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This page was updated on 1st March 2008.

Michael J. Fennessy is the principal consultant of COASTAL RESEARCH. He has followed a career in environmental dynamics, teaching and research, specialising in the physics of coastal marine processes. His enduring interest, for over 30 years, has been the complexities of inshore tidal streams and their interactions. This includes the ways that tides and meterology influence sediment transport, and have a significant importance in forensic oceanography.
His role is now one of consultation, desk studies and software development.
Forensic oceanography cases are still considered, but fieldwork in hazardous environments is not undertaken.
He was awarded his PhD for work on estuarine sediment dynamics in North West European estuaries which included the design and development of INSSEV, a unique video measurement instrumentation system for micro-scale suspended floc structures. Other work led to the development of computer software for a variety of marine environmental processes.
His experience includes a broad range of scientific methods: fieldwork with basic and hi-tech instruments, laboratory studies, electronic instrumentation prototyping, data and image analysis, numerical modelling and real-time simulation. Published work includes regional inshore tidal atlases and tidal and sediment dynamics papers in international journals.
Member of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. Member of Devon Regionally Important Geological Sites Group. Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and committee member of the South West Branch. Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship 2006 on a project entitled: Forensic Oceanography in Estuaries and Coastal Waters

Paul R. Fennessy directs fieldwork activity, logistics and surveys. He maintains survey equipment - land, sea and aerial - and designs additional equipment as needed. His computer skills include database architecture, graphic techniques and the analysis of satellite and aerial images. GIS technologies feature in all these areas.
With over 20 years experience of boat handling and marine surveys on both sides of the Atlantic, and a commercial aeroplane pilot licence, he has a strong interest in precision navigation, meteorology and aerial photography. 7 years experience of forensic oceanography cases and associated site investigation.

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