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Antarctic Salinity

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Australasian Colonisation Research: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul

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Blue Action - Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate

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Bottom Boundary Layer Turbulence and Abyssal Recipes

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Building resilience in Galapagos ecosystems Management to severe climate change

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Coastal landfill and shoreline management: implications for coastal adaptation infrastructure

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
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Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow
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Email: R.P.Beaven@soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor of Ground Engineering
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Email: djr@soton.ac.uk

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Research interests
  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
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Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

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Comp-Flood: Compound flooding in coastal Viet Nam

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean (Research)
Research interests
  • River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and d…
  • Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
  • River bank erosion processes
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Email: S.E.Darby@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography & Climate
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Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

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Consequences of Accelerating Arctic Warming for European Climate & Extreme Weather (ArctiCONNECT)

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Copernicus Sentinel-3 (SLSTR) (SST) validation using FRM service

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DIMES: Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean