C I V I L E N G I N E E R I N GA N D G EO S C I E N C ES

C EG WATER RESOURCES GROUP

Image: Debr is , left after the f looding from Storm Desmond, on the br idge on the Glenderamackin R iver, Guardhouse, Cumbria (Dr Stephen Birk inshaw)

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CONTENTS

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C o n t e n t s

3 Welcome

4-5 News

6 New PhD Students + Awarded Students

7 PhD Prof i le

8-9 Funding Successes

10-12 Staff Research Act iv i t ies

13 Water Programmes

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WELCOME

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W e l c o m e

Welcome to the second ed i t ion of our newslet ter. S ince our last ed i t ion we have been busy on many f ronts , w i th new research in i t ia t ives , say ing goodbye to a cohor t of MSc students and he l lo to a bumper in take of new students , and of course tak ing s tock of the record-break ing f loods in our research catchments in nor theast and nor thwest England.

Our bumper cohor t of 50 postgraduates leav ing us th is year s tarred ten Dis t inct ions at MSc, includ ing our f i rs t tw ins :(ht tp ://www.nc l .ac .uk/press/news/2015/12/twin%20sis ters%20scoop%20top%20honours/). The numbers were swel led by the la test 20 students spending Semester 2 here on the innovat ive mul t i -un ivers i ty EuroAquae programme on Hydro- Informat ics and Water Management , now in i ts 12th Generat ion (ht tp ://master .euroaquae .eu/). Of course, no sooner were the graduates out of the door than we welcomed our new intake of another 49 postgraduate taught s tudents.

The re levance of our work was under l ined by the devastat ing f loods af fect ing Cumbr ia and the Tyne bas in . The peak f low in the Tyne was the h ighest recorded (dat ing back to 1956) and be l ieved to be exceeded only by the Great F lood of 17 71. Th is prov ides a v i ta l context to our work on both f lood r isk management and the impact of c l imate change.

Our p ioneer ing work on Natura l F lood Management in smal l catchments , severe ly tested at our Hal twhis t le Burn exper imenta l catchment in December, i s now under rev iew for appl icat ion in larger sca le s torage schemes.

L ikewise, our model l ing and f ie ld work on Blue Green approaches in urban set t ings has never been more re levant and was enthus iast ica l ly a i red in a d isseminat ion event to 140 stakeholders at the Centre for L i fe in Februar y.

Our urban f lood r isk management research has been boosted by severa l exc i t ing new funded programmes wi th much act iv i ty a t the Univers i ty ’s new Sc ience Centra l s i te . One is the UK Col laborator ium for Research in Inf rast ructure & Ci t ies (UKCRIC), where £10M wi l l establ ish a sur face water f lood laborator y as wel l as c i ty w ide hydrolog ica l moni tor ing includ ing a ra infa l l radar to be s i ted on the Univers i ty ’s ta l lest bu i ld ing th is summer. Another new programme is MISTRAL: Mul t i -sca le Inf rast ructure Systems Analyt ics which wi l l use Newcast le as a case s tudy for assess ing novel water in f rast ructure approaches.

We hope that you f ind the newslet ter usefu l and informat ive – just drop us a l ine i f you are in terested in any of our outputs or courses or w ish to work or s tudy wi th us !

Professor Chr is K i lsbyProfessor of Hydrology and Cl imate Change

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NEWS4

Pinning UK Floods on Cl imate Change:Professor Hayley Fowler is quoted in th is ar t ic le about the re la t ionsh ip between ext reme weather and cl imate change…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/pinn ing-uk-f loods-on-c l imate-change

Picker ing Flood Defences Hai led as Ideal Model :A Nor th Yorksh i re town which avo ided f lood ing desp i te not hav ing t rad i t ional f lood defences has been ha i led as an example to fo l low…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/picker ing-f lood-defences-ha i led-as- ideal-model- i tv-news

First Ever EngD Graduate f rom Civ i l Engineer ing & Geosciences:Matthew Holmes graduated on Fr iday 12 December 2015 wi th a Sk i l ls Technology Research & Management (STREAM) EngD…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / f i r s t - e v e r - e n g d - g r a d u a t e - f r o m -c iv i l -eng ineer ing-geosc iences

