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Thank you to everyone who participated in the final Maths Foresees general assembly. Presentations are now available on the event webpage.

Three solutions reports to the industrial challenges set at the 2017 Environmental Modelling in Industry study group are now available.

Planned Activities

The Maths Foresees network will end in April 2018.

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Maths Foresees: mitigating severe environmental events

Extreme weather, including heavy rainfall and strong winds, has been the cause of recent land and coastal flooding, and strong beach and cliff erosion along the British coast. Both the winters of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 have seen severe environmental disasters in the UK. The prediction of extreme rainfall and storms (mid-latitude cyclones, hurricanes, and thunderstorms) and its use in forecasting river flooding and storm surges, as well as coastal erosion, poses a significant challenge. Uncertainties in the prediction of where and how much precipitation will fall, how high storm surges will be and from which direction waves and wind will attack coastlines lie at the heart of this challenge.

To meet this challenge, it is crucial that mathematicians with the relevant expertise interact closely with environmental scientists and end-users of environmental research. The Maths Foresees network was established in May 2015 under the EPSRC Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) umbrella to forge strong links between researchers in the applied mathematics and environmental science communities and end-users of environmental research.

Key objectives:

1. To forge collaborations between the mathematical sciences and environmental change communities.
2. To facilitate an active exchange of knowledge between the academic mathematical and environmental science communities and end-users of environmental research.
3. To rethink the approach to the prediction and analysis of severe weather events (and to quantify uncertainty).
4. To promote mathematical modelling of environmental hazards among the wider community.
5. To create awareness among the general public of the mathematical and engineering challenges involved in living with environmental change and severe weather hazards, and highlight the key role of mathematics through public engagement projects.

LWEC Networks

Maths Foresees is one of four networks funded under the EPSRC Living With Environmental Change umbrella, alongside Past Earth (based at the University of Leeds), SECURE (based at the University of Glasgow) and ReCoVER (based at the University of Exeter).

In addition the Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management Network (FCERM.net, based at Heriot-Watt University) may be relevant to partners working on flood risk management.