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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Good to speak with ITV today about the beach reprofiling works at Newbiggin. Despite some speculation, this isn’t an emergency response to recent storms but planned coastal management and a routine part of maintaining a defended coastline.

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our new paper out in *Applied Geochemistry*: erosion of historic colliery spoil on the Durham coast is still releasing ~6.6 tonnes of arsenic into the North Sea every year. This flux is comparable to, or exceeds, many regulated industrial discharges. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Processes affecting pollution fluxes during the coastal erosion of legacy colliery wastes

The fate and behaviour of legacy coastal waste deposits are of concern due to the potential for future climate change to increase contaminant fluxes f…

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New research bulletin published by CL:AIRE detailing our work to understand the fate and mobility of legacy waste in the coastal zone, following the conclusion of the NERC highlight topics grant: claire.co.uk/legacy-waste... @ncl-geography.bsky.social

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Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering @ Newcastle Uni @sagencl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Research led by Newcastle University and the National Trust found that restoring a straightened, engineered channel to a more natural form significantly delayed the movement of flood waters downstream. Read more: tinyurl.com/344exsya

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A challenge for students on the @ncl-geography.bsky.social Netherlands fieldtrip today with ~1m storm surge completely inundating de Slufter field site - great resilience reconsidering what was possible, and retargeting some of their project work. Fantastic to show this dynamic environment in flood!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A very different view of the beach this afternoon after the rain!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

WWII pillbox at Blast Beach left with part of the structure hanging mid-air after the beach level dropped around it. Footage from today’s post-winter survey shows significant beach rotation, eroding the south and accreting the north @ncl-geography.bsky.social #geoscience #earthscience

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🌊 Storm Babet impacted large parts of the North East. Using high-resolution wave modelling, we can now simulate wave heights and energy across the full event and apply the same approach to past and future storms to better understand coastal impacts. #WaveModelling #StormBabet #CoastalScience

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Our first results from analysing your #CoastSnapNewbiggin submissions. It’s been a pretty energetic winter in the North East, and so overall we’ve seen retreat (with lots of variability - albeit corrected for tide). Keep the submissions coming! @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Keep your eye out at the coast for our #CoastSnap locations - tracking coastal change through #CitizenScience. A day surveying in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland today so we can turn your fantastic submissions so far into quantitative outputs of shoreline change @ncl-geography.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Spent yesterday hosted by Hartlepool Golf Club discussing the loss of their signature links holes as a result of a beck at the top of the beach cutting back the dunes. Interesting and exciting to explore collaboration, as well as research and monitoring opportunities @ncl-geography.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Our new study in Water looks at how “forever chemicals” (those that do not break down for centuries) are being released through coastal erosion of old landfills. We studied one such site to show how climate driven shoreline change releases long buried contaminants www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/18...

Figure from the paper showing the eroding faces of coastal legacy landfill locations

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A beautiful crisp day at the beach today doing a laser scanner install, and a camera install for PhD Student Ellie @geospatialcdt.bsky.social with @rockavalanches.bsky.social @ncl-geography.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Catching the tail end of #StormGoretti up here along the colliery coast. Blowing out the cobwebs this morning with my crazy spaniels after a blissful few weeks on paternity leave!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Excellent time learning to model compound flood events at @deltares.bsky.social today. Hugely grateful for @ncl-geography.bsky.social Impact Funding, meaning we can now incorporate this work into the Durham Heritage Coast plans over the coming years!

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Newcastle University Geography @ncl-geography.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hello! We're the new Bluesky account for Geography at Newcastle University (UK). We'll be sharing new, updates, reflections, projects and more from Geography staff, postgraduates, and students.

One of our Geography corridors in the Henry Daysh Building at Newcastle University

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Feels good to be back at Blast Beach! Full site survey ahead of winter storm season @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And finally, a trip to climb St Mary’s lighthouse to draw the conference to a close. Thanks to all the delegates for an excellent few days. Now off to the ferry terminal to start our Netherlands Physical Geography field course for a week!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks to everyone attending the YCSE Conference at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Yesterday was an excellent day of talks ranging from gravel, to kelp, to tsunamis, and today we head to St Mary’s Lighthouse for a conservation talk and lighthouse climb!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A beautiful morning setting up for today’s Young Coastal Scientists’ & Engineers’ Conference here at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Dove Marine Lab! We’re delighted to welcome 30 early career researchers and practitioners to our little corner of paradise!! @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

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Emeritus Prof. Andy Russell @floodpower.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#Jökulhlaup en route through #Skeiðarárjökull from #Grímsvötn subglacial lake. en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne... Some photos of the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets on the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022.

Photo of the eastern margin of Skeiðarárjökull taken in April 2022 showing the 2021 Grímsvötn jökulhlaup outlets (Photo: Andy Russell)

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Delighted to give this new research a bit of an airing today on the #QRA2025 field trip to Blast Beach - thanks for the invite to talk @iceybethan.bsky.social

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Professor Bob Kirk was a pioneer in mixed sediment beach research and many of his findings, thoughts, theories and ideas still drive the direction of research today. Delighted to contribute in a small way to this memorial piece in NZ Coastal News: www.coastalsociety.org.nz/assets/Uploa...

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We have extended abstract submission for the UK Young Coastal Scientist & Engineers’ Conference until the end of the month! We’re excited to hear about your research - take a look at conference details here: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/ycsec2025/ Please pass on to any early career coastal colleagues!

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Abstract submission closes on 20th December for the UK Young Coastal Scientist and Engineers Conference, being held in Newcastle 3-4th April 2025, full details here: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/ycsec2025/

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Another day, another science Starter Pack! Here's a list of amazing #coastal scientists and engineers working in coastal hazards 🌩️, erosion 🌊, geomorphology 🏖️, imaging 📸, remote sensing 🛰️, ecology 🪸 and more! Would love to add more - please tag anyone who is missing! 🙏 go.bsky.app/6GpjiDf

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Seb Pitman @coastalscoop.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Our new paper looks at the long term changes we’ve seen on the Durham coast. The polluted beaches were made famous by the Michael Caine film, which ironically gives us some of the best contemporaneous imagery of what the sites used to be like … www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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