Past Events

Please see below for details of our past events. Videos are available for many of these webinars, which you can view by clicking on the link under 'Title':

Date	Speaker(s)	Institute	Title
20/11/2024	Sun Yan Evans	Mott MacDonald	Harnessing Global Water Wisdom: Lessons for the Future
13/11/2024	Prof Trevor Bishop	West Country Water Resources Group	Challenges and trade-offs for the next generation of water and environmental infrastructure
06/11/2024	Dr Edoardo Borgomeo	University of Cambridge	Keeping up with uncertainty: water engineering in times of climate change
30/10/2024	Dr Zhangjie Peng	CREWW, University of Exeter	Quantifying Cross-sectional Solute Concentration Distributions in Pipe Flows
16/10/2024	Mr Jez Heath	SES Water	Using Innovation to halve water leakage
02/10/2024	Dr William Addison-Atkinson	University of Exeter / JBA Consulting	An integrated approach to health risk assessment for sewer flooding
17/06/2024	Prof David Zhu	Ningbo University	Air Flow in Hydraulic Engineering
03/06/2024	Prof Mark Trigg	University of Leeds	Bridging the Gap: Ensuring River Crossings Stand Up to Future Climate Challenges
20/05/2024	Tom Dauben	Environment Agency	Flood Resilience & Adaptation
13/05/2024	Dr Sally Brown	Environment Agency	Working in knowledge exchange and undertaking flood research at the Environment Agency
29/04/2024	Jemma Bennett	CIWEM	Using nature and data to help solve the combined sewer overflow (CSO) challenge
22/04/2024	Prof Kapil Gupta	IIT Bombay	Mitigating Urban Flood Disasters under a Changing Climate
15/04/2024	Rebecca Hall	University of Exeter / University of Queensland	Quantification of water and energy consumption associated with domestic hot water
25/03/2024	Dr Farhad Bahmanpouri	Italian National Research Council	Applications of the Entropy model in estimating flow discharge and sediment transport in rivers
11/03/2024	Dondu Sarisen	University of Exeter	Simulating intermittent water supply systems under uncertainty
26/02/2024	Dr Jiping Jiang	Southern University of Science and Technology	First principle of rational decision making on water quality management
19/02/2024	Peter von Lany	Jacobs	Applying adaptive planning and adaptation pathways to strategic flood risk management
12/02/2024	Dr Matt Johns	University of Exeter	WATERLINE: Pioneering Digital and Extended Reality Innovations in Water Systems Engineering
30/01/2024	Prof Hubert Chanson	University of Queensland	Fluid mechanics of large hydraulic structures during large floods and their modelling
23/01/2024	Prof Nigel Wright	University of Birmingham	Support for decision-making for urban flood resilience
31/08/2023-01/09/2023	Various	Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter	Advances in Water Research & Innovation: 1998 to 2023 and beyond. Celebrating 25 years of CWS
22/06/2023	Prof David Butler, Prof Tania Kovats, Trevor Bishop & Dr Sarah Ward	Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter & Agile Rabbit	Water and climate change: 10 things you should know
27/03/2023	Paul Hargreaves	Jabobs	Dual-use blue green infrastructure; a local example - Sidmouth Amphitheatre
20/03/2023	Diego Ciriminna	University of Palermo	Permeable Pavement, a hydrological mitigation solution modeled in EPA SWMM. A study of the best performance
13/03/2023	Jess Penny	University of Exeter	Impact of Land Use Changes of Hydrological Regimes
20/02/2023	Dr Bhattacharya, Rhys Hart & Lucas Cannon	Atkins Ltd/University of Exeter	Engineering Net Zero
13/02/2023	Dr Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia	KWR/University of Exeter	Digital Transition for the Water Sector at European level: Challenges and perspectives
06/02/2023	Ben Hamilton	University of Exeter	Novel phase portrait methodology for the real time detection of waste water blockages
30/01/2023	Dr Josh Myrans	South West Water/University of Exeter	Automated Sewer CCTV Annotation
23/01/2023	Dr Patrick Thomson	University of Oxford	For a Few Dollars More: Can better data help the rural water sector?
