Systems and Control
CRES
Environmental Science

 

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The Centre for Research on Environmental Systems (CRES) was established as a major research arm of the Institute of Environmental and Biological Sciences when the latter was set up in 1987. The Centre was conceived as a focus of attention for the wide variety of research on different aspects of the physical and biological environment. Since its conception, the centre has been joined by the Statistics Research group from the Mathematics Department, together with the control group from the Engineering Department. Within the recently established Faculty of Science and Technology, the Centre continues to stimulate inter-disciplinary research at Lancaster University and elsewhere.

• Department of Environmental Science
  • Systems and Control Group (Prof. Peter Young)
    Time series modelling, forecasting and control of environmental and biological systems.

  • Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics Group
    Understanding and predicting flow pathways and transport processes in aquatic environments.

• Department of Engineering

  • Control Research (Dr James Taylor)
    System identification and control theory, with applications in robotics, transport and the environment.

• Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  • Statistics Research
    Generic methods in statistics, with a range of application areas in the environmental, medical, physical, and social sciences.

• The Centre develops the CAPTAIN toolbox for non-stationary time series analysis and forecasting.