Estuaries Research Programme Dissemination Day
During 2007 ABPmer assisted the dissemination workshop for two Defra / Environment Agency Joint R&D Programme research projects. The gathering took place before the Defra Flood and Coastal Management Conference in York with a number of ABPmer staff involved in the day. Two projects within the Estuaries Research Programme Phase 2 were disseminated with speakers delivering presentations on various aspects of the projects.
Project descriptions are shown below:
FD2107: Development of Estuary Morphological Models
Description: The project has developed modelling approaches to indicate likely estuarine morphologies 50 years hence, and thence changes in flood risks. Typically there is an underlying “Bottom-Up” model of the hydrodynamics, and of sediment transport in some cases. These are combined with varied approaches to morphological change: direct continuity for sediment; application of regime constraints; extrapolation from inferred cumulative forcing of morphological change; analytically inferred relations for simplified estuary forms. Applications of one or more approaches to eight UK estuaries have been compared.
FD2117: Development and Demonstration of Systems Based Estuary Simulators
Description: The EstSim Project has investigated the systems-based approach as an alternative yet complementary methodology to other research within the Estuaries Research Programme. The research has applied a systems-based approach to estuary environments in order to extend the ability to simulate estuary response to change. One of the aims of the system-based approach developed within EstSim is to provide a qualitative framework to understand and explain the behaviour of geomorphological features within estuaries, the linkages that exist and the responses to change.
The event was successful with over 40 practitioners from the fields of estuarine morphology, processes and management attending.
Web links:
www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/estsim/EstSim.html
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/ceru/estsim
http://www.estuary-guide.net
For further information contact:
Alun Williams
awilliams@abpmer.co.uk
