Links

Government Agencies related links:

Restoring Meadow, Marsh and Reef (ReMeMaRe)
https://ecsa.international/reach/restoring-meadow-marsh-and-reef-rememare

Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) viewer
https://environment.data.gov.uk/shoreline-planning

Catchment Based Approach Data Hub
This displays ReMeMaRe Habitat Restoration potential layers for Estuary and Coastal habitats
https://data.catchmentbasedapproach.org/

Magic Maps
https://magic.defra.gov.uk/

WFD summary table
Waterbody summary table

Details of the research being undertaken by the US Army Corps of Engineers on tidal inlets can be found at: http://cirp.wes.army.mil/cirp/cirp.html

Natural England examined the creation of a ‘toolbox’ to assess equilibrium state and looked at a number of case study examples. https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6740319341379584

JNCC produced a guidance to deal with common standards monitoring (CSM) guidance for the marine environment, which includes advice on the identification of interest features, attributes, targets and methods of assessment. https://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/9b4bff32-b2b1-4059-aa00-bb57d747db23/CSM-Estuaries-2004.pdf

The National Coastal Erosion Risk shows the coastal baseline, split to ‘frontages’. These are defined as lengths of coast with consistent characteristics based on the cliff behaviour characteristics and the defence characteristics. It is intended as an up-to-date and reliable benchmark dataset showing erosion extents and rates for three periods: Short Term (0 – 20yr); Medium Term (20 – 50yr); and Long Term (50 – 100yr). https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/87badb85-3b4e-4a31-8a67-06972ee9aa93

Flood Risk Assessment Wales provides a national assessment of risk flooding from Rivers, the Sea and Surface Water and Small Watercourses. The assessment takes into account flood defences and combines new, national-scale modelling with detailed local-scale models to categories risk into 3 bands, labelled ‘High’, ‘Medium’ and ‘Low’ risk. https://datamap.gov.wales/layergroups/inspire-nrw:FloodRiskAssessmentWales

Project on reviewing and collating historical coastal change evidence to create a methodological framework to document historical coastal change. https://www.gov.uk/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-research-reports/coastal-monitoring-and-historical-coastal-change

Data links:

Channel Coastal Observatory Website
https://coastalmonitoring.org/

UK hydrographic Office's free online tidal prediction service
https://easytide.admiralty.co.uk/

WaveNet (Cefas' wave monitoring network for UK)
https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/wavenet/

Available marine datasets in the UK
https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/

National River Flow Archive (NRFA)
https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/

Biological Records centre for terrestrial and freshwater species
https://www.brc.ac.uk/

Environmental Information Data Centre
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/eidc/documents

The Water Quality Archive
The Water Quality Archive provides data on water quality measurements taken from sampling points around the country and then analysed to measure aspects of the water quality and / or the environment at that point. https://environment.data.gov.uk/water-quality/view/landing

Cefas data portal
Cefas data portal contains datasets (categories: fisheries, plankton, shellfish, remote sensing, bio-chemistry and water column and salinity) available to download.
https://data.cefas.co.uk/

The Chemical Investigations Programme
The Chemical Investigations Programme (CIP) brings together the 10 large water and wastewater companies in England and Wales with regulators (Defra, the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales) to investigate a range of chemical substances. Data for the Tees, Humber, Mersey, Severn, Southampton Water/ Solent.
https://chemicalinvestigations.ukwir.org/sign-up-and-access-the-chemical-investigations-programme-data-access-portal

The UK centre for Ecology and Hydrology
The UK centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) hold a large database of environmental datasets, including the freshwater dataportal where the UK national river flow archive with real time data is included among others.
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/data

ERP research project websites:

FD2117
Development and Demonstration of Systems Based Estuary Simulators
Development and demonstration of systems-based estuary simulators (ERP2) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

FD2116
Review and formalisation of geomorphological concepts and approaches for estuaries
Review and formalisation of geomorphological concepts and approaches - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Other research project websites:

ComCoast
ComCoast is a European project that develops and demonstrates innovative solutions for flood protection in coastal areas.
http://www.comcoast.org/

FLOODsite
FLOODsite is a Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission Project, covering the physical, environmental, ecological and socio-economic aspects of floods from rivers, estuaries and the sea.
http://www.floodsite.net/

FRMRC
The EPSRC funded Flood Risk Management Research Consortium.
http://www.floodrisk.org.uk/

OMReG - Online Managed Realignment Guide
A website for information about coastal managed realignment projects in the UK and mainland Europe, which seeks to present the ‘lessons learned’ (both good and bad) from past schemes in order to improve the implementation of future schemes.
http://www.omreg.net/

Managed Realignment Electronic Platform
This was led by Royal Haskoning. It is delivered by a website available at:
http://www.intertidalmanagement.co.uk/

Saltmarsh Management Manual
This was led by Royal Haskoning and has led to an update to the earlier saltmarsh management manual. It is delivered by a website available at:
http://www.saltmarshmanagementmanual.co.uk/

Coastal Habitat Restoration - Towards good practice
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/livingwiththesea/project_details/
good_practice_guide/habitatcrr/ENRestore/Habitats/Index.htm

Coastal Habitat Restoration - Jargon buster
https://coastalpartners.org.uk/jargon-buster/

FRAME
‘Promoting best practice in estuary flood risk management’ was an EU transnational project for developing innovative solutions for flood risk management in estuaries.
https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/metadata/projects/flood-risk-management-in-estuaries-sustainable-new-land-use-in-flood-control-areas

Useful process modelling software links:

ICOASST project (integrating COAstal Sediment SysTems)
https://coastalmonitoring.org/ccoresources/iCOASST/

Example of work done with ASMITA to model morphological interaction to determine the equilibrium state of an estuary https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/466537/

Information compiled by Dr Chris Sherwood (USGS) in circa 2003 as part of the project to develop a Community Sediment Transport Model can be found at:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/sediment-transport/models.htm

DHI Water and Environment (MikeZero) - http://www.dhi.dk/
DELFT3D - http://www.wldelft.nl/
TELEMAC - https://www.opentelemac.org/
POLCOMS - https://coastalmonitoring.org/ccoresources/iCOASST/POLCOMS/
Surface-Water Modelling System (SMS) -
http://www.scisoftware.com/products/sms_details/sms_details.html

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