Here you can view summaries of the our latest articles. News, events and vacancies are self explanatory. Research articles report or update on our research programme, whilst comentary articles are more personal thoughts or discussion by CESER members.
The full articles are maintained by CESER members on our blog: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/ceser/, where you can also add your comments. If you would like to see an uninterrupted textstream of our latest articles please visit the 'Full Content' section.
New work by CESER researchers has demonstrated how a long temporal baseline of daytime AVHRR data can be employed to capture the summer temperature regime of the city of London, UK, including the response to a known heatwave event. Analysis … Continue reading
Professor Chris Rogers will give a seminar at 1-2pm on Tuesday 8th January, in Devonshire G21/22. Chris will speak about ”Future Proofing our Urban Design Decisions – the Urban Futures Methodology” which summarises his work on the EPSRC funded Urban … Continue reading
Readers of this blog may be interested in the BBC’s Supersized Earth which you can watch on iPlayer. The three episodes explore a few aspects of how humanity has being “redesigning” planet Earth to build the modern world. The parallels … Continue reading
CESER research has been nominated for the prestigious INDEX: Design to improve life award. INDEX: Design to Improve Life® is a Danish NPO with global reach, established in 2002. Their mission is to Inspire, Educate and Engage people in using Design to Improve Life-skills to develop … Continue reading
CESER Researchers have won the Lloyds Science of Risk prize in the Climate Change category for their work on risk modelling in the coastal zone. The coastal conundrum – balancing the costs of erosion v flooding Ensuring continued … Continue reading
RAMSES (Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities) is a €5m FP7 research programme that aims to develop methods, tools and case studies to design strategies, quantify costs and evaluate the impacts of adaptation to climate change in cities. … Continue reading
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/corporate/docs/n/12-1213-no-stone-unturned-in-pursuit-of-growth.pdf Lord Heseltine advocates unleashing the power of our cities to support local infrastructure delivery and promote growth. CESER’s integrated cities and infrastructure research programmes are providing urban and national scale tools to help cities, utilties and government deliver growth through sustainable and … Continue reading
CESER Director Richard Dawson’s work on the Tyndall Centre’s Regional Coastal Simulator has been short listed for the Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize 2012. This work quantifies the role of sediments released from cliff erosion in protecting neighbouring low-lying … Continue reading
Managing Infrastructure: what can we learn from the medical experience of trauma? The SHOCK project invites anyone with experience of working in infrastructure strategy and practice to attend this workshop. This workshop looks at the experiences of A&E staff in … Continue reading
Over the summer 2012, Professor Hayley Fowler, co-chaired a two-week workshop at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado on ‘Uncertainty in climate change research: an integrated approach’. Taking decision making as a starting point, the workshop focussed … Continue reading
6th International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:EESD13 Robinson and Pembroke Colleges, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 22-25 September 2013 CONFERENCE THEME: Rethinking the Engineer This Conference will explore how engineers can be educated to apply new approaches and … Continue reading
Hydrological challenges and emerging solutions in urban areas Wednesday 26th September 2012, 1000-1630 Darwin Suite, Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne This meeting will bring together scientists, engineers, water managers, regulators, consultants and policy-makers to discuss these issues. Speakers include: … Continue reading
STILT HOUSE is a Fine Art led interdisciplinary research project involving Art, Architecture and Civil Engineering. The engagement of artists with complex issues such as climate change presents both opportunities, and inherent contradictions, relating to the symbolic, creative and material … Continue reading
Two exciting lectureship opportunities based the School Civil Engineering & Geosciences: Lecturer in Building Science: http://bit.ly/QHOp5R Lecturer in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: http://bit.ly/R12R3k Contact jon.mills@ncl.ac.uk for further information.
Exciting, NERC funded, research opportunity in forest laser scanning to work in CESER and the School of Civil Engineering & Geosciences! For further details please visit: http://bit.ly/TxTmuU or informal enquiries please contact Dr Rachel Gaulton on +44 191 222 6577, or e-mail: rachel.gaulton@ncl.ac.uk
Urban areas are complex systems, comprising many interacting infrastructure sectors. Understanding these inter-relationships is essential to sustainable urban and infrastructure development. Research focused on single sectors, or over limited timescales, will inevitably fail to capture these interdependencies and dynamics. ‘Long … Continue reading
Researchers in the school have been awarded a two year project to address weather related climate change hazards and impacts for the Caribbean region. Managers and policy makers in the Caribbean require knowledge of the likely impacts and hazards arising … Continue reading
The School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Newcastle University is conducting a study of the flash-flooding that hit Newcastle and the North East on June 28th, 2012. They aim to gather as much information as possible from photos, … Continue reading
Newcastle University hosted a technical symposium on Earth Systems Engineering on 3rd-5th July 2012. The focus of the symposium was on systems engineering for sustainable adaptation to global change and brought together a wide range of individuals who are applying … Continue reading