Research
Ongoing research projects
- Environmental history and morphodynamics of the west Donegal coast
- Identifying coastal archaeology using multispectral satellite imagery of the intertidal zone: a pilot study [English Heritage]
- Historical evolution of the greater Thames estuary [The Crown Estate - Caird Research Fellowship]
- Morphodynamics of mixed sediment inlets and tidal deltas
- Characterisation and prediction of large-scale coastal geomorphological behaviour [Environment Agency]
- Development and demonstration of systems based estuary simulators (EstSim) [Defra/Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Defence R&D Programme]
Broader research interests
- Late-Holocene climate-forcing and human occupation of coastal dunes in northwest Ireland
- Coastal GIS and the analysis of historical shoreline and shoreface behaviour
- Estuary-coast interaction in the vicinity of tidal inlets
- Meso-tidal, high-wave energy beaches, sediment flux, and storm-driven beach-dune morphodynamics
- Coastal conservation and sustaining naturally functioning systems

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