| Title |
Grant holders |
Duration |
Amount |
Source |
| 2011 | | | | |
| Coastal cliff erosion in Cornwall |
G. Masselink and P.E. Russell |
2011 - 2014 |
£60,000 |
European Social Fund and Great Western Research |
| Adaptation and resilience of coastal energy supply |
G. Masselink and P.E. Russell (with A. Plater of University of Liverpool) |
2011 - 2013 |
£150,000 + £50,000 studentship |
EPSRC |
| Barrier dynamics experiment II (BARDEX II) |
G. Masselink, D.C. Conley and M.J. Austin |
2011 - 2012 |
£250,000 |
EU FP7 |
| Coarse sediment dynamics of rivers rising on Dartmoor National Park: implications for conservation and rural land management |
P. Ganderton (with P. Downs, School of Geography) |
2011 - 2012 |
£12,090 |
Seale-Hayne Educational Trust |
| 2010 | | | | |
| Dynamics of Rips and Implications for Beach Safety - DRIBS |
G. Masselink and P.E. Russell |
2010 - 2013 |
£495,232 |
NERC |
| New Understanding and Prediction of Storm Impacts on Gravel Beaches - NUPSIG |
G. Masselink, P.E. Russell and M.A.Davidson |
2010 - 2013 |
£465,535 |
EPSRC |
| Postgraduate Travel Grant - ICCE 2010 |
A. Ruiz de Alegria Arzaburu |
2010 |
£600 |
Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 2009 | | | | |
| Turbulence, sediment stratification and altered resuspension under waves - TSSAR Waves |
D.C. Conley and W.A.M. Nimmo Smith |
2009 - 2012 |
£361,680 |
NERC |
| Groundwater seepage through a gravel barrier: implications for coastal erosion, saline-freshwater mixing and nutrient dispersal |
M.J. Austin and G. Masselink |
2009 - 2011 |
£11,820 |
Seale-Hayne Educational Trust |
| Development and pre-operational validation of upgraded GMES Marine Core Services and capabilities (MyOcean) |
G.I. Shapiro |
2009 - 2011 |
€31,190 |
EU FP7 |
| Development of a resource assessment tool for tidal power generation devices: regional modelling |
D.C. Conley |
2009 - 2011 |
£59,200 |
Great Western Research and International Power |
| 2008 | | | | |
| Morphological impacts and coastal risks induced by extreme storm events (MICORE) |
J. Williams and L. Esteves |
2008 - 2011 |
£186,000 |
EU FP7 |
| Beach change over individual wave cycles on sand and gravel beaches |
G. Masselink and P.E. Russell |
2008 - 2010 |
£76,197 |
NERC |
| Barrier Dynamics Experiment BARDEX: European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Integrated Infrastucture Initiative HYDRALAB III |
J. Williams, G. Masselink, P. Russell, and others |
2008 |
£200,000 |
EU |
| 2007 | | | | |
| Wave hub impacts on seabed and shoreline change WHISSP |
J. Williams, Davidson, M., L. Esteves, P. Ganderton, D.A. Huntley, K. Kingston, G. Masselink, J. Miles, W.A.M. Nimmo Smith and P.E. Russell |
2007 - 2010 |
£560,000 |
SWRDA |
| Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events - CoFEE |
J. Williams, L. Esteves and G. Masselink |
2007 - 2010 |
£180,000 |
NERC |
| Wave-by-wave bed-level changes at the beachface of gravel and sand beaches. |
I.L. Turner (University of New South Wales, Australia) with P.E. Russell and G. Masselink |
2007 - 2010 |
AUD 304,300 |
Australian Research Council |
| 2006 | | | | |
| Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Change (SESAME) |
G.I. Shapiro |
2006 - 2011 |
€185,000 |
EU FP6 |
Funded Projects - Recently Completed
| Title |
Grant holders |
Duration |
Amount |
Source |
| Maximising the use of x-band radar images to extract hydrodynamic and morphologic information in nearshore areas |
J.J. Williams |
2008 |
£1,300 |
Geography PuP Fund |
| Estuarine Situation in Devon and Cornwall: the Role of Agricultural Land Use |
R. Gehrels, W. Blake and G. Masselink |
2008 |
£9,360 |
Seale-Hayne Educational Trust |
| Research-led investigations of coastal processes |
Esteves and Williams |
2007 - 2008 |
£7,700 |
Funded by SSB TQEF Research-informed teaching initiative and CETL in Experiential Learnin |
| The Plymouth Student Scientist |
Gresty, K. Kingston and Auburn |
