2019 Conference Climate Change & Gardens 1. Peter Gibbs

Bio from 2019: Meteorologist and broadcaster Peter Gibbs spent more than 30 years as a front line forecaster with

the UK’s Met Office and as one of the BBC national weather presenting team. Peter co-chairs the iconic Radio 4 show ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’(reputed to be the longest-running radio show in the world!) and is a

regular reporter on the Radio 4 environment series ‘Costing the Earth’

Peter’s first job as a meteorologist was running the weather observation programme at the British Antarctic Survey’s remote Halley research station in Antarctica in the early 1980s, spending two consecutive winters on the ice. He returned to Antarctica in 2016 to report on the global importance of the science programme at Halley for the BBC’s flagship science show ‘Horizon’.

More recently, Peter has been working with a number of organisations to try to modernise and improve access to weather and climate services across Africa, which has the potential to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Leeds.