Twin Sisters Scoop Top Honours :Ident ica l tw ins Rebecca and Vic tor ia Smith have now got even more in common af ter both graduated wi th d is t inct ions in F lood R isk Management f rom Newcast le Univers i ty…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/twin-s is ters-scoop-top-honours1

Newcast le Univers i ty Wi l l Receive £10 Mi l l ion of Government Funding for Research in Infrastructure and Ci t ies :Announced as par t of the UK Government ’s spending rev iew, the funding is par t of the wider UK Col laborator ium for Research in Inf rast ructure and Ci t ies (UKCRIC)…ht tp : //www.nc l . ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/newcas t le -un ive rs i t y -w i l l - rece ive-10-mi l l ion-of-government-funding-for-research- in- inf rast ructure-and-c i t ies

The Problem of F looding:El izabeth Lewis te l ls l i s teners about the School’s hydraul ics lab and augmented rea l i ty sandbox which he lp pred ic t where f lood ing wi l l occur and the extent of i ts impact…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / t h e - p r o b l e m - o f - f l o o d i n g - b b c - 5 -l ive-sc ience

‘Th is Changes Ever yth ing ’ :Ar t ic le about a c l imate change march ahead of the Par is ta lks in December a lso ta lks about a post- f i lm ( ‘Th is Changes Ever yth ing ’ ) panel d iscuss ion and quest ion and answer sess ion involv ing Professor Hayley Fowler…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/cl imate-change-march- is-p lanned

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NEWS

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Engineer ing Grand Chal lenge: A New £3.9 Mi l l ion Research Pro ject :A new £3.9 mi l l ion research pro ject involv ing Newcast le Univers i ty and Nor thumbr ian Water w i l l he lp ensure the UK mainta ins a c lean , susta inable water supply for the future…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/engineer ing-grand-chal lenge

‘Kerplunk ’ System Slows the Flow:A runoff and water qual i ty pro ject insp i red by the ch i ldhood game Kerplunk is be ing used to s low the f low of water, reduce f lood r isk and improve water qual i ty in a Nor thumber land r iver…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/kerplunk-system-slows-the-f low2

CeG Water Group Appear in BBC Documentar y ‘World Weather ’ :Our PhD researcher E leanor Starkey and researchers Selma Guerre i ro and L iz Lewis have been out f i lming wi th the BBC and the i r weather presenter, N ick Mi l ler…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / c e g - w a t e r - g r o u p - a p p e a r - i n - b b c -documentary-wor ld-weather

New Flood Act ion Team Launched to Invest igate F lash Flooding Across the UK:A band of ‘ s torm chasers’ has been set up by Newcast le Univers i ty to he lp col lect data about f lash f lood ing and inform the way we manage future f lood r isk…http ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/about/news/ i tem/weather-eye-copy

LWEC Infrastructure Cl imate Change Impacts Repor t Card Publ ished:The LWEC Inf rast ructure Cl imate Change Impacts Repor t Card has been publ ished. The product ion of the card was led by a work ing group cha i red by CESER Di rector, Professor R ichard Dawson…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / l w e c - i n f r a s t r u c t u r e - c l i m a t e -change- impacts-report-card-publ ished

Newcast le Univers i ty Hosts Fi rst Ear ly Careers Hydrogeologists Conference:Newcast le Univers i ty hosted the f i rs t Ear ly Career Hydrogeolog is ts Conference on 8-9 Ju ly 2015, organ ised by the Geolog ica l Soc iety and Internat ional Assoc iat ion of Hydrogeolog is ts ( IAH)…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / n e w c a s t l e - u n i v e r s i t y - h o s t s - f i r s t -ear ly-careers-hydrogeolog is ts-conference

