Biographical Statements: Speakers
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Professor Robert J. NICHOLLS
Chair of Coastal Engineering, School of Civil Engineering and
the Environment, University of Southampton
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Prof. Robert J. Nicholls
School of Civil Engineering and the
Environment
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
Tel: +44 23 80594139
Fax: +44 23 80594182
E-mail: r.j.nicholls@soton.ac.uk
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ROBERT J. NICHOLLS B.Sc., Ph.D.
Chair of Coastal Engineering
School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM SO17 1BJ
Also Visiting Professor, Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University
Visiting Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Robert Nicholls has studied coastal processes and coastal hazards for
the last 25 years. In particular, he has an international reputation
concerning climate change in coastal areas, especially the potential
impacts and the possible responses. His research has involved studies
across a range of scales from local (e.g., small towns) to the global.
A distinctive dimension has been consideration of the coastal zone as
a series of interacting systems which facilitates policy analysis. He
has advised national governments (e.g., UK) and intergovernmental organisations
(e.g., OECD) on climate change and coastal issues, including contributing
as lead author to four reports of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate
Change assessment process. Currently, he is contributing to the following
active projects:
(1) DINAS-COAST, an EU-funded project which is developing a global-scale
integrated assessment model of the impacts of sea-level rise;
(2) ATLANTIS, an EU-funded project which is examining the implications
of extreme high-end scenarios of sea-level rise for the 21st Century;
(3) Three inter-related projects on East Anglia funded by the Tyndall
Centre concerning geomorphic change, coastal erosion, and coastal flood
risk under climate change;
(4) RegIS-2, a UK Government-funded project developing an integrated
assessment modelling for climate change at the scale of English regions.
