Mr Antony Thorpe

Biography

Mr Antony Thorpe is Faculty of Arts & Humanities Plymouth Institute of Education  Mr Antony Thorpe is Faculty of Arts & Humanities Plymouth Institute of Education 

Research Interest

My PhD is titled 'Sediment Transport and Bedform Dynamics in Rip Currents'.    This has involved extensive data collection at Perranporth on the North Cornish coast. Measurements of suspended sediment concentrations, rip flows, wave and tidal elevation and bedroom dynamics were made with a suite of instruments deployed autonomously on a mobile frame. The mobile frame was deployed into a predetermined rip channel at spring low tides and data were recorded for multiple tidal cycles as the tide ebbed and flooded over the frame. The data presented in the thesis looks initially at the rip system in terms of morphology and flow dynamics to provide context for sediment transport measurements. The second part involves analysis of bedform dynamics, and finally measurements of suspended flux are presented and analysed.    I have started my fourth year on my PhD and hope to be able to hand in by early 2015.