High Alt i tude Areas of Tibetan Plateau Warming Faster than Lower Regions:Research conducted by sc ient is ts and led by exper ts f rom UK’s Newcast le Univers i ty has shown that h igh a l t i tude reg ions are warming faster than prev ious ly thought…h t t p : / / w w w . n c l . a c . u k / c e g / a b o u t / n e w s / i t e m / h i g h - a l t i t u d e - a r e a s - o f - t i b e t a n -plateau-warming-faster- than- lower-reg ions1

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NEW PhD STUDENTS + AWARDS

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New PhD/EngD students include:

Domin ic Car ver

SUPERVISOR:Dr Geoff Park in

THESIS TITLE :Ennerdale Water and Upper R iver Ehen Natura l Hydrolog ica l Reg ime and Geomorphology

Fergus McClean

SUPERVISOR:Prof R ichard Dawson

THESIS TITLE : Global Inf rast ructure F lood R isk Analys is us ing B ig Data

Laura McGinty

SUPERVISOR:Prof R ichard Dawson

THESIS TITLE :Evaluat ion and Funding of Green Inf rast ructure in Urban Areas

Ben Smith

SUPERVISOR:Dr Geoff Park in

THESIS TITLE :Model l ing F looding f rom Mul t iple Sources us ing Coupled Models and Mul t i -Scale High-Resolut ion Datasets

P h D A w a r d sThe fo l lowing student was recent ly awarded their doctorate:

S tudent Award Super v i sors Thes i s T i t le

Matthew Holmes EngD Dr Sean Wi lk inson + Prof R ichard Dawson

Infrastructure Rel iabi l i ty and Adaptat ion

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PhD Prof i le

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Community-Based Monitor ing and Model l ing for Catchment Management and Restorat ion

E l e a n o r S t a r k e y Super v i sors : Dr Geof f Park in , Dr Pau l Qu inn and Andy Large

Eleanor is a th i rd-year PhD researcher in water resources who or ig ina l ly completed her Undergraduate (BSc Phys ica l Geography) and Masters (MSc Hydrology and Cl imate Change) degrees at Newcast le Univers i ty. Wi th a s t rong interest in f lood r isk management and r iver restorat ion , she has a lso worked for Weetwood and RAB Consul tants for two years to ga in pract ica l exper ience in work ing wi th cl ients such as the Env i ronment Agency. E leanor a lso developed her f lood model l ing and GIS sk i l l s fur ther dur ing a placement at JBA Consul t ing .

Now back in the Civ i l Eng ineer ing depar tment , E leanor ’s PhD pro ject is invest igat ing the potent ia l for a communi ty-based or ‘c i t i zen sc ience ’

moni tor ing approach to ass is t w i th understanding r iver systems and suppor t the management process. She has been engaging wi th loca l communi t ies in Nor thumber land and t ra in ing them to moni tor ing weather ( ra infa l l ) and r iver response, includ ing f lood events. Low-cost and ‘c rowd-sourced’ moni tor ing techniques have been successfu l ly t r ia l led, includ ing the use of apps, Twi t ter, cameras , ‘ k i tecams’ , smar tphones and s imple test k i ts . E leanor is in terested in understanding which phys ica l parameters these non-profess ionals can moni tor successfu l ly, determine the qual i ty of them and whether th is type of data can be used to suppor t rea l appl icat ions. She is a lso demonstrat ing the va lue of these obser vat ions by us ing them to bu i ld, ca l ibrate and va l idate catchment models , includ ing SHETRAN and Ci tyCAT.

E leanor ’s main case s tudy s i te is the Hal twhis t le Burn catchment which responds rap id ly dur ing heavy ra infa l l events. A l though automat ic moni tor ing networks are wel l-developed in the UK, they are expens ive to buy and mainta in , and they are usual ly absent in rura l locat ions such as the Hal twhis t le Burn . A communi ty-based approach of fers a t imely and low-cost solut ion to the col lect ion of in format ion which would other wise be unava i lable and i t a lso involves those who are d i rect ly af fected by f lood ing .

