Digital School Visits: Extreme Weather Explained, 2025
In spring 2025 Gabriele Messori, EDIPI’s Scientific Coordinator, conducted four digital school visits as part of the “Låna en forskare” (Borrow a Researcher) outreach initiative. Building on earlier in-person visits, these virtual sessions brought discussions on extreme weather and climate science directly into classrooms across Sweden. Through engaging presentations and live Q&A, students learned about weather forecasting, heatwaves, and the science behind storm systems — all tailored to a young audience. The digital format allowed wider geographic reach and accessibility, reinforcing EDIPI’s commitment to education and public engagement.
Launch of the EArtH Project, 2024
EDIPI ESRs initiated the EArtH Project – a creative reinterpretation of classical artworks through the lens of contemporary climate projections. The initiative uses art as a medium for public engagement with climate science.
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Participation in European Researchers’ Night, 29 September 2023 & 27 September 2024
Gabriele Messori represented EDIPI at European Researchers’ Night in Sweden in both 2023 and 2024. These events brought science to the public through interactive exhibits, talks, and personal engagement.
🔗Event in 2023
🔗Event in 2024
Launch of ClimaMeter and media engagement, 2022–2024
Davide Faranda, in collaboration with Gabriele Messori, Pascal Yiou and Mireia Ginesta Fernandez (ESR 8), launched the ClimaMeter initiative for rapid attribution of extreme weather events. ClimaMeter’s findings have been widely covered in national and international media, and Faranda gave over 30 interviews on related topics during this period.
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Press Release: Study on Heat-Related Mortality and Climate Change 29 October 2024
The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) issued a press release on the attribution of European heat-related deaths in 2022 to anthropogenic warming.
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Media Outreach by Gabriele Messori
EDIPI’s scientific coordinator, Gabriele Messori, has featured in over 35 interviews during the second reporting period. His media appearances across national television, radio, newspapers, and specialist journals have played a vital role in bringing the science of extreme weather and climate change to a broader public audience.
Presentation by Gabriele Messori in Science Fika, 26 November 2023
Gabriele Messori, Professor of meteorology and EDIPI scientific coordinator, was the main speaker at the Science Fika on 26 November. This event is organized by Uppsala Library in order to stimulate the interest in science among the general public. His presentation had the title “Extreme weather: is it linked to climate change?”
Popular science article in Frontiers for Young Minds, 23 November 2023
Emma Holmberg (ESR 9) co-authored an article for Frontiers for Young Minds, a journal aimed at young readers aged 8–15. The piece explains how scientists forecast weather using models and observations, making climate science accessible to a younger audience.
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Blog article on European warm-temperature extremes and persistence, 11 September 2023
Emma Holmberg (ESR 9) authored a blog post for the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences division of the European Geosciences Union. The article presents new findings from her recent study showing that warm temperature extremes in Europe are not always associated with persistent atmospheric circulation patterns—challenging long-held meteorological assumptions. The post also introduces a novel dynamical systems-based metric for persistence and aims to make this methodology accessible to a broader scientific audience.
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Scifest 2023
Aleksa Stankovic (ESR 1), Ferran López Martí (ESR 2), Emma Holmberg (ESR 9, neé Allwright) and Anastasiya Shyrokaya (ESR 10) participated in Scifest, 21-23 September 2023. Scifest is a popular science fair that takes place in Uppsala (Sweden) where different researchers from different disciplines offer interactive demonstrations, hands-on activities, scientific shows, and engaging scientific lectures to school pupils and the general public.
Aleksa Stankovic (ESR 1) explained how scientists can get a snapshot of Earth’s past climate from tree rings.
Ferran López Martí (ESR 2) made the meteorological prognosis of Storm Hans (Summer 2023, Sweden) accessible for students.
Emma Holmberg (ESR 9, neé Allwright) showed with colored balls how the probabilities for heatwaves have increased for climate change.
Anastasiya Shyrokaya (ESR 10) was incharge of an experiment that showed how different types of soil, as well as the elevation, can increase damages caused by intense rain and floods.
The Tape of Life at Green Man Festival, August 2023
Jamie Mathews (ESR 4) contributed scientific interpretation and sound design to The Tape of Life, a public engagement installation at the Green Man Festival 2023 in Wales. The piece communicated the story of Earth’s climate through sound and narration.
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Línte na Farraige: Shedding Light on Rising Seas
Jamie Mathews (ESR 4) co-developed Línte na Farraige, a public art initiative using light installations on coastal landmarks to visualize projected sea-level rise and storm surge threats. This creative project brought climate science into public spaces, making future risks tangible and emotionally resonant. Jamie also authored a blog post for the Grantham Institute, explaining the science behind the artwork in accessible terms.
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Bianca Biess (ESR 11) made a presentation about climate change at a school, 13 June 2023
Bianca Biess gave a presentation about the general topic of climate change at the school of Sekundarschule Ruggenacher in Regensdorf, Switzerland.
