Dr. Wilson Chan

Wilson is a Hydroclimatologist at UKCEH within the Hydrological Status and Outlooks Group. His research interests include hydroclimatology, hydrological modelling and the impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes (floods & droughts). In his role at UKCEH, he is a researcher within the "Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK" (CANARI) project, advancing understanding of the drivers of extreme droughts and analysing novel climate model projections. He is also involved in the UK Hydrological Outlooks and the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme, authoring the monthly Hydrological Summary for the UK and occasional reporting of extreme events.

He completed a PhD at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading on present day and future risk of extreme hydrological droughts in the UK. His PhD research seeks to demonstrate an approach to create plausible worst case droughts by combining observations, historic river flow reconstructions and large ensemble climate model simulations. He completed a postgraduate fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), producing a parliamentary briefing on Climate Adaptation for Nature. Wilson has a BSc in Physical Geography and an MSc in Climate Change, both from University College London (UCL).