{"id":208,"date":"2013-10-18T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:45:00","slug":"the-influence-of-coastal-reefs-on-spatial-variability-in-seasonal-sand-fluxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2013\/10\/the-influence-of-coastal-reefs-on-spatial-variability-in-seasonal-sand-fluxes\/","title":{"rendered":"The influence of coastal reefs on spatial variability in seasonal sand fluxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2013\/08\/Yanchep_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-216\" alt=\"Yanchep Lagoon, southwestern Australia showing the sandy beach, lagoon and limestone reef\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2013\/08\/Yanchep_2-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2013\/08\/Yanchep_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2013\/08\/Yanchep_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yanchep Lagoon, southwestern Australia showing the sandy beach, lagoon and limestone reef<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new paper led by G&amp;G Research Fellow, Shari Gallop,\u00a0has just been published in Marine Geology. The focus of the paper was on how the topography of coastal reefs drives alongshore variation in the mode and magnitude of erosion and accretion on a sandy beach in southwestern Australia.\u00a0To achieve this, sub aerial beach surveys were undertaken monthly for two years, and hydrographic surveys were measured five times during late summer and winter. Numerical models using XBeach were used to determine how the coastal reefs influence currents in the are.\u00a0This research was able to demonstrate the effect of reefs on seasonal erosion and accretion, in particular how alongshore variation in reef topography drives alongshore variation in the mode and magnitude of seasonal beach erosion and accretion; and the effect of intra- and inter-annual variability in metocean conditions on seasonal sediment fluxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025322713001655\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025322713001655<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper led by G&amp;G Research Fellow, Shari Gallop,\u00a0has just been published in Marine Geology. The focus of the paper was on how the topography of coastal reefs drives alongshore variation in the mode and magnitude of erosion and accretion on a sandy beach in southwestern Australia.\u00a0To achieve this, sub aerial beach surveys were&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2013\/10\/the-influence-of-coastal-reefs-on-spatial-variability-in-seasonal-sand-fluxes\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The influence of coastal reefs on spatial variability in seasonal sand fluxes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493988,4217,517518,328889],"tags":[493996,493981,494003,494078],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-roll","category-news","category-publications","category-research-projects","tag-coastal-morphodynamics","tag-coastal","tag-reefs","tag-sediment-dynamics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}