Current Post: Emeritus Professor

Room Number: ENV 01.37A

Telephone: 01603 593745 (+44 1603 593745)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: c.vincent@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository
 

Research Interests

Coastal and beach processes, erosion and protection; sediment transport in the coastal zone; morphodynamic evolution of coasts; marine acoustics and instrumentation. 


Biography

For many years, I have developed the use of high-frequency acoustic backscatter systems (ABS) for measuring profiles of suspended sediment in close (<1m) to the seabed with high temporal (<1s) and spatial (<0.01m) resolution. ABS instrumentation is now routinely used in coastal process field work throughout the world. My interests have since moved to investigating the small-scale physical processes that result in sediment transport under waves and currents, and to the larger-scale beach and near-shore systems which evolve as a result of sediment transport by waves, storms and currents. My work in the last few years (having previously been mainly undertaken in the US and Canada) is now focussed in Europe (EU SANDPIT) and on local issues related to the coastal erosion and protection around the East Anglian coast. I have just completed work on: ‘Beach Links to Sandbanks’ (BLINKS), an NERC-funded project (2004-7) investigating the way near-shore sandbanks affect local beaches; and ‘Longer-term effects of shore-parallel breakwaters at Sea Palling on coastal morphodynamics’ LEACOAST 2, funded by the EPSRC (2005-8). My current research projects are the NERC-funded FLOCSAM programme to investigate the acoustic responses of flocculating marine sediments, and a collaborative research programme with Russian colleagues measuring and modelling the intra-wave suspension of sand by waves.


Significant publications

• Dolphin T. and C.E.Vincent 2009 (Published article on-line 27-Nov-2008) The Influence of Bed Forms on Reference Concentration and Suspension under Waves and Currents. Continental Shelf Research DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.11.001
• Kos’yan R.D., B.V. Divinskiy, M.V. Krylenko, C.E. Vincent. 2007 Modelling of the vertical distribution of suspended sediment concentration under waves with a group structure. Proceedings of Oceans ’07 Conference, Aberdeen, IEEE, ISBN 1-4244-0635-8

• Park H-B. and C. E. Vincent. 2007 Evolution of Scroby Sands in the east Anglian coast, UK. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50, 868-873 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia), ISSN 0749.0208.

• Green M.O, C.E.Vincent, A.C.Trembanis, (2004). Suspension of coarse and fine sand on a wave-dominated shoreface, with implications for the development of rippled scour depressions. Continental Shelf Research, 24, 317-335. DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00051-1

• Lee G-H., W.B.Dade, C.T.Friedrichs, and C.E.Vincent, (2004). Examination of reference concentration under waves and currents on the inner shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(C2), doi: 10.1029/2002JC001707.

• Lee G-H., W.B. Dade C.T. Friedrichs, C.E.Vincent (2003) Spectral estimates of bed shear stress using suspended-sediment concentrations in a wave-current boundary layer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C7), doi: 10.1029/2001JC001279.

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