Th is par t ic ipator y research pro ject dr i f ts away f rom a t rad i t ional PhD. I t has enabled E leanor to complete a substant ia l amount of f ie ldwork , work wi th var ious s takeholders in Nor thumber land and prov ide Tyne R ivers

Trust w i th pract ica l solut ions. E leanor ’s methods and research f ind ings have a l ready inf luenced nat ional gu idance documents and moni tor ing tools. She has a lso been inter v iewed by the media about natura l f lood management features and appeared on the BBC News and Breakfast channels :(ht tp ://www.bbc .co .uk/news/sc ience-env i ronment-34087255).

Webs i te : h t tp ://research .nc l .ac .uk/hal twhis t leburn/ Twi t ter : @Hal twhis t leBurn | F l ickr : Hal twhis t le Burn

Images - (middle r ight ) Par t ic ipator y mapping exerc ise used to gether loca l knowledge (bot tom lef t ) R iver Watch Photo Post des igned and insta l led by E leanor to he lp the publ ic col lect and submit r iver leve l obser vat ions over t ime.

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Fund ing Successes

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R e s e a r c h F u n d i n g A w a r d s

The fo l lowing research funding award appl icat ions have been successfu l :

Name Funder P ro jec t

Prof R ichard Dawson (P I ) + Prof Hayley Fowler (Co- I )

NERC Storm Risk Assessment of In terdependent Inf rast ructure Networks

Prof R ichard Dawson (Co- I )

Enzen Global L imi ted

Develop ing a Framework for Improv ing the Susta inab i l i ty of Ut i l i t ies through Demand S ide Response – In i t ia l Scoping Study

Prof R ichard Dawson (P I )

EPSRC EPSRC Inst i tu t ional Sponsorsh ip 2015-16 Urban L iv ing

Prof R ichard Dawson (P I ) + Dr Cla i re Walsh (Co- I )

NERC Arup Global Research Chal lenge : Del iver ing Green Inf rast ructure in C i t ies through a New Bus iness Model

Prof R ichard Dawson (Co- I ) + Dr Cla i re Walsh (Co- I )

EPSRC TWENTY 65: Ta i lored Water Solut ions for Pos i t ive Impact

Dr Ol iver He idr ich (Co- I )

EPSRC LC TRANSFORM (Low Carbon Trans i t ions of F leet Operat ions in Metropol i tan S i tes)

Dr James Bathurst (P I )

Newcast le Univers i ty

Vis i t ing Professorsh ip Award (Professor Andrés I roumé, Chi le, to v is i t the Univers i ty for two months)

Prof Chr is K i lsby (P I )

EPSRC The Creat ion Of Local ized Current and future weather for the Engineer ing Communi ty (COLEC)

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R e s e a r c h F u n d i n g A w a r d s

Prof Chr is K i lsby (P I )

Atk ins Ltd (Epsom)

Stochast ic Approaches to Strateg ic Water Resource P lanning

Prof Chr is K i lsby (P I )

Atk ins Ltd Angl ian Water Th i rd Dr y Winter

Prof Qiuhua L iang (P I ) + Luke Smith (Co- I )

NERC Towards the Next Generat ion of Real-Time High-Resolut ion Urban F lash F lood Forecast ing Systems

Dr Greg O’Donnel l (P I )

NERC SINATRA - Data Integrat ion for Knowledge Exchange

Dr Paul Quinn (P I ) Env i ronment Agency Nor th East

Lustrum Beck Natura l F lood Management In i t ia t ive

Dr Paul Quinn (P I ) NERC Internsh ip Oppor tun i ty : Advanc ing the Degree of Implementat ion of Natura l F lood Management : ARUP (Newcast le-upon-Tyne of f ice)

Name Funder P ro jec t

Dr Cla i re Walsh (P I )

Newcast le Univers i ty

B io- Informing Urban Gardening

Dr Cla i re Walsh (Co- I )

Newcast le Univers i ty

Communi ty and Knowledge Engagement in A i r Qual i ty Model l ing

Dr Cla i re Walsh (P I ), Prof R ichard Dawson (Co- I ) + Prof Chr is K i lsby (Co- I )

EPSRC IAA Award

Web-Ser v ice S imulat ion Model and Tool for F lood R isk Management in Urban Areas

Dr Geoff Park in (P I )

NERC SINATRA - Morpeth-Wansbeck Integrat ion Study

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S ta f f Research Act iv i t i es

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J o u r n a l A r t i c l e s :Byers , A .E. , Qadrdan , M. , Leathard, A . , A lderson , D. , Hal l , J.W. , Amezaga, J. , Tran , M. , Ki lsby, C.G . & Chaudr y, M. ‘Cool ing Water for Br i ta in’s Future E lect r ic i ty Supply ’ , Proceedings of the ICE – Energ y , Volume 168, Issue 3, pp. 188-204, 2015.

