Systems Engineering Australia Pty Ltd

ABN 65 075 544 439

Numerical Modelling and Risk Assessment
Coastal · Ocean · Natural Hazards
Design Criteria · Insurance Loss
Consulting · Review · Research

Happy 25th Birthday to SEA in 2021!

Systems Engineering Australia (SEA) was established in 1996 to provide specialised consultancy services in the field of environmental risk assessment, especially where quantitative analyses are required. Our acronym SEA reflects the development of specialised numerical modelling expertise which originated from the coastal and ocean engineering fields and the enlightened 1970s James Cook University multi-disciplinary philosophy. This experience is applied to a wide range of environmental problem solving, including hazards estimation, risk assessment, vulnerability and loss modelling, including the potential long term impacts of sea level rise and climate change.

SEA acknowledges the support from our enthusiastic and trusting clients over the decades, both industry and Government, and also our many professional colleagues across engineering, meteorology and oceanography. We look back with some satisfaction over the opportunities and trust we've been afforded to undertake many seminal studies, leading in important risk model developments and contributing to international forums, especially our links to the World Meteorological Organization's Tropical Cyclone Programme, the Bureau of Meteorology and Engineers Australia's climate change guidance. Most of those published achievements are accessible online via this ResearchGate page.

As a modern society, we still have a long way to go in terms of improving community safety, resilience and sustainable futures through better-informed decision making. Through systematic model development over time, SEA's software suite of real-time (SEAtide), prognostic (SEAsim) and planning support tools (SEArapt) now cover a wide spectrum of extreme wind, wave, storm tide and associated impacts. Our philosophy was also recently showcased in the 2020 virtual ICCE paper to encourage fellow professionals towards more probabilistic modelling approaches.

In addition, our new tropical cyclone wind data product, which consists of 50,000 years of simulated storm tracks and modelled surface winds across Australia, forms a robust probabilistic basis for our risk modelling. Storm maxima or entire time series of wind speed and direction can be supplied for any nominated location. The product has been widely used - prices on application.

More information on SEA's areas of expertise:
Insurance Risk Assessment
Modelling Systems
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