Research Group: Coastal Engineering and Management
The Coastal Engineering and Management Research Centre combines expertise from a range of disciplines in Engineering and the Environment and has strong links with other faculties at Southampton, including Ocean and Earth Sciences at the National Oceanographic Centre and the Geodata Institute, Faculty of Social and Human Science. Our work ranges from the surveying, monitoring and modelling of physical processes (from the littoral zone to the offshore), including coastal engineering structures, to the assessment of risk and adaptation along the coast. There is a strong focus on climate change issues, and this issue is considered from the scale of Southampton and the Solent to the global scale. The more vulnerabler coastal settings are considered, especially small islands and deltas. There are extensive national and international collaborations with other universities and industry.