It's estimated that four million people and £150bn of assets are at risk from coastal #flooding in the UK.

Professor Kevin Horsburgh and the extreme #sealevels team at the National #Oceanography Centre research storm surges and develop wave and tsunami modelling to try to understand the statistics of sea-level extremes which underpins many aspects of government policy on coastal defence and the mitigation of #flood risk.

In 1953 a North Sea storm surge breached defences and led to the loss of 326 lives in England and Scotland. The storms of last winter marked some of the most extreme weather of recent years; on 5 and 6 December 2013 sea levels along most of the North Sea coastline were higher than in 1953. Although minor flooding occurred, it is thanks to sustained improvements in forecasting systems, as well as investment in coastal defences, that there were no fatalities, and that there was a timely evacuation of some 10,000 properties.

Kevin was the runner-up in NERC's inaugural impact awards in the category to recognise research that has achieved exceptional social, cultural, public policy or service, health, environmental or quality of life benefits.

Watch the video to hear from Professor Kevin Horsburgh.

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