Partner organisations and associates

The project team are working alongside representatives from the following non-academic organisations:

Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE)

The international ACRE initiative both undertakes and facilitates the recovery of historical instrumental surface terrestrial and marine global weather observations to underpin 3D weather reconstructions (reanalyses) spanning the last 200-250 years for climate applications and impacts needs worldwide. All of the historical surface weather data and the reanalyses are freely available. The Met Office Hadley Centre is a key partner in ACRE.

Rob Allan from ACRE is working with the project team to identify sources of historical weather data. The project is helping ACRE to better appreciate the cultural implications of extreme weather

English Heritage

English Heritage is the Government's statutory adviser on the historic environment. Officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, English Heritage is an executive Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 

Members of the project team will attend a number of English Heritage's local heritage workshops and Robyn Pender will be helping us to make full use of the English Heritage archive. The project will feed into English Heritage's work on future adaptation strategies for the UK's built environment.

Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830. RGS-IBG is a world leader in advancing geography and supporting its practitioners in the UK and across the world.

The project will contribute case study materials to the RGS-IBG 'Teaching and Learning Resources for Schools' and 'Climate4Classrooms' initiatives. We hope to provide students with a toolkit for undertaking their own research on cultural inscription of climate change impacts. The team will also engage with the Society's regional lecture series. Catherine Souch is our main contact at RGS-IBG.

Climate Change Consortium for Wales (C3W)

C3W seeks to improve understanding of the causes, nature, timing and consequences of climate change. Along with research into perceptions of climate change and potential adaptation and mitigation responses, C3W aims to improve understanding and inform decision-making by Government, policymakers, businesses and the education sector. C3W brings together researchers from four of the largest Welsh universities (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea) and also delivers a diversity of outreach activities that raise the international profile and impact of climate change research in Wales, effectively communicating the science via a variety of knowledge exchange events.

In the final year of the project (2016) we will be working with C3W to develop a touring exhibition in English and Welsh looking at the cultural implications of extreme weather.

Natural Resources Wales

Natural Resources Wales is a Welsh Government Sponsored Body. Their purpose is to ensure that the natural resources of Wales are sustainably maintained, enhanced and used, now and in the future. Natural Resources Wales recognise that extreme weather events and long-term climatic change pose a real threat to the delivery of their work. In response they are working to ensure that the impacts of climate change are considered in all areas of work using the Welsh Government's Adaptation guidance. 

The Natural Resources Wales team have developed a database of recent extreme weather events in Wales (2000-2013) that compliments our historical research into extreme weather in Wales. We are working with Clive Walmsley to explore the potential for project outputs to inform adaptation planning in Wales as Natural Resources Wales help to develop a series of Sectoral Adaptation Plans.