Kennedy-Walker, R . , Amezaga, J. & Paterson , C. ‘The Role of Power, Pol i t ics and His tor y in Achiev ing Sani ta t ion Ser v ice Prov is ion in Informal Urban Env i ronments : A Case Study of Lusaka , Zambia’ , Envi ronment and Urbanizat ion , Volume 27, Issue 2 , pp. 489-504, 2015.

Mi l ls , C.F. & Bathurst , J.C. ‘Spat ia l Var iab i l i ty of Suspended Sediment Yie ld in a Gravel-Bed R iver Across Four Orders of Magni tude of Catchment Area’ , CATENA , Volume 133, pp. 14-24, 2015.

Forsythe, N. , Hardy, A .J. , Fowler, H.J. , Blenkinsop, S . , Ki lsby, C.G . , Archer, D.R . & Hashmi , M.Z . ‘A Deta i led Cloud Fract ion Cl imatology of the Upper Indus Bas in and i ts Impl icat ions for Near Sur face-Ai r Temperature ’ , Journal of Cl imate , Volume 28, Issue 9, pp. 3537-3556, 2015.

Blenkinsop, S. , Chan, S.C. , Kendon , E.J. , Rober ts , N.M. & Fowler, H.J . , ‘Temperature Inf luences on Intense UK Hour ly Prec ip i ta t ion and Dependency on Large-Scale Ci rcu lat ion’ , Envi ronmental Research Let ters , Volume 10, Number 5, 2015.

Forsythe, N. , Blenkinsop, S. & Fowler, H.J. ‘Explor ing Object ive Cl imate Class i f icat ion for the Himalayan Arc and Adjacent Reg ions us ing Gr idded Data Sources’ , Ear th System Dynamics , Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 311-326, 2015.

Walsh, C.L. , Blenkinsop, S . , Fowler, H.J. , Bur ton, A. , Dawson, R.J . , Glenis, V . , Manning , L .J. & Ki lsby, C.G. ‘Adaptat ion of Water Resource Systems to an Uncer ta in Future ’ , Hydrolog y and Ear th System Sc iences D iscuss ions , Volume 12 , Issue 9, pp. 8853-8889, 2015.

Chan, S. , Kendon , E.J. , Rober ts , N.M. , Fowler, H.J. & Blenkinsop, S. ‘Downturn in Scal ing of UK Ext reme Ra infa l l w i th Temperature for Future Hot test Days’ , Nature Geosc ience , Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 24-28, 2016.

Ford, A .C. , Barr, S.L . , Dawson, R.J. & James, P. ‘Transpor t Access ib i l i ty Analys is Us ing GIS : Assess ing Susta inable Transpor t in London’ , In ternat ional Journal of Geo- Informat ion , Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 124-149, 2015.

Khour y, M. , Bu l lock , S. , Fu, G. & Dawson, R.J. ‘ Improv ing Measures of Topolog ica l Robustness in Networks of Networks and Suggest ions of a Novel Way to Counter Both Fa i lure Propagat ion and Isolat ion’ , In f rast ructure Complex i ty , Volume 2 , Number 1, pp. 1-20, 2015.

Sayers , P. , Walsh, C.L. & Dawson, R.J. ‘C l imate Impacts on F lood and Coasta l Eros ion Inf rast ructure ’ , In f rast ructure Asset Management , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , pp. 52-57, 2015.

