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About Stephen BurtTim Burt

Stephen Burt retired from the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in 2018. His career began in the Met Office in 1977 since when he has published widely on many and varied aspects of British climatology including case studies of notable weather events such as the 'Great Storm' of October 1987 heatwaves snowstorms and extreme rainfall events. He holds an MSc in Applied Meteorology and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society Chairman of the Climatological Observers Link and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Scientific Instruments Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Reading. Tim Burt retired in 2017 after 21 years as Master of Hatfield College and Professor of Geography at Durham University. Before that he was Lecturer in Physical Geography at Oxford University and a Fellow of Keble College (1984-96) and Director of the Radcliffe Meteorological Station 1986-96. Tim has run the Durham Observatory weather station since 2000. He has published widely on the Oxford and Durham records as well as in other areas of physical geography. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the British Society for Geomorphology. He was awarded the Cuthbert Peek Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1994 and the Linton Award of the British Society for Geomorphology in 2017. He is now an Emeritus Professor at Durham University a Visiting Professor at Bristol University and a Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College Oxford. An undergraduate at Cambridge Tim has an MA from Carleton University Ottawa and PhD and DSc from Bristol.