RefNo | EC/2021/03 |
Level | Item |
Title | Bates, Paul David: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 21 April 2021 |
Description | Certificate endorsing election of Paul Bates as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
Citation | Paul Bates is Professor of Hydrology at the University of Bristol where he specialises in the science of flooding. He develops new numerical solutions to the Shallow Water equations and combines these with satellite and airborne data to advance our fundamental understanding of flood dynamics and reduce threats to life and economic losses worldwide. For this work, he was awarded the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk prize for Natural Hazards in 2012. His techniques are used by multiple researchers, NGOs, multi-national companies and insurers to map flood hazard and risk. He built the first building resolving hydraulic models of whole cities, and the first two-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the entire planet. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award holder and in 2019 was made a Commander of the British Empire for services to flood risk management. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Computer printout |
PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
AccessStatus | Closed |
AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |