CCRM news

Jo Wood is now a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter, working on the assessment of glacial lakes and hazards in Peru.  This is a NERC-funded project on the effect of climate change on glacier hazards and will help policy makers understand the impacts of climate change in the Peruvian Andes.  This a…

CCRM Director Stephan Harrison delivered a keynote speech on climate change impacts at a multi-national panel session on the economic implications of global climate change.  Stephan was invited to speak at the conference by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and joined thousands of participants, including representatives from business communities, heads of international organizations, public…

Jasper Knight has recently received a joint bilateral grant from IRG – NRF/São Paulo State Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil Joint Science and Technology Research Collaboration,  for a two year project on valuing and protecting geoheritage.  Geoheritage sites are areas where important geological structures exist, which are coming under increasing threat from a number of areas…

Mark has recently had a paper published in the highly prestigious journal Water Resources Research: Reducing uncertainty with flood frequency analysis: the contribution of palaeo- and historical flood information. Together with his Australian colleagues, he examined rivers in subtropical Australia to reconstruct past flood events and this enables us to place current flooding into its…

Stephan Harrison’s research in Chile features in this month’s Science  journal.  The collaborative project to investigate the threat posed by glacial lake outburst floods caught the eye of journalist Jane Palmer, who joined the team last month in the remote Chileno Valley.  She was immediately struck by the utter devastation which can be caused by such floods.   You can…

CCRM’s founder, Dr Stephan Harrison, is shortly off to Chile for his 15th research trip on Patagonian glaciers. Together with colleagues from the Universities of Aberystwyth (UK) and Austral (Chile) Stephan has received NERC and RCUK funding to carry out the first assessments of potentially hazardous glacial lakes. This is part of an ongoing research…

CCRM Associates Mike Harrison and Matt Wilson have been key partners on an exciting project to assist in using modelling tools for climate change vulnerability and impact assessment in Georgia and Azerbaijan. The project was part of the Clima East partnership offering support for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Eastern Neighbourhood countries and Russia.…