Hello and welcome to my webpages!
I am a Lecturer in Physical geography at Loughborough University and my research focuses on understanding and predicting changes in floods and fluvial systems in the context of contemporary shifts in climate, agricultural practices and urbanisation. My approach is statistical and computational; I use a combination of climatic and land cover information to disentangle the different drivers of flooding and fluvial change across a variety of climates and land use types. Using ensemble global climate model outputs I also develop probabilistic streamflow forecasts over a range of timescales to assess how floods and fluvial systems may change over time. I have a keen interest in data science and in developing new, interdisciplinary methods for understanding and projecting fluvial and hydro-climatic change.
On this website you will find a series of pages with News on my current research (below), Publications, Outreach and Media activities, Conference talks, and a short CV.
News
MAY 2017: HESS ed. board
Delighted to have joined the team of topical editors for the open-access Journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)!
APRIL 2017: New paper
Online and open for public review in Earth Surface Dynamics: Clubb et al. Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from objectively defined topographic thresholds
APRIL 2017: TALKS AT EGU
I’m delighted to have secured funding from the British Hydrological Society to give two talks at the European Geosciences Union in Vienna in April:
- Slater, L.J.. An early career researcher’s perspective on presenting flood risk research to the media (solicited). On Wednesday, 26 Apr 2017 at 13:46 in this session:
HS1.10
How my water research made the news (by invitation only) PICO sessionConvener: Stefanie Lutz
Co-Conveners: Andrea Popp , Tim van Emmerik , Manuel Felipe Rios GaonaPICO / Wed, 26 Apr, 13:30–15:00 / PICO spot
- Slater, L.J. and Villarini, G. Statistical-dynamical long-range seasonal forecasting of streamflow with the North-American Multi Model Ensemble (NMME). On Friday, 28 Apr 2017, at 11:30, in this session:
HS4.6/CL3.02
From sub-seasonal forecasting to climate projections: predicting hydrologic extremes and servicing water managers (co-organized)Convener: Louise Crochemore
Co-Conveners: Henning Rust , Christopher White , Johannes Hunink , Tim aus der Beek , Bart van den Hurk , Christel Prudhomme
MAR 2017: New encyclopedia chapter
Online chapter in the Oxford research encyclopedia of Natural Hazards: Climatology of Flooding in the United States
MAR 2017: New paper
Our paper is out: The ‘dirty dozen’ of freshwater science: detecting then reconciling hydrological data biases and errors
MAR 2017: NASA Feature
Our work is featured on NASA’s GRACE Tellus webpages at https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/
FEB 2017: SEMINAR @ READING
Research seminar at Water@Reading on February 23rd, 2017. The topic of my talk will be on disentangling the different drivers of changing flood hazards, and predicting changing streamflow patterns.
FEB 2017: INTERVIEW FOR YHS
Research “Hylight”: Q&A for the Young Hydrologic Society
JAN 2017: INTERVIEW
Our work was featured in MIT’s UnDark magazine following an interview with Robin Lloyd
JAN 2017: MOVED TO LOUGHBOROUGH, UK
I’m thrilled to have just started a new position as Lecturer in Physical Geography in the Geography Department at Loughborough University, UK
DEC 2016: MEDIA ATTENTION FOR GRL PAPER
Our Geophysical Research Letters paper on Recent trends in US flood risk has been featured as a Research Spotlight on Eos
The University of Iowa’s Press Release has been picked up by multiple press outlets (incl. NSF’s Science360, Daily Mail, National Geographic, Earth, UPI, BeforeItsNews, PhysOrg, Newswise & others)
DEC 2016: NEW PAPER IN IJC
New paper in International Journal of Climatology: On the impact of gaps on trend detection in extreme streamflow time series
DEC 2016: NEW PAPER IN GRL
New paper in Geophysical Research Letters on Recent trends in US flood risk 
