Current projects
HiSCORE: High resolution data assimilation with Spatially and temporally Correlated ObseRvation Errors Funded under the University of Reading Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) programme.
UK EO Climate Information Service
NERC LTSM Next generation land-surface and hydrological predictions
NERC LTSM CANARI - Climate change in the Arctic North Atlantic region and impacts on the UK
NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, Long Term Single Centre Science
Joint UoR/Met Office Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in Observation Impacts in Next Generation Hazardous Weather Prediction
DEFRA/EA FCERM Innovation programme: A FAIR (Flood Aware Informed Resilient) approach to Flood Risk
List of grants held/applied for
| 2024 | NERC Training grant scheme: Data Assimilation Training Course Co-I £ 50k -Co-I (awaiting outcome) |
| 2024 | University of Reading Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) programme. HiSCORE: High resolution data assimilation with Spatially and temporally Correlated ObseRvation Errors £ 980k -PI (successful) July 2024 - June 2029 |
| 2024 | NERC National Capability Single Centre and National Public Good Round 2: NCEO Single Centre EO Science for the 2020s £ 8.1million - Director of Data Assimilation (successful) 1 April 2024 - 31 March 2029 |
| 2024 | ARIA Opportunity Seed: Scoping our planet programme: High-Volume Lower Atmosphere Data for High- Resolution Forecasts - Co-I (Reading lead) £ 500k - £ 172k to Reading (unsuccessful) |
| 2024 | Schmidt Sciences' Virtual Institute for Earth's Water Green Resilience: Advancing data-driven modelling of green water in the tropics and sub-tropics to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation for earth system resilience - Co-I (Reading lead)- $10 million USD (unsuccessful) |
| 2023 | Met Office Transatlantic Data Science Academy Scoping Study £ 475k (successful), Principal investigator 30 October 2023 - 31 March 2025. Project partners: Assimila Ltd and Send them Soaring. |
| 2023 | EPSRC AI Hubs - New AI-guided Earth Simulations (NewAGE): leading-edge Uncertainty Quantification of complex computer models Reading PI £ 9.6 million (unsuccessful) |
| 2023 | ESA Earth Explorer 12 Mission Ideas: BARODAR - BAROmetric Differential Absorption Radar Co-I £ 333k to Reading (unsuccessful) |
| 2023 | NERC TWINE programme: Catchment Insights Co-I (Reading Lead) £ 559k (unsuccessful) |
| 2022 | NERC HydroJULES-NEXT - NCEO lead - £ 4.5 Million project - £ 270k to Reading NCEO |
| 2022 | NERC UK EO Climate Information Service (Co-I) Project total £7.7 Million, Approx £ 900,000 to Reading |
| 2022 | NERC National Centre for Earth Observation Long Term Single-Centre Science 1 year renewal- Reading lead - successful |
| 2021 | Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in Observation Impacts in Next Generation Hazardous Weather Prediction, funded by the Met Office, £ 50,000 |
| 2021 | EA/DEFRA Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme: A FAIR (Flood Aware Informed Resilient) approach to Flood Risk. £ 6 million project led by Staffordshire County Council. Approx. £ 250k to Reading |
| 2021 | EPSRC New Investigator grant FROGs: Fast, Robust, Optimal and Green Neural Networks Design - A Step Towards Tiny Machine Learning through Deep Neuroevolution £ 373432 Co-Investigator (unsuccessful) |
| 2020 | Innovate UK Smart Grants: River Artificial Intelligence Networks (RAIN) £ 473,621 Co-Investigator (Institution lead) (unsuccessful) |
| 2018 | UKRI-JSPS Research Partnerships Call: Building for the futuRe: hIGH-impacT weather prediction in the Exascale eRa (BRIGHTER)£ 424,790 Co-Investigator (unsuccessful) |
| 2017 | NERC Policy-impact fund. Additional funds for the Flooding from Intense Rainfall Programme. Joint Principal Investigator with Hannah Cloke. £ 23,113. |
