Education

• 2004-2008     University of East Anglia
  PhD in Environmental Sciences, titled “Quantifying the impact of historical and future climate change on windstorm insured loss in Great Britain”
  

• 1999-2003     University of East Anglia, UK / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  BSc (Hons) First Class in Environmental Sciences
  Units included Climatic Change, Meteorology, Oceanography, Atmospheric physics, Biogeochemical cycles
  
  

  Professional Experience

• Jan 2009 - present    School of Engineering, Swansea University
  Post-doctoral research - Mesoscale modelling of severe extratropical cyclones with WRF model
  


• 2008      School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
  Post-doctoral research - Weather and Crime. In collaboration with Norfolk Constabulary
  
  

  Membership of Professional Organisations

• Royal Meteorological Society
• American Geophysical Union
  

  Publications and Conference Presentations

Hewston, R., I.D. Cluckie, Q. Zou, D.E. Reeve, S. Pan, Y. Chen, Z. Pheng and X. Lv (2010), Quantifying Uncertainty through the Use of Ensembles in Whole System Modelling of Coastal Flooding, Proceedings of the 9th International conf on Hydroinformatics 2010, Eds. Jianhua Tao, Qiuwen Chen, Shie-Yui Liong. Vol. 3, pp 2117-2124, Chemical Industry Press, ISBN 978-7-122-09314-1 

Hewston, R., Y. Chen, S. Pan, Q. Zou,  D.E. Reeve and I.D. Cluckie (2010), Quantifying uncertainty in tide, surge and wave modelling during extreme storms, Proceedings of the  British Hydrological Society 3rd International Symposium, Newcastle, UK, 19-23 July 2010. (pdf)

Chen, Y.,  S. Pan, R. Hewston and Cluckie, I.D. (2010), Ensemble modelling of tides, surge and waves, Proceedings of the 20th International Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering Conference,  Beijing, China, 20-26 June 2010.

Zou, Q.-P, Y. Chen, I.D. Cluckie, R. Hewston, X. Lv, S. Pan, Z. Peng and D.E. Reeve (2009), EPIRUS: an integrated 'clouds-to-coast' ensemble modelling framework of coastal flood risk, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and 2nd Coastal Hazard Sysmposium, Halifax, Canada, 18-23 October, 2009.

Hewston, R., Y. Chen,  Q. Zou,  I.D. Cluckie, D.E. Reeve, S. Pan, X. Lv, Z. Peng. Integrating WRF into a ‘clouds-to-coast’ framework for analysing coastal flood risk in the UK. NCAR-NCAS WRF Users Workshop and Tutorial, Cambridge, UK, 28 September - 2 October 2009. (Poster)

Hewston, R., Q. Zou, I.D. Cluckie, D.E. Reeve, S. Pan, D. Han, J. Wolf, X. Lv, Y. Chen, and Z. Peng (2009), Severe extratropical cyclones and their impact on coastal flooding in the UK; past, present, and future. The 10th WRF Users' Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 23-26 June 2009. (Abstract Poster)

Hewston, R. (2008), Quantifying the impact of historical and future climate change on windstorm insured loss in Great Britain. PhD Thesis, School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich. (pdf)

Hewston, R. (2007), Windstorms and Insured Loss in the UK. Royal Meteorological Society Scottish Centre Postgraduate Student Evening, 12 January 2007. (Invited oral presentation) 

Hewston, R., S. Dorling, and D. Viner (2006), Windstorms and Insured Loss in the UK. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2006, San Francisco, California, 11-15 December 2006. (Poster)

Hewston, R. (2006) Windstorms and Insurance. Royal Meteorological Society student assembly, Norwich, England, 21-23 August 2006. (presentation)

Hewston, R. and S. Dorling (2006), European Extratropical Cyclones and the Insurance Industry. World Meteorological Organisation Climate Risk Conference 'Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the Risks'. Espoo, Finland, 17 - 21 July 2006.

  Courses Attended

NCAR-NCAS WRF Users Workshop and Tutorial. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 28 September - 2 October 2009.

NATO Advanced Study Institute on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: its Prediction and Impact on Society. Gallipolo, Italy, 23 May - 3 June 2005.

Originally formed around a set of lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration to become organised and presented rather more as a textbook than as a standard "collection of proceedings".

Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk - Troccoli, A.; Harrison, M.; Anderson, D.L.T.; Mason, S.J. (Eds.), 2008, pp467