMetS Meetings Committee and am an RMetS Fellow. Finally, I am an Associate Editor of the RMetS journal Atmospheric Science Letters, see here for more info on ASL. NOISEmaking NOISE stands for New Outlooks in Science and Engineering and aims to get kids interested in science by showing how much fun science and science careers can be. The main point of contact is the website, here's my NOISEmaker profile, but we also go to science festivals and try and increase our media presence... Media Stuff NERC's Planet Earth podcast (11/1/2010) talking about my research on storms: here. Newsround (15/12/2009) on the Copenhagen climate summit: here. R4's Leading Edge (10/9/2009) talking about Perspectives, British Science Festival 2009: here. The One Show (4/8/2009) talking about tornados: here. "Good to meet you" column in the Guardian (14/6/2008): here. Letter in the Guardian (13/5/2008) on how careers in science and engineering are meritocratic: here. Letter in the Guardian (6/5/2008) on Nigel Lawson's views on climate change: here. Contribution to a Sense About Science publication about writing to newspapers: here. Profiled in the South Manchester Reporter: here. My 2009 Manchester Science Festival project also got a bit of coverage... Manchester Science Festival - Does it rain more at the weekend? I organised a project for MSF09 looking at rain. I got some people around Manchester involved by taking their own rainfall measurements and thinking about what they mean. Here's the project webpage - Rain project. I also did a little bit of research to back this project up and this was covered quite a bit in the media: BBC North West Tonight, I was on the sofa talking to Gordon Burns! Manchester Evening News, this was the page 3 lead article Guardian Science Weekly podcast, I was the main guest on the podcast Channel M Accrington Observer Daily Express online Daily Telegraph online PhysOrg.com South Manchester Reporter MEN CityLife BBC Radio Manchester BBC Radio Cumbria Key 103FM Real Radio Researchers in Residence I did a Researchers in Residence placement in 2009 that involved installing a weather station at a school. I put a lot of work in to planning the sessions I did and had a great time delivering them! I've written a page charting my progress through the placement, which includes a summary document that I produced for the students - RinR. Famelab and Perspectives 2009 I had a go at the Pop Idol-style science communication competition in 2009. I was a wildcard runner-up in the Manchester heat - you can see me drawing on a T-shirt and saying something like "really focus on the fundamental aspects" in this video. I also entered a poster competition held at the British Science Festival in Guilford in 2009. The idea is to look at the impacts of my work on society, here's a pdf of my poster. Public Lectures and Cafe Scientifique I've given a couple of lectures to public audiences ("Clouds and Atmospheric Optical Phenomena", West Didsbury Astronomical Society, Feb 2008 and "The fundamentals of cloud formation", RMetS North-West local centre, Feb 2007), I have been an expert on the panel of two Cafe Scientifique on Climate Change and Public Health in Basel and Geneva and I've been invited to talk at University of Manchester and the Institute of Physics about public engagement and using atmospheric research to teach physics.

Email: andrew.russell-2 at manchester.ac.uk