Rate My Professor Edward Hanna

Edward Hanna is Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology in the College of Science at the University of Lincoln. He obtained his BSc in Planetary Science with First Class Honours from University College London in 1995 and his PhD in Satellite Remote Sensing of Antarctic Sea Ice and Climatic Couplings from the University of Bristol in 1999. His early career included postdoctoral research in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading (1998-2000), followed by a Lectureship in Meteorology at the University of Plymouth (2000), where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002. Joining the University of Sheffield in 2003 as Lecturer in Climate Change, he advanced to Senior Lecturer (2006), Reader (2010), and Professor (2013), also serving as Deputy Head of Department (2013-2016).

Hanna's academic interests center on climate change, meteorology, Greenland ice sheet mass balance, seasonal weather forecasting, solar eclipses, storminess, and the influence of Arctic amplification on Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude extreme weather events, including the Greenland Blocking Index and North Atlantic polar jet stream variability. A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, he is Co-Chair of the World Climate Research Programme's Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Scientific Steering Group and has been lead Principal Investigator on four multi-institute NERC grants since 2021. His influential publications include 'Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018' (Nature, 2019), 'Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: a response to global warming' (The Cryosphere, 2008), 'Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: a review' (Earth-Science Reviews, 2020), and 'Meteorological effects and impacts of the 10 June 2021 solar eclipse over the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland' (Weather, 2022). He led an international team of 29 experts in a review published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment on ice sheet contributions to sea-level rise. With an h-index of 61 (Google Scholar), his work significantly impacts climate science.