Collaborative methodologies and mapping of National Trust coastal change sites

作为英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰1247公里海岸的保管人，国民信托的使命是按照国家海岸线管理计划和内部可持续海岸管理政策和做法，保护和管理其海岸线。我在北领地的创新项目将结合两个项目（NE/J005541/1 ico助理和NE/P01495X/1 ADJUST1.5）的成果，通过分析在北领地海岸线及其附近运行的自然和人类过程驱动的地貌相互作用，增强北领地科学的影响，这些海岸线可能面临海平面上升和更广泛的海岸变化的风险。澳大利亚北部有一幅关于哪些海岸线受到变化威胁的全国图景，但是需要一种方法来应用于局部尺度来分析地貌过程是如何运作的，以及为什么和何时不利的变化会在更局部的尺度上发生。由于大约25%的海岸是低洼地带，探测海平面上升的影响是一个主要问题。因此，北部地区希望更好地告知他们的管理政策，什么是危险的，为什么和何时。我将通过引入海岸和河口系统测绘（CESM）来概念化连接的河口-海岸-内大陆架沉积物系统，包括自然和人类过程的地貌后果，从而实现这一目标。这将汇集科学知识和利益相关者的知识，形成对沿海场地如何运作的共同理解，从而制定有针对性的沿海管理政策。我将得到伦敦大学学院和南安普顿大学CESM开发人员的支持。我将测试从ico助理到萨福克海岸（ico助理的一个研究地点）的产出，考虑到沉积物细胞中的广泛过程，但将结果指导到北领地拥有的~10%的海岸线。我将与利益相关者联系，以丰富对关键海岸过程的理解，并刺激在海岸上具有多种利益的各方之间的行动。由于新界特别关注海平面上升的早期影响，我将根据CESM的产出，使用一系列海平面上升的情景来分析潜在的影响。这将有助于指出环境变化的驱动因素，哪些土地处于危险之中，何时可能发生，在北部地区长达100年的规划时间框架内。我将在北区（普尔港）拥有的一个试验点上测试CESM，方法是使用现有的自上而下的文献，但也通过参与式方法，与北区和其他利益相关者合作，自下而上地了解流程。我将与NT的工作人员合作，使他们能够欣赏CESM，并有潜力将其应用于全国各地的站点，从而鼓励继续合作。结果，以及北领地学习和理解这一过程的过程，将有助于告知和改进与北领地政策和活动（如转移海岸）相一致的地方管理实践。这可能会改变国家气象局评估地貌系统和管理变化的方式。它将有助于设想长期的变化，与自然环境合作，而不是对抗自然环境。因此，可以以适当的方式分配资源。我的遗产将不仅仅是CESM过程的知识转移（例如，案例研究示例，指导手册），还包括对支持政策和战略的管理选择的审查。我将在内部行动小组会议上反馈我的发现，并向工作人员反馈。我还将通过北区内联网传播我的成果，并酌情通过更广泛的媒体传播。我的实习将通过识别变化和审查整体管理方案带来长期利益，从长远来看，这将有利于更广泛的会员和公众，从而帮助所有利益相关者和民间社会保护海岸。

As custodian of 1,247km of coast in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the National Trust's (NT) mission is to preserve and manage its coastlines following national Shoreline Management Plans and internal sustainable coastal management policies and practices. My Innovation Placement with the NT will enhance the impact of NERC science by combining outputs from two projects (NE/J005541/1 iCOASST and NE/P01495X/1 ADJUST1.5) by analysing geomorphic interactions driven by natural and human processes operating on and adjacent to NT shorelines, which may be at risk from sea-level rise and wider coastal change. The NT has a national picture of what coastlines are at risk from change, but requires a method to apply at local scales to analyse how geomorphic processes operate, and why and when adverse change could occur at more local scales. As approximately 25% of their coast is low-lying, detecting the effects of sea-level rise is a major concern. Consequently the NT would like to better inform their management policies as to what is at risk, why and when.I will achieve this through introducing Coastal and Estuarine System Mapping (CESM) to conceptualise connected estuary-coast-inner shelf sediment systems, including geomorphic consequences of natural and human processes. This will bring together scientific and stakeholder knowledge, creating a shared understanding of how coastal sites operate, leading to development of targeted coastal management policies. I will be supported by CESM developers at University College London and the University of Southampton.I will test outputs from iCOASST to the Suffolk coast (an iCOASST study site), taking account of the broad processes in the sediment cell, but directing results to the ~10% of coastline owned by the NT. I will liaise with stakeholders to enrich understanding of key coastal processes, and to stimulate action between parties with multiple interests on the coast. As the NT are specifically concerned about early onset effects of sea-level rise, I will analyse potential impacts using a range of sea-level rise scenarios, informed by CESM outputs. This will help indicate the drivers of environmental change, what land is at risk and when this may occur, over the NT's planning timeframe of up to 100 years.I will test CESM on a pilot site owned by the NT (Poole Harbour) by using existing literature from the top down, but also through participatory approaches, working with the NT and other stakeholders to understand processes from the bottom up. I will work with NT staff so they can appreciate CESM and have the potential to apply it at sites nationwide, thus encouraging continuing collaboration. The results, and the NT process of learning and understanding of the process will help inform and improve local management practices aligning to NT policies and campaigns (e.g. Shifting Shores). This could transform how the NT assesses geomorphic systems and manages change. It will help envisage long-term change, working with, rather than against the nature environment. Thus resources can be directed in an appropriate manner.My legacy will not just be knowledge transfer of the CESM process (e.g. case study examples, guidance manual), but also a review of management options which support policies and strategies. I will feedback my findings internally in an action group meeting, and to staff members. I will also disseminate my results through the NT intranet, and where appropriate, through the wider media.My placement will have a long-term benefit by identifying change and reviewing holistic management options, which in the long-term will benefit the wider membership and public, so helping towards conserving the coast for all stakeholders and civil society.