Current projects
UK EO Climate Information Service
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
| 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 |