Caparros-Midwood, D. , Barr, S. & Dawson, R.J. ‘Opt imised Spat ia l P lann ing to Meet Urban Susta inab i l i ty Object ives’ , Computers , Env i ronment & Urban S imulat ion , Volume 54, pp. 154-164, 2015.

Pepin , N. , Bradley, N.S. , D iaz , H.F. , Baraer, M. , Caceres , E.B. , Forsythe, N. , Fowler, H.J. , Greenwood, G. , Hashmi , M.Z . , L iu, X .D. , Mi l ler, J. , N ing , L . , Ohmura , A . , Pa lazz i , E. , Rangwala , I. , Schoener, W. , Seversk iy, I. , Shahgedanova , M. , Wang , M.B. , Wi l l iamson S.N. , and Yang , D.Q. ‘E levat ion-Dependent Warming in Mounta in Reg ions of the World’ , Nature Cl imate Change , May 2015, pp. 424-430, 2015.

Heger l , G.C. , B lack , E. , A l lan , R .P. , Ingram, W.J. , Polson , D. , Trenber th , K .E. , Chadwick , R .S. , Ark in , P. , Saro jsh in i , B.B. , Becker, A . , Da i , A . , Durack , P.J. , Easter l ing , D. , Fowler, H.J. , Kendon , E.J. , Huf fman, G.J. , L iu, C. , Marsh , R . , New, M. , Osborn , T.J. , Sk l i r i s , N. , Stot t , P.A . , V ida le, P.L . , Wi j f fe ls , S.E. , Wi lcox , L .J. , Wi l le t t , K .M. , Zhang , X . ‘Chal lenges in Quant i fy ing Changes in the Global Water Cycle ’ , Bul le t in of the Amer ican Meteorolog ica l Soc iety , Volume 96, Issue 7, pp. 1097-1115, 2015.

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J o u r n a l A r t i c l e s :Glenis, V. , P inamont i , V. , Hal l , J.W. & Ki lsby, C.G. ‘A Trans ient Stochast ic Weather Generator Incorporat ing Cl imate Model Uncer ta inty ’ , Advances in Water Resources , Volume 85, pp. 14-26, 2015.

Reck ien , D. , Olazaba , M. , F lacke, J. & Heidr ich , O. ‘The Inf luence of Dr ivers and Barr iers on Urban Adaptat ion and Mi t igat ion P lans – An Empir ica l Analys is of European Ci t ies’ , PLoS One , 2015.Hou, J. , Liang, Q. , Zhang , H. & Hinkelmann, R . ‘An Ef f ic ient Unstructured MUSCL Scheme for Solv ing the 2D Shal low Water Equat ions’ , Envi ronmental Model l ing and Sof tware , Volume 66, pp. 131-152 , 2015.

Tiwary, A . , Wi l l iams, I .D. , Heidr ich, O. , Namdeo, A . , Bandaru, V. & Cal fapietra, C . ‘Development of Mult i -Funct ional Streetscape Green Infrastructure us ing a Performance Index Approach’, Environmental Pol lut ion , Volume 208, Part A , pp. 209-220, 2016

Liang , Q. , Hou, J. & X ia , X . ‘Contrad ic t ion between the C-proper ty and Mass Conser vat ion in Adapt ive Gr id Based Shal low F low Models : Cause and Solut ion’ , In ternat ional Journal for Numer ica l Methods in F lu ids , Volume 78, Issue 1, pp. 17-36, 2015.

Liang, Q. , X ia , X . & Hou, J. ‘E f f ic ient Urban F lood S imulat ion us ing a GPU-Accelerated SPH Model’ , Envi ronmental Ear th Sc iences , Volume 74, Issue 11, pp. 7285-7204, 2015.

Hou, J. , Liang, Q. & X ia , X . ‘Robust Absorb ing Boundar y Condi t ions for Shal low Water F low Models’ , Envi ronmental Ear th Sc iences , Volume 74, Issue 11, pp. 7407-7422, 2015.

