Explore Environmental Modelling at UCL

In this course, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of the role, development, and application of models in environmental science.

Core modules explore model-based scientific methodologies, computational and numerical techniques, and the wider human and natural impacts on environmental systems.

This course places science in context, ensuring that you can apply modelling approaches to real-world challenges such as climate change, natural hazards, and sustainable resource management.

Chris convenes the MSc Climate Change course. His research revolves around the use of earth system models to answer questions about past and future climate change. His ongoing work for the Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison (Climate of the Past, 2020) forms part of the past climate community's contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report.

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The central aim of Helene's research is to explain coastal behaviour, system dynamics and mechanisms of forcing over decades and centuries. In particular, she is exploring the relative importance of intrinsic system control versus external climate forcing on the geomorphology and morphodynamics of coastal sedimentary systems.

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Mat is the lead researcher on a project making 3D laser measurements of trees and forests across global ecosystems and urban environments. His wide collaborative networks include space agencies, planners, NGOs and policy makers. His work has been featured widely in the media, public exhibitions and museums.

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Richard's research seeks to inform sustainable, safe water supplies in low-income countries. From 2009 to 2018, he led an International Association of Hydrologists (IAH) Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change and is a contributing author to two chapters of the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report, Water Cycle Changes and Africa.

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Julian's research includes the investigation of hydrological functioning and numerical modelling in wetland environments. This has predominantly, but not exclusively, involved freshwater ecosystems. His work has focused on the wider catchment hydrological context and the links between wetland hydrology and ecology. In addition, his research investigates the impacts and associated uncertainties of climate change and anthropogenic activities on wetlands, river basins and water resources

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David is Deputy Chair of the Physical Geography MSc programme and Deputy Director of the London Natural Environment Research Council Doctoral Training Programme (NERC DTP). His research investigates the role of the ocean in the climate system, with his work revealing the exceptional nature of industrial-era changes in Atlantic circulation and ecosystems.

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