Prof Emily Black Emily Black is Professor of Terrestrial Processes and Climate at the University of Reading, and a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences. She currently directs the TAMSAT drought monitoring and forecasting programme, which provides climate services to African financial, agricultural, and humanitarian sectors. Her research interests centre on variability and change in the hydrological cycle. Paper/s Divergent Trends in Meteorological and Agricultural Drought Over the 21st Century