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Fiona Hewer BSc MSc FRMetS
Fiona is a published meteorological scientist with
climate change consultancy, knowledge exchange and business development experience.
Following a
mathematics degree at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, her career
began
as a research scientist in the Met Office Hadley Centre for climate
change
where she completed a master's degree in meteorology at the University
of
Reading. Her research work then specialised
in numerical modelling of flow over hills with peer-reviewed
publications in
the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society and
Boundary-layer
Meteorology. More recently she studied
at the Open University, taking a postgraduate module on "Ecology,
justice
and citizenship" including environmental ethics, political approaches
to
the environment, and biodiversity.After 10 years of scientific research she moved on to international relations, working with agencies such as the World Meteorological Organisation and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. She established a training course in statistical climatology in Nairobi. Fiona then assisted Peter Ewins CB, Chief Executive of the Met Office, as his Private Secretary, in the run-up to the relocation of its HQ and operations centre from Bracknell to Exeter. There then followed a series of corporate and commercial appointments at the Met Office in business process re-engineering and business development. Fiona worked with clients in the transport, insurance, water, energy, central government and local government sectors. More recently, Fiona established a climate change consultancy unit for the Met Office. She was the project manager and lead author of 'Climate change and energy management', a scoping study on the impacts of climate change on the UK energy industry. She moved back to south-east England in 2006 where she has been the Head of Meteorology at the Royal Meteorological Society. Her responsibilities included organising the Society's biennial conference in Edinburgh. Fiona aspires to helping society and business improve the ways we work with the environment through effective exploitation of science and greater ecological awareness. Knowledge exchange activities between scientists and end users are key. Based on this goal she now leads her own environmental consultancy Fiona’s Red Kite. Current projects include: science to policy liaison for the Natural Environment Research Council's QUEST programme; climate change adaptation planning for the National Trust (Northern Ireland) with Hyder consulting using UKCP09 projections; and digital publishing consultancy for ukoln at the University of Bath. top of page... |
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Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian, 2009, Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences. Ariadne Magazine. Issue 60, July 2009. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/callaghan-et-al/
Hewer, Fiona, 2008. Climate change and social justice in the UK. An overview paper for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 19 November 2008. Hewer, F E, 2006. Climate change and energy management: a scoping study on the impacts of climate change on the UK energy industry for National Grid, E.On UK and EDF Energy. Met Office, Exeter. Wood, N., Brown, A. R., and Hewer F. E., 2001. Parametrizing the effects of orography on the boundary layer: an alternative to effective roughness lengths. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 127, pp 759-777. Hewer, F. E., 1998. Non-linear numerical model predictions of flow over an isolated hill of moderate slope. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Volume 87, pp 381 408. Hewer, F. E. and Wood, N., 1998. The effective roughness length for scalar transfer in neutral conditions over hilly terrain. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 124, pp 659-685. top of page... |
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