Professor Derek Jackson

Professor of Coastal Geomorphology

About Professor Derek Jackson

Derek Jackson is a Professor of Coastal Geomorphology at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, U.K. His research focuses on examining coastal morphodynamics and geomorphology at a number of spatial and temporal scales. Specifically, this includes aeolian (wind blown) sediment transport on beaches and dunes, nearshore wave/sediment transport processes as well as investigating long-term coastal change and storm impacts on coastal systems. He has worked extensively on beaches and dunes of the UK, Ireland, The Caribbean, France, Spain, Portugal, Japan and U.S.A. Professor Jackson acts as advisor to European Union and UK funding bodies and is a peer review college member for the UK Natural Environment Research Council. He has published extensively in the field of coastal morphodynamics and is currently co-director of the Centre for Coastal & Marine Research at the University of Ulster, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Areas of Interest

Disaster impact on coastlines from high energy storm events
response of beach systems to storms
recovery of beach systems from storms
hydrodynamic computer modelling of storm events
wave erosion

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Get in touch

d.jackson@ulster.ac.uk

Twitter (@DerekWTJackson1)

Location

Country of residence

United Kingdom

Countries of operation

Australia,
Caribbean,
France,
Ireland {Republic},
South Africa,
Spain,
United Kingdom

Publications

Multiple projects examining storm impacts of sandy coastlines. CEFAS project currently active investigating Hurricane Irma impact on Antigua and Barbuda, replicating storm event through computer modelling of waves, and the subsequent surface changes of the land and seabed as a result. example publications: Smyth, T.A.G., Delgado-Fernandez, I., Jackson, D.W.T. (2018) Greedy parabolics: How effectively do parabolic dunes steer incident wind flow? PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY (accepted) Cooper, J.A.G. and Jackson, D.W.T. (2019) Coasts in peril? A shoreline health perspective. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE (in press) Jackson, D.W.T., Costas, S., González-Villanueva, R., Cooper, J.A.G. (2019). A global ‘greening’ of coastal dunes: An integrated consequence of climate change? GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE, 182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103026 Guisado-Pintado, E. and Jackson, D.W.T. (2019) Coastal Impact From High-Energy Events and the Importance of Concurrent Forcing Parameters: The Cases of Storm Ophelia (2017) and Storm Hector (2018) in NW Ireland. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE, 7:190. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00190. Dodet, G., Castelle, B., Masselink, G., Scott, T., Davidson, M., Floc'h, F., Jackson, DWT. & Suanez, S., (2019) Beach recovery from extreme storm activity during the 2013/14 winter along the Atlantic coast of Europe. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES & LANDFORMS, 44 (1), 393-40. Jackson, D.W.T., Costas, S. & Guisado-Pintado, E. (2019) Large-scale transgressive coastal dune behaviour in Europe during the Little Ice Age, GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE, 175, 82-91. Gore, S., Cooper, J.A.G. and Jackson, D.W.T. (2019) Spatial variability in beach biogeomorphology in a tropical archipelago. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES & LANDFORMS (in press) DOI: 10.1002/esp.4604 Delgado-Fernandez, I., Smyth, T.A.G., Jackson, D.W.T., Smith, A. and Davidson-Arnott, R. Event-scale dynamics of a parabolic dune and its relevance for meso-scale evolution, JOURNAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 123 (11), 3084-3100. Guisado-Pintado, E. and Jackson, D.W.T. (2018) Multi-scale variability of Storm Ophelia 2017: the importance of synchronised environmental variables in coastal impact. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 630, 287-301. Masselink, G., Castelle, B., Scott, T., Dodet, G., Suanez, S., Jackson, D.W.T. and Floc’h, F. (2016) Extreme wave activity during 2013/2014 winter and morphological impacts along the Atlantic coast of Europe. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 43, 2135-2143.