Welcome

I’m a Senior Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. I build computational models and data science pipelines to study environmental change and hydrometeorological extremes. I’ve taught a range of undergraduate and master’s courses on environmental science topics, as well as computer programming for data analysis and model development.

I received my PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, where I worked with Wouter Buytaert and Ana Mijic on coupled modelling systems to study the impact of large-scale land use change on regional water resources in northern India. My external examiner was Ross Woods.

At the University of Oxford I work with Louise Slater on nonstationary methods to understand and predict fluvial floods. For example, a current project aims to improve decadal flood forecasts by exploiting predictable components of the climate system in a dynamical-statistical modelling framework.

I’m the lead developer of several open-source projects for environmental modelling which have been widely used by the community.

Simon Moulds
Skillful decadal flood prediction Simon Moulds, Louise J. Slater, Nick J. Dunstone, Doug M. Smith. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023.
Highlighted in AGU Eos Modeling the Impacts of Urban Flood Risk Management on Social Inequality Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert, Michael R. Templeton, Ishmael Kanu. Water Resources Research, 2021.
Highlighted in Nature Climate Change and AGU Eos A spatio-temporal land use and land cover reconstruction for India from 1960–2010 Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert, Ana Mijic. Scientific Data, 2018. Including Farmer Irrigation Behavior in a Sociohydrological Modeling Framework With Application in North India Jimmy O'Keeffe, Simon Moulds, Emma Bergin, Nick Brozović, Ana Mijic, Wouter Buytaert. Water Resources Research, 2018.
Editor's Choice Award Glacial melt content of water use in the tropical Andes Wouter Buytaert, Simon Moulds, Luis Acosta, Bert De Bièvre, Carlos Olmos, Marcos Villacis, Carolina Tovar, Koen M. J. Verbist. Environmental Research Letters, 2017.

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lulcc

A framework for spatially-explicit land use change modelling in R.

Code
jules-mosart

A set of tools to couple JULES with MOSART-WM, a routing module.

Code
aquacrop-gridded

A Python implementation of FAO AquaCrop which runs over a spatial grid.

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Latest News

  • Our paper on decadal flood prediction is highlighted in AGU Eos.
  • Our paper on decadal flood prediction is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
  • Our review of hybrid forecasting in the hydrological sciences is available as a preprint.
  • Our paper on geographic inequalities in household drinking water use in Accra is published in Population and Environment.
  • Our paper on in situ groundwater monitoring to support drought early warning is published in Water Resources Research.
  • Our paper on sachet water consumption in Ghana is published in PLOS One.
  • Our paper on parameterizing JULES for hydrological modelling in the tropical Andes is published in Hydrological Sciences Journal.
  • Our paper on flood risk inequality is highlighted in AGU Eos.
  • I started my new position at the University of Oxford.
  • Our paper on flood risk inequality is highlighted in Nature Climate Change.