Perk , M.T. , Owen, G. , Bensk in , CMcWH. , Jonczyk, J. , Deasy, C. , Burke, S.P. , Reaney, S.M. & Haygar th , P.H. ‘Dominant Mechanisms for the Del iver y of Fine Sediment and Phosphorus to F luv ia l Networks Dra in ing Grass land Dominated Headwater Catchments’ , Science of the Tota l Env i ronment , Volume 523, pp. 178-190, 2015.

Ser inald i , F. , Bardossy, A. & K i lsby, C.G. ‘Upper Ta i l Dependence in Ra infa l l Ext remes : Would We Know I t I f We Saw I t? ’ , Stochast ic Env i ronmental Research and R isk Assessment , Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 1211-1233, 2015.

L i , X-F. , Li , J. & L i , Y. ‘Recent Winter Prec ip i ta t ion Increase in Middle-Lower Yangtze R iver Val ley S ince the Late 1970s : A Response to Warming in the Trop ica l Ind ian Ocean’ , Journal of Cl imate , Volume 28, Issue 9, pp. 3857-3879, 2015.

Zheng , F. , Li , J. , Wang , F. & L i ,X-F. ‘Cross-Seasonal Inf luence of the December-Februar y Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode on March-May Mer id ional C i rcu lat ion and Prec ip i ta t ion’ , Journal of Cl imate , Volume 28, Issue 17, pp. 6859-6881, 2015.

Liang, Q. & Smith , L. ‘A High-Per formance Integrated Hydrodynamic Model l ing System for Urban F lood S imulat ions’ , Journal of Hydro informat ics , Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 518-533, 2015.

X ia , X . , Huang , R . , Liang, Q. & Yu, B. ‘A New Phys ica l ly-Based S imulat ion Framework for Model l ing F low-L ike Landsl ides’ , In ternat ional Journal of Geohazards and Env i ronment , Volume 1, Number 3, pp. 94-100, 2015.

X ia , X . & Liang, Q. ‘A GPU-Accelerated Smoothed Par t ic le Hydrodynamics (SPH) Model for the Shal low Water Equat ions’ , Envi ronmental Model l ing & Sof tware, Volume 75, pp. 28-43, 2016.

B i rks , D. , Younger, P.L . , Tavendale, L . , Cout ts , C. , Park in , G. , But ton , P. & Whi ta l l , S. ‘Groundwater Re in ject ion and Heat D iss ipat ion : Lessons f rom the Operat ion of a Large Groundwater Cool ing System in Centra l London’ , Quar ter ly Journal of Engineer ing Geolog y and Hydrogeolog y , Volume 48, Number 2 , pp. 94-103, 2015.

Adams, R . , Quinn, P.F . , Bowes, M.J. ‘The Catchment Runoff At tenuat ion F lux Tool , a Min imum Informat ion Requi rement Nutr ient Pol lu t ion Model’ , Hydrolog y and Ear th System Sc iences , Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 1641-1657, 2015.

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C o - E d i t e d V o l u m e s :Nichol ls , R .J. , Dawson, R.J. & Day, S.A . (eds) Broad Scale Coasta l S imulat ion : New Techniques to Understand and Manage Shore l ines in the Th i rd Mi l lenn ium (Advances in Global Change Research) , 2015

Beven , K . , Bathurst , J. , O ’Connel l , E. , L i t t lewood, I. , B lack ie, J. & Robinson , M. (2015) ‘Hydrolog ica l Model l ing ’ in Rodda , J.C. & Robinson , M. (eds) Progress in Modern Hydrolog y : Past , Present and Future

B o o k C h a p t e r s :

R e p o r t s :(Chan, S ) Marz in , C. e t a l S ingapore ’s Second Nat ional Cl imate Change Study – Phase 1, 2015

J o u r n a l A r t i c l e s :Mackay, E.B. , Wi lk inson , M.E. , Macleod, C.J.A . , Beven , K . , Percy, B.J. , Mackl in , M.G. , Quinn, P.F. , S tut ter, M . & Haygar th , P.M. ‘D ig i ta l Catchment Obser vator ies : A P lat form for Engagement and Knowledge Exchange between Catchment Sc ient is ts , Pol icy Makers and Local Communi t ies’ , Water Resources Research , Volume 51, Issue 6, pp. 4815-4822, 2015.

