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Tamsin Edwards is a British climate scientist and Professor at King's College London.[2][3] She is a popular science communicator and writes for the Public Library of Science (PLOS).[4]

Early life and education

Edwards became interested in physics after reading A Brief History of Time.[5] The daughter of Michael Edwards,[6] she completed A-Levels in Physics, Chemistry and Maths at St Margaret's School, in Exeter.[7] She studied physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. She completed a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Brian Cox.[1] Her thesis investigated the production of Z bosons, detected by their subsequent decay to muons, using data collected at the Tevatron.[1]

Research and career

Edwards joined the Open University as a lecturer, working in the Palaeoenvironmental Change team.[8][9] She uses computer models to predict and study climate change,[10][11] with a particular interest in the impact on sea level rise of changes in the Antarctic ice sheet.[12] She studied how a glacier's grounding line (the point at which is separates from a continent's bedrock and floats into the sea) affects the rate of flow of glaciers, and estimated the effects of positive feedback.[13][14] In 2017 Edwards joined King's College London as a lecturer in geography.[15] She will be a lead author for Chapter 9 (Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change) of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[16]

Edwards writes a popular science blog hosted by the Public Library of Science (PLOS).[4] She has written for The Guardian and contributed chapters to books about climate change.[17][18][19] Working with the Met Office, Edwards created educational resources about sea level rise for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP23").[20]

In 2014 she gave a TEDx talk at CERN, How to Love Uncertainty in Climate Science.[21] After fights between climate scientists and sceptics on Twitter in 2014, Edwards was part of a dinner party discussing how they could calm the debate.[22] The dinner included David Rose and Richard A. Betts, and Edwards was the only woman.[22] In 2015 she was celebrated as one of twenty women "making waves" at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[23] She won the 2016 British Science Association Charles Lyell Award for Environmental Sciences.[13][24] She discussed how computer models can be used to predict ice sheet collapse and how to communicate uncertainty.[24] In 2017 she was profiled in the HuffPost Australia's Breaking The Ice series.[25] She is a speaker at the 2018 Bluedot Festival.[26][27][28]

Edwards has acted as a scientific consultant for the BBC. She was a consultant on the BBC's Climate Change by Numbers, which won an American Association for the Advancement of Science award for Science Journalism,[29] and a 2015 award for "Best Presentation of Science in an Environment Issue" from EuroPAWS.[30] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4[31][32] and BBC World Service.[33]

She was awarded the 2020 Climate Science Communications Award by the Royal Meteorological Society.[34]

On 28 January 2021, Edwards took part in a panel event of international experts called Climate Change: Why should we care?, organised by the Science Museum Group.[35]

In July 2023, at the Bluedot Festival, Edwards announced she has become a Professor at King’s College.[better source needed]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c Edwards, Tamsin L. (2006). Diffractively produced Z bosons in the muon decay channel in pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, and the measurement of the efficiency of the DØ Run II Luminosity Monitor (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. doi:10.2172/892267. OCLC 930686728. Copac 36713207.
  2. ^ "King's College London - Edwards, Dr Tamsin". Kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  3. ^ Tamsin Edwards publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b "All Models Are Wrong". All Models Are Wrong. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  5. ^ "The Real Deal: Tamsin Edwards, Climate Modeller". highheelsinthelab.blogspot.co.uk. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  6. ^ "The Poetry & Science of Ice and Fire". Champernowne Trust. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  7. ^ "About me". Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Team". Palaeoenvironmental Change. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  9. ^ The Open University STEM (7 April 2017), Past, Present and Future Climates - Dr Tamsin Edwards, retrieved 15 May 2018
  10. ^ "Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change - OpenLearn - Open University". Open.edu. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  11. ^ Edwards, T. L.; Challenor, P. G. (2013). "Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards". In Rougier, Jonathan; Sparks, Steve; Hill, Lisa J. (eds.). Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107006195. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  12. ^ Edwards, Tamsin (18 November 2015). "Antarctic ice sheet collapse will cause sea levels to rise. So what's new?". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  13. ^ a b "Place your bets: the collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet". British Science Association. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  14. ^ "Dr Tamsin Edwards:Reconciling projections of the Antarctic contribution to sea level rise". Imperial College London. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  15. ^ "King's College London - Edwards, Dr Tamsin". Kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  16. ^ "Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG1)". Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  17. ^ "CaSE | One climate data point". Sciencecampaign.org.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  18. ^ Edwards, T. L.; Challenor, P. G. (2013). "Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change". In Rougier, Jonathan; Sparks, Steve; Hill, Lisa J. (eds.). Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107006195. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  19. ^ "Tamsin Edwards". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  20. ^ "COP 23". Met Office. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  21. ^ Edwards, Tamsin. "Ripples of Curiosity". tedxcern.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  22. ^ a b "Climate consensus: scientists and sceptics suspend hostilities". Climate Home News. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  23. ^ "Tamsin Edwards - Scientist making a name for herself as a fearless communicator | 1 Million Women". Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  24. ^ a b "Award Lecture winners announced as BSF2016 programme goes online". British Science Association. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  25. ^ Sharwood, Anthony (20 June 2017). "Here's What Happened When A Climate Scientist Went To A Pub To Argue With Deniers". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  26. ^ "Tamsin Edwards – Bluedot Festival". Bluedot Festival. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  27. ^ "Bluedot announces stellar line-up for 2018". Science Focus. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  28. ^ "Celebrating Earth Day - Jodrell Bank". Jodrell Bank. 22 April 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  29. ^ "The 2015 Winners Named in Expanded AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Competition". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  30. ^ "The 2015 Science TV and New Media Award Winners". EuroPAWS. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  31. ^ "Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Telephone Metadata, Bat Detective, BBC Inside Science - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  32. ^ "The Life Scientific: Tamsin Edwards on models of climate change". BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  33. ^ "Health Advice for Gay Men When Homosexuality is Illegal, The Science Hour - BBC World Service". BBC. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  34. ^ "Pioneering urban meteorologist is the first female recipient of the Symons Gold Medal". Royal Meteorological Society. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021. Awarded as an outstanding climate scientist who has been a leading and highly respected communicator of climate science for over a decade. She has set the standard internationally for pro-active, open and objective communication with the public on climate change and its scientific basis and has built a huge reputation for clarity and as a trusted voice of authority.
  35. ^ "Climate Change: Why Should We Care?". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
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