A collection of interesting, different or strange approaches to manage coastal and flood risks that I stumbled across during a trip though South East Asia.  

Flood risk in Cambodia and the Mekong River

With my trip now finished, I am collating my thoughts on my final jou...

A collection of interesting, different or strange approaches to manage coastal and flood risks that I stumbled across during a trip though South East Asia.  

Flood risk in Vietnam

Over the last week I have travelled from Hanoi in north Vietnam, to the Mekong Delta in the...

A collection of interesting, different or strange approaches to manage coastal and flood risks that I stumbled across during a trip though South East Asia.  

Flood risk in the floating villages

I started my journey on the east coast of Malaysia, on Borneo Island.  It wa...

This week I was in Mossman, far north Queensland, with Elisa Zavadil from Alluvium, where we were using our wave tank to learn about how coastal risks will change over time.  

So why the big red 'climate change' watering can?  Its because climate change is not only...

What about a new portable hydraulic flume.  Not to be put off from the lack of publicly available retail options, our UK team from JBA-Bentley have asked our favourite physical modellers Hydrotec to whip one up just in time for the Christmas break. The flume currently...

We are looking for a new graduate that wants to solve the worlds water-related problems.  The position will suit someone with a background in hydrology, science or engineering, with an interest in weather extremes. 

We are looking for someone with:

• A relevant de...

We have just finished a week of coastal site inspections in Far North QLD using AssetCoast Australia.  It uses iPad-enabled coastal asset data collection functions (running on the GISmapp platform), provides a standard methodology for condition assessment, and assesse...

Well done to the JBA Group:  

• Ranked 6th out of 100 UK and International engineering companies

• Won the Best Use of Technology: Driving Efficiency’ through our ForeCoast® Marine software (learn more about it in Australia here)

• Won ‘Designer of the Year’ bas...

Recently the Environment Agency have released their best practise guidance framework on the development of Coastal Forecasting Systems.  I was able to work on the good practice framework with a range of technical experts from JBA, HR Wallingford, the Environment Agency...

Whilst in the UK Dan Rodger worked with the JBA Trust (http://www.jbatrust.org/) on the development of several demonstration wave tanks.  These are just some of many physical models the Trust use to support education and training activities, in particular the promotion...