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NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

The Measurement of Coastal Change

Edited by Kenneth Pye and Bill Ritchie. Published in June 2009. Proceedings of the St Fergus Symposium. Aberdeen Institute for Coastal Science and Management, University of Aberdeen, 252 pp.

Copies can be obtained from: aicsm@abdn.ac.uk

 

 

 

NEW REPORT PUBLISHED

Predicting large-scale coastal geomorphological change

A collaboration between Kenneth Pye Associates and Royal Haskoning, British Geological Survey, University College London, Newcastle University and University of Southampton.

Click here for more details

 

 

 

 

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

Allen, J.R.L. and Pye, K. (1992). Saltmarshes - Morphodynamics, Conservation and Engineering Significance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 184 pp. Reprinted in paperback in 2009.

ISBN: 978-0-521-11699-2 (paperback)  £14.99 ($27.99)
ISBN: 978-0-521-41841-6 (hardback)

Copies can be ordered from www.cup.cam.ac.uk, and many other booksellers.

 

  

 

JUST AVAILABLE FROM SPRINGER

Pye, K. and Tsoar, H. (2009). Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes. Second printing with corrections.
Published by Springer, Berlin. 458 pages.

ISBN: 978-3-540-85909-3 (hardback)  £118.50

Copies can be ordered from www.springer.com, and many other booksellers.

 

 

NEW AND ONGOING PROJECTS

North-west England Strategy Coastal Monitoring Sediment Studies.
Client: North-west England Regional Coastal Monitoring Group.
Started: 2009.

 

RECENTLY COMPLETED REPORTS 

Whitehouse, R., Balson, P., Brampton, A., Blott, S., Burningham, H., Cooper, N., French, J., Guthrie, G., Hanson, S., Nicholls, R., Pearson, S., Pye, K., Rossington, K., Sutherland, J. and Walkden, M. (2009) Characterisation and Prediction of Large Scale, Long Term Change of Coastal Geomorphological Behaviours: Final Science Report. Environment Agency Science Report, Environment Agency, Bristol.
Click here for a project summary.

Webb., H., Huckle, J., Pye, K., Blott, S.J. (2009) Beach Topographic Variability in Relation to Significant Biological Change. Report to Countryside Council for Wales by APEM Ltd. and Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd. CCW Contract Science Report, Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor.

Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2009) Blyth Estuary Sedimentation Study. A report to Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Coastal District Council, Waveney District Council, Southwold Town Council, Blyth Estuary Group and The Environment Agency. Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd. External Research Report ER981, 28 January 2009.

 

NEW JOURNAL ARTICLES

Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2009) Development of a searchable major and trace element database for use in forensic soil comparisons. Science and Justice 49, 170-181.

Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2009) Progressive breakdown of a gravel-dominated coastal barrier, Dunwich-Walberswick, Suffolk, UK: processes and implications. Journal of Coastal Research 25, 589-602.

Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2008) Decadal-scale variation in dune erosion and accretion rates: an investigation of the significance of changing storm tide frequency and magnitude on the Sefton coast, UK. Geomorphology 102, 652-666.

Blott, S.J. and Pye, K. (2008) Particle shape: a review and new methods of characterization and classification. Sedimentology 55, 31-63.

 

NEW VERSION OF GRADISTAT RELEASED
We have released an updated version of our very popular particle size analysis software. The program includes full instructions, and is suitable for calculating particle size statistics for sieve or laser granulometer data. Version 7.0  now runs in all versions of Microsoft Excel from Excel 97 onwards. 

Click the links below to download the software:

GRADISTAT v7.0 (for Microsoft Excel Versions 97 to 2003) (318 KB).

GRADISTAT v7.0 (for Microsoft Excel 2007) (367 KB).

 


 


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