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Site
Liverpool
Email
benp at noc.ac.uk
Biography

My PhD is funded by NERC Understanding the Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Doctoral Training Partnership and I also receive CASE funding through Cardigan Bay Coastal Group. In my PhD, I am developing a coastal evolution model (COVE) for applications to gravel barrier coasts, and developing a modelling approach to determine future storm impacts (erosion, flood damages etc.) under future beach conditions. Prior to my PhD I obtained a first class BSc (Hons) Geography and published a paper from my MPhil project using a storm impact model (XBeach) to determine the importance of beach morphology in controlling the wave overtopping.

I have also delivered training in the XBeach model to local government officials and other stakeholders with an interest in coastal management in two workshops entitled "Monitoring and Modelling for Coastal Zone Management: Conference and Technical Workshop" in St Vincent & the Grenadines and Grenada. This work was funded through the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme.

September 2015 - October 2016: MPhil, Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply project

November 2018 - February 2019: XBeach Modeller, Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme

October 2016 - : PhD Student, NERC Understanding the Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Doctoral Training Partnership

Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/geography-and-planning/research/adaptation-…

Physical and biological dynamic coastal processes and their role in coastal recovery (BLUE-coast) – Associated PhD student

BLUEcoast combines the expertise of biologists, coastal engineers, geologists, geographers, and oceanographers with complementary field, laboratory and numerical skills, to understand the processes controlling the dynamics of our coastal systems.

Using case study sites across England we aim to inform shoreline 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 storm events. 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 different coastal systems representing:

  • Exposed (high energy) sandy coast with rocky headlands (SW England).
  • Partially-exposed (medium-wave energy) sand-shingle coast, with soft rock cliffs and subtidal sediments (E England, Suffolk coast).
  • Mixed sand-mud coasts and estuaries (NW England, Morecambe Bay; & E England, Essex estuaries).

Our aim is to develop an integrated modelling tool that will be used to evaluate coastal resilience and scope alternative management options along managed coastlines with critical Energy infrastructure (SE England, Dungeness foreland & E England, Minsmere nature reserve).

Ocean modelling and monitoring for Caribbean Small Island Developing States

http://www.cmeprogramme.org/projects/ocean-modelling-and-monitoring