Science Centres: Natural Hazards

We provide expert advice to inform disaster management and risk mitigation.

• Flood hazards (river flood and storm-surge forecasting, monitoring, risk assessment, computer simulation and inundation modelling)
• Extreme weather hazards (risk assessment of high winds, heavy rainfall, cyclones and droughts, monitoring, computer modelling)
• Climate change and global warming (climate variability, monitoring, future projections, future impacts on regions, sectors and the environment)
• Sea-level rise (monitoring, projections, effects on communities)
• Coastal erosion (prediction, protection, renourishment, coastal hazard zone assessments, monitoring beach systems)
• Maritime hazards and navigation (surface currents for navigation, yacht racing, oil spill movement and search & rescue, wave monitoring and forecasting, marine winds, tide forecasting, maritime investigations, hydrographic surveying)
• Surf zone hazards (monitoring surf rips, waves and coastal erosion)
• Tsunami (monitoring and early-warning systems, assessment of risk, computer modelling of tsunami propagation and innundation)
• Marine and submarine hazards (volcanoes, underwater landslides, submarine faults, risk assessment for pipeline and seabed cable routes, seabed stability and structure)