Current & Recent Activities
The following research, consultancy and administrative services have either been completed or are on-going:
Marine Spatial Planning
Alison Macdonald talking about her PhD research at All Energy 2015 in Glasgow on the 6th May 2015 (PhD Supervisors: Anne-Michelle Slater (Law) / Beth Scott (Biological Sciences) / David R. Green (Geography)).
Coastal Conservation and Management
- Management of coastal conservation sites
Marine and Coastal Resource Management
- Management of marine resources of Scotland with special reference to Aquaculture
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management (including partnership in COREPOINT, EU funded)
Coastal Geomorphology
- Sand dune hydrology
Tsunami Science
- Interpretation of recent and historical tsunami evidence
Oil and Gas
- Conceptual developments in oil spill contingency planning including Wildlife Response
- Decommissioning
- Fisheries Impacts
Monitoring
- Conceptual developments in coastal monitoring (including partnership in CoPraNet (EU funded)
- Monitoring of coastal defence works along Aberdeen beach
- UAV Survey
EIA and SEA
- Pipeline landfall EIAs
- Conservation Chapters in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) programme
- UAV Pipeline monitoring
Remote Sensing and GIS
- Airborne and Satellite-borne Remote Sensing and Mapping, including precise measurement of coastal change
- GIS for coastal planning and management, including data models and European Space Acency (Coastwatch) and on-line mapping services
- Compilation of Digital Photographic Archive for the coastline of Scotland
- UAV Remote Sensing, Monitoring, Mapping, Modelling and Softcopy Photogrammetry
Field Data Collection
- Instrumentation of Ythan Estuary in association with OceanLab at Newburgh
- Mobile field mapping using Apps and PDAs, mobile communications, GPS and internet-based GIS
- Precise measurement of change in selected Scottish sand dune systems
Internet
- Web-GIS
- Coastal Atlases
Other
- Beach Litter Monitoring and Mapping
- Surf Science and Artificial Reefs
- Renewable Energy
- Coastal Adaptation, Vulnerability and Risk
- Fish Migration
Administrative
- Administration of RSPB Projects
Conference, Workshop and Seminar Organisation
- CoastGIS 2018
- CoastGIS 1997
- CoastGIS 2005
- Littoral 2004
- Eco-Imagine
Completed Projects
- CoPraNET
- EUROSION
- ECO-IMAGINE
- COREPOINT
- NatureGIS
- NatureSDI Plus
- CoastAdapt
- IMCORE
- Living North Sea (LNS)