16/01/2023	Prof Luiza Campos	University College London	Emerging Contaminants in Water – Treatments and Challenges
09/01/2023	Prof Lindsay Beevers	University of Edinburgh	The use of data in water governance and decision making in urban contexts
12/12/2022	Prof Qiuhua Liang	Loughborough University	Development of a Coupled Human And Natural Systems (CHANS) Modelling Approach for Flood Risk/Impact Assessment
05/12/2022	Yuxiao Wang	University of Exeter	Modelling of hydraulic fracturing using extended finite element method
21/11/2022	Prof Ian Barker	Water Policy International Ltd/University of Exeter	Crisis? What crisis? Why are England's rivers and seas polluted by sewage?
14/11/2022	Dr Venura Perera	Allianz	Innovating for Success
24/10/2022	Dr Mary Long-Dhonau OBE	Mary Dhonau Associates	What is it like to flood? How can we reduce the impact of a flood at a property level
17/10/2022	Prof Trevor Bishop	Water Resources South East	Water Security in the 21st Century: Can we evolve in time?
10/10/2022	Dr Mayra Rodriguez	Eawag	The influence of Green Infrastructure on the resilience of urban drainage systems
26/09/2022	Gareth Lewis	University of Exeter	Developing vehicles for integrated applied research for real customers: the aqua3S story
30/06/2022	Dr Kourosh Behzadian	University of West London	Data-driven modellng of flood forecasting in urban drainage systems [video]
23/06/2022	Dr Ole Mark	Kruger A/S	Modelling and analyses of the impacts from climate change on urban flooding [video]
16/06/2022	Dr Priscila Alves	University of Maryland	An integrated spatial-participatory framework for flood risk mitigation in the semi-arid region of Brazil [video]
26/05/2022	Esteban Sañudo Costoya	University of A Coruña	Large scale urban drainage models [video]
05/05/2022	Fernando López Aguilar & Dr Alberto Abella	FIWARE Foundation	Cybersecurity and standardisation in SmartWater [video]
28/04/2022	Dr Mehdi Khoury	University of Exeter	NextGen serious game playing session [video]
07/04/2022	Dewi Davies & Sarah Aubrey	National Trust/Natural Resources Wales	The Uwch Conwy Catchment Project [video]
31/03/2022	Dr Toby Coe	Fishtek Ltd	Fish passage - global challenges and solutions in a disconnected world
24/03/2022	Dr Amy Deacon	University of the West Indies	The freshwater biodiversity of Trinidad: a model species in a model system [video]
17/03/2022	Dr Lynsey Harper	NatureMetrics Ltd	Environmental DNA: new possibilities and challenges for biodiversity monitoring [video]
10/03/2022	Cll Doug Smith & Mike Machin	Great Torrington Water Forum	Inspiring lasting change through a local water forum [video]
03/03/2022	Dr William Perry	Cardiff University	From poo to policy: wastewater surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond [video]
24/02/2022	Dr James Orr	University of Oxford	Overcoming the context-dependency of multiple-stressor interactions [video]
17/02/2022	Charles Rangeley-Wilson	CaBA	The CaBA (Catchment Based Approach) chalk stream restoration strategy [video]
03/02/2022	Dr Otto Chen	University of Exeter	Participatory Hybrid Decision Support Modelling Framework for Industrial Symbiosis [video]
27/01/2022	Dr Brett Snider	University of Exeter	Designing water distribution system anomaly detection to reduce search areas [video]
20/01/2022	Dr Isobel Stanton	UKCEH	Near-source monitoring of COVID-19 in school and prison wastewater
13/01/2022	Dr Sarah Ward	Westcountry Rivers Trust	Climate, co-creation & COVID: an online year in the life of the 'Connecting the Culm' project [video]
03/12/2021	Jack Greenhalgh	University of Bristol	Freshwater ecoacoustics: A new way to survey ponds, rivers, and lakes [video]
26/11/2021	Dr David Tickner	WWF	Think like a river: Bending the curve of freshwater biodiversity loss in a world that might not know or care [video]
19/11/2021	Prof Jan Hofman	University of Bath	Simulation of water quality in sewers [video]
12/11/2021	Prof Antarpreet Jutla	University of Florida	Water, weather and climate for infectious pathogens
05/11/2021	Helen Ticehurst	Met Office	How risk information informed cholera response in Yemen
22/10/2021	Dr Muhammad Wakil Shahzad	Northumbria University	Solar Driven Tri-hybrid Water Treatment System for Future Water Supplies
15/10/2021	Prof Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern	University of Bath	Wastewater Based Epidemiology and One Health [video]
08/10/2021	Dr Talia Rosin	University of Exeter	Data Analytics for Automated Near Real Time Detection of Sewer Blockages [video]
01/10/2021	Dr Mohammad Hassan Khanjanpour	University of Exeter	Optimisation of ocean-powered turbines for seawater desalination [video]
31/08/2021 - 02/09/2021	Various speakers	University of Exeter	AQUA≈360: Water for All - Emerging Issues and Innovations Online Conference
