Coast-R Webinar – Sharing and building on climate adaptation solutions using DAFNI

Coast - R Banner image with title of the webinar - Sharing and building on climate adaptation solutions using DAFNI

2-3pm, Weds 25 February 2026, online

February’s Webinar ‘Sharing and building on climate adaptation solutions using DAFNI’ saw Dr. Tom Kirkham and Dr. Kyle Stevenson of the STFC discussing the DAFNI (Data Analytics for National Infrastructure) platform, explaining how it is being used within climate adaptation, highlighting opportunities for people to get involved:

The webinar was chaired by the Coast-R Network’s Prof Stuart McLelland. Stuart is Deputy Director of the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull and Professor of Water Science, conducting research focused on the experimental modelling of rivers and coasts, and particularly understanding how climate change impacts on these environments.

View the Webinar Recording

Meet the speakers

Dr Tom Kirkham

Tom is the Science Lead for DAFNI. He works across the programme, building on his previous roles at the Hartree Centre and Innovate UK to develop partnerships and collaborations. His background is in distributed computing and integrating complex data into digital twins.

Dr Kyle Stevenson

Kyle is the DAFNI User liaison lead and is a computer scientist with background in particle physics. Kyle has worked across national labs for a number of years and has significant experience in computational modelling. Kyle leads the DAFNI teams work in supporting users of the platform when port data and computational models to the infrastructure.