Emma Tompkins
@eltompkins.bsky.social
Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Options to reduce damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in holopelagic sargassum, nuisance seaweeds, space and cats. Mother of twins. New electric car owner. Swimmer.
Image: Ed Hawkins 2025
Image: Ed Hawkins 2025
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❄️ We’ve issued an amber warning for snow, with further warnings for snow and ice across parts of the UK.
Stay safe with our #WeatherReady tips
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/me...
Stay safe with our #WeatherReady tips
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/me...
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
❄️ We’ve issued an amber warning for snow, with further warnings for snow and ice across parts of the UK.
Stay safe with our #WeatherReady tips
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/me...
Stay safe with our #WeatherReady tips
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/me...
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GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
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@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central
Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.
www.climatecentral.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!
The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
Exciting #PhD with @vickydominguez.bsky.social @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social "Flood-driven habitat change and the spread of aquatic invasive species at University of Southampton" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Exciting #PhD with @vickydominguez.bsky.social @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social "Flood-driven habitat change and the spread of aquatic invasive species at University of Southampton" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Exciting ecology #PhD opportunity with @vickydominguez.bsky.social at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social using stable isotopes, #remotesensing and #ecologicalmodelling to find out more about the #biodiversity of afrotropical river systems.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees
FindAPhD.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Exciting ecology #PhD opportunity with @vickydominguez.bsky.social at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social using stable isotopes, #remotesensing and #ecologicalmodelling to find out more about the #biodiversity of afrotropical river systems.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉
Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.
Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉
Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.
Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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#Rydercup - why am i watching someone warm up? I haven’t seen any shots from Lowry, Hatton or Macintyre - are they still playing @skysportspl.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#Rydercup - why am i watching someone warm up? I haven’t seen any shots from Lowry, Hatton or Macintyre - are they still playing @skysportspl.bsky.social
#Rydercup fails by @skysportspl.bsky.social 1. Endless shots of fans, players walking, landscape or so-mo of players staring - missing the golf. 2. SOOO many adverts - missing the golf. 3. Split screen of 2 simultaneously shots - why? Who can watch both? @bbc or @itv pls take back #rydercup
September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#Rydercup fails by @skysportspl.bsky.social 1. Endless shots of fans, players walking, landscape or so-mo of players staring - missing the golf. 2. SOOO many adverts - missing the golf. 3. Split screen of 2 simultaneously shots - why? Who can watch both? @bbc or @itv pls take back #rydercup
@skysportpl.bsky.social worst #RyderCup ever due to TOO MANY ADVERTS so missing a lot of golf and horrible braying mob creating miserable viewing.
September 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@skysportpl.bsky.social worst #RyderCup ever due to TOO MANY ADVERTS so missing a lot of golf and horrible braying mob creating miserable viewing.
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Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...
Stargazing at Walthamstow: An Introduction to Urban Astronomy | London Wildlife Trust
Join Stow Stargazers at Walthamstow to learn about and practice urban astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.
www.wildlondon.org.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...
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If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
Climate.us
climate.us
August 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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"These changes result in significant declines in suitable habitats for important calcifying species, including 43% reduction in habitat for tropical and subtropical coral reefs, up to 61% for polar pteropods, and 13% for coastal bivalves"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"These changes result in significant declines in suitable habitats for important calcifying species, including 43% reduction in habitat for tropical and subtropical coral reefs, up to 61% for polar pteropods, and 13% for coastal bivalves"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thank you @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for this poem in @theguardian.com. I work with amazing people from all over the world. Spain, Ireland, Philippines, India, Iraq, Syria, Poland and many other countries. Labour's language around immigration is so disappointing.
May 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thank you @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for this poem in @theguardian.com. I work with amazing people from all over the world. Spain, Ireland, Philippines, India, Iraq, Syria, Poland and many other countries. Labour's language around immigration is so disappointing.
🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI
📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social
📅 14–18 July 2025
🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y
⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025
Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges
📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social
📅 14–18 July 2025
🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y
⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025
Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges
Geospatial Data: AI & Deep Learning | University of Southampton Online Store
Geospatial Data: AI & Deep Learning 2nd Southampton Geospatial Summer School 2025Dates: 14–18 July 2025Tuition Fee: £1,030Accommodation (opt
go.soton.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI
📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social
📅 14–18 July 2025
🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y
⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025
Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges
📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social
📅 14–18 July 2025
🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y
⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025
Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges
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Y'all wished you looked this good at 135 years old, but the wisteria at Greys Court in Oxfordshire has you beat.
Photo: Hugh Mothersole
Photo: Hugh Mothersole
May 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Y'all wished you looked this good at 135 years old, but the wisteria at Greys Court in Oxfordshire has you beat.
Photo: Hugh Mothersole
Photo: Hugh Mothersole
with @emilycwilkinson.bsky.social thinking about how to turn #sargassum into an opportunity theconversation.com/how-a-toxic-... in @theconversation.com
How a toxic seaweed choking Caribbean beaches could become a valuable resource
The sargassum problem is just one of many creeping slow onset events that is being exacerbated by climate change.
theconversation.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
with @emilycwilkinson.bsky.social thinking about how to turn #sargassum into an opportunity theconversation.com/how-a-toxic-... in @theconversation.com
For all climate adaptation and hazard resilience people this is a wonderful opportunity
A UKRI Policy Fellowship is available with my employer, The Environment Agency. It is to look at applying social and behavioural science to increase natural hazard resilience in diverse communities.
Might be of interest to the #EGU25 science-policy community.
www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
Might be of interest to the #EGU25 science-policy community.
www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
www.ukri.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
For all climate adaptation and hazard resilience people this is a wonderful opportunity
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Folks in the Southhampton UK area, seats still available for Wednesday's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture @unisouthampton.bsky.social, based on my forthcoming book (via @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social) w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Folks in the Southhampton UK area, seats still available for Wednesday's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture @unisouthampton.bsky.social, based on my forthcoming book (via @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social) w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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Join me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for “Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era” lecture organized by Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute on Tuesday, May 6 from 2:30-4:30PM GMT at National Oceanography Center Southampton:
michaelmann.net/events/beyon...
michaelmann.net/events/beyon...
Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era (University of Southampton, UK) | Michael E. Mann
Professor Michael E. Mann will explore how paleoclimate records and climate models of the past two millennia provide key insights into human-caused climate change. Over two […]
michaelmann.net
April 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Join me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for “Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era” lecture organized by Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute on Tuesday, May 6 from 2:30-4:30PM GMT at National Oceanography Center Southampton:
michaelmann.net/events/beyon...
michaelmann.net/events/beyon...
Excited to hear about #climatechange and what’s happening in the USA from @michaelemann.bsky.social who’s visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social on 6/7 April.
April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Excited to hear about #climatechange and what’s happening in the USA from @michaelemann.bsky.social who’s visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social on 6/7 April.
Completely love this 👇 . Mine wd be bold Armageddon feature (I teach climate adaptation) shot in a single take from a drone (ceiling mounted camera) for wide angle perspective
Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.
April 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Completely love this 👇 . Mine wd be bold Armageddon feature (I teach climate adaptation) shot in a single take from a drone (ceiling mounted camera) for wide angle perspective
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Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.
April 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.