16/07/2021	Prof Jan Hofman	University of Bath	Assessment of urban water security in sub-Saharan African Capitals [video]
09/07/2021	Dr Nick Paling	Westcountry Rivers Trust	Evidence-based co-design, co-creation and evaluation of nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration and systems change [video]
02/07/2021	Jamie Hannaford and Tracey Dunford	Natural Resources Wales	An insight to UK Drought and Water scarcity Research (about drought), its uses within decision making across range of sectors and future evidence gaps
25/06/2021	Dr Jasmine Grimsley	Joint Biosecurity Centre	Tracking Covid-19 and its variants through wastewater in England
18/06/2021	Dr Mahdieh Dibaj	University of Exeter	Integrated Management of Groundwater-Surface water under influence of climate change [video]
11/06/2021	Dr Johan Enqvist	Stockholm Resilience Centre and African Climate & Development Initiative	Knowledge co-creation for climate adaptation and water justice: a transdisciplinary approach to the SenseMaker toolkit [video]
28/05/2021	Dr Bernardino Nhantumbo	National Institute of Meteorology	INAM’s Department of Planning and Research: Overview [video]
21/05/2021	Fola Ogunyoye	TJAY Consultancy Ltd	Adapting to climate change – from flood defence to flood resilience [video]
14/05/2021	Prof Sera Young and Dr Feng Mao	Northwestern University/Cardiff University	Benchmarking household water access and use globally: a new tool and many new questions [video]
07/05/2021	Dr Ola Michalec	University of Bristol	What can social sciences tell us about digital water transformations? [video]
23/04/2021	Dr Rafael Rosolem	University of Bristol	What does the cosmos tell you about soil hydrology? [video]
16/04/2021	Dr Thomas Beach	Cardiff University	Digital Solutions for Urban Water Management and Conservation: The UK Perspective [video]
09/04/2021	Dr David MacLeod	University of Bristol	Drought in the Greater Horn of Africa: past, present and future [video]
26/03/2021	Dr Stefan Uhlenbrook	International Water Management Institute	Managing the Water We Eat [video]
19/03/2021	Dr Saeed Parnow	University of Tehran	Ganat and Geo-electrical prospecting for detection [video]
12/03/2021	Prof Mirco Tonin	University of Bozen-Bolzano	Technology vs information to promote conservation: Evidence from water audits [video]
05/03/2021	Dr Adrian Healy	Cardiff University	Transforming urban water resilience: the role of household self-supply in sub-Saharan Africa [video]
26/02/2021	Magali Nehemy	University of Saskatchewan	Stable isotopes are not enough - Using tree hydraulics to understand tree water use [video]
19/02/2021	Eirini Nikoloudi	University of Exeter	Event Management and Event Response Planning for Smart Water Networks [video]
12/02/2021	Simon Evans	The Wye and Usk Foundation	Solving Environmental Problems: simple to complex [video]
05/02/2021	Dr Ifan Jâms	Cardiff University	Estimating the size distribution of plastics ingested by animals [video]
22/01/2021	Dr Geoff Hilton	Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust	Things can only get wetter: conservation evidence at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust [video]
11/12/2020	Dr Lewis Elliott	University of Exeter	Insights into blue spaces and human wellbeing: Findings from the BlueHealth International Survey [video]
04/12/2020	Dr Jonny Higham	University of Liverpool	Flow on the go [video]
27/11/2020	Peter Stanley	Natural Resources Wales	Programme development, metal mine treatment and restoration opportunities [video]
20/11/2020	Mark Keating	Flow Science	CFD in the Water Industry [video]
13/11/2020	Dr Aimee Murray with April Hayes	University of Exeter	Antimicrobial resistance in water systems [video]
06/11/2020	Francisca Martey	Ghana Meteorological Agency	Research and applied meteorology directorate of Ghana Meteorology Agency [video]
30/10/2020	Dr Hamdy Elsayed	University of Exeter	Water-Food-Energy Nexus in Transboundary River Systems. A case study of the Nile basin [video]
16/10/2020	Dr Sarah Cotterill	University College Dublin	COVID-19 and the Water Sector: Understanding impact, preparedness and resilience through a sector-wide survey [video]
09/10/2020	Dr Barry Evans	University of Exeter	Configuration of micro-scale modelling for disaster evacuation simulations [video]
02/10/2020	Murray Dale	JBA Consulting	Recent water, climate and hydrometeorology projects at JBA [video]
27/03/2020	James Tremlett	MWH Treatment	Severn Trent Water Network Analysis Project 2016 - Present
20/03/2020	Prof Bernardo Caicedo	University of Los Andes, Columbia	Physical modelling of soil atmosphere interaction
13/03/2020	Prof Richard Ashley	University of Sheffield	Is valuing blue-green infrastructure beyond our ken?
