Research
Research Interests
Current research focuses on modelling and monitoring in support of coastal decision-making. Research expertise also lies in coastal geomorphology and environmental change over a range of timescales, including: exploring the sediment record of past coastal change; use of particle size analysis in estuaries and lagoon as a tool for environmental reconstruction; and interpreting the submarine record of coastal change in response to accelerated sea-level rise.
Research groups
Research grants
Enhancing the climate resilience of the energy network sector: Forecasting the risk and vulnerability of electricity transmission towers to erosion
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
June 2021 - November 2022
Resilient Coasts: optimising co-benefit solutions (CoOpt)
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2021 - July 2025
Cross-disciplinary research for Discovery Science
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2023 - March 2023
Assuring safe port navigation by applying machine learning (ML) to wave data for monitoring changes in nearshore bathymetry.
MARRI UK (UK)
October 2020 - September 2022
LCEI Extension NON RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (UK)
January 2020 - September 2023
Erosion hazards in a changing climate: making inland communities more resilient
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
February 2019 - March 2021
Impact of climate change on the water cycle and ecosystem functioning at the river basin scale
UK-INDIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INITIATIVE (UK)
November 2007 - March 2014
Training Workshop for practicioners to discuss the economic valuation manual for regulating services
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) (SWITZERLAND)
December 2010 - May 2011
Global Eco Innovation
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (UK)
October 2015 - December 2019
Future vulnerability of evolving barrier coastlines - the impacts for flood risk management
PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (UK)
September 2016 - February 2020
Physical and biological dynamic coastal processes and their role in coastal recovery (BLUE-coast)
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2016 - January 2022
EPSRC Institutional Sponsorship 2016
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2016 - March 2017
Urban and Community Transformation KE Fellow appointment
N8 INDUSTRY INNOVATION FORUM (N8 IIF) (UK)
September 2015 - January 2016
Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE)
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2007 - October 2010
Salt Intrusion into Estuaries Related to Global Climate Change.
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (USA)
April 2014 - March 2018
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, NATIONAL GRID COMPANY PLC (UK)
October 2012 - March 2017
The evolution and landscape history of Dungeness Foreland.
ENGLISH HERITAGE
October 2002 - March 2004
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
April 2012 - September 2015
Testing the apatite depletion hypothesis for early Holocene ecosystem acidification using the lake sediment record at Krakenes, Norway
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2008 - November 2009
Integrated COASTal sediments system (iCOAST)
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE SOUTHAMPTON (UK)
February 2012 - January 2016
Sustainable river catchments for the South East (SURCaSE) Project LIFE04 ENV/UK/807
SOUTH EAST ENGLAND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UK)
August 2005 - October 2008
Aggregate extraction in the Ribble Valley.
ENGLISH HERITAGE
March 2005 - September 2007
New approaches to managing ecosystem services in the marine environment
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2007 - February 2010
The Mkuze Wetland, South Africa - understanding the system and establishing baselines and recent trends.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (UK)
July 2001 - September 2001
Sandscaping for Mitigating Coastal Flood and Erosion Risk: Dungeness Nuclear Energy Infrastructure
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2014 - April 2015
Celtic Seas Partnership
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2012 - March 2017
Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply (ARCOES)
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2011 - October 2017
Linking the structural and optical properties of biogenic silica.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
July 2004 - September 2004
Research collaborations
Hodgson D
NERC-funded collaboration on CoFEE project.
Barham L
Collaborative research on Luangwa Valley Project
Frid C
NERC-ESRC TRansdisciplinary Seminar Series
Kidd S
ESRC-NERC Transdisciplinary Seminar Series