Research highlights
Selection of research highlights
Publications
Smedley, R., Pannozzo, N., Boyle, J., Clarke, D., Lario, J., & Plater, A. (2025). Portable luminescence for rapidly identifying tsunami dynamics and responses in saltmarshes. Sci Total Environ, 1002, 180548. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180548
Murphy, J., Higham, J.E., Plater, A.J., Clark, K.E., & Collin, R. (2025). Integration of Earth Observation and Field-Based Monitoring for Morphodynamic Characterisation of Tropical Beach Ecosystems. Environments, 12(6), 205. doi:10.3390/environments12060205
Motylinski, M., Plater, A.J., & Higham, J.E. (2025). Computer vision methods for side scan sonar imagery. Measurement Science and Technology, 36(1), 015435. doi:10.1088/1361-6501/ad99f1
Motylinski, M., Plater, A.J., & Higham, J.E. (2025). Re-scaling images using a SVD-based approach. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 19(3). doi:10.1007/s11760-025-03825-1
Boothroyd, R. J., Williams, R. D., Hoey, T. B., Brierley, G. J., Tolentino, P. L. M., Guardian, E. L., . . . David, C. P. C. (2025). Big data show idiosyncratic patterns and rates of geomorphic river mobility. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3263. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58427-9
Quick, L., Williams, R. D., Boothroyd, R. J., Hoey, T. B., Tolentino, P. L. M., MacDonell, C., . . . David, C. P. C. (2025). Confined and mined: anthropogenic river modification as a driver of flood risk change. npj Natural Hazards, 2(1). doi:10.1038/s44304-024-00051-6
Lees, K.J., McCarter, C.P., Ritson, J.P., Waddington, J.M., Peacock, M., Evans, M., Holden, J., Shuttleworth, E., Johnston, A. and Baird, A.J., 2025. The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes. Hydrological Processes, 39(9), p.e70267.
Forrester, J., Leonardi, N., Cooper, J. R., & Kumar, P. (2024). Seagrass as a nature-based solution for coastal protection. Ecological Engineering, 206, 107316.
Kumar, P., & Leonardi, N. (2024). Exploring mega‐nourishment interventions using Long Short‐Term Memory (LSTM) models and the sand engine surface MATLAB framework. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(4), e2023GL106042.
Evans, C.D., Jutterström, S., Stadmark, J., Peacock, M., Futter, M., Kothawala, D., Monteith, D. and Moldan, F., 2024. Four decades of changing dissolved organic matter quality and stoichiometry in a Swedish forest stream. Biogeochemistry, pp.1-19.
Abbasi, M., Peacock, M., Drakare, S., Hawkes, J., Jakobsson, E. and Kothawala, D., 2024. Water residence time is an important predictor of dissolved organic matter composition and drinking water treatability. Water Research, p.121910.
Lyddon, C., Chien, N., Vasilopoulos, G., Ridgill, M., Moradian, S., Olbert, A., Coulthard, T., Barkwith, A., and Robins, P.: Thresholds for estuarine compound flooding using a combined hydrodynamic–statistical modelling approach, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 973–997, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-973-2024, 2024.
Grants
Water4All Partnership. 20025-2028. ECO-WADE: Enhanced understanding of carbon and groundwater dynamics in European peatlands and their related ecosystem services. 1,893,859 Euros (£300,000 to UoL). Peacock co-I.
EPSRC Fellowship, ENARM (Individual award, £931,155.00 to UoL) 2021-2027- Engineering with Nature: combining Artificial intelligence, Remote sensing and computer Models for the optimum design of coastal protection schemes, PI N. Leonardi
Environment Agency. £400,000 (£120,000 to UoL). 2024-25. Raising the water table under lowland agricultural peat (LAP): potential considerations, risks and benefits for the water environment. Peacock CoI.
NERC Highlight Topic 2024-2028 £2.7 million (£277,301 to UoL). Gravel barrier resilience in a changing climate (#gravelbeach). NE/Y50323X/1. UoL PI R. Smedley, Co-Is C. Lyddon (Work Package lead), A. Plater.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. £11k plus 12-month Fellowship funding (James Murphy). 2024. Far- and near-field remote sensing of coastal change, Panama. PI K. Clark, Co-Is J. Higham, A. Plater
DEFRA. £304,000 (£103,000 to UoL). 2024-2025. Identifying climate change risks to water quality across English estuaries. C. Lyddon (Co-I).