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Broadly speaking, my research focuses on climate and environmental change. I specialise in modelling soil erosion by water and stress-testing the efficacy of mitigation measures - existing or potential - under the impacts of future climatic changes.
I recently completed a PhD that focused on researching the resilience and adaptation of muddy flooding mitigation to climate change. As part of this research, soil erosion modelling was informed by carefully tuned climate model selection to develop a range of effective and practicable mitigation measures for a heavily impacted catchment in Flanders, Belgium, that will remain resilient under the most likely best-and-worst case future climate scenarios. The findings will continue to be disseminated to not only help inform policy development and adaptation in Flanders, but also to influence muddy flooding mitigation planning elsewhere in the European loess belt.
Soil Erosion and Muddy Flooding; Climate Scenario Development and Impacts Modelling; Resilience of Environmental Management Strategies to Climate Change; GIS.
BSc Geography, 2014-2017 @ Queen's University Belfast;
MSc Environmental Engineering, 2017-2018 @ Queen's University Belfast;
Geography PhD, 2018-2023 @ Queen's University Belfast.
GGY1009: Physical Geography: Earth, Wind and Water;
GGY2055: Geographical Research Skills;
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Brannigan, Neil (Recipient), Oct 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Supervisor: Mullan, D. (Supervisor) & McKinley, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy