Professor Ric Williams BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
Teaching
I teach 'Climate, Atmospheres and Oceans', addressing how the climate system operates in the present day, drawing upon basic physics and chemical principles, including the role of the atmosphere and ocean.
I teach 'Modelling processes in Oceans and Climate', addressing how carbon is transferred between the atmosphere and ocean, and including the effects of ocean chemistry, and the response to carbon emissions.
In my teaching, I advocate understanding how the climate system operates from first principles, based upon physics, chemistry and mathematics. By focussing on a fundamental approach, skills and insight gained can be transferred to other problems.