Teaching and related activities

Teaching

Teaching MA240 Mathematical Methods for Scientists Part III Differential Equations University of Reading 2005-6, 2006-7.

Teaching MA24L Differential Equations and Fourier series 2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11.

Teaching MTMW11/MTMW99 Fluid dynamics of the atmopshere and oceans 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11

Teaching MAMA1/MA4XE Numerical solutions of differential equations 2010/11

Teaching part of MTMD03 Monte Carlo Methods and Particle Filters 2010/11

Tutorials for MA11B Calculus and Applications 2006-7, 2007-8

Tutorials for MA1CAL Calculus Methods,2010-11

Student project supervision

PhD

Gillian Baxter (2005-2009) DARC CASE PhD student "4D-Var for high resolution nested models with a range of scales" co-supervisor with Nancy Nichols (Maths/Met), Amos Lawless (Maths), Sue Ballard (Met Office)

Laura Stewart(2006-2010) NERC Open CASE PhD student "Correlated observation Errors in Data Assimilation", co-supervisor with Nancy Nichols (Maths/Met), John Eyre (Met Office)

Polly Smith (2007-201)NERC Tied CASE PhD student "Changing coastlines: data assimilation for morphodynamic prediction and monitoring", co-supervisor with Nancy Nichols (Met/Maths), Suresh Surendran (Environment Agency)

Joanne Pocock(2009-)NERC NCEO PhD student "Using observations at different spatial scales in data assimilation for environmental prediction", co-supervisor with Nancy Nichols (Met/Maths), Amos Lawless (Maths), John Eyre (Met Office).

MSc

David Livings (2005) Masters thesis "Aspects of the Ensemble Kalman Filter" Dept Mathematics

Laura Baker (2007) Masters thesis "Properties of the Ensemble Kalman Filter" Dept Mathematics

Ruth Petrie (2008) Masters thesis "Localisation and the Ensemble Kalman Filter" Dept Meteorology

Evangelia Maria Giannakopoulou (2008) Masters thesis Flood prediction and uncertainty" Dept Mathematics

David Fairbairn (2009) Masters thesis "Comparison of the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter with the Ensemble Transform Kalman Smoother" Dept Mathematics

Joanne Pocock (2009) Masters theis "Ensemble Data Assimilation: How Many Members Do We Need?" Dept Mathematics

Nicholas Bird (2010) Dept Mathematics (Joint supervision with Marek Wlasak, Met Office)

Undergraduate

Laura Stewart (2005) Summer student, working on observation error correlations, funded by a Royal Meteorological Society Scholarship

David Harrison (2005-6) BSc project student working on ensemble prediction.

Lynsey Schembri (2007) BSc ESEA library project student

Tom Ilett (2007/8) MMath student from University of York. Funded by Carbon Fusion

Jodi Berkeley (2008/9) MMath project Forecasting the dispersal of contaminants

Daniel Llewellyn (2009/10) MMath project Initialization using a Digital Filter

Laurelle Campbell (2010/11) BSc Meteorology project. How many observations do we need for a weather forecast?

Alex Dolphin (2010/11) MMath project. Estimation of weather forecast and observation errors.

Nina Raoult (2010) Summer student funded by a NERC research experience placement award. Data assimilation and flood prediction

Other related activities

Personal tutor for undergraduate and MSc students since 2008.

Chair of School Staff Student Liaison Committee 2006-2010

Mathematics outreach coordinator since 2010

Completed University of Reading Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice 2008 with distinction for both portfolio and project

Fellow of Higher Education Academy since 2008