
Free weather and climate events
Talks, seminars and lectures on weather, the atmosphere and climate: forecasting and early warnings, AI and machine learning for weather and climate, extremes such as floods, droughts and heatwaves, oceans and ice, and climate science, policy and finance.
Many of these talks can be joined online from anywhere. Choose Online below to see only those, with each event's time shown where it takes place.
57 upcoming events, 24 of them you can join online
Coming up
Events 1–20 of 57, soonest first
Tuesday 27 October
- 4:00 PM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
Beyond crisis: Reimagining “education and international development” for climate and debt justice
University College London · Room 777, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom
Join us for the first “Contemporary Global Challenges in Education and Justice” seminar series at the Centre for Education and International Development.
- 12:30 PM in ChicagoIn person and online
Book Talk - North: The Future of Post-Climate America
Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation · 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Chicago IL
Climate change is already influencing how and where people live.
- 1:30 PM in Washington, DCOnline
Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Dr. Azamat Azarov (University of Central Asia) explores how climate change is reshaping natural resources and agrarian life in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn region, combining environmental analysis with…
- 11:30 AM-1:30 PM in CalgaryIn person
Forum - Understanding the Complexities of Canadian Climate Policy
University of Calgary · 906 8th Avenue S.W. 5th Floor Calgary, Alberta T2P 1H9
Join the School of Public Policy (https://spp.ucalgary.ca/) for our Forum 2026/27 Series. This session features Dr. Jennifer Winter, Interim Director, Canadian Governance Policy and Principal…
- 5:00 PM-6:30 PM in ChicagoIn person
BFI Public Event: Europe’s Energy and Industrial Transformation in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Becker Friedman Institute · CHICAGO BOOTH HARPER CENTER | ROOM C25
Geopolitical shifts, the transition to climate neutrality, and rapid technological change are reshaping Europe’s energy systems and industrial economy.
Wednesday 28 October
- 2:00 PM-3:00 PM in the UKIn person
GRiEG Seminar: African Indigenous Ontologies for Decolonial Climate Change Education and Resilience
University of Manchester · A5.5, Ellen Wilkinson Building, Manchester
The presentation will argue that resilience requires epistemic plurality, to which African Indigenous ontologies and decolonial climate change education make vital contributions.
- 10:00 AM-7:00 PM in ChicagoIn person
Climate Frontiers
Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth · David Rubenstein Forum
Climate Frontiers: Energy and Climate at UChicago is an annual day-long program of special events demonstrating the scale and breadth of the University’s activities on energy and climate change.
- 7:00 PM-8:30 PM in CairoOnline
Educating for a Climate Changed Future: How Schools, Universities and Civil Society Can Turn Education into a Force for Resilience and Transformation
The American University in Cairo
The session will explore how climate change disrupts education and how education systems can help young people build the knowledge, skills, and resilience needed to address climate challenges.
- 12:00 PM in ProvidenceIn person
Energy Transition Hot Takes
General · The Underground Cafe
Join the Student Initiative for Sustainable Energy at the underground cafe to discuss the challenges within the energy transition. Stay for just a few minutes or the full hour to learn about the…
- 9:00 AM-10:00 AM in CaliforniaOnline
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene: An SSIR Conversation
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Appalachia’s history, culture, and struggles are unique. But Appalachia’s experience with Hurricane Helene offers a vision of the future, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure…
- 6:00 PM-7:30 PM in the UKIn person
Has Climate policy reached its limit? Europe's path to climate neutrality
London School of Economics and Political Science · Marshall 2.08, Marshall Building
- 3:00 PM in BoulderIn person and online
The CU Retired Faculty Association at Boulder Presents: The Climate and Habitability of Planets around other Stars w/ Bruce Jakoksy
University of Colorado Boulder · Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, The Canyons Center Movie Theatre, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, CO 80303
The Climate and Habitability of Planets around other Stars w/ Bruce Jakoksy
- 3:00 PM-4:30 PM in VancouverIn person
Challenging International Far-Right Agendas on Climate Policy
University of British Columbia · Franklin Lew Forum at Allard Hall
In the last five years, actors in the far-right have been shaping contemporary climate agendas worldwide to the detriment of progress towards a just transition.
- 7:30 PM-9:00 PM in BoulderIn person
Talking Turtles and Singing Ice: Listening to the More-than-Human World in an Age of Distraction
University of Colorado Boulder · Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), Auditorium
Listening has always been central to human survival. We’ve evolved to tune in to each other, but also the sounds of our places, the voices of other animals, rhythms of seasons and weather.
Thursday 29 October
- 10:00 AM in HoustonIn person
Pyrogenic Carbons as Sustainable Nitrification Inhibitors: Mechanistic Insights and De-risking Advances for Climate Mitigation in Agricultural Soils
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies · Ryon Engineering Building
Speaker: Johanna Bangala
Friday 30 October
- 12:00 PM in HoustonIn person and online
Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Julie Livingston
Anthropology · Sewall Hall
Please join Rice Anthropology for a Brown Bag Talk “Suicide, Climate, and the Loss of Homes” with Julie Livingston, Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, on Friday…
- 2:00 PM in HoustonIn person and online
From Crystals to Climate: Reconstructing the Geologic and Environmental Histories of Jezero and Gale Craters on Mars
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies · Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories
Speaker: Eleanor Moreland
- 3:30 PM-6:00 PM in ProvidenceIn person and online
Seminar and Reception – Climate Culture: Film, TV and the Possibilities for Climate Action
IBES · List Art Building
3:30–5 p.m. talk and Q&A | 5–6 p.m. reception
Monday 2 November
- 1:00 PM-2:00 PM in IrelandIn person
When and Where Are We Meeting? Cultures of Time and Space in the Hybrid Whaling Communities of the 19th-century Eastern Arctic
Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
A lecture by Karen Oslund (Towson University, USA) for the Environmental History Research Seminar Series.
- 7:30 PM-9:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
CSAR lecture: The Sun and Climate Change - Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, U. of Cambridge
University of Cambridge · Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom
Open to all. See https://www.csar.org.uk/lectures/ for more details. Book at BookWhen.
Recently held
The kind of weather and climate events universities open to the public. These have finished.
- Sun 25 OctPast eventPrometheus Fire: Seeing and Sensing Climate Change · University of Colorado Boulder
- Fri 23 OctPast eventReimagining Flood Risk and Protection: Moving Beyond Legacy Systems · NC State University
- Thu 22 OctPast eventLaw and the Political Economy of Climate Adaptation · University College London
- Wed 21 OctPast eventArline Geronimus: Weathering, Then and Now · Boston College
- Wed 21 OctPast eventBook Talk: When Federal Climate Policy Works Benefits, Business, and Politics · Stanford University
Where these events come from
- University of Chicago (6)
- ESRC Festival of Social Science (5)
- Brown University (4)
- ETH Zurich (4)
- University of Colorado Boulder (4)
- Rice University (3)
- Georgetown University (2)
- Harvard University (2)
And 20 more universities: see them all in the catalogue.