Coastal changes in historic times – linking offshore bathymetry changes and cliff recession in Suffolk

Executive summary: The coastline of Suffolk, UK has the fastest rate of contemporary recession in the UK, reaching 5 m a-1 locally. Along this coastline historical recession has continued for as long as there is archival data (old maps, Admiralty Charts, anecdotes, diaries, parish records, OS maps, aerial photographs, elevation/bathymetric surveying). There has been much interest focussed on Dunwich (the site of lost churches and historic buildings – once a thriving port) while other cliffs appear to have attracted fewer detailed studies. However, this whole coastal region has undergone considerable morphological change involving both the coastline position as well as the associated nearshore bathymetry. The cliffs between Benacre Ness and Southwold, 7-15 km to the north of Dunwich, are currently characterised by the fastest recorded recession rates in the UK. This study reports the results of a detailed historical investigation of coastline retreat for both Dunwich-Minsmere and Benacre-Southwold. The cliffs of Benacre-Southwold have elevations of between 10 and 15 m above sea level, and stretch for several kilometers alongshore. The geology comprises soft, sandy sediments of the pre-glacial Norwich Crag Formation. Hence recession in these cliffs is particularly important for sediment release into the southern North Sea. Since sources of sediment are highly dynamic, shifting as the foci of cliff retreat changes, continual reassessment of cliff retreat is required and reliance should not be placed on previous studies which fall out-of-date very rapidly in such dynamic settings. In particular, cliff sediments are important for the maintenance of nearshore banks and shoreline features (eg: growth in Sizewell-Dunwich Bank system; movement of Benacre Ness), with feedbacks into continued coastal erosion through regional changes in wave heights and local currents. This study has quantified contemporary and historical retreat rates using the recentlydeveloped Digital Shoreline Analysis System (Thieler et al., 2005), an extension of ArcMap. A new methodology has been derived, combining DSAS analysis of recession rate with Surface Spot data on cliff elevation and extent (using NextMap Digital Terrain Models), to quantify contemporary volumes of sediment released. This has revealed considerable differences in the sediment sources from previously published estimates. The new methodology for rapid assessment of changing location and quantity of sediment sources from retreating cliffs has been used further to assess future sediment sources for the cliffs of Suffolk, where coastal management presents particular challenges. Finally the nearshore bathymetry has been evaluated for the present day and for the past 100 years. Links have been established between the changing bathymetric configuration of the nearshore region and the recent acceleration in cliff retreat, particularly notable in the cliffs of Covehithe and Benacre

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Meeting the Professional Identity Challenge in Legal Education through a Relationship-Centered Experiential Curriculum

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Identification of a prognostic marker in breast cancer by a lectin from helix pomatia (the roman snail)

IDENTIFICATION OF A PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN BREAST CANCER BY A LECTIN FROM HELIX POMATIA (THE ROMAN SNAIL). The aim of this study was to investigate the potential value of Helix pomatia lectin binding to tissue sections as an indicator of patient prognosis in breast cancer. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections of a retrospective series of 373 primary breast cancers diagnosed at the Middlesex Hospital between January 1967 and June 1972 were stained by a simple immunoperoxidase technique for the binding of a lectin from the Roman snail. Helix pomatia. Log-rank life table analyses revealed a highly significant correlation between Helix pomatia lectin binding to primary breast cancers and the clinical course of the disease (in terms of disease free survival and total survival time) over a 15-20 year follow-up period (p<0.00001). Helix pomatia lectin binding was compared with other, established, prognostic markers for which we had data, including lymph node status, histological tumour grade, tumour size, patient age at diagnosis, and S-phase fraction (calculated by the technique of flow cytometry). Multivariate analysis was performed to assess the relationships of these variables. The distribution of Helix pomatia lectin binding substances in crude homogenates of primary breast cancer, breast cancer metastases to lymph node, liver, lung and bone, and a range of other, normal, human tissues was investigated by the technique of S.D.S.-P.A.G.E., in conjunction with Western-style lectin electroblotting. Attempts were made to isolate lectin-binding material from these sources by anion exchange chromatography and lectin affinity chromatography.The purity of isolated substances was analysed by a combination of S.D.S.-P.A.G.E. / Western blotting, and high performance liquid chromatography (H.P.L.C.)

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