UCL Department of Geography

Coastal & Estuarine Research Unit - Some recent publications

Forthcoming

2012

Cea L & French JR (2012) Bathymetric error estimation for the calibration and validation of estuarine hydrodynamic models. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 100, 124-132.

Spencer T, Friess DA, Möller I, Garbutt RA & French JR (2012) Surface elevation change in natural and re-created intertidal habitats, eastern England, UK, with particular reference to Freiston Shore. Wetlands Ecology and Management 20, 9-33.

2011

Burningham H & French JR (2011) Seabed dynamics in a large coastal embayment: 180 years of morphological change in the outer Thames estuary. Hydrobiologia 672, 105-119.

French JR & Burningham H (2011) Coastal geomorphology. Progress in Physical Geography 35, 535-545

Knight J & Burningham H (2011). Boulder dynamics on an Atlantic-facing rock coastline, northwest Ireland. Marine Geology 283, 56-65.

Knight J & Burningham H (2011) Sand dune morphodynamics and prehistoric human occupation in NW Ireland. In Brown AG, Basell LS, Butzer KW (Eds.). Geoarchaeology, Climate Change, Sustainability. Geological Society of America Special Papers 476, 81-92.

Richards EG & Burningham H (2011). Hippophae rhamnoides on a coastal dune system: a thorny issue? Journal of Coastal Conservation 15, 73-85

2010

Hanson SE, Nicholls RJ, Balson P, Brown I, French JR, Spencer T & Sutherland WJ (2010) Capturing coastal geomorphological change within regional integrated assessment: an outcome-driven fuzzy logic approach. Journal of Coastal Research 26, 831-42.

Barrett-Mold C & Burningham H (2010). Contrasting ecology of prograding coastal dunes on the northwest coast of Ireland. Journal of Coastal Conservation 14, 81-90.

French JR (2010) Critical perspectives on the evaluation and optimisation of complex numerical models of estuary hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35, 174-189

2009

French JR & Burningham H (2009) Coastal geomorphology: trends and challenges. Progress in Physical Geography 33, 117-29.

Burningham H & French JR (2009) Seabed mobility in the greater Thames estuary. London, Crown Estate. ISBN: 978-1-906410-09-4.

Burningham H & French JR (2009) Historical seabed mobility in an outer estuary - sea basin environment. Journal of Coastal Research SI56, 589-93

French JR & Burningham H (2009) Restoration of an eroded estuarine foreshore using cohesive dredge material, Orwell estuary, UK. Journal of Coastal Research SI56, 1444-8

Barrett-Mold C, Burningham H & French JR (2009) Stratigraphic insights from sedimentary peels of littoral estuarine depositional systems. Journal of Coastal Research SI56, 584-8

Knight J, Burningham H & Barrett-Mold C (2009) The geomorphology and controls on development of a boulder-strewn platform, NW Ireland. Journal of Coastal Research SI56, 1646-50

2008

Burningham H (2008) Contrasting geomorphic responses to structural controls: the Loughros estuaries, northwest Ireland. Geomorphology 97, 300-20.

French JR, Burningham H & Benson T (2008) Tidal and meteorological forcing of suspended sediment flux in a muddy mesotidal estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 31, 843-59.

French JR (2008) Hydrodynamic modelling of estuarine flood defence realignment as an adaptive management response to sea-level rise. Journal of Coastal Research 24(2B), 1-12.

Williams A, Townend I, French JR, Reeve DR, Whitehouse R, Wang Z, Morris K, & Surendran S (2008) Development and demonstration of systems-based estuary simulator: EstSim. Proceedings 43rd Flood and Coastal Management Conference. 1-10.

Burningham H & French JR (2008) Historical changes in the seabed of the greater Thames estuary. London, Crown Estate: ISBN: 978-1-906410-04-9.

Parrott A & Burningham H (2008) Opportunities for, and constraints to, the use of intertidal agri-environment schemes for sustainable coastal defence: a case study of the Blackwater Estuary, southeast England. Ocean and Coastal Management 51, 352-67

2007

Benson T & French JR (2007) InSiPID: a new low-cost instrument for in situ particle size measurements in estuarine and coastal waters. Journal of Sea Research 58, 167-188.

Burningham H & French JR (2007) Morphodynamics and sedimentology of mixed-sediment inlets. Journal of Coastal Research SI50, 710-15.

Knight J & Burningham H (2007) Coastal morphodynamics and prehistoric human occupation, County Donegal, NW Ireland. Journal of Coastal Research SI50, 104-8.

2006

French JR (2006) Tidal marsh sediment trapping efficiency and resilience to environmental change: exploratory modelling of tidal, sea-level and sediment supply forcing in predominantly allochthonous systems. Marine Geology 235, 119-36.

Cea L, French JR & Vaquez-Cendon ME (2006) Numerical modelling of the tidal flow in complex estuaries, including turbulence: an unstructured finite volume solver and experimental validation. Numerical Methods in Engineering 76, 1909-32.

Burningham H & French JR (2006) Morphodynamic behaviour of a mixed sand-gravel ebb-tidal delta: Deben estuary, Suffolk, UK. Marine Geology 225, 23-44.

French JR & 35 other authors (2006). Envisioning the future of the Gulf Coast. Final Report and findings from Technical Group. New Orleans, America's Wetland/BP, 11pp.

2005

Burningham H & Cooper JAG (2005) Morphology and historical evolution of north-east Atlantic coastal deposits: the west Donegal estuaries. Journal of Coastal Research SI41, 148-59.

French JR, Benson T & Burningham H (2005) Morphodynamics and sediment flux in the Blyth estuary, Suffolk, UK: conceptual modelling and high resolution monitoring. In: DM Fitzgerald & J Knight (eds.) Morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of estuaries. Springer-Verlag, 143-71.

Burningham H (2005) Morphodynamic behaviour of a high energy coastal inlet: Loughros Beg, Donegal, Ireland. In: DM Fitzgerald & J Knight (eds.) Morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of estuaries. Springer-Verlag, 215-42.

Barker MJ, Gruber SH, Newman SP & Schluessel V (2005) Spatial and ontogenetic variation in growth of nursery-bound juvenile lemon sharks, Negaprion brevirostris: a comparison of two age-assigning techniques. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 72, 343-55.

Barker MJ & Schluessel V (2005) Managing global shark fisheries: suggestions for prioritizing management strategies. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 15, 325-47.

2004

French JR (ed.) (2004) Critical concepts: Coastal geomorphology. London, Routledge, 566pp.