Within our own meteorological community, Chris Bell gave a presentation on Stormchasing, his passion, at the November meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society’s East Anglian Centre – such talks are open to everyone, not just to RMetS members and we will publish details of further such talks here. The full national RMetS talk/event schedule is available here.
We are asked to host many work experience students each year. A couple of years ago we took the difficult decision not to offer this because it seemed so unfair to assist a couple of students and disappoint so many others, based on an impossible selection process and requests from way beyond the local area. Instead, we prefer to go into school so that a larger group of students can hear about our work and the world of meteorology generally – even better if several schools can come together on such occasions. From time to time we do host undergraduate internships for students who are studying meteorology at degree level.
With support from CUE East, the public engagement beacon based in Norwich, we are developing an online educational resource about the “urban heat island” and its connection with “heat trapping” and anthropogenic pollution in cities. Watch this space!
In June 2011 we are taking part in the Aylsham Festival entitled “Looking Up”, a theme which seems made for thinking about the weather! Steve Dorling is also busy co-authoring a new text book on Weather Forecasting.
To contact us about our outreach activities, please complete our web form and we will get back to you – please bear with us because our outreach is all done in any spare time we have. If you are interested in studying Meteorology at the University of East Anglia, please have a look at the course links below.

OUR OUTREACH STAFF