Cork County Council and MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at University College Cork have agreed a pioneering partnership that will see the entire coast of Cork assessed and mapped for coastal erosion.
The three and a half year project will see the UCC researchers conduct a detailed review of the 1199km Cork coast to assess areas that are vulnerable to coastal erosion.
The projects outputs will inform the future planning of coastal management along the Cork coastline and the development of coastal management activity in the future.
In welcoming the project, the Mayor of County Cork, Cllr Danny Collins highlighted how: “Cork County is renowned for its coastline which is one of our greatest assets. It is vital that we work together and bring the information that has been prepared by various agencies into a single format that can be measured, tracked and used to make informed decisions on any necessary future activity.”
The project will comprehensively collect and capture all existing available information relating to coastal erosion along the county’s coastline and map it in a specific geographic information system. A monitoring and modelling programme will also be developed in order to acquire a greater understanding of the coastline behaviour and use this information as a possible precursor to engineering works.
