Nick Lyness Wessex Flood & Coast Risk Manager, Environment Agency, Rivers House, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4YS T: 01278 484770 E: nick.lyness@environment-agency.gov.uk For the Environment Agency there is something in the adage about “adversity is the motherhood of invention” as we faced an impossible task of reconciling the widening financial gap between the need …
Category: Delegate Notes – Day 1, Session 1
Feb 04
Shifting Shores – Practical Lessons from a Decade of Coastal Adaptation
Phil Dyke Coast and Marine Adviser, National Trust T: 07766 511323 E: phil.dyke@nationaltrust.org.uk Web: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shiftingshores The first piece of land given to the Trust in 1895 was five acres of gorse-covered cliff top at Dinas Oleu overlooking Cardigan Bay in Wales. Today the Trust cares for almost a tenth of the coastline in England, Wales …
Feb 04
The winter storms of 2014: oceanography and coastal impacts
Gerd Masselink Coastal Processes Research Group, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth T: 01752 585902 E: g.masselink@plymouth.ac.uk During the past winter, the southwest coast of England experienced an unprecedented sequence of exceptionally energetic wave conditions with maximum wave heights frequently exceeding 10 m. According to the Met Office, the storm Hercules on 6 …
Feb 04
The 2013 North Sea tidal surge – lessons and implications for future management of the natural environment
Tim Collins Natural England Principal Specialist – Coasts & Water T: 0300 060 0754 E: tim.collins@naturalengland.org.uk W: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england Last winter’s tidal surge, floods and storms had a substantive impact on the natural environment. The tidal surge led to the inundation of more than two thousand hectares of SSSI, through both the overtopping and breaching of …
