Jacqueline Diaz Nieto
Brownfield, flooding and climate change.
PhD research student
Address:
GPRG
Kroto Research Institute
North Campus, University of Sheffield
Broad Lane
Sheffield
S3 7HQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)114 22 25786
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 5701
Room: G17
email : j.diaz@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Jacqueline graduated with a BSc in Geography (2:1) 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´s PhD research at Sheffield will contribute to the SUBR:IM consortium (Sustainable Urban Brownfield Regeneration: Integrated Management). The project will look at brownfields, 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 earthwork designs will be simulated for affects on floods.
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.
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