Bianca Biess (ESR 11) took part in the “LERNfeld” seminar from GLOBE-SWISS, 22-23 May 2023
Bianca Biess gave an online presentation to a school class from the school Oberstufe Ried (Basel, Switzerland) on climate change, and later visited the farm Plantahof in Liestal.
Bianca Biess (ESR 11) took part in the “LERNfeld” seminar from GLOBE-SWISS, 8 & 10 May 2023
Bianca Biess, with other peers, supported the secondary school of Sek. Leonhard (Basel, Switzerland) in exploring the topics of biodiversity and climate change by visiting the farm Hof Untere Wanne in Liestal, where the pupils practice scientific methods accompanied by young researchers.
Newspaper interview by EDIPI’s training coordinator Davide Faranda, 6 May 2023
Davide Faranda (CNRS) gave an interview to the French newspaper La Dépêche about how with El Niño phenomenon will suffer amplified effects of global warming. Read Davide’s interview in La Dépêche website (in French).
Bianca Biess (ESR 11) took part in the “LERNfeld” seminar from GLOBE-SWISS, 3-4 May 2023
Bianca Biess, with other peers, supported the secondary school of Gymnasium Kirschgarten (Basel, Switzerland) in exploring the topics of biodiversity and climate change by visiting the farm Neuhof in Liestal, where the pupils practice scientific methods accompanied by young researchers.
Anupama K Xavier (ESR 7) participated in ASGARD project in Belgium, 22-24 March 2023
Anupama K Xavier participated in ASGARD, a school project organised by Sint-Pieterscollege Jette together with the Belgian Space Pole institutes ROB, RMI, BIRA and STCE. Each year, students –between 15 and 19 years old– from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands, send their self invented and self-made experiment into “space” with a stratospheric balloon. Participating in ASGARD is very similar to a real science mission in space, performed by a team during one school year. They also get an opportunity to interact with scientists who work in these institutes to familiarise with present day science and its growth.
Jamie Mathews (ESR 4) writes a piece about his involvement in the project Línte na Farraige, 27 March 2023
In this blog post, Jamie Using reflects on how the light installations to visualise the risk of rising seas and storm surges by Finnish artists Timo Aho and Pekka Nittyvirta help us reflect on local changes due to climate change.
Outreach campaign in Kerala, India, by Sohan Suresan (ESR 6)
Sohan Suresan (TAU) conducted an outreach campaign in Kerala, India, targetting high school and higher secondary education students in a couple of public schools. The topics of his campaign were extreme events, climate change and his PhD research topic, respectively understanding and predicting extreme dynamical events and specifically when the jet stream and storms in the North Atlantic behave in a very unusual way for a relatively long period.
Blog article on Storm Alex case study, 21 December 2022
Mireia Ginesta-Fernández (ESR 8) contributed to a public communication article published by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), presenting research on how changes in climate dynamics have altered the characteristics and impacts of storms in France. The article focused on the case of Storm Alex (2020) and was aimed at informing a broader audience about the implications of climate change on extreme weather.
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Blog article on idealized climate modeling, 18 July 2022
An Anupama Xavier (ESR 7) authored a blog post on the European Geosciences Union (EGU) website introducing idealized climate modeling. Using simplified systems, the post helps readers understand key mechanisms in the climate system.
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Presentation by Ferran López Martí (ESR 2), UU Climate Change Day, 20 May 2022
Ferran López Martí (UU) has presented his research on Euro-Atlantic atmospheric rivers, during the event organized by Uppsala university aimed at raising awareness for climate change issues.
Presentation by Anupama Xavier (ESR 7), ASGARD: balloons for science, 28 April 2022
Anupama Xavier participated in the ASGARD project, a balloon project organized once a year by Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB) for schools, allowing students to propose an experiment to be launched with a weather balloon. During the day, the participants were immersed in meteorology, astronomy, and space science via workshops and visits at the three institutes – RMIB, Royal Observatory of Belgium and Royal Belgian Institute for Space Astronomy.
Anupama presented a simplified version of her doctoral studies work to students from primary and secondary education.
Blog article on extreme event attribution science, 25 February 2022
Davide Faranda (CNRS), EDIPI’s training coordinator, authored a blog post for the European Geosciences Union’s Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences division. The article explains how scientists attribute individual extreme weather events to climate change. Using recent cyclones and insights from the IPCC’s AR6 report, Faranda introduces the core methods of attribution science and the challenges involved. He also highlights the collaborative role of initiatives like World Weather Attribution and the EU-supported projects XAIDA, CLINT, and DAMOCLES.
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Lecture by Gabriele Messori at Uppsala Public lecture , 16 November 2021
Gabriele Messori (UU, Scientific Coordinator of EDIPI) gave a presentation on extreme climate events in Europe at the event arranged by Forskning&Framsteg at Uppsala City Library, Uppsala, Sweden.
Joan Ballester at 2021 European Research Night
Joan Ballester (ISGlobal) presented the project at the European Research Night (La Nit de la Recerca) scientific event in Barcelona. Read more about Joan’s presentation on the event’s website (in Spanish).
Presentation by Gabriele Messori in three Swedish schools, 10 September 2021
