Cliff top recession rate and cliff hazards for the sea coast of Wolin Island (Southern Baltic)

Stochastic simulation of episodic soft coastal cliff recession

Probabilistic methods provide a means of demonstrating the potential variability in predictions of coastal cliff recession. They form the basis for risk-based land use planning, cliff management and engineering decision-making. A range of probabilistic methods for predicting soft coastal cliff recession has now been developed, including statistical techniques, process-based simulation and struc...

Cliff hangers

The peregrine falcon holds a special place in the minds of environmentalists and conservation biologists. The crash in its population throughout the 1950s and 60s was linked to the rapidly increasing use of agricultural organochlorine pesticides which led to a thinning of the birds’ eggshells and dramatic breeding failure. Since the widespread ban on the use of these chemicals, populations have...

Cliff hanger

The asparagus season has recently ended for northern hemisphere crops. Tradition has it that, at the summer solstice, growers stop cutting spears to allow the plant to grow and produce enough resources to generate spears for the next spring’s crop. The plant is becoming increasingly fashionable and production is increasing to meet demand. But the cultivated asparagus has a wild relative that is...

CLiFF Notes

Kinematic analysis of sea cliff stability using UAV photogrammetry

13 Erosion and slope instability poses a significant hazard to communities and 14 infrastructure located is coastal areas. We use point cloud and spectral data derived from close 15 range digital photogrammetry to perform a kinematic analysis of chalk sea cliffs located at 16 Telscombe, UK. Our data were captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and cover a 17 cliff face that is about 750 ...