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Research interests
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 doctoral students
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Remote sensing of coastal processes
- Coastal hydrodynamics
- Coastal sediment transport
- Wave breaking.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Coastal Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
1 Oct 2002 → 1 Nov 2006
Award Date: 1 Apr 2007
Civil Engineering, Master of Engineering, University of Nottingham
1 Oct 1997 → 30 Jun 2001
Award Date: 1 Jun 2001
External positions
Adjunct Lecturer, University of New South Wales
1 Jul 2013 → …
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Projects
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Dynamic Revetments: Nature’s template for sustainable coastal protection
3/08/20 → 27/09/21
Project: UK charity
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Resilient Integrated-Coupled Wind and Wave Platform Design Methodology (RESIN)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
3/07/17 → 2/01/21
Project: Research council
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Waves in Shallow Water
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/02/16 → 8/10/17
Project: Research council
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Hydrodynamic Performance and Survival of the OWC Wave Energy Device
Zang, J., Blenkinsopp, C. & Hillis, A.
1/05/14 → 30/04/16
Project: Research council
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Monitoring deformations of infrastructure networks: A fully automated GIS integration and analysis of InSAR time-series
Macchiarulo, V., Milillo, P., Blenkinsopp, C. & Giardina, G., 5 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Structural Health Monitoring.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-Temporal InSAR for transport infrastructure monitoring: Recent trends and challenges
Macchiarulo, V., Milillo, P., Blenkinsopp, C., Reale, C. & Giardina, G., 19 Jan 2022, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engineering.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new approach for scaling beach profile evolution and sediment transport rates in distorted laboratory models
Bayle, P. M., Beuzen, T., Blenkinsopp, C. E., Baldock, T. E. & Turner, I. L., 31 Jan 2021, In: Coastal Engineering. 163, 103794.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Author Correction: High-resolution, large-scale laboratory measurements of a sandy beach and dynamic cobble berm revetment (Scientific Data, (2021), 8, 1, (22), 10.1038/s41597-021-00805-1)
Blenkinsopp, C. E., Bayle, P. M., Conley, D. C., Masselink, G., Gulson, E., Kelly, I., Almar, R., Turner, I. L., Baldock, T. E., Beuzen, T., McCall, R. T., Rijper, H., Reniers, A., Troch, P., Gallach-Sanchez, D., Hunter, A. J., Bryan, O., Hennessey, G., Ganderton, P., Tissier, M. & 2 others, , 15 Mar 2021, In: Scientific Data. 8, 1, 86.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Behaviour and performance of a dynamic cobble berm revetment during a spring tidal cycle in North Cove, Washington State, USA
Bayle, P. M., Kaminsky, G. M., Blenkinsopp, C. E., Weiner, H. M. & Cottrell, D., 31 Aug 2021, In: Coastal Engineering. 167, 103898.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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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
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Dataset for "Energy dissipation in the inner surf zone: new insights from LiDAR-based roller geometry measurements"
Martins, K. (Creator), Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Deigaard, R. (Researcher) & Power, H. E. (Data Collector), University of Bath, 19 Apr 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00461
Dataset
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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
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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
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Dataset for "The influence of swash-based reflection on surf zone hydrodynamics: a wave-by-wave approach"
Martins, K. (Creator), Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Almar, R. (Researcher) & Zang, J. (Researcher), University of Bath, 26 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00466
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