Team

National Oceanography Centre

Dr Laurent Amoudry Principal investigator and Project leader

Laurent is a principal scientist at the NOC and the overall lead for the project. Laurent is a coastal scientist working at the interface between physical oceanography, physical geography and coastal engineering. He has broad interests bringing together observations and models to understand how the balance of operative processes control the behaviour and evolution of coastal seas and estuaries and how this will change under future climate and human interventions.

Jen Thomas Project Manager

Jen is a Project Manager professional responsible for overseeing and coordinating various aspects of the project from inception to completion. Her primary role on CHAMFER is to ensure the project meets it objectives, stays on schedule, manage risks, and the project stays within budget whilst also making sure that all the funder requirements are met.

Dr Michela Dominicis Co-Investigator, WP1 lead: UK/GB scale terrestrial controls on extreme hydrodynamic conditions

Michela is the WP1 lead, and she is building a new coastal ocean model for the UK coast, using NEMO at 500 m resolution, that will help to better represent how tides, storm surges, waves and rivers interact in the coastal areas. We will use it to run present and future climate simulations.

Dr Lucy Bricheno Co-Investigator, WP1: UK/GB scale terrestrial controls on extreme hydrodynamic conditions

Lucy will be developing a 500m resolution model of sea surface waves around the UK, and working on the coupling of waves and hydrodynamics. This model will then be modified to simulate nearshore wave processes & wetting-drying to understand how their interactions can affect high water levels and flood risk at the coast. Her second role is exploring future scenarios and making simulations of global ocean waves impacted by the climate crisis.

Dr Francisco Mir Calafat Co-Investigator, WP1: UK/GB scale terrestrial controls on extreme hydrodynamic conditions

Francisco is a physical oceanographer interested in sea level and extreme weather events. He will investigate how the likelihood of multi-hazard events is affected by climate change." Please feel free to shorten it if needed.

Dr Ryan Patmore Co-Investigator, WP1: UK/GB scale terrestrial controls on extreme hydrodynamic conditions

Dr James Strong Co-Investigator, WP2: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards.

James is a marine ecologist specialising in the mapping and spatial modelling of species and habitats on the seabed. Within CHAMFER, James is leading the desktop analysis to determine the influence of co-located coastal habitats (seascapes) on shoreline processes, specifically shore erosion, around Great Britain i.e., the Erosional Sea Scape Analysis (ESSA). James will also participate in the CHAMFER fieldwork campaign, which seeks to characterise the physical properties of co-located habitats, in comparison to units of isolate, mono-specific habitat, round the GB coastline and between seasons.

Dr Xiaoyan Wei Co-Investigator, WP3: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi - hazards

Xiaoyan is a Coastal Oceanographer. She will develop simplified yet efficient computer models to assess how climate change and human activities influence flood hazards in diverse estuaries. She will then evaluate the efficacy of diverse estuarine flood management strategies tailored to different estuary types.

Constantinos Matsoukis Co-Investigator, WP3: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards

Miss Christine Sams Co-Investigator,WP4 Lead: Research Impact & Synthesis

Christine’s role is to maximise the societal value and impact of the research. Working with the project team, Christine will focus on understanding the needs of the relevant stakeholder communities and ensuring as far as possible that the research outputs are aligned to these needs.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Mr Angus Garbutt UKCEH Lead, WP2 lead: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards

Angus is a coastal ecologist and UKCEH coastal science lead specialising in ecological and environmental processes that determine saltmarsh management. His research focuses on field experimentation, long-term and national scale monitoring, quantifying relationships between ecosystem function and the goods and benefits they provide. To deliver this research and provide evidence based solutions to policy, science and business needs, Angus works with a wide range of Government Agencies, funders, and partners.

Joanna Harley Co-Investigator, WP2: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards

Joanna is a research associate in Coastal Ecosystems. They have a multi-disciplinary background in ocean and coastal sciences, including work in ecology, molecular biology and microbiology, working with the Marine Biological Association, University of Sheffield and the National Oceanography Centre. Joanna’s current research focusses on provision of evidence for the services provided by saltmarshes and seascape-scale restoration.

