The Reading-Surrey NERC-funded DTP on the SCience of the Environment: Natural and Anthropogenic pRocesses, Impacts and Opportunities (SCENARIO) has awarded Ian Roulstone a studentship for a project (joint with the UK Met Office) on “Optimal Mitigation of Sampling Error in Ensemble Data Assimilation“.  This studentship has been taken up by a candidate from Durham and the project starts in Autumn 2017.