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• February 2019

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  3rd World Summit on Climate Change and Global Warming

  27 February 2019 - -

  Climate 2019 is a leading forum for academic faculty, Meterology, registered Environmental professionals & practitioners, research experts in f

• CPD Report - RMet - David Michael Brookfield - (38027) 02 Oct 2018

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• Level 5 in Education and Training

  To complete and pass the next level course in Education and Training.

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• Educational Outreach and public speaking as the Guernsey Weather Fox

  I was invited through social media, to speak at the Guernsey Museum, a local Women's Group, the Aero Club and a local Primary School. I did all of these and was very well received by each. As a solo forecaster, my key messages were how I worked and why.

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• Visiting Sophia Bird at Channel TV

  I spent a morning with Sophia, seeing how on a routine shift she has to take information from us (Jersey Met) alongside information from the news and events editors, in order to put together routine Forecast broadcasts in the studio, as well as feature weather stories on location. Prioritising information at speed, in order to deliver the key messages unambiguously.

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• To gain BTEC level 4 certificate in Education and Training

  As part of my CPD for my current job, I was required to complete and pass the Level 4 certificate in education and training to ensure that I was using correct and upto date teaching methods while delivering lessons and conducting assessments.

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• Public speaking as a UKMO forecaster

  As an introduction to Weather presenting, I gave a number of Street Briefs (10 minute presentations on Thursday afternoons), probably about 10 at an estimate from memory. Projecting into the wall and speaking from the balcony at Exeter HQ to the majority of staff in the building; reviewing ltye previous weekend's forecast for Exeter, key topical national or international weather stories of the week and giving the forecast for Exeter for the coming weekend.

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• Reading Scientific Journals

  Reading of Weather to enhance personal background knowledge. This has given me some additional knowledge to enable work better by myself with a bit of additional knowledge about how solar eclipses affects the local weather behaviour, and consequently improves the quality of my work. It also gives me additional knowledge when guiding other forecasters in the application of their skills and tasks, which I need to plan for by myself. 

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• Highways England Overview

  Working by myself to bring winter services online within Highways England. Finding out the new ability to monitor and track salting vehicles across the network in real time, with spread rate, speed and direction of travel and width of salt spread. This is useful to check that the forecast has been interpreted correctly, and gives the option to follow up any potential mis-interpretations. 

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• Shadowing DeBroy Brookes on a Marine shift at Aberdeen MO

  When in Aberdeen to deliver a winter forecasting workshop, I took the opportunity to shadow DeBroy for a shift, in order to better understand the relationships between the Marine environment, Marine customers, their vessels, Marine forecasters, Marine NWP and Marine met theory; all with a view to developing the Met Office Wave Forecasting course. My motives were to make my teaching of the subject relevant to the job (which I had never actually done) rather than to simply convey my enthusiasm for the subject (which as an experienced surfer, I can not help but do).

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