2018 Lovelace Lecture

	Title of The Talk
	'Science, the Sun, the Climate... and how I ended up in an exciting career I didn't anticipate'
	Guest Speaker
	Professor Joanna Dorothy Haigh, CBE, FRS, FRMetS Imperial College London
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In this talk Professor Haigh outlined some of her work on solar variability and climate and try to offer an objective overview of her career, the decisions she made and the support received.

"Having spent most of my research life investigating various aspects of radiative transfer in theatmosphere it was a chance remark by a solar physicist that sparked my interest in the Sun’sinfluence on climate.

"I have found it a fascinating and rich subject for research. Solar-climatelinks have, of course, been the subject of popular and scientific interest since ancient times butover recent decades the topic has acquired new significance in the context of the need toassess the relative contributions of natural and human factors to climate change.

"So my longstanding interest in weather progressed into a deeper concern with climate, and the opportunityto become co-director of the Grantham Institute (Climate Change and Environment) at Imperial College has opened up for me a whole new career avenue in climate change."