
Dr Alan Kennedy-Asser
MSci, PHD
Expertise
Current positions
Research Associate
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
My current research is on summer heat extremes in the UK. I am interested in how these extremes are changing, as well as how we can model and manage risks accosiated with extremes and heat stress. This work, part of the UK Climate Resilience Program funded OpenCLIM project, uses the latest UK Met Office UKCP18 simulations.
My previous research interests have included climate hydrology (specifically the impact of soil moisture on temperate extremes), glacial hydrology (modelling the flow of water beneath Leverett Glacier in Greenland), Antarctic/Southern Ocean climate and oceanography (having volunteered as a research scientist on the RRS James Clark Ross on the ANDREXII cruise in the Weddell Sea in 2018) and palaeoclimatology (with a focus on Antarctic glaciation at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Once upon a time in a heatwave - exploring the power of stories to engage and empower people in climate change risk and resilience in Northern Ireland
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/11/2021 to 31/10/2022
Temperature Life Stories: Feeling the heat
Principal Investigator
Description
An inter-disciplinary project to explore perceptions of temperature extremes experienced throughout participants’ lives. Personal reflections on temperature will be facilitated through poetry workshops and these reflections will be compared against…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
10/03/2021 to 30/11/2021
Publications
Recent publications
24/02/2022Projected risks associated with heat stress in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18)
Environmental Research Letters
The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally
Science Advances
The biological carbon pump in CMIP6 models
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Updated projections of UK heat-related mortality using policy-relevant global warming levels and socio-economic scenarios
Environmental Research Letters
Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining 푝CO2
Nature Geoscience
Thesis
Climatic and oceanic changes across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Supervisors
Award date
25/06/2019