Scotland Power Technical Network Events

In this talk, Anouschka Van Mourik shares reflections from her early career, exploring the realities of transitioning from graduate to practising engineer. Drawing on real experiences, she highlights the challenges young engineers face, the support that makes the greatest difference, and how experienced engineers can help create environments where new talent can thrive. A session aimed at inspiring future engineers and encouraging reflection across all career stages.

Our Earth has shown wild variations in climate over the last few hundred million years. The ultimate driver of climate is the Sun, which has increased in luminosity by 30% over it's 4,500 million year current life. We will see how the sun works and how it influences the Earth and our climate on ever shorter time scales, including the 11 year sunspot cycle. Finally, we will see how recently CO2 has become increasingly important and look at the most likely future.