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Globally and Nationally, the transport of gravel to and along the coast is vital to the development of marine and freshwater habitats. At the same time sediment transport processes incur substantial economic expenditure in terms of river and coastal maintenance. Understanding how gravel/shingle is transported is therefore fundamental to the sustainable management of river and coastal environments. Specifically improvements in the understanding of sediment transport processes are vital to the reliable prediction of sediment transport rates. This EPSRC funded project, seeks to develop new coarse sediment tracing technologies applicable to both littoral and fluvial environments, together with supporting statistical theory, that will significantly improve the field-based estimation of sediment transport rates.
This grant was awarded under the EPSRC C.E.W.E. programme to the Department of Geography and the School of Ocean & Earth Sciences at the University of Southampton and to the Department of Geography, University of Lancaster. The interdisciplinary project involves work on the development of coarse sediment tracing technology that will permit intra-event tracking of significant numbers of particles in quasi real time, permitting more direct coupling with hydrodynamic measurements. The project is directed by Dr David Sear (Geography), Prof. Mike Collins (SOC) and Prof. Paul Carling (Lancaster). The project enjoys close collaboration with the end user community via a steering group composed of members of industry and governmental organisations including the Environment Agency, New Forest and Isle of Wight District Councils, HR Wallingford, WS Ocean Systems and Phobox Electronics.
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Contact Details For further information contact Dr David Sear or email me at d.sear@soton.ac.uk