MSc ECE student Katie Corbett reports on the van Oord Workshop / Seminar

Katie Corbett reports: On Wednesday 19th June, two engineers visited the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to talk to us about their experience of working as coastal engineers for Van Oord. Van Oord is an international marine contracting and engineering firm, undertaking turnkey projects and specialising in offshore wind energy, dredging and offshore oil and gas.… Read More MSc ECE student Katie Corbett reports on the van Oord Workshop / Seminar

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MSc ECE fieldtrip to Hengistbury Head and Christchurch Bay – by Michalis Karas

MSc ECE 2018/19 student Michalis Karas reports on the SOES3014/CENV6126 fieldtrip to Hengistbury Head and Christchurch Bay: On Monday 5th of November a field trip was organised to introduce a variety of coastal environments, both natural and engineered. A group of MSc students from Coastal Sediment Dynamics and Coastal Morphodyamics courses visited the area… Read More MSc ECE fieldtrip to Hengistbury Head and Christchurch Bay – by Michalis Karas

17/11/201816/11/2018 Dr Hachem KassemLeave a comment

Dr David Harlow’s retirement seminar: Bournemouth Beach Replenishment – 1970 to 2016”

Prof Robert Nicholls reports: Dr. David Harlow (Coast Protection Manager, Bournemouth Borough Council) presented the nearly 50 year history of the Bournemouth Beach Nourishment Project on Tuesday 20 February 2018. His talk, entitled “Bournemouth Beach Replenishment, 1970 to 2016” looked at the history of Bournemouth as a tourist resort in the early 19th Century to… Read More Dr David Harlow’s retirement seminar: Bournemouth Beach Replenishment – 1970 to 2016”

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Ben Flett reports on SOES 6011 Modelling Coastal Processes Boatwork Campaign

By ECE student Ben Flett (2016-2017) The ECE students as well as a cohort of Oceanography MSc students have recently begun the intensive short course in Modelling Coastal Processes. Within this course the use of extremely powerful modelling software has been utilised to propose a dredging channel in the Southampton Solent through an area known… Read More Ben Flett reports on SOES 6011 Modelling Coastal Processes Boatwork Campaign

07/03/201707/03/2017 Dr Hachem KassemLeave a comment

New understanding of rip currents could help to save lives

This is a press-release for a new paper – Wave breaking patterns control rip current flow regimes and surf zone retention, published by members of the coastal group which can be accessed here. Research by the Universities of Southampton and Plymouth has found a new link between breaking waves and the hazard posed by rip currents. The… Read More New understanding of rip currents could help to save lives

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ECE student Rory Findlay on Prof Ken Pye’s Seminar

Last week we welcomed guest speaker Professor Ken Pye to Southampton for a talk about various successful (and unsuccessful) beach and dune nourishment projects throughout Europe and around the coast of the UK. As an ex-Professor at the Universities of London and Reading as well as the owner of an established consultancy firm (Kenneth Pye… Read More ECE student Rory Findlay on Prof Ken Pye’s Seminar

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