British climate scientist known for data visualization graphics
Edward Hawkins MBE [ 4] [ 3] climate science at the University of Reading ,[ 1] National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), editor of Climate Lab Book blog[ 5] citizen science project.[ 6] [ 7] data visualizations of climate change for the general public such as warming stripes [ 8] climate spirals .[ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Education
Hawkins was educated at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a PhD in astrophysics in 2003 for research supervised by Steve Maddox that investigated galaxy clustering in large redshift surveys .[ 2]
Career and research
After his PhD, Hawkins served as a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) advanced research fellow in the department of meteorology at the University of Reading from 2005 to 2013.[ 12]
One of Hawkins' early
warming stripes graphics shows global warming from 1850 (left side of graphic) to 2018 (right side of graphic).
[ 13] Being a "minimalist graphic stripped (of) unnecessary clutter",
[ 14] warming stripes portray observed global warming with blue stripes (cooler years) progressing to predominantly red stripes (warmer years).
Climate spiral shows global warming since 1850 as an ever-widening coloured spiral
As of 2023[update] climate science at the University of Reading ,[ 15] public engagement and is affiliated with the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS).[ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
Hawkins was a contributing author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014)[ 19] IPCC Sixth Assessment Report in 2021.[ 20]
On 9 May 2016, Hawkins published his climate spiral data visualization graphic,[ 21] gone viral .[ 11] [ 22] [ 23] Jason Samenow writing in The Washington Post [ 24]
On 22 May 2018, Hawkins published his warming stripes data visualization graphic,[ 25] Climate Central 's annual #MetsUnite campaign to raise public awareness of global warming during broadcasts on the summer solstice .[ 26] [ 26] U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis from 2019 onwards.[ 27]
Honours and awards
Hawkins' climate spiral design was on the shortlist for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2016,[ 28] 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[ 29]
Hawkins was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society ’s Climate Science Communication Prize in 2017.[ 20]
In 2018, Hawkins was awarded the Kavli Medal by the Royal Society "for significant contributions to understanding and quantifying natural climate variability and long-term climate change, and for actively communicating climate science and its various implications with broad audiences".[ 20]
In July 2019, Hawkins was included in the Climate Home News list of ten climate influencers .[ 30]
Hawkins was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours "For services to Climate Science and to Science Communication".[ 4]
In June 2021, Hawkins was named in The Sunday Times [ 31]
In May 2024, Hawkins received the Royal Geographical Society 's Geographical Engagement Award for his work in developing warming stripes.[ 32]
Selected publications
According to Google Scholar[ 1] [ 33] [ 34]
The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions [ 35] The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation functions, peculiar velocities and the matter density of the Universe [ 36] Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful? [ 37] Global risk of deadly heat [ 38]
References
^ a b c Ed Hawkins publications indexed by Google Scholar ^ a b Hawkins, Ed (2003). Galaxy clustering in large redshift surveys nottingham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 1365479150 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.272578 . ^ a b Anon (2013). "Dr Edward Hawkins" . gov.uk . London: Companies House . Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. ^ a b "No. 62866" . The London Gazette Archived from the original on 28 December 2019.^ Hawkins, Ed (2022). "Climate Lab Book: Open Climate Science" . climate-lab-book.ac.uk . ^ Andrew M. Lorrey; Petra R. Pearce; Rob Allan; et al. (June 2022). "Meteorological data rescue: Citizen science lessons learned from Southern Weather Discovery". Patterns . 3 (6): 100495. doi :10.1016/J.PATTER.2022.100495 . ISSN 2666-3899 . Wikidata Q114305499 . ^ Ed Hawkins ; Rowan Sutton (11 April 2010). "The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change". Climate Dynamics 37 (1– 2): 407– 418. doi :10.1007/S00382-010-0810-6 . ISSN 0930-7575 . Wikidata Q58388456 .^ Anon (2023). " . reading.ac.uk . University of Reading. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. ^ Harvey, Chelsea (28 July 2016). "Scientists have found a perfect illustration of how the climate is spiraling 'out of control' . The Washington Post Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. ^ Kahn, Brian (25 May 2018). "This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum" . Gizmodo Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. ^ a b Staff, Science AF (25 May 2018). "This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We've Ever Seen" . Science Alert . Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. ^ "Ed Hawkins" . Archived from the original on 27 August 2019.^ Hawkins, Ed (4 December 2018). "2018 visualisation update / Warming stripes for 1850-2018 using the WMO annual global temperature dataset" . Climate Lab Book . Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Direct link to image ).^ Kahn, Brian (17 June 2019). "This Striking Climate Change Visualization Is Now Customizable for Any Place on Earth" . Gizmodo Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. ^ "Professor Ed Hawkins" . University of Reading . Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019 .^ "Professor Ed Hawkins, Professor, NCAS Climate" . University of Reading . Archived from the original on 26 August 2019.^ Johnson, Scott K. (22 March 2019). "You can help "rescue" weather data from the 1860s" . Ars Technica Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. ^ Harvey, Fiona (26 March 2020). "Call for isolated Britons to help digitise historical rainfall data" . The Guardian Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.^ "WG1AR5_TS_FINAL / TS Technical Summary / Contributing Authors" (PDF) . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019 .^ a b c "Our changing climate: learning from the past to inform future choices / Prize lecture" . London: Royal Society . 30 April 2019. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019.Kavli prize lecture (video embedded in reference).^ Hawkins, Ed (9 May 2016). "Spiralling global temperatures" . Climate Lab Book . Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. ^ Mooney, Chris (11 May 2019). "This scientist just changed how we think about climate change with one GIF" . The Washington Post Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. ^ Meduna, Veronika (17 September 2018). "The climate visualisations that leave no room for doubt or denial" . The Spinoff . New Zealand. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. ^ Samenow, Jason (10 May 2016). "Unraveling spiral: The most compelling global warming visualization ever made" . The Washington Post Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. ^ Hawkins, Ed (22 May 2018). "Warming stripes" . Climate Lab Book . UK. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. ^ a b Macdonald, Ted (25 June 2019). "TV meteorologists kicked off the summer by talking about climate change / #MetsUnite and #ShowYourStripes campaign highlighted the importance of climate communication" . Media Matters Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. ^ "United States House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis / About" . climatecrisis.house.gov . United States House of Representatives . 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019.^ "Climate spirals" . informationisbeautifulawards.com . KANTAR Information is Beautiful. October 2016. Archived from the original on 23 August 2019.^ Irfan, Umair (30 May 2019). "Why this climate change data is on flip-flops, leggings, and cars / Warming stripes keep showing up on clothes and crafts" . Vox . Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. ^ Sauer, Natalie (16 July 2019). "Non-Green MEPs largely ignore climate on Twitter" . Climate Home News (climatechangenews.com) . Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. ^ Spencer, Ben (14 June 2021). "The Carbon Brief: Daily Briefing / Green power list 2021: the UK's top 20 environmentalists" . The Sunday Times Archived from the original on 22 June 2021. ^ "Society's 2024 medal and award recipients announced" . Royal Geographical Society. 7 May 2024. Archived from the original on 9 May 2024.^ Ed Hawkins publications from Europe PubMed Central ^ Ed Hawkins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required) ^ Ed Hawkins ; Rowan Sutton (August 2009). "The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90 (8): 1095– 1108. doi :10.1175/2009BAMS2607.1 . ISSN 0003-0007 . Wikidata Q58388472 .^ E. Hawkins ; S. Maddox; S. Cole ; et al. (21 November 2003). "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation functions, peculiar velocities and the matter density of the Universe". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 346 (1): 78– 96. arXiv :astro-ph/0212375 Bibcode :2003MNRAS.346...78H . doi :10.1046/J.1365-2966.2003.07063.X . ISSN 0035-8711 . Wikidata Q58413610 .^ Gerald A. Meehl ; Lisa Goddard; James Murphy; et al. (October 2009). "Decadal Prediction". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90 (10): 1467– 1486. doi :10.1175/2009BAMS2778.1 . ISSN 0003-0007 . Wikidata Q58068824 .^ Camilo Mora; Bénédicte Dousset; Iain R. Caldwell; et al. (19 June 2017). "Global risk of deadly heat". Nature Climate Change 7 (7): 501– 506. Bibcode :2017NatCC...7..501M . doi :10.1038/NCLIMATE3322 . ISSN 1758-678X . S2CID 90219036 . Wikidata Q45373176 .
External links
_-_Climate_Lab_Book_(Ed_Hawkins).svg)
_at_COP21_Paris.png)
