Congratulations to Sean Cleator for passing his PhD viva today (Friday 20th December)! Sean’s thesis is entitled “Glacial and Holocene Climates Reconstructed by Vegetation-Model Inversion“. The External Examiner was Professor Hugues Goosse (Université Catholique de Louvain) and the Internal Examiner was Philip Aston. Sean was supervised by Professors Sandy Harrison and Nancy Nichols (Reading University) and Ian Roulstone. The project was funded by the joint Reading-Surrey Doctoral Training Partnership SCENARIO. The photo below shows Sean and Ian.