8 November 2009 20:37 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Friday I gave a public lecture at the Badbury Centre in North Yorkshire (NE England), looking at the potential impacts of climate change on coastal erosion. The presentation was focused on the field site that we maintain at Boulby, close to the lecture venue. In the presentation I start by looking at our landslide database and then go on to talk about climate change. The main part of the …
Tags: cliff, climate change, coastal erosion, laser scanning, presentation file
17 June 2009 21:51 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A year or so ago I posted on an ongoing landslide at Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire, just an hour or so down the road from my base Durham. This landslide, which is no commonly called the Knipe Point landslide, was threatening 50 or so houses (see image below) – in the end three were demolished, although the rest are still under threat from the slide. Since my post the …
Tags: landslide report, North Yorkshire, UK
23 April 2008 22:12 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
It is not often that I get to write about a landslide that is (practically) in my own backyard, but this is one of those rare occasions. In fact for the last fortnight or so this landslide has been generating quite a lot of local news – see for example a report in the Daily Telegraph. The landslide in question is in Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire. Here, a set …
Tags: landslide report, North Yorkshire, UK
31 August 2022 07:22 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Leaving the University of Sheffield: today is my last day at the University of Sheffield. Tomorrow, I will move to the University of Hull.
Tags: career, featured, University of Sheffield, Yorkshire
5 January 2016 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Scotland, extreme rainfall has induced riverbank erosion that has left the 16th Abergeldie Castle at risk of imminent collapse.
Tags: Europe, featured, riverbank erosion, Scotland, UK
11 March 2014 06:12 in presentation by Dave Petley
Details of three forthcoming public lectures that I am presenting or chairing, in Leeds, Durham and Cockermouth
Tags: Cafe Scientifque, Cockermouth, Durham, lecture, Leeds, UK
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