Environmental impacts from large-scale offshore renewable-energy deployment

P Ouro, R Fernandez, A Armstrong… - Environmental …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The urgency to mitigate the effects of climate change necessitates an unprecedented global
deployment of offshore renewable-energy technologies mainly including offshore wind, tidal …

Quality not quantity: prioritizing the management of sedimentary organic matter across continental shelf seas

C Smeaton, WEN Austin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Disturbance of marine sediments results in the remineralization of sedimentary organic
matter (OM) and impacts upon natural burial processes. Management interventions which …

Spatiotemporal variability of suspended sediment concentration in the coastal waters of Yellow River Delta: Driving mechanism and geomorphic implications

H Ji, S Chen, P Li, S Pan, X Gong, C Jiang - Marine Geology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Satellite images have revealed a significant decline in the suspended sediment
concentration (SSC) near surface in the coastal waters of Yellow River Delta (YRD) in recent …

Assessing the potential vulnerability of sedimentary carbon stores to bottom trawling disturbance within the UK EEZ

KE Black, C Smeaton, WR Turrell… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
It is estimated that within the UK exclusive economic zone (UK EEZ), 524 Mt of organic
carbon (OC) is stored within seabed sediment. However, the stability and potential …

Stratigraphic and palaeo-geomorphological evidence for the glacial-deglacial history of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the north-western Irish Sea

G Michel, M Coughlan, R Arosio, AR Emery… - Quaternary Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
During its maximum extent around 25–23 ka BP, the British-Irish Ice Sheet extended to near
the present-day shelf break with a large ice stream, the Irish Sea Ice Stream, occupied much …

Characterizing seabed sediments at contrasting offshore renewable energy sites

P Amjadian, SP Neill, V Martí Barclay - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Due to the impacts of climate change, there is an urgent need to scale up existing, and
develop novel, renewable energy technologies. Although there are many types of …

[HTML][HTML] Geological and geotechnical characterisation of soft Holocene marine sediments: A case study from the north Irish Sea

M Coughlan, A Trafford, S Corrales, S Donohue… - Engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The seabed of the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt (north Irish Sea) comprises a thick sequence
of fine-grained Holocene marine sediments that overlay complex glacial deposits. The …

[HTML][HTML] Using difference modelling and computational fluid dynamics to investigate the evolution of complex, tidally influenced shipwreck sites

J Majcher, R Quinn, T Smyth, R Plets, C McGonigle… - Ocean …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The large number of historic metal-hulled shipwrecks on the seabed is a major
consideration for the marine environment, heritage management and spatial planning. Their …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots of microplastic accumulation at the land-sea transition and their spatial heterogeneity: The Po River prodelta (Adriatic Sea)

C Pellegrini, F Saliu, A Bosman, I Sammartino… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Deltas are the locus of river-borne sediment accumulation, however, their role in
sequestering plastic pollutants is still overlooked. By combining geomorphological …

[HTML][HTML] Development and dynamics of sediment waves in a complex morphological and tidal dominant system: southern Irish Sea

S Creane, M Coughlan, M O'Shea, J Murphy - Geosciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
With the recent push for a transition towards a climate-resilient economy, the demand on
marine resources is accelerating. For many economic exploits, a comprehensive …