![]() As a student presenter, I could also register for the Outstanding Student Poster Award – which means that my poster was anonymously judged, and I will soon be receiving feedback on my poster and presentation – an opportunity I was excited about to make sure I continue to improve the way I communicate my research.įor me, some of the sessions that were highlights of the conference included ‘ Global Floods: Forecasting, Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Socioeconomic Response‘, ‘ Large-scale Climate Variability and its Impact on Hydrological Systems, Water Resources and Population‘, ‘ Forecasting Hydrology at Continental Scale‘, ‘ Transforming Hydrologic Prediction and Decision Making: Uncertainty’ and ‘ ENSO Dynamics, Observations and Predictability in light of the 2015-2016 El Niño Event‘. ![]() Unlike other conferences I’d presented at, the poster sessions at AGU span half a day – while you are only expected to be there to discuss the work for two hours, it’s inevitable that you get caught up in discussion and I saw many presenters (myself included) who stuck by their poster for the full 4.5 hours! I thoroughly enjoyed my poster session, where several familiar faces dropped by for an update on my work, and others stopped to pose new questions and make a few suggestions for improvements to my maps (wait, why didn’t I think of that?!). My work maps the historical probability of increased (or decreased) flood hazard across the globe during ENSO (El Niño and La Niña) events, using the first 20 th Century ensemble river flow reanalysis, created at ECMWF as part of this work. I was lucky enough to be awarded an AGU student travel grant in order to present my latest PhD research that I’ve been working on at the University of Reading, in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ( ECMWF), and funded by NERC as part of the SCENARIO Doctoral Training Partnership. While I knew that AGU is one of the largest Earth science conferences, and had indeed spent hours on the plane fine-tuning my schedule to choose which of the ~200 hydrology sessions (let alone the meteorology sessions also related to my work) I would attend, the scope and diversity of the research presented throughout the week really sunk in when I stood on the mezzanine overlooking the poster hall on the first day of the conference. Overlooking the Poster Hall in Moscone SouthĪt the 2016 Fall Meeting, I was one of around 8000 students who arrived in San Francisco to present one of the 15,000 posters that would be displayed over the course of the week. AGU remains the largest Earth and Space Science conference in the world with more than 25,000 scientists. ![]() Email: 12th to 16th December 2016, the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting took place at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco.
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