SCIENCE DAYS

TippingPoint holds regular science briefing sessions for artists.

Many of the artists who attended the first Oxford Conference expressed a hunger for a basic tutorial on climate science. Professor Chris Rapley, then Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) responded to this request with a day long event at BAS in April 2006. The day included presentations from numerous BAS scientists, a tour of many of the BAS facilities, and discussion with Professor James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis.

Similarly attenders of the 2006 Oxford conference were able to follow up their experience at the Ashmolean in Oxford June 07 with a day-long briefing hosted jointly by the Environmental Change Institute and TippingPoint. For further information on the day including the programme for the day, relevant papers and short biographies of the speakers click here.

A third event was held on Monday December 8th, 2008, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, at the Wellcome Foundation in London. 

Click for details of the presentations by:

Dr Chris West of the UK Climate Impact Programme;

Professor Anthony Costello of UCL;

Professor Tim Lenton from UEA;

Professor Diana Liverman of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.

Please note presentations are in pdf format.