Sea Level Rise - Projections and Future Coastal Impacts
LOCATION
Virtual - Hosted on Zoom
Climate change is a highly complex, global issue that impacts communities at local scales. With 40% of the global population living by the coast, one of the most impactful hazards driven by climate change is global sea-level rise. Global sea-level rise over the 21st Century and beyond will exacerbate local extreme sea‐level events, which impact coastal flood risk and HAVE adverse impacts on marine ecosystems. During this talk, Rachel and Jenny will present an overview of the UK Climate Projections with a particular focus on the Marine Projections including sea level rise, storm surges and waves. They will provide insights into some of their recent research on assessing coastal risk to improve coastal climate resilience, helping people to stay safe and thrive.
Speakers
Rachel Perks
Rachel is a Senior Marine Scientist with the Met Office. With a long-term interest in the marine environment, she has several years’ experience working across both the public and private sectors. Rachel uses climate models to research how changing sea levels and storm surges affect coastal risk. Over the course of her career, she has worked on a variety of global and national projects, with a wide range of customers including government bodies, developers, insurers & reinsurers and several charities. Recently she has assisted in the Thames Estuary 2100 – 10-year review. She has published a tool to enable consultants to assess sea level projections across the globe and worked with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to support anticipatory action ahead of flood risk from tropical cyclones and other disasters. She is passionate about protecting our coasts through both her work and communicating climate change to a wider audience.
Jennifer Weeks
Jennifer has experience generating local sea-level projections for different regions of the world and facilitating training workshops and webinars on sea-level science for coastal decision-makers in South Asia. Jennifer compared the UK's national sea-level projections (UKCP18), and local sea-level projections for South Asia and South Pacific, with sea-level projections released in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report, and has looked at how to improve local sea-level projections for use in coastal impact, vulnerability and adaptation planning. This includes working with partners to build coastal resilience to sea-level rise in Pakistan through coordination of a sea-level working group. She also has experience modelling carbon dioxide removal through ocean alkalinity enhancement and holds a Masters degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford.
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Climate change is a highly complex, global issue that impacts communities at local scales. With 40% of the global population living by the coast, one of the most impactful hazards driven by climate change is global sea-level rise. Global sea-level rise over the 21st Century and beyond will exacerbate local extreme sea‐level events, which impact coastal flood risk and HAVE adverse impacts on marine ecosystems. During this talk, Rachel and Jenny will present an overview of the UK Climate Projections with a particular focus on the Marine Projections including sea level rise, storm surges and waves. They will provide insights into some of their recent research on assessing coastal risk to improve coastal climate resilience, helping people to stay safe and thrive.
Speakers
Rachel Perks
Rachel is a Senior Marine Scientist with the Met Office. With a long-term interest in the marine environment, she has several years’ experience working across both the public and private sectors. Rachel uses climate models to research how changing sea levels and storm surges affect coastal risk. Over the course of her career, she has worked on a variety of global and national projects, with a wide range of customers including government bodies, developers, insurers & reinsurers and several charities. Recently she has assisted in the Thames Estuary 2100 – 10-year review. She has published a tool to enable consultants to assess sea level projections across the globe and worked with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to support anticipatory action ahead of flood risk from tropical cyclones and other disasters. She is passionate about protecting our coasts through both her work and communicating climate change to a wider audience.
Jennifer Weeks
Jennifer has experience generating local sea-level projections for different regions of the world and facilitating training workshops and webinars on sea-level science for coastal decision-makers in South Asia. Jennifer compared the UK's national sea-level projections (UKCP18), and local sea-level projections for South Asia and South Pacific, with sea-level projections released in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report, and has looked at how to improve local sea-level projections for use in coastal impact, vulnerability and adaptation planning. This includes working with partners to build coastal resilience to sea-level rise in Pakistan through coordination of a sea-level working group. She also has experience modelling carbon dioxide removal through ocean alkalinity enhancement and holds a Masters degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford.
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