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LaineyLouiseWard/README.md

Lainey Ward

PhD researcher at the UCD Decarb-AI Centre and Innovate for Ireland iScholar, working on subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction of compound hydroclimatic extremes over Ireland. I do forecast verification: measuring how much skill ECMWF's extended-range ensemble really holds two to six weeks out. It's the groundwork for machine-learning post-processing to predict drought-to-flood and flood-to-drought transitions.

Previously a Meteorological Officer at Met Éireann. MSc in Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate from the University of Reading (Distinction); BSc Physics from UCD. Member of COST Action ANTICIPATE (CA24144), the European network on subseasonal multi-hazard prediction and early warning.

Interests: compound hydroclimatic extremes · teleconnections (MJO, NAO, ENSO) · early warning systems · climate services

University College Dublin · Met Éireann · University of Reading · COST Action ANTICIPATE


Publications

Forero-Martinez, N. C., Cortes-Huerto, R., Ward, L. & Ballone, P. (2023). Water Harvesting by Thermoresponsive Ionic Liquids: A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Water Absorption Kinetics and of the Role of Nanostructuring. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(24). Open access at ACS.


Selected projects

Project What it does Activity
S2S_AI Verification framework for ECMWF seasonal reforecasts at Irish point locations private
label-quality-ceiling Class-imbalanced satellite image segmentation with cross-dataset knowledge transfer (published) last commit
The Ensemble Edit PhD student blog I founded on AI and climate (Astro, Tailwind, MDX) last commit
The Indices of Ireland Interactive map scoring the 26 counties on eight tongue-in-cheek open-data indices (vanilla JS, Leaflet, live on GitHub Pages) last commit
Innovate for Ireland — Ecosystem Event An AI-readiness exercise with the iScholars team: hands-on Claude Code, run with Jonathan McCrea last commit

Latest from The Ensemble Edit

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Discussion

For Those Who Are Struggling to Adapt to the Vastness of Research
Jul 3, 2026
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Events

Learning to Build with AI (+ a Sceptical Team)
Jul 3, 2026
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Events

Creation of a Break
Jun 17, 2026

Activity

GitHub streak

Contribution streak across public and private repositories.


Tools I use regularly

Research

Python PyTorch NumPy Pandas Matplotlib xarray Cartopy Satpy Rasterio SciPy GeoPandas GDAL Jupyter

Web

Astro TypeScript Tailwind CSS Leaflet Vercel GitHub Pages

Writing & environment

LaTeX Linux VS Code Conda Git

AI tools

Claude Code ChatGPT GitHub Copilot


Find me elsewhere:

LinkedIn ORCID The Ensemble Edit


Funded by

Innovate for Ireland · Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland · Decarb-AI · AIB

PhD funded through the Innovate for Ireland programme at the UCD Decarb-AI Centre.

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