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 at noc.ac.uk

Dr Jenny Brown  
Co-investigator  
National Oceanography Centre

jebro at noc.ac.uk

Work Packages 1 & 2

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

gerd.masselink at plymouth.ac.uk

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

agarcia at bgs.ac.uk

Work Packages 3 & 4

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

M.Solan at soton.ac.uk

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

gg07 at liverpool.ac.uk