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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 …
7 January 2010
Angler killed in rockfall in NE England
The BBC is reporting that an an angler was killed in a landslide last night in Sandy Bay, near Newbiggin-on-Sea in Northumberland, NE. England. He was reportedly standing at the top of a 15 m high cliff that collapsed, killing him when he fell. This is Sandy Bay:
10 December 2009
Landslides in Art Part 3
This is the latest in my occasional series on the depiction of landslides in art. The previous parts of this series are here:Part 1Part 2 Today I turn to a classic painting from the 19th Century, painted by Lord Frederic Leighton, entitled “On the Coast, Isle of Wight”: This oil sketch, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, shows a stretch of the Isle of Wight coastline in southern …
8 December 2009
Landslide in the Lake District (Cumbria) in the recent floods
Thanks to Rhiannon George of Meridian Geoscience for her help with this – the images and most of the information have been provided by her. The press coverage of the recent (English) all time record rainfall event in Cumbria (in the area most commonly known as the Lake District in NW England) has focused upon the disastrous floods at Cockermouth. However, less well reported is the extensive devastation up in …
17 November 2009
Threat of another landslide at Pennan, the site of the film “Local Hero”
The film Local Hero was released in 1983, having been filmed in the village of Pennan, near Aberdeen in NE Scotland. In my view it is one of the best films of the 1980’s – understated, beautiful and genuinely funny, with a very strong environmental message. The village at Pennan has become something of an attraction as a result but, located so far from the beaten track, it has never …
Threat of another landslide at Pennan, the site of the film "Local Hero"
The film Local Hero was released in 1983, having been filmed in the village of Pennan, near Aberdeen in NE Scotland. In my view it is one of the best films of the 1980’s – understated, beautiful and genuinely funny, with a very strong environmental message. The village at Pennan has become something of an attraction as a result but, located so far from the beaten track, it has never …
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 …
17 June 2009
Cayton Bay / Knipe Point landslide – report on options
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 …
30 April 2009
British Geological Survey landslide web page
The British Geological Survey (BGS) appear to have been quite active of late in overhauling their web pages, reflecting what seems to be an improved ethos of delivery of information to end users. The landslide pages seem to have been subjected to this upgrade of late, which has led to the creation of a really good set of case study pages, backed up with photos, reports and maps. These pages …
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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