UCL Department of Geography

Coastal & Estuarine Research Unit

Welcome to the Coastal & Estuarine Research Unit home page. CERU is part of the Environmental Modelling research grouping within the Department of Geography at UCL and carries out research and consultancy relating to coastal and estuarine processes, modelling and management. Our research has encompassed locations as diverse as eastern Taiwan, central America and the south Pacific, although we are currently working mainly on the east coast of the UK and on the west coast of Ireland. Recent sponsors include Crown Estate, DEFRA, English Heritage, NERC, EPSRC, Environment Agency, Harwich Haven Authority, and the Tyndall Centre.

Our main interests and expertise include:

Coastal and estuarine processes
Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic modelling
Climate change and coastal morphodynamics
Tidal wetland processes and restoration
Flood defence and coastal protection
Analysis of historical coastal change
Behavioural system modelling
Coastal applications of remote sensing
Specialised environmental instrumentation

PostDoctoral Coastal Sediment Systems Modelling position (Closing date 7 Feb 2012): are currently advertising a 42 month PDRA position in connection with a major new NERC-funded project on Integrated Coastal Sediment Systems.This project is scheduled to start in February/March 2012 and UCL's role is to develop a new systems modelling framework and to lead one of the 4 main workpackages, aimed at developing a new generation of meso-scale geomorphological models able to predict coastal change at timescales of decades to centuries. Further details are available at http://tinyurl.com/coastalsystems and informal enquiries may be made to Professor Jon French (j.french@ucl.ac.uk).

CERU staff also contribute to a range of MSc programmes at UCL, including MSc Environmental Modelling, MSc Climate Change, and MSc Aquatic Science.

For further information, contact Jon French or Helene Burningham.

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