WHISSP - University of Plymouth

Wave Hub Impacts on Seabed & Shoreline Processes

Workpackages
The project is organised into six work packages, which focus on the key areas of potential Wave Hub impact. Select from the list below for details of each package.

Announcements:

Sep 2009:
The summer season is drawing to a close. 3D morphology has not been as extensively developed as during 2008, but bar/rip morphology has still dominated from Perranporth to Porth Towan.

Jan 2009:
The first year of beach monitoring has been completed! A sustained period of long period swell waves have caused the beaches to become two-dimensional and highly planar - typical winter profiles.

Aug 2008:
Dr Martin Austin and Tim Scott have just completed a 10-day field experiment at Perranporth monitoring the occurrence and dynamics of macrotidal rip current circulation.

Members of the WHISSP project

The following are the personnel involved with running the WHISSP project. They have many years of collective experience in specialisms ranging from sediment and hydrodynamc processes, coastal morphodynamics, remote sensing and marine instrumentation.

Name	Role	Affiliation	Contact
Dr Jon Williams	PI	SMSE
Dr Mark Davidson	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Luciana Esteves	Co-I	SMSE
Mr Peter Ganderton	Co-I	SMSE
Prof David Huntley	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Ken Kingston	Co-I	SMSE
Prof Gerd Masselink	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Jon Miles	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Alex Nimmo-Smith	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Paul Russell	Co-I	SMSE
Dr Martin Austin	PDRA	SMSE
Mr Tim Poate	PhD	SMSE
Mr Saul Reynolds	PhD	SMSE

M J Austin - 2009