Prof. Jennifer Brown

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Group
Marine Physics and Ocean Climate
Site
Southampton
Email
jebro at noc.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Shelf sea and coastal impact modelling: Application and development of nested modelling systems to simulate 3D wave-circulation interactions, the net sediment transport which they cause, leading to changing coastal morphology, and coastal flood hazard. Coastal hazards monitoring: Development of new measurement systems that stream near real-time hazard information and provide data to calibrate/validate and develop predictive tools. 

All with the aim to improve our understanding of coastal process interaction and impact, under past, present and future climates.

Modelling expertise POLCOMS, WAM, SWAN, Telemac, XBeach and LISFLOOD-FP

Key topics

  • Coastal storm impacts & risk – surges, waves, inundation & erosion
  • Long-term circulation & sediment pathways
  • Estuary dynamics
  • Climate change
  • Air-sea interactions
  • Decision support
  • Coastal resilience

I am a coastal oceanographer within the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group & Coastal Ocean Processes sub group. My expertise are in coastal flood and erosion risk assessment to inform shoreline management strategies. In my role, I:

  • Progress modelling capabilities to explore sensitivities within the coastal system to human intervention and natural change.
  • Provide decision support to coastal policy makers.
  • Work with the Marine Data Products team to transfer scientific understanding into business opportunities with impact.
  • Lead projects developing innovative modelling and monitoring approaches.

Present

  • UK Coastal Research Conference Scientific Organising Committee
  • Natural Hazards Partnership
  • Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference steering committee

 

Previous

Current Projects

Co-Opt: Co-benefit Solutions for Resilient Coasts

SPLASH: Digital approaches to predict wave hazards

Gravel barrier resilience in a changing climate (#gravelbeach)

 

Completed Projects

Multi Mode Sensor Data Dashboards

CreamT: Coastal REsistance Alerts and Monitoring Technologies

SWOT-UK: Surface Water and Ocean Topography UK

RASCALS: Climate change hotspots and the global telecommunications network: Assessing past and present resilience and adaptation strategies for the future

WireWall: a new approach to coastal wave hazard monitoring

RAWMapping: Radar-model-fusion approach for high-resolution marine resource mapping

Climate Change Impact Assessment: Ocean Modelling and Monitoring for the Caribbean CME states

BLUEcoast: Physical and biological dynamic coastal processes and their role in coastal recovery

iCOASST: Integrated COASTal sediment systems – Aimed to improve our capability to predict long-term, regional scale change of the UK coastline and estuaries.

Flood MEMORY: Multi-Event Modelling Of Risk & recovery – Identifying the most critical flood scenarios caused by the temporal sequences of extreme weather events striking vulnerable systems of flood defence, urban areas, communities and businesses, which have a memory in the system.

ARCoES: Adaption and Resilience of COastal Energy Supply – Focused on the identification of challenges facing the future security of the UK nuclear energy sector and coastal energy supply.