2007-2009 |
£55,000 |
Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund |
| LEACOAST II - Large scale morphodynamic impacts of segmented shore-parallel breakwaters on coasts and beaches |
M.A. Davidson with Civil Engineering |
2006 - 2009 |
£345,203 |
EPSRC |
| RF PEBL - A Risk-based Framework for Predicting Long-term Beach Evolution |
M.A. Davidson with Civil Engineering |
2006 - 2009 |
£423,123 |
EPSRC |
| Classification and risk assessment of UK beaches |
P.E. Russell and G. Masselink |
2006 - 2009 |
£60,000 |
RNLI and HEIF2 |
| The Marine Sciences Forum |
O'Hare and and Pannel |
2006 |
£3,000 |
University of Plymouth Teaching Fellowship Award |
| The role of the beach step in swash zone and nearshore sediment transport on a steep gravel beach |
M. Austin and D. Buscombe |
2005 |
£0.3 |
The British Geomorphological Research Group |
| Avon Estuary siltation project |
W. Blake, R. Gehrels and G. Masselink |
2005–2007 |
£12,600 |
South Hams Society |
| Development of innovative instrumentation to measure high frequency bed level changes in the swash zone |
P. Russell |
2005 |
£6,500 |
EPSRC overseas travel grant |
| Development of new instrumentation at the University of New South Wales, Australia, to measure swash zone bathymetry to support participation in international research programme (SWASH3D) |
P. Russell |
2005 |
£2,500 |
UNSW Engineering Faculty Research grant |
| Planning for an integrated field study of swash zone processes (SWASH3D) |
P. Russell |
2005 |
£11,250 |
US Office of Naval Research (ONR) |
| Land based multispectral monitoring of the nearshore environment |
K.S. Kingston |
2004 - 2007 |
£50,342 |
NERC |
| Cross-shore sediment transport and profile evolution on natural beaches - X-SHORE |
P.E. Russell, T.J. O'Hare and G. Masselink |
2004 - 2008 |
£235,000 |
NERC |
| FD 2107: Development of Estuary Morphological Models |
A.J. Manning |
2006 - 2007 |
£26,850 |
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory & Defra/EA |
| Development of innovative instrumentation to measure high frquency bed level changes in the swash zone. EPSRC overseas travel grant |
P.E. Russell to collaborate with Dr Ian Turner, Water Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
Feb - July 2005 |
£6,500 |
EPSRC |
| Video Monitoring of Littorial Processes in Support of
Coastal Zone Management - CoastView |
M.A. Davidson and D.A. Huntley |
2002 - 2005 |
£330,000 |
EC |
| FD1905: Estuary Process Research project – EstProc |
D.A.Huntley, A.J. Manning, K.R.Dyer |
2002 - 2005 |
£63,418 |
EA/Defra & HR Wallingford |
| Human Interaction with Large-Scale Coastal Morphological Evolution
- HUMOR |
T.J. O'Hare and D.A. Huntley |
2001 - 2004 |
£73,900 |
EC |
| The Role of Swash in Shoreline Change |
P.E. Russell and D.A. Huntley (with University of Loughborough) |
2000 - 2003 |
£239,000 |
NERC |
| Quanitification of Sediment Entrainment in the Coastal Zone (COSMOD) |
P.E. Russell and D.A Huntley (with University of Cambridge and University
of Liverpool) |
1998 - 2001 |
£127,000 |
EPSRC |
| Sediment and Water Movement in Industrialized Estuarine Environments
(SWAMIEE) |
D.A. Huntley and M.A. Davidson |
1998 - 2001 |
£108,000 |
EC |
| Intermediate Scale Behaviour: Measurement, Modelling and Prediction |
D.A. Huntley and M.A. Davidson |
1997 - 2001 |
$740,000 |
US ONR (NICOP) |
| Inlet Dynamics Initiative - Algarve (INDIA) |
D.A. Huntley and M.A. Davidson |
1997 - 2001 |
£85,000 |
EC |
| Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics (SASME) |
D.A. Huntley, P.A. Bird and T.J. O'Hare |
1997 - 2001 |
£93,000 |
EC |
| Coastal Study of Three-Dimensional Sand Transport Processes and
Morphodynamics (COAST3D) |
D.A. Huntley, P.A. Bird and P.E. Russell |
1997 - 2001 |
£322,000 |
EC |
| Sand Transport on Macrotidal Beaches |
P.E. Russell and D.A. Huntley |
1994 - 1995 |
£18,000 |
NERC |
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