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Dr Chris Blenkinsopp is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering Hydraulics in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. His teaching and research interests lie in the field of Water Engineering; in particular, coastal processes, remote sensing and ocean waves.
Chris graduated with an MEng in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2001 after which he worked in New Zealand and the UK as a coastal engineering consultant.
Chris completed a PhD examining air entrainment and energy dissipation in breaking waves at the University of Southampton, graduating in 2007.
Following his PhD, he took up a postdoctoral position at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Water Research Laboratory working on the field investigation of sediment transport in the swash zone of sand and gravel beaches.
Chris was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at UNSW in January 2009 and was awarded a Lectureship in July 2011. His teaching focuses on Water Engineering and includes hydraulics and coastal engineering.
Chris joined the University of Bath as a lecturer in July 2013.
Research
Dr Chris Blenkinsopp's primary research interests cover remote sensing of coastal processes, sediment transport and hydrodynamics in the surf and swash zone, wave breaking and wave energy converters.
Chris has considerable expertise in field and laboratory measurements of coastal processes and has been involved in several major field and prototype-scale laboratory experiments including the ECORS project in France and the EU-funded BARDEX 1 and 2 projects at the Delta Flume in the Netherlands.
Chris is currently lead investigator of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project which examines bed shear stress under run-up flows and involves field experiments in Australia and Europe, as well as laboratory testing at the world’s largest coastal engineering laboratory facility in Germany.
Chris is also heavily involved in developing LiDAR technology for the measurement of coastal hydrodynamics and the investigation of storm erosion and recovery of beaches.
Willing to supervise PhD
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Remote sensing of coastal processes
- Coastal hydrodynamics
- Coastal sediment transport
- Wave breaking.
Education/Academic qualification
Coastal Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
1 Oct 2002 → 1 Nov 2006
Civil Engineering, Master of Engineering, University of Nottingham
1 Oct 1997 → 30 Jun 2001
External positions
Adjunct Lecturer, University of New South Wales
1 Jul 2013 → …Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
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Projects 2012 2020
Resilient Integrated-Coupled Wind and Wave Platform Design Methodology (RESIN)
3/07/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Research council
Large-scale laboratory measurements of underwater wave profiles
1/06/17 → 31/05/18
Project: Research-related funding
International Research Initiator Scheme - Remote Sensing of Environmental Impact cause by Anthropogenic Noise
1/09/16 → 1/09/17
Project: Research-related funding
Dynamic Coastal Protection: Resilience of Dynamic Revetments Under Sea Level Rise
Blenkinsopp, C., Masselink, G., Conley, D., Brown, J., Reniers, A., Almar, R., Tissier, M., Troch, P., Gallach Sanchez, D., Mccall, R., Turner, I., Baldock, T. & Hunter, A.
1/07/16 → 29/09/17
Project: EU Commission
shallow water
wave runup
beach
water wave
coast
Research Output 2003 2019
A 3D parallel Particle-In-Cell solver for extreme wave interaction with floating bodies
Chen, Q., Zang, J., Ning, D., Blenkinsopp, C. & Gao, J., 1 May 2019, In : Ocean Engineering. 179, p. 1-12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
A new remote predictor of wave reflection based on runup asymmetry
Almar, R., Blenkinsopp, C., Almeida, L. P., Catalán, P. A., Bergsma, E., Cienfuegos, R. & Viet, N. T., 5 Feb 2019, In : Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 217, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Bore collapse and wave run-up on a sandy beach
Bergsma, E., Blenkinsopp, C., Martins, K., Almar, R. & Almeida, L., 18 Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Continental Shelf Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Breaking wave imaging using lidar and sonar
Bryan, O., Bayle, P., Blenkinsopp, C. & Hunter, A. J., 12 Mar 2019, In : IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Environmental signal shredding on sandy coastlines
Lazarus, E. D., Harley, M. D., Blenkinsopp, C. E. & Turner, I. L., 18 Jan 2019, In : Earth Surface Dynamics. 7, 1, p. 77-86 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Datasets
Dataset for "Breaking Wave Imaging using Lidar and Sonar"
Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Hunter, A. (Creator), Bayle, P. (Creator), Bryan, O. (Creator), University of Bath, 20 Mar 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00623
Dataset
Dataset for "Energy dissipation in the inner surf zone: new insights from LiDAR-based roller geometry measurements"
Martins, K. (Creator), Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 19 Apr 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00461
Dataset
Dataset for "High-resolution monitoring of wave transformation in the surf zone using a LiDAR scanner array"
Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Martins, K. (Creator), University of Bath, 14 Aug 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00540
Dataset
Dataset for "Bore collapse and wave run-up on a sandy beach"
Bergsma, E. (Creator), Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Martins, K. (Creator), University of Bath, 23 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00589
Dataset
Dataset for "The influence of swash-based reflection on surf zone hydrodynamics: a wave-by-wave approach"
Martins, K. (Creator), Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 26 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00466
Dataset
Thesis
Wave transformation in the surf zone
Author: Martins, K., 6 Dec 2017Supervisor: Blenkinsopp, C. (Supervisor) & Zang, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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