Paul Wyse

Department for Education Flood Resilience Manager

Paul is on secondment from the Environment Agency’s national flood team to help the DfE with its work on flood and climate resilience across the school estate. His work involves improving awareness of risks, linking work programmes with water companies and the Environment Agency and helping schools reduce their flood risk.

Paul has 25 years experience working for the Environment Agency’s in a number of different local and national roles and is a is a Chartered Water & Environmental Manager.

Jo Coles

Chartered Scientist

Jo is a Chartered Scientist and has a BSc Geography (Hons) from the University of Hull and a MSc Applied Meteorology and Climatology from the University of Birmingham. She started her career as a meteorologist in Sydney, whilst travelling in Australia. On her return to the UK, Jo joined MeteoGroup where she was a meteorologist for over 4 years. In 2005, Jo joined the Environment Agency as a hydrologist / flood forecaster and over the last 15 years has had a variety of roles focussing on developing and improving flood forecasting capabilities, incident response and flood risk awareness. Jo also works as a freelance weather producer at Sky News. Jo loves all things related to the weather, hydrology and geography and is passionate about encouraging more children into STEM subjects and making it fun. Jo is a STEM Learning Ambassador and visits schools to talk about her career, weather and flooding.

Kate Mayo

Flood & Coastal Risk Management Officer

I am currently working in the Flood Resilience Team in East Anglia.  Within the team I focus on Engagement and GIS. I work on education and community engagement with local flood schemes. Often I will be out in schools educating children on the risk and hazards associated with flooding and how to keep themselves safe. Another significant part of my role is working with GIS and supporting our technical specialist.

Tina Starling

Flood Resilience Engagement Advisor

I currently work for the Environment Agency in the Flood Resilience Team and as the Flood Resilience Engagement Advisor I cover Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

As part of my role I work with high risk communities to help them become more resilient to flooding. My area has a huge coast line so I tend to target coastal communities that are at risk of tidal flooding and coastal erosion.

I spend a lot of time with young people in schools to talk about the dangers and how they can be prepared.

Chris Skinner

Research Fellow

Chris Skinner is a research fellow at the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull. He specialises in using computer models of the environment to understand the risks of flooding and climate change. He also runs the SeriousGeoGames Lab that creates games, virtual reality activities, and 360 videos to help people understand environmental issues