Wi lk inson , M.E. , Mackay, E. , Quinn, P.F. , S tut ter, M . , Beven , K .J. , MacLeod, C.J.A . , Mackl in , M.G. , E lkhat ib, Y. , Percy, B. , V i to lo, C. , Haygar th , P.M. ‘A Cloud Based Tool for Knowledge Exchange on Local Scale F lood R isk ’ , Journal of Env i ronmental Management , Volume 161, pp. 38-50, 2015.

Ser inald i , F. ‘D ismiss ing Return Per iods ! ’ , Stochast ic Env i ronmental Research and R isk Assessment , Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 1 179-1189, 2015.

Brown, S. , Apl in , K .L . , Jenk ins , K . , Mander, S. , Walsh, C. & Wi l l iam, P.D. ‘ I s There a Rhythm of the Ra in? An Analys is of Weather in Popular Mus ic ’ , Weather, Volume 70, Issue 7, pp. 198-204, 2015.

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Water Programmes

Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Water Resources Engineer ing at Newcast le Univers i ty

MSc Hydrology and Cl imate Change:

This programme prov ides oppor tun i t ies for graduates to enhance the i r knowledge of the water env i ronment and i ts management in the context of c l imate change, through theoret ica l , pract ica l and computat ional ( in format ics) t ra in ing . I t a ims to t ra in a new breed of eng ineer capable of solv ing hydrolog ica l and water resources problems wi th the understanding that past hydrolog ica l behav iour may no longer be a su i table gu ide for the future. Th is t ra in ing is quant i ta t ive and ver y re levant to the needs of today ’s water industr y.

MSc Hydro informat ics :

Hydro informat ics is the new d isc ipl ine that appl ies advances in Informat ion and Communicat ions Technology ( ICT) to the management of the waters of the wor ld. Th is programme a ims to prov ide oppor tun i t ies for graduates in a range of sc ient i f ic and engineer ing d isc ipl ines to become hydro informat ic profess ionals. I t prov ides a quant i ta t ive t ra in ing in hydrology, hydraul ics and modern ICT wi th in the context of water management . Graduates wi l l be equ ipped to fo l low a career in the water sector.

MSc Hydrogeology and Water Management :

This programme prov ides graduates f rom a range of sc ient i f ic and engineer ing d isc ipl ines wi th the oppor tun i ty to enhance the i r knowledge of the nature, occurrence, character isat ion and management of groundwater.

I t a lso prov ides theoret ica l and pract ica l quant i ta t ive t ra in ing re levant to the needs of the water and env i ronmenta l eng ineer ing industr ies.

MSc Flood Risk Management :

This programme a ims to t ra in a new generat ion of f lood r isk management spec ia l is ts who can lead, develop and implement knowledge in th is area in the i r own countr ies and inst i tu t ions. Through theoret ica l , pract ica l and computat ional ( in format ics) components , the programme prov ides the oppor tun i ty for graduates f rom a range of d isc ipl ines to enhance the i r knowledge of the water env i ronment and f lood r isk management .

The School of C iv i l Eng ineer ing & Geosc iences of fers a range of masters programmes both fu l l- t ime (1 year) and par t- t ime (2 , 3 or 4 years) :

For course content , ent r y requ i rements , fees , fund ing and v isa informat ion please v is i t our web-page : ht tp ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/study/postgraduate/

We a lso of fer CPD (Cont inu ing Profess ional Development) modules - p lease contact ceg .cpd@ncl .ac .uk for fur ther deta i ls .

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Thank you to ever yone who has contr ibuted and prov ided images.

For fur ther in format ion on our programmes please see :ht tp ://www.nc l .ac .uk/ceg/study/postgraduate/Over v iew: ht tps ://www.youtube .com/watch?v=xMItSv_DvhYStudent Exper ience : h t tps ://www.youtube .com/watch?v=7NIqF305AI4

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Image: F lood water f rom Storm Desmond, in a f ie ld near the Glenderamackin R iver, Threlkeld, Cumbria (Dr Stephen Birk inshaw)

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