Improving our understanding of processes controlling the dynamics of our coastal systems

Aims

BLUEcoast aims to inform coastal management by reducing uncertainties in the prediction of medium-term (years) and long-term (decadal and longer) regional sediment budgets, morphological change and how the coast recovers after sequences of storms.

Approach

Our teams are undertaking observations and experiments to develop modelling tools that will be used to evaluate coastal resilience and scope alternative management options.

BLUEcoast combines the expertise of biologists, coastal engineers, geologists, geographers, and oceanographers with complementary field, laboratory and numerical skills.

Areas

As it is not feasible to quantify all the relevant morphodynamic processes at high spatial resolution across the entire UK coast, we focus on a number of representative coastal systems.

 

 

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Principal Investigators

Dr Laurent Amoudry
Principal Investigator
National Oceanography Centre

laou@noc.ac.uk

Dr Jenny Brown
Co-investigator
National Oceanography Centre

jebro@noc.ac.uk

Work Packages 1 & 2

Prof. Gerd Masselink
Work Package 1 Lead (Perranporth and Slapton Sands)
Plymouth University

gerd.masselink@plymouth.ac.uk

Dr Andres Payo Garcia
Work Package 2 Lead (Suffolk coast, Orford Ness to Hunstanton)
British Geological Survey

agarcia@bgs.ac.uk

Work Packages 3 & 4

Prof. Martin Solan
Work Package 3 Lead (Cartmel Sands and Dengie penninsula)
University of Southampton

M.Solan@soton.ac.uk

Prof. Andy Plater
Work Package 4 Lead (Camber Sands and Minsmere)
University of Liverpool

gg07@liverpool.ac.uk