2005 NERC fellowship in flood inundation modelling in July 2005 (offered and declined). Topic: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Flood Inundation Modelling (~£200k)

Services

Editorial Memberships

Editor of Water Science and Engineering (since 2013)
Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (since January 2007). Special issues: "Precipitation uncertainty and variability: observations, ensemble simulation and downscaling" (2012), "Latest advances and developments in data assimilation for operational hydrologic forecasting and water resources management" (2011)
Guest-editor of Hydrological Processes, Special Issue on Large Scale Modelling, 2009/2010
Guest-editor of Advances in Geosciences, Special Issue on Towards practical applications in ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting, 2010
Guest-editor of Journal of Hydrology, Special issue on Hydrology in China

Committee Memberships

HEPEX Verification core organizing group (since 2008)
UK IAHR council between 2005 and 2006
UNESCO FRIEND Program on floods (from 2005)
HEPEX (Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment, WMO), (from 2007)
TIGGE (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble, WMO) application group (from 2008)
THEPS ( THORPEX/HEPEX Hydrologic Applications Project) (from 2009)
FRMRC Scientific Advisory Board of RPA9, Risk and Uncertainty (2005-2007)
Scientific Advisory Board, HEOEX Workshop on Post-processing and Verification of Hydrological Ensemble Predictions, Delft, 7 - 9 June 2011
Board member of Numerical Modelling & Policy Interface Network e.V. (since 2010)

Conferences/Workshops organised (selected)

Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community initiative contextual learning journey to ECMWF July, 2010
Spring School 2010 on "Advanced methods in meteorology and hydrology – Estimation of land surface states and parameter" funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bad Schandau (Saxony, Germany)
EGU 2010 Session Convener: S11.4/AS1.22/NH1.12 Towards practical applications in ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting; HS4.7 Catchment hydrology and remote sensing: parameter retrieval and integration with models
EGU 2009 Session Convener: HS5.16 Large-scale hydrology: modelling and assimilation Session Co-convener at HS5.6/NH2.3 Floodplain mapping and flood prevention techniques in the 21st century; HS10.1/AS4.3/NP5.4 Ensemble hydrological forecasting: from theory to practice; NH2.1 Floods: monitoring, modelling, risk and uncertainty
EFAS User Workshop 2009 , ECMWF, Reading, Jan 2009 (main local organizer) www
Practitioners’ Workshop on Risk and Uncertainty , Lancaster University, Jan 2006 (main organizer)
The use of EPS in the European Flood Alert System , Ispra, Italy, Nov 2005 (co-organizer)

PhD Thesis examined

Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Utrecht University, "Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change"
Elizabeth Mary Stephens, University of Bristol, "The use of uncertain observed data for flood inundation modelling"

Journal Referee

Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Advances in Water Resources, Hydrology and Earth System Science, Water Resources Research and others

Grant Referee

Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (Excellence Intiative and other), NERC (Standard Research Grant), European Commission (FP6 & 7), Ministère de la Culture, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (Luxembourg), International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Austria), Czech Science Foundation (Czech Republic), Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (The Netherlands), Agence nationale de la recherche (France); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Memberships

British Hydrological Society, American Geophysical Union, European Geosciences Union, Royal Geographical Society, International Association of Hydraulic Research, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Royal Meteorological Society

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