e-mail enquiries to:
info@coastres.co.uk
or write to:
Coastal Research, Tamarisks, Waresfoot Drive, Crediton,
Devon, EX17 2DG, UK
or telephone: +44 (0) 1363 774577
This page was updated on 7th January 2005.
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What we do
This list gives an indication of the sort of projects in which we specialise.
Note that the emphasis is generally upon the scientific analysis of physical
processes that control the marine and fluvial environments.
- consultancy to:
- - estuary and coastline management agencies
- - government agencies and local authorities
- - port and harbour authorities
- - forensic and coroner cases involving reconstruction of marine or river incidents
- - insurance investigators
- - civil engineers
- - renewable energy technologists, see Tidal Power for Devon
- - scientific equipment manufacturers, see Prototypes of INSSEV and new designs
- - navigation system developers
- - research groups, see INSSEV
- - software developers
- site investigation, surveys and data gathering, including aerial photography:
- - coastal waters and coastal margins
- - estuaries
- - rivers, lakes and man-made water channels
- preparation of reports for regulatory authorities and planning inquiries involving:
- - hydrodynamic erosion or deposition in rivers and at coastal margins
- - tidal and wave dynamics in coastal waters and estuaries
- - sediment transport in harbours, estuaries, and on beaches
- the development of computer software for:
- - a range of advective processes, including
DyGeo
- - custom dynamic simulations
- - applications involving GPS receivers
- - databases independent of operating systems
- - file security systems
- - idiosyncratic encryption
- data and image services:
- - sediments
- - tides and tidal streams
- - land based imaging
- - aerial imaging
- oceanographic instrumentation design and development, see
FLOCVU and SNOWVU
- technical assessment of reports involving environmental dynamics
- historical map alignment to modern datums
- aerial and satellite image analysis
- publishing, including tidal atlases
- lecturing
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