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Michael Allis

Coastal Engineering, Climate hazards and climate adaptation

Allis & Co.

Climate Finance, Research and Data Analysis, Civil engineering (hard and soft engineering solutions), Proposal writing/Report writing, Environmental Impact Assessment, Resilience, Adaptation planning, Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment, Community-Based Adaptation, Coastal Oceanography, coastal inundation and erosion, Coastal Management, Coastal Engineering, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Design, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Risk Management

Dr Michael Allis is an independent consultant specialising in coastal hazards, climate change resilience and adaptation, with 15 years’ experience in engineering and applied science/research roles. Dr Allis has undertaken a wide range of engineering, consulting and engagement projects for clients including local, regional, and central government, development partners, and industry in New Zealand and across 9 Pacific Islands.

Building on an engineering foundation, Dr Allis has experience conducting coastal hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and risk assessments from local to national scale. This includes developing risk management strategies, collaborating with socio-cultural engagement specialists, evaluating options and adaptation pathways, and undertaking implementation planning and review. He has created and communicated robust strategies for managing and adapting to coastal effects of climate change, with particular consideration of pathways that balance community needs and expectations with engineering limitations and hazard constraints

Dr Allis has a growing portfolio of climate change risk and vulnerability assessment activities in the Pacific Islands. This includes national-scale assessments of exposure to future coastal inundation with sea-level rise (Nauru, Kiribati, regional New Zealand), co-developing a Rapid Climate Risk Assessment Framework (Vanuatu), undertaking climate change analysis to inform five-year investment planning (Papua New Guinea), and roles within national vulnerability and adaptation assessments (RMI, Cook Islands). Michael has led risk assessments for project specific infrastructure including seawalls for causeways and roads (Kiribati, Fiji, NZ), airports (Timor-Leste, NZ), and water and sanitation systems (Nauru, FSM, NZ), amongst others.

Dr Allis is a capable science and engineering communicator, with over 50 written client reports and outputs, numerous presentations and workshops.

Recent consultancies are summarised in this profile - my full consultancy record can be provided in my CV by contacting me.
James Lewis

Coastal Engineer

Intercoastal Consulting

Meteorologist, M & E specialist, Knowledge management specialist, GIS specialist, Capacity building specialist, Civil engineering (hard and soft engineering solutions), Disaster Relief/Management specialist, Community trainer specialist, Proposal writing/Report writing, Other, Hydrographic Surveying, Project and Programme Design, Preparation, Implementation and Evaluation, Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environment management, Early Warning Systems, Programme Management, Project managment (planning, designing, implementation and monitoring), Technical Expert providing Environmental/Engineering services to Pacific Islands Countries and Territories for management of coastal and uplands natural resources and built environments., Vulnerability assessment and resilience-based management, Urban resilience, tsunami modelling, natural marine hazard, marine geology, Tsunami and coastal inundation hazards, Sustainable livelihoods & resilience building, Risk Assessment, DRR, and Resiliency Planning, Resilience, Development effectiveness, Community Consultation, Adaptation planning, vulnerability asses, Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment, National Adaptation Planning, Community-Based Adaptation, Coastal Oceanography, coastal inundation and erosion, Coastal Management, Coastal engineering, coastal processes, marine ecology, numerical modelling, Coastal Engineering, Climate change, climate science communication, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Design, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change / adaptaion policy and strategy, Climate Risk Management

James Lewis, Director of Intercoastal Consulting, is a certified practicing civil engineer with over 15 years of experience specialising in coastal engineering throughout Australasia and across the Pacific. He has a broad knowledge of coastal protection design, integrated coastal management and surf amenity. James’s skills extend outside the office where he has led large-scale metocean deployments, analysing the data captured in the field to calibrate numerical models used to inform coastal design.

He has focussed the last 10 years of his career on working in Small Island Developing States (SIDs) in climate change adaptation, concerned primarily with developing climate-resilient coastal protection. James aspires to see the design phase through to implementation; having supported procurement, and contracting and undertaken construction supervision on large projects in remote locations. He aims to provide value and support through the complete project lifecycle including the social, financial and institutional aspects of these projects, endeavoring to understand the administrative, governmental and funding mechanisms specific to each country and community and their relation to the delivery of a successful project.

Using his knowledge of coastal engineering, the ocean and the environment, James’ primary endeavor is to assist coastal communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.