Seminar 9th March 2016 4 p.m. Nuffield Theatre, Room 1129, University of Southampton
Reduced-complexity modelling of morphological evolution over management scales: Formby to Fleetwood
Dr James Sutherland
HR Wallingford
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- https://mscecesoton.wordpress.com/coastal-seminar-series/semester-2-2015/
- Submitter
- Luke Goater
You are warmly invited to Dr James Sutherland (HR Wallingford) talk as part of the Coastal Seminar series at University of Southampton with the title: “Reduced-complexity modelling of morphological evolution over management scales: Formby to Fleetwood”, which is taking place WEDNESDAY 9th Mar 2016 at 16.00 at Nuffield Theatre (6/1129). No registration needed.
This talk will demonstrate the modelling approach followed within the iCOASST project (Integrating Coastal Sediment Systems). The iCOASST project will help forecast what the UK’s coastline will look like in the future, up to 100 years’ time. This four-year project brings together a number of UK universities, research laboratories and leading consultants, to develop new methods that will characterise and forecast long-term changes to coastal sediment systems. This work is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and is partnered by the Environment Agency (EA), who will use these methods to improve long-term flood and erosion risk management. We have developed a linked set of reduced complexity morphological models (known as a composition) which are coupled to allow two-way exchanges of sediment fluxes during run-time and which cover the coastline and inner shelf from Formby Point to Blackpool in Liverpool Bay, as shown below.
More information on the Coastal Seminar Series can be found on the Coastal Seminar Series page here:
https://mscecesoton.wordpress.com/coastal-seminar-series/semester-2-2015/