Jacqueline Diaz Nieto
Brownfield, flooding and climate change.
Biography
Jacqueline graduated with a BSc in Geography from University College London in 2000. She then went on to obtain a MSc in Monitoring, Modelling and Management of Environmental Change at Kings College London. After her MSc Jacqueline spent two years working in Colombia as a research assistant in the Land Use Project at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
Current Research Interests
Jacqueline is a PhD student within the Catchment Science Centre based in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering. Jacqueline´s PhD research will contribute to the SUBR:IM consortium (Sustainable Urban Brownfield Regeneration: Integrated Management) and will look at brownfield land, flooding and climate change. The two main objectives of the project are:
-to show whether flood redevelopments can be designed to reduce the impacts of flooding while providing security to occupants and not mobilising contaminants and sediments;
-to estimate the possible effects of climate change on the above.
The project is principally based on a modelling approach where a range of redevelopment scenarios will be simulated for affects on floods.
Supervisors
Recent publications
Diaz-Nieto, J. and Wilby, R. L. 2005. A comparison of statistical downscaling and climate change factor methods: impacts on low flows in the River Thames, United Kingdom. Climatic Change, 69, 245-268.
Use of statistical downscaling for assessing future low flows in the River Thames basin (poster)
Jacqueline Diaz Nieto and Rob Wilby - Presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2006, Vienna, Austria, 2nd – 7th April 2006, in session HS13 Linking climate change modelling to impacts studies: downscaling techniques for hydrological impact studies
Is there potential for brownfields to be used in flood risk management? (poster)
Jacqueline Diaz Nieto, Prof. David Lerner and Prof. Adrian Saul - Presented at the British Hydrological Society 9th National Hydrology Symposium,
Land management and the protection of the water environment: Understanding the impact of new legislation, 10th to 13th September 2006, Durham University.
Research within the CSC
Brownfield land, flooding and climate change
Contact Details
email : Jacqueline Diaz Nieto