The 7-11 Coasts Guide

If you disagree with this list, then propose another site yourself.  These are NOT just online learning resources and there will be an element of surprise because at SLN we are thinking out side the box. 

Holderness or Dorset? - they are both feature strongly. Where else can you study? The Algarve? Australia?  Recommend your favourites.

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1. The Marine and Coastguard Agency  provides you with plenty of reasons for studying coasts with land-lubbers!  The press releases provide you with poigniant stories of people losing their lives or near misses.  Understand the coastal geomorphology allows risks to be assessed. www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-home.htm

2. The University of Hull Geography Department www.herb.hull.ac.uk/erosion/index.htm site is great fun for virtual fieldwork. You can measure how far the coast has retreated and compare old maps will more recent aerial photographs. The LOIS Project www.pml.ac.uk/lois/Education/case.htm has been recommended by Mike Beardmore St. John Fisher RC High, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

3.Humberside from the Air www.averyhill.org.uk and thanks to Pete Humphries for making his fieldwork available. http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nelthorp/room8/intra/geograph/intro.htm

3.The East Yorkshire Coast - has some good images and old maps. www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/index.html

4.The Dorset Coast is a world heritage site. www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/  and there is also the South West Coast Path www.swcp.org.uk/  Try this one on the Geology of the Dorset coastline.  www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/dorlist.htm it has some great images.

5. Raffles Girls School, Singapore have some wonderful fieldtrips to Bali and Australia their home made animations are a delight. http://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/geostudy.html

6. The World Surf Atlas may give you a hook into studying coasts www.wannasurf.com has brilliant maps of surf beaches.  Why does North Cornwall have 48 places and East Scotland only 6. Surfers against Sewage www.sas.org.uk is rich too and a charity trying to clean up coastal waters.

7. Cambridge Coastal Research Unit has many case studies and the academic background http://ccru.geog.cam.ac.uk

8. The East Coast Floods 1953 - The 2003 anniversary website - the seminal event in UK coastal flooding history.  This is both a picture,audio and video archive. It includes an interactive floodmap. http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/dont_miss/floods/index_floods.shtml  and http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/1953_flood.shtml has the weather context.

9.Jump-off Joe has disappeared in less than 100 years - this sequence of images from Oregon is a delight.  http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/pubinfo/jump.html

10. The Natural History of Nova Scotia http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nhns/t7/t7-3.htm has some very good background material for A level on coastal landscapes and it is good to get out of the UK occasionally.

11.   The Great Ocean Road, SE Australia has some magnificent coastal features and the virtual tour on this site is nicely done. www.greatoceanrd.org.au/index.asp

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