Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd.
 Scientific Research, Consultancy and Investigations

              
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Saltmarshes and mudflats
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Reactivated saltmarsh formed by breaching of the             Mudflats on the Speke-Garston frontage of the
river wall, Lantern Marshes, Alde-Ore Estuary,                Mersey Estuary
Suffolk

    
Fringing saltmarshes on the east side of Havergate             Saline lagoons and brackish marshes behind an
Island, Alde-Ore Estuary, Suffolk                                     artificially nourished sand-shingle ridge, Dingle
                                                                                        Marshes, Suffolk

Artificial tidal creek network at the Abbott's Hall
managed retreat site, Blackwater Estuary, Essex

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Recent Publications

van der Wal, D. and Pye, K. (2004). Patterns, rates and possible causes of saltmarsh erosion in the Greater Thames area (UK). Geomorphology 61, 373-391.
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Blott, S.J. and Pye, K. (2004). Application of lidar digital terrain modelling to predict intertidal habitat development at a managed retreat site: Abbotts Hall, Essex, UK. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29, 893-905.
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Crooks, S., Scutten, J., Sheern, G.D., Pye, K. and Davy, A.J. (2002). Drainage and elevation as factors in the restoration of salt marsh in Britain. Restoration Ecology 10, 591-602.
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Crooks, S. and Pye, K. (2000). Sedimentological controls on the erosion and morphology of saltmarshes: implications for flood defence and habitat recreation. In: Pye, K. and Allen, J.R.L. (Eds.) Coastal and Estuarine Environments: sedimentology, geomorphology and geoarchaeology. Geological Society Special Publication No. 175, Geological Society Publishing House, Bath, pp. 207-222.

Pye, K. (2000). Saltmarsh erosion in southeast England: mechanisms, causes and implications. In: Sherwood, B.R., Gardiner, B.G. and Harris, T. (Eds.) British Saltmarshes. Westbury Publishing, Yorkshire, pp. 359-396.

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