MSc ECE alumnus Thomas Mortlock comments on Australia floods on the BBC
MSc ECE (2007-2008) alumnus Thomas Mortlock, now a Senior Risk Analyst (Climate Risk, Coastal, Flood) at Risk Frontiers, comments on Australia’s recent floods on the BBC.
MSc ECE (2007-2008) alumnus Thomas Mortlock, now a Senior Risk Analyst (Climate Risk, Coastal, Flood) at Risk Frontiers, comments on Australia’s recent floods on the BBC.
On Tuesday February 26th, PhD student Hana Al-Rashed gave a special coastal seminar on the first objective of her thesis titled “Three decades of urban coastal water SSTs along Kuwait’s south eastern coast”. In the context of global warming, Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs), coastal areas have shown a rising trend ten times faster than the… Read More MSc ECE student Maria Ines de Carli reports on the Coastal Seminar by Ms Hana Al-Rashed: SST along Kuwait’s coast
By MSc ECE 2018/19 student Gabriella Panteli, On Friday 2nd November Dr Ivan Haigh, Mrs Addina Inayatillah, Ms Lucy Fillbrook spoke to us on the topic “Surgewatch: documenting 2000 years of coastal flooding in the UK”. Coastal flooding events have had catastrophic consequences both globally and in the UK. Within the UK there is a… Read More Seminar Blog: Surgewatch: documenting 2000 years of coastal flooding in the UK
ECE 2018/19 Student Toby Miller reports on the first coastal seminar of this term, a SMMI workshop on “Coastal and marine implications of a 1.5˚C increase in warming: Implications of the Paris Agreement”. The workshop featured presentations by, and discussion with a team of experts from the University, including Dr Sally Brown, lead author on… Read More Student Blogpost: Coastal and marine implications of a 1.5˚C increase in warming: Implications of the Paris Agreement
Professor Robert Nicholls invited to present at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in Washington DC, 9/10 October 2016. On 9 October, Robert gave one of three talks in Plenary Session on Mega-Engineering Initiatives. He spoke on “Adaptation to Sea Level Rise”, together with talks by Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX about The… Read More Robert Nicholls invited to present at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in Washington DC
Dr Sally Brown (Faculty of Engineering and the Environment) has written an guest blog entry for RealClimate (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/03/what-drives-uncertainties-in-adapting-to-sea-level-rise/). The piece is based around her work in assessing the uncertainties in analysing the impacts and adapting to sea-level rise. Uncertainties in assessment arise from projections in the rates of sea-level rise, finances, perceptions of risk, decision… Read More What drives uncertainties in adapting to sea-level rise?