Links - Richard P. Allan
TEACHING/OUTREACH:
UNIVERSITY: Blackboard | Timetabling | RISIS | Academic Integrity Toolkit Teaching toolkit | Room Bookings | Performance and Development Review (PDR) | Teaching and Diversity advice | University Marketing | Staff Portal (internal) | photo consent forms | school site and how to guides (Internal) |
Were to get software (ITS)
| UoR Social Media Policy and usefulguide to twitter
DEPARTMENT ADMIN: MSc tutor group ideas
NCAS: Updated Science highlights (2015): Guidance | Procedure | Template | NCAS public engagement highlights template and Wiki (internal) | Panto!
DEPARTMENT OUTREACH
Departmental Media Engagement Strategy Working Document | Department Blog
| Globe
| Library book request
| Outreach ambassadors document
| Outreach logging form
TRAINING: MetED Education resources | Teaching career | CQSD: T&L Enhancement Priorities (PDF) | UK Professional Standards Framework | STEM Learning | Wordpress
EXTERNAL: Science Media Centre | SciDevNet report: data vis. & research impact | Sense About Science Public Engagement Guide | Climate visuals | Geoscience Images | PPLATO - resource for physics/maths students and educators | Scratch programming for kids (and big kids): Practice Times Tables; energy balance model | an experimental Scratch climate model (under construction) |
Carbon calculator
| ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR SMALL BUSINESS
| Keeping kids safe online
| Small Science Club
| Computer Science Education Resource Guide
| Guide to the science of climate change outreach
| Continuous Improvement Training
| Digimap - hitorical maps
| Speed & Scale greenhouse gas emissions tracker
| Home Carbon Calculator
| SimFit curve fitting, statistics & plotting for Windows/Linux
RESEARCH:
DEPARTMENT:
Library support for research staff |
Home-working (Unix)
| Computing and data storage
| Met cluster quick start guide and Accessing software
| ITS news feed
| Using Cluster (more info); interactive seesion:
ssh -Y username@met-cluster.reading.ac.uk
qrsh -l project -P myproject
Cronjobs on free cluster
Connect to nx system in web browser
Accessing software on the cluster
Academic cluster usage
Check Academic cluster research storage (request increase or extension of storage)
| STARS small IT-projects proposal form
| managed printing
UNIVERSITY:
Staff Portal Self Sevice |
IT STATUS |
Code of Conduct |
Race Equality Review 2021 |
Open Access Library information |
Open Access Funding Request |
NCAS Open Access guide |
RCUK Researchfish outputs |
SciVal (citations) |
Altmetrics (impact) |
University Data repositary |
Data management plan template |
Finding Funding Spreadsheet (RES, internal) | Personal Titles promotion guidance |
External Speaker Policy |
Staff approvals (click on bell)
PYTHON: resources | Python website, mailing list and notes for IDL users | cfplot info | Some windows binaries (e.g. basemap) | Ethical hacking
MET OFFICE: Met Office collaboration newsgroups (password) MOSAC papers | Convert Met Office PP to NetCDF format: pp2cf (need to "setup nco epd") |
GENERAL:
UK Research & Innovation |
Reaching wider audience |
Departmental CMIP5 data |
RCP radiative forcings |
KNMI climate explorer |
Climatedatafactory |
Climate Justice Doctoral Training Program |
Choosing colour scales (see also NASA blog |
Evaluating reanalyses |
ECMWF data |
citeulike |
Publons record of peer review |
Climate Feedback evaluating quality of media reporting of climate |
Teamwork project management |
Email Charter |
sharelatex |
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PubPeer |
Kudos research Impcat |
Correctly area weighting for the global mean (also weight months by days/month!)
doi2bibtex: curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" http://dx.doi.org/< add doi > |
Eat Low Carbon |
GHG food calculator |
Electricity supply/demand/price |
National Grid live status |
Business Leaders Climate Change Guide |
Towards the perfect weather warning
Postdoc career development tool
FUNDING:
RES Finding Funding page (internal) |
Research Professional |
Research and Enterprise Development (RED) |
JeS (NERC) |
RCUK Research Outcomes |
Pathways to Impact (2013) |
Staffing Request Portal |
HR forms |
Royal Society e-grants
Low-middle income countries (GCRF-able)
ADMIN:
TOOLS: Dropbox | Google Drive Documents | Online PDF converter
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UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENT: SMPCS internal How to guides (recruitment/induction) | Visitor procedure | Staffing Request Portal | Rewarding staff | Consultancy | O2 | Eduroam software | Procurement and contracted suppliers | Accident reporting | Student lists (internal) | Campus Card Portal | Imagebank | Eat Reading Voucher order form | Computershare childcare voucher scheme
TRAVEL:
Expenses Claims Form (online) |
Overseas travel form
Business Travel information
UK Travel: go to Teams Approval: documentation
Met Department form only (OUTDATED)
(more information) |
Travel Insurance link |
Tripadvisor |
Reading live bus times |
Local Roadworks |
Split train tickets |
Cycle2Work
Reading cycle routes
Plug Life TV - episode on EV embodied carbon vs petrol car
WEATHER & CLIMATE:
Department Wall Display and Foyer Display
| Images
| Extreme Events
| Met Office Daily Weather Summaries since 1860s
| weatherobs.com
| Weather Rescue Citizen Science Project
| Weather Online
| Field Site
and data (internal)
| Current Weather and links (internal)
| Sonning Common Weather
| Maiden Erlegh Weather and Reading snow-watch
| Roger Brugge
| Met Office
| Meteo Group
| Rain Today Radar
| UK Snow Map
| Next Week (ECMWF)
| Real Climate
| Climate Reanalyzer
| Atmospheric River Archive
| NOAA water vapour animations
| ManUniCast weather portal
| Atmospheric winds
| Nature's Calendar
| measure pollution on your iphone
| Environmental commodities
| STEM CLimate catalyst
| Towards the perfect weather warning
| Climate Learning resources
| UK UNiversities Climate Network
| UKCP climate change projections for the UK
| Met Office Climate Data Portal
| Starlings Roost Weather
| CEH soil moisture portal
JOURNALS:
J Clim.
| Clim. Dyn.
| GRL
| JGR-Atmos.
| NATURE
| SCIENCE
| PNAS
| QJRMS
| @rdg.ac.uk
| Web of Science
| Centaur (publication repository)
OTHER: BBC | useful commands | Convert video formats | Food Allergy Awareness Training | Nature outlook on IBS | Quality Pottery | Indextus | Water Wastage Worldwide | Global internet energy usage | Green Office Guide | Green Careers | Reading Hydro | sustainable small businesses | SME guide to reducing carbon footprint | Full Circle Continuous Improvement Training | Solar Panels - Are they worth it?
| How Smart Meters and Solar Panels Work Together | Flooding and Property Markets | Warp-it: reuse old furniture | Keep Caversham Tidy | Waterfall - water saving podcast | Some rare reliable Carbon Offsetting schemes: Peatland Code; UK Woodland Carbon Code; Forest Carbon; Direct air captureRichard P. Allan Location: Department of Meteorology (2U15)
