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9 February 2011
Coastal erosion and residential property
The Daily Mail has an interesting article (surely the first time I have used that phrase) on a cottage in South Dawlish in Devon, UK that is threatened by coastal erosion. According to the article, the house changed hands 18 months ago for £1.75 million, since when it has suffered two cliff collapse events, the most recent of which has left the back of the (let’s face it, spectacular) property …
9 March 2010
Free workshop on coastal erosion, 19th March 2010
We are running a free workshop on erosion on 19th March 2010 in North Yorkshire, UK. Details in the flyer below, together with contact details (click on the image for a better view in a new window). Please do register to come along!
25 February 2010
Coastal erosion as art
The Guardian has a slightly bizarre article today. It is entitled “The art of watching your house fall into the sea”. It tells the story of artist Kane Cunningham, who has bought a bungalow on the cliff edge at Knipe Point near to Scarborough. This site has been featured here before as recent landsliding has threatened to destroy a number of houses. He says in the article: “I’m going to …
28 January 2010
Earthquake-driven coastal erosion (or a coastal lateral spread) in Haiti
The Discovery Channel has news of a very interesting example of rapid coastal erosion driven by the earthquake in Haiti. The site is at Petit Paradis to the west of Port-au-Prince. Eye-witness reports suggest that the town was struck by a highly localised tsunami in the earthquake, apparently killing 20. This is interesting in part because it is quite likely such a localised event would have been caused by a …
17 December 2009
AGU Day 3
There were two highlights of day 3 for me, which to be honest did not have much of interest on landslides. The first was the Geobloggers lunch, which was attended by about 30 bloggers. It was interesting to put names to faces and also to learn about some new blogs. I was struck by two things: 1. the range of ages of bloggers – far less oriented towards the young …
8 November 2009
Coastal erosion and climate change: Implications for the shoreline over the next century
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 …
12 September 2009
Coastal erosion – the last groyne problem
One of the most emotive topics for local authorities in the UK is that of coastal erosion. Over the last few years in Britain we have increasingly taken a view that coasts should only be defended where absolutely necessary – elsewhere erosion should be allowed to occur at a “natural” rate. In most cases the view has been taken that protection of coasts in which erosion will affect domestic properties …
5 May 2009
Nailing Jell-o to a wall…
This is a guest post from Bill Rabenaldt from California about a novel soil nail mitifation technique. Can you nail jell-o to a wall? Not easily. Can you nail a landslide area, levee or bluff before it fails? You bet! The valley floors around Aspen, Telluride and other resort areas in the Rockies are all but built out. Where do business and families go? The surrounding hills and mountain sides …
22 January 2009
Whitby – the old and the new
As someone interested in earth processes, one of the great powers of the internet is the ability to access quickly images of places in which I am interested. Over the last few years my colleagues and I have been studying rockfall processes at the town of Whitby in N. Yorkshire, which is in NE. England. I thought as a bit of fun I would compare two images of the cliffs …
2 January 2009
Evaluating coastal erosion using art
The BBC is carrying a quite interesting story at the moment about the use of artwork from the nineteenth century to evaluate rates of coastal erosion. The story originates from Robin McInnes, who is an established figure in coastal management. Robin was the Coastal Manager for the Isle of Wight, in southern England for many years, during which he led the way in terms of developing an understanding and management …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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