We’re closing out the year welcoming Dr. Tom Mathews, a new senior lecturer in Environmental Geography at the Department of Geography, KCL.
Tom joins King’s Water having held lecturing positions in Maynooth University (Ireland), John Moores University, and Loughborough University. His PhD was about glacier-climate interactions, completed at Loughborough University.
Tom’s research focuses on environments and events that are meteorologically extreme. The former has seen him work extensively in mountain regions, including in the Himalayas, where he co-led the installation of the highest-altitude weather stations in the world on Mt. Everest. For the latter, Tom has led research on severe extra-tropical cyclones and compound events. Still, he specialises in extreme humid heat events, including their drivers and projected changes under climate warming.
Last year, Tom was awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society for his project ICEMELTS (Improving ClimatE Monitoring to Enhance Ladakh’s waTer Security), concerned with increasing societal preparedness in Ladakh, India, against changes to the hydrological cycle consequent on a warming climate. He also recently collaborated on research published in Geophysical Research Letters, exploring the controlling factors for globally extreme humid heat.
Want to see more from Tom? Follow his personal Twitter @TkrMatthews86 and King’s Water @KingsWaterKCL for more updates on her work within the hub!