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Dr. Adam Griffin

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Job Title: Hydrological Statistician

Location: Wallingford

Email: adagri@ceh.ac.uk

Phone: 01491 69 2381

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Biography

Research Interests:

2017-Present: Hydrological Statistician in Hydro-Climate Risks Section.

  • Focus on statistical flood frequency estimation with interest in spatial and temporal trends.
  • Part of FEH development team.
  • Part of NRFA Data Validation team.

2008-2016: PhD in Statistics , MSc in Maths & Stats, and MMATH from University of Warwick

  • Statistical epidemic modelling, with particular interest in agent-based models regarding transient immunity to influenza.
  • Researching properties of limiting distributions concerning conditioning on non-extinction of epidemics.
  • Development of SMC methods for conditional distributions.

Brief CV:

Probability and Statistics: extreme value analysis, conditional distributions (QSDs, Yaglom limits) knowledge of Monte Carlo methods: ABC, SMC, MCMC

Hydrology: Statistical Flood Frequency Analysis

Stochastic epidemiology: compartmental models

R, basic Python and C++

 


Qualifications:

2008-2016: PhD in Statistics , MSc in Maths & Stats, and MMATH from University of Warwick


Professional Membership:

2017-Present: British Hydrological Society

2017-Present: Royal Statistical Society. Environmental Statistics Committee


Publications

Griffin Adam; Young Andy; Stewart Lisa; , 2019, Revising the BFIHOST catchment descriptor to improve UK flood frequency estimates. Hydrology Research

Griffin Adam; Shaw Luke; Stewart Elizabeth; , 2018, Technical note: Approximate Bayesian computation to improve long-return flood estimates using historical data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions

Griffin Adam; Stewart Lisa; Formetta Giuseppe; Kalai Chingka; , 2018, Flood frequency estimation in data-sparse Maharashtra, India. In: 8th Global FRIEND-Water Conference, Beijing, 6-9 Nov 2018

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