Dr Toby Marthews Co-Investigator, WP1: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards

Toby Environmental Scientist with a particular interest in the effects of Climate Change on ecosystems. My part of the CHAMFER project is to develop national scale modelling tools to simulate the effects of multi-hazards driven by extreme weather on the coast of the UK, working in collaboration with the UK Met Office and other partners.

Mr Matt Wiggins Co-Investigator, WP1: Protective services and vulnerability of UK coastal habitats to climate driven multi-hazards

Matthew is a Research Associate Hydrological and Land Surface Modeller. Within CHAMFER Matthew will assist Toby in the development of modelling tools primarily focused on producing driving data and implementing new code developments to effectively couple the Land (JULES) and Ocean (NEMO) components of the Unified Model. This new functionality will enable simulation of coastal inundation and provide insight into multi-hazard impacts.

British Geological Survey

Dr Andres Payo Garcia BGS lead, WP3 lead: Exploring the role of working with Natural Processes (WWNP) on managing risk of coastal flooding and erosion across Great Britain coasts and estuaries. systems

Andres is the Principal Scientist of the Coasts & Estuaries geohazard area at the BGS. Andres’ role is to integrate the national scale outputs from WP1&2 to provide better understanding of how effective WWNP approaches are for managing the risk of coastal flooding and erosion across Great Britain coasts and estuaries, under todays’ climate and likely future climate conditions. This will be done through numerical simulations of local scale inundation, morphological change, and coastal erosion for a series of generic coastal typologies that represents the diversity of coastal systems across GB. Andres is leading the developing of the new modelling platforms to include habitat protective services and forms of WWNP (T3.2).

Mr Gareth Jenkins Co-Investigator, contributing to task 3.1 & 3.3 in WP3: Exploring the role of Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) on managing risk of coastal flooding and erosion across Great Britain coasts and estuaries.

Gareth is a hazards geologist, with a specialism in volcanology, landslides and coastal processes and is interested in how these hazards interact in coastal systems both on open coasts and in estuaries. Gareth is contributing to WP3 by mapping the coastal typologies and liaising with relevant stakeholders in Wales (T3.1) and contributing to better understanding how WWNP complements the protective services of traditional engineering (T3.3).

Catherine Pennington Co-Investigator & WP3 comms champion, T3.1 lead: Identify matrix of coastal typologies and forms of WWNP approaches.

Catherine is an engineering geologist and landslides specialist interested in how coastal systems interact with landslides on open coasts. Her primary role is to lead the integration of all GB coastal typologies, to map England coastal typologies and liaise with stakeholders in T3.1, and to communicate the project via BGS channels. Cath is also contributing to the understanding how WWNP complements the protective services of traditional engineering (T3.3).

Dr Claire Dashwood Co-Investigator, T3.3 lead: Understanding how WWNP complements the protective services of traditional engineering.

Claire is an engineering geologist and landslides specialist interested in how coastal systems interact with landslides on open coasts. Her primary role is to integrate the new understanding gathered in T3.3 where we will implement our model instances (T3.2) for future scenarios (T1.1) and we will also run a series of long-term simulations (present until 2100) for a sub-set of our generic coastal systems. Claire is also contributing to T3.1 by mapping England coastal typologies and liaising with relevant stakeholders in WP3.1.

Dr Majdi Mansour Co-Investigator, contributing to T3.2: New modelling platforms to include habitat protective services and forms of WWNP.

Majdi is a civil engineer and groundwater modeller at BGS. He is developing an integrated groundwater model of variable density that will allow us to explore the interactions between the fresh and salt water in the context of active erosion, land sliding and coastal flooding as part of T3.2. Majdi is also contributing to the understanding how WWNP complements the protective services of traditional engineering (T3.3).

Dr Vasileios Christelis Co-Investigator, contributing to T3.2: New modelling platforms to include habitat protective services and forms of WWNP.

Vasileios is an environmental engineer with an expertise in groundwater modelling and water resources management. In collaboration with Majdi, he is developing an integrated groundwater model of variable density that will allow us to explore the interactions between the fresh and salt water in the context of active erosion, land sliding and coastal flooding as part of T3.2. Vasileios is also contributing to the understanding how WWNP complements the protective services of traditional engineering (T3.3).