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| Titel |
Long-term environmental and health implications of morphological change and sediment transport with respect to contaminants |
| VerfasserIn |
Christopher Sneddon, David Copplestone, Andrew Tyler, Peter Hunter, Nick Smith |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250093886
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-9049.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The EPSRC-funded Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply (ARCoES) project
encompasses four research strands, involving 14 institutions and six PhD studentships.
ARCoES aims to determine the threats posed to future energy generation and the
distribution network by flooding and erosion, changing patterns of coastal sedimentation,
water temperature and the distribution of plants and animals in the coastal zone.
Whilst this research has direct benefits for the operation of coastal power stations,
ARCoES aims to have a wider stakeholder engagement through assessing how the
resilience of coastal communities may be altered by five hundred years of coastal
evolution.
Coastal evolution will have substantial implications for the energy sector of the
North West of England as former waste storage sites are eroded and remobilised
within the intertidal environment. The current intertidal environmental stores of
radioactivity will also experience reworking as ocean chemistry changes and saltmarsh
chronologies are reworked in response to rising sea levels. There is a duel requirement to
understand mass sediment movement along the North West coast of England as
understanding the sediment transport dynamics is key to modelling long term coastal
change and understanding how the environmental store of radioactivity will be
reworked.
The University of Stirling is researching the long-term environmental and health
implications of remobilisation and transport of contaminated sediments around the
UK coastline. Using a synergy of hyperspectral and topographic information the
mobilisation of sediment bound contaminants within the coastal environment will be
investigated. Potential hazards posed by contaminants are determined by a set of
environmental impact test criteria which evaluate the bio-accessibility and ionising dose of
contaminants. These test criteria will be used to comment on the likely environmental
impact of modelled sediment transport and anticipated changes in ocean chemistry. |
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