06/03/2020	Dr Olivia Milton-Thompson	University of Exeter	Assessing risk to groundwater contamination from subsurface activities
28/02/2020	Prof Ruth Allen	RSKW Ltd	The Future for Water – Politically, Operationally and Climatically
21/02/2020	David Fortune	Innovyze	Transforming water network operations using the digital twin
14/02/2020	Paula Cuero	University of Exeter	Water quality in Colombia: regulations for peace and equality
07/02/2020	Prof Genevieve Pelletier	Université Laval	Impact of hydraulic paths on chlorine degradation in water distribution systems
05/02/2020	Prof Ali Khosronejad	Stony Brook University	High-fidelity numerical simulation of turbulent flows and bed morphodynamics in small- to large-scale environments
31/01/2020	Prof Ian Barker	Water Policy International	Four meals away from anarchy - water and food security
24/01/2020	Dr James Shucksmith	University of Sheffield	Development of modeling led surface water abstraction systems
17/01/2020	Dr Matteo Rubinato	Coventry University	Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flow Exchange in Urban Flood Flows
10/01/2020	Dr Sarah Bunney	University of the West of England	Building resilience in the UK water sector: a systems based approach to emergency management
13/12/2019	Dr Gyan Chhipi Shrestha	University of British Columbia	Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus Modelling for Sustainable Water Planning and Management: A Case Study of City of Penticton, Canada
06/12/2019	Prof Rosa Barciela	Met Office	Prediction and Prevention of Cholera: The Early Action for Cholera for Cholera (EACH) Project
05/12/2019	Andrew Kruczkiewicz	Columbia University	Earth observations and disaster risk decision making: Some examples and opportunities
29/11/2019	Dr Emily O'Donnell	University of Nottingham	Developing new Blue-Green futures: multifunctional infrastructure to address water challenges
22/11/2019	Chris Rogers	Consultant	Delivering First Time Sewerage to Rural Communities in the UK
15/11/2019	Dr Charles Rougé	University of Sheffield	Coordination in large-scale models in water resources engineering: challenges for water resilience
13/11/2019	Prof Hassan El-Banna S. Fath	Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology	Introduction To Desalination Technologies
08/11/2019	Dr Ababyomi Abatan	University of Exeter	Water is Life
01/11/2019	Richard Brown	Ove Arup and Partners	Designing for Wellbeing and Climate Resilience - What do we mean when we talk about Green Infrastructure?
25/10/2019	Dr Maria Pregnolato	University of Bristol	Modelling flooding impact to bridges and roads
18/10/2019	Prof Iana Rufino	Federal University of Campina Grande	A GIS-based Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCDA) approach for water shortage risk mapping
11/10/2019	Martin Dolan	Oxford Brookes University/Aquobex	I-React, the first modular solution to integrate and analyse in real-time a set of data coming from different sources to provide an action-based warning system
04/10/2019	Dr Huili Chen	Loughborough University	Integrating Remote Sensing and Hydrodynamic Modelling for Regional Flood Impact Analysis