Professor Paul Bates

Professor Paul Bates
BSc(Soton), PhD(Bristol)

Professor of Hydrology

Area of research

Flood risk and uncertainty

Office 1.9N
University Road,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1SS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 9108
paul.bates@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Paul is Director of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol.

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Paul is a hydrologist by background, but has widespread research interests in risk, resilience, uncertainty, governance and decision-making in relation to natural hazards and global water issues. He has published over 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and these were cited over 500 times in 2011 according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. He currently has an ISI H-index of 29.

Paul's main science contribution has been to improve the prediction of flood inundation ...

Biography

Paul obtained a BSc in Geography from Southampton University in 1989, and subsequently obtained a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1992 working with Professor Malcolm Anderson. His PhD research analysed finite element methods for modeling flood flows, a theme he continued during postdoctoral research funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the Laboratoire Saint Venant in Paris where he worked with Jean-Michel Hervouet. In 1995 he was appointed to a Lectureship in Physical Geography at the University of Bristol, and was promoted to Reader in 2000 and full Professor in ...

Selected publications

Falloon, P, Betts, R, Wiltshire, A, Dankers, R, Mathison, C, McNeall, D, Bates, PD & Trigg, MA. ‘Validation of river flows in HadGEM1 and HadCM3 with the TRIP river flow model’, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12, (pp. 1157-1180), 2011
Stephens, EM, Bates, PD, Freer, J.E & Mason, DC. ‘The impact of uncertainty in satellite data on the assessment of flood inundation models’, Journal of Hydrology, 414-415, (pp. 162-173), 2012

Geography

Professor Paul Bates