| 2016 | EPSRC Senior Fellowship in Digital Technology for Living with Environmental Change (EP/P002331/1) Data Assimilation for the REsilient city (DARE), £1,706,722, Principal Investigator. Project partner(in kind): London Climate Change Partnership £5,000, Met Office £77,500, JBA Trust £9750, Aston University £5,000, Environment Agency £5,000, Flood Forecasting Centre £5,000 |
| 2016 | NERC NE/K00896X/1 TENDERLY: Towards END-to End flood forecasting and a tool for ReaL-time catchment susceptibilitY £968334 |
| 2015 | NERC International Opportunity Fund NE/N006682/1 Improving high impact weather forecasts via an international comparison of ObServation error Correlations in data Assimilation (OSCA) £31,771, Principal Investigator. Project partner: Deutsche Wetterdienst £117,500, Met Office, £6,000 |
| 2014 | NERC Advanced Training Award NE/M006441/1: Data Assimilation and Visualization in Environmental Sciences £50,688 Co-Investigator |
| 2014 | NERC Flooding from Intense Rainfall Programme Coordination Team £ 460,000 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2019(Successful) |
| 2013 | NERC NE/K008900/1 Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of Convection (FRANC), £875,494, 1 June 2013-31 May 2017. Project partner: Met Office £1,608,000 Principal Investigator |
| 2013 | NERC NE/K00896X/1 Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding (SINATRA) £2,636,166, 1 September 2013 - 31 March 2017. Project Partners: Halcrow Group £25,000; JBA Consulting £35,000; Met Office/Environment Agency Flood Forecasting Centre £3,400, ECMWF £1,800; Dept for Business, Innovation and Strategy, £1,800; Health and Safety Laboratory £1,800; Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute £1,800; Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure, £1,800; Health Protection Agency £1,800; Met Office £1,800. Co-investigator |
| 2010 | "Flood modelling and data assimilation" NERC research experience placement £2500. |
| 2010 | "Developing enhanced impact models for integration with next generation NWP and climate outputs" NERC storm risk mitigation programme. NE/I005242/1 £357917 Reading PI. |
| 2010 | "Magnificent Maths! Using Maths in the real world." RCUK National Science & Engineering Week Awards. £1150. PI |
| 2009 | "Maths Pictures Project". The Friends of the University of Reading. £900. Principal applicant. |
| 2009 | "FREE Ensemble Workshop", NERC FREE (Flood Risk from Extreme Events) programme, £15,612, Workshop organiser |
| 2008-13 | "National Centre for Earth Observation", NERC, NE/F001460/1 £37,262,000, Theme Leader |
| 2008 | "Observability of the carbon cycle", NERC Carbon Fusion programme: undergraduate project travel and subsistence costs, £900, Principal Investigator |
| 2007 | "Acquisition of ASAR/ERS-2 SAR scenes of the Dee Estuary and Morecambe Bay", ESA Category 1 status. 60 scenes at £18,000 value, Co-Investigator |
| 2007-2010 | "Changing coastlines: data assimilation for morphodynamic prediction and predictability", NERC FREE (Flood Risk from Extreme Events) programme, NE002048/1, £328,757, Prinicpal Investigator |
| 2007-2010 | "Exploitation of new data sources, data assimilation and ensemble techniques for storm and flood forecasting", NERC FREE (Flood Risk from Extreme Events) programme NE/E002137/1, £525,903, Co-Investigator |
| 2006 | "Mathematics of Data Assimilation" Conference Grant, London Mathematical Society, £2700. Workshop co-organiser |
| 2006-7 | The Data Assimilation Research Centre Extension, NERC Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation, NE/D001234/1, £1063512, Principal Investigator |
| 2005 | "Information content of spatially correlated observation errors" Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Royal Meteorological Society, £1200, Principal Investigator |