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Industry-Led Lost Fishing Gear Locating Service for the Holderness Coast Jul 1, 2022 - Jul 30, 2023
Hire of Norbit multibeam owned by EEI for use in trials to demonstrate potential to recover lost fishing gear

Meltwater driven sediment delivery into a glacier-fed fjord, Greenland (MELT) Jan 31, 2022 - Jan 30, 2023
We endeavor to investigate the impact of the increase in glacial meltwater discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet upon the glaciated fjord estuaries in southern Greenland where Greenland’s largest turbid meltwater plume persists each summer. Our rese... Read More about Meltwater driven sediment delivery into a glacier-fed fjord, Greenland (MELT).

Developing a Global Listening Network for Turbidity Currents and Seafloor Processes Apr 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2024
Our overall aim is to make fundamental step-changes in understanding of seafloor processes and hazards by developing and demonstrating novel sensor systems, which can form widespread and long-term listening networks. These low-cost and energy-efficie... Read More about Developing a Global Listening Network for Turbidity Currents and Seafloor Processes.

Quantifying sediment fluxes from acoustic Doppler current profilers Mar 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2021
Calibration of the Environment Agency's ADCP units and back calculation of historical suspended sediment loads for selected sites.

How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth? Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2025
Seafloor flows called turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth (submarine fans). They flushglobally significant amounts of sediment, organic carbon, nutrients and fresher-water into the deep ocean, and affect itsoxygen leve... Read More about How do deep-ocean turbidity currents behave that form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth?.