Testing centre for wave and tidal energy machines set up in the Orkney Islands

Build your own marram dunes

Showing the stages of erosion

Dune Loss at Winterton-on-Sea from June 2001 to August 2003

U.S. Cities Eye Ocean Waves for Power Supplies

The reasoning, the methodology, terminology and results

Just what do those blue flags mean?

Sea change for tidal power — New underwater turbines could be cheap and eco-friendly

An application tested by SUMARE, relates to government-sanctioned offshore exploitation of sand on the Belgian continental shelf. However, there is concern that growing exploitation could lead to a reduction in size — or even disappearance — of the banks. In turn this could affect water currents and erosion/sedimentation characteristics of the area, and lead to […]

Dutch researchers from Delft University produced a paper, Assessing the Impact of Sand Extraction on the Shore Stability : Project for a Methodological Framework, assessing the impact of Offshore Aggregate Dredging on the shoreline given at the 20th-21st February 2003 European marine sand and gravel Conference (EMSAGG). It shows by graphical and mathematical models the […]

The Major Flood Risk to East Anglia

This original document was first written on 24th October 1995 for the North Sea Action Group’s website. Although superseded by later and more topical information, it still contains points of historical value. (1) History Many thousands of years ago there was no North Sea. East Anglia was joined by dense oak forests to the European […]

Although several years old, the following study, Synthesis and Analysis of Existing Information Regarding Environmental Effects of Marine Mining produces some good information. It in part tells of the 2000 studies off Pea Island, North Carolina, USA, and how the North Carolina Geological Survey and University of Arkansas researchers found that shoalsshoal A sandbank or sandbar […]

FINAL FEASIBILITY REPORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT — 81240. US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District South Atlantic Division. CANAVERAL HARBOUR FEASIBILITY STUDY — APPENDIX E — COASTAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS. IMPACTS OF IMPROVEMENTS ON LITTORAL PROCESSES. Abstract: (from a very long paper) The US Army Corps of Engineers dredged an initial 27 foot deep channel […]

From The Crown Estate and BMAPA showing historic patterns of marine aggregate extraction in metric tonnes for 2000-2005, excluding beach replenishment and fill contracts.