About C2IM
The Centre for Climate Change Impact Management (C2IM) was established
in April 2007 to address questions relating to the manging the impact
of climatic variations. These climate variations includes both natural
variation at the decadal, centennial timescale, and the potential
impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Our foci are
- Assessing natural climate varaibility and environmental response to both natural and anthropogenic variations
- The impacts of climate variability on water availability, its
management, and the infrastructure we have developed to utiilise it.
- The impacts of climate variability on coastal environments and the potential impact on coastal infrastructure
The Centre brings together internationally recognised researchers from
two established research groups at the University of Newcastle
- Water and Environmental Engineering Research Group:
This group is primarily based in the Faculty of Engineering and Built
Environment. Its fundamental research has historically focussed on
physical and stochastic hydrology and its variants (i.e.
hydroclimatology, ecohydrology, hydrogeomorphology), erosion, estuarine
processes and riverine processes. Its applied work has focussed on
management of urban water supply infrastructure, and mine site
environmental impacts.
- Environmental and Climate Change Research Group:
This group is primarily based in the Faculty of Science. Its
fundamental research has historically focussed on paleoclimatology
(rainfall, wind, atmospheric composition and casual linkages), coastal
processes, and catchment processes (erosion, organic carbon). Its
applied work has focussed on characterisation of climatic variability
for infrastructure management.