At the recent budget it was announced we would have a settlement of £5.2bn capital funding for the next 6 years, from April 2021 to March 2027, to better protect 336,000 properties. This includes both homes and non-residential properties and is a change from the...
“This briefing provides an update on key coastal research and development funded and steered by the Joint Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme. The ’Joint Programme’ is run by EA and Defra for Natural Resources Wales,...
SCOPAC and the SCG have achieved significant benefits across the region by working together for over 30 years. However, there are now a number of increasing pressures on coastal management which are threatening the wider sector. These include; climate change and sea...
SurgeWatch was founded when researchers noted that coastal floods were not systematically documented, with no monitoring system in place to record whether extreme sea level events progress to coastal flood events, and what occurred in terms of inundation extent and...
The futurecoast project was commissioned by Defra in 2002 to support the Shoreline Management Review process. It collated and assessed available knowledge on past change at different scales, and described the way in which our coastline might be expected to evolve in...
Coastal Partners’ coastal engineers Sacha Neill and Dr. Samantha Cope were interviewed on Hayling Island by presenter Ellie Harrison where they demonstrated how the tracer pebbles help to build an understanding of longshore drift patterns along the Hayling beach...
This 25-minute film was produced in 2016, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Lyme Regis Museum expansion. It was made by Richard Edmunds and a small team in conjunction with sixth form Geography and Photography students from the local Woodroffe School....
Andy Bradbury, who died suddenly on 6 August 2014, was well known to many UK coastal engineers as Director of the Channel Coastal Observatory based at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, Visiting Professor in Engineering and Environment at University of...
The SCOPAC “Adapting to Coastal Change Along England’s Southern Shorelines (ACCESS)” launch was held at the National Oceanography Centre on the 18th November 2011. The morning event was attended by approximately 60 delegates comprising engineers, coastal scientists,...
SCOPAC hosted the CIRIA Beach Management Manual launch event at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, on the 15th October 2010. The morning was attended by approximately 50 officers, including coastal engineers and scientists. Speakers included Stefan Laeger...
