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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Protecting and making use of our coasts is extremely important
The Team National collaboration and world-class expertise
BLUEcoast combines the expertise of biologists, coastal engineers, geologists, geographers, and oceanographers with complementary field, laboratory and numerical skills.
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