Lecture by Nigel Wright during seminar for Chris Zevenbergen's Inaugural Address.

1. Postgraduate Education, Training and Capacity Building in Water, Environment and Infrastructure

2. Adapting to Change Nigel Wright Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education

9. Hall & Hine, IAHR 2007

10. Hall & Hine, IAHR 2007

11. Public perception We cannot deliver certainties as before. Flooding will happen, particularly with localised urban flooding due to more extreme rainfall events. A policy of keeping our feet dry at all costs is no longer feasible. Must emphasise that whilst we can alleviate we cannot prevent.

15. Combining data sources LiDAR/map-based data

17. Urban

20. Parallelisation Massively-parallel systems based on PC architecture (1000+ processors). or Cheaper multi-core systems.

21. Carlisle 2005, Env. Agency:

24. 115 Km reach, 53.5Km upstream of junction, 62 Kms downstream Surface of Km2 36 processors dl = 50 m

27. Thank You! Questions and remarks