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Dr Dougal Lichtman

Job Title
Research Assistant
Site
Liverpool

Biography

Dougal is a coastal oceanographer based at NOC in Liverpool, working on the observation of water level, hydrodynamics, waves, and sediment dynamics. His interests are in remote sensing, cohesive sediment dynamics and bedforms, tidal flats and coastal engineering.

Previous work at Marine Scotland, as part of the Oceanography Group, included extensive survey work in Scottish waters, running near real-time systems for data collection, and the management of the resulting data. Current work includes using SWOT 2D satellite altimetry in the coastal zone and around Greenland, to better understand the oceanographic processes.

Key topics

  • Satellite altimetry
  • Small-scale hydrodynamics
  • Waves
  • Sediment dynamics
  • Tidal flats
  • Oceanographic instrumentation

Committee Memberships

NOC Communications working group
EuroGOOS coastal working group 

Projects

ARIA - AEROSTATS: Aerial Experimental Remote sensing of Ocean Salinity, heaT, Advection and Thermohaline Shifts. Novel aerial instruments for monitoring tipping points in the waters around Greenland (https://noc.ac.uk/projects/aerostats)  

SPLASH: building a coastal overtopping warning tool using in situ measurements, satellite earth observation and data machine learning.

SWOT-UK: The UK contribution to validating SWOT in the Bristol Channel and River Severn, with application to coastal and river management (https://noc.ac.uk/projects/swot-uk. NERC, NE/V009168/1, and UK Space Agency)  

NutSed: exchange of nutrients across the sediment-water interface.

BLUEcoast: Improving our understanding of processes controlling the dynamics of our coastal systems (https://projects.noc.ac.uk/bluecoast. NERC, NE/N015894/1)

LOCATE: Land-Ocean Carbon Transfer (https://locate.ac.uk/)

Commonwealth Marine Economies (CME) Programme - Belize (https://cmeprogramme.org/)

Marine Autonomous Systems in Support of Marine Observations (MASSMO), 4 and 5b (https://projects.noc.ac.uk/massmo/)

SOLSTICE: Sustainable Oceans, Livelihoods and food Security Through Increased Capacity in Ecosystem research in the Western Indian Ocean (https://www.solstice-wio.org)

COHBED: Realistic Sedimentary Bedform Prediction: Incorporating Physical and Biological Cohesion (NERC, NE/I027223/1)

Roles Provided

Coastal oceanographer within the Coastal Ocean group

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Publications

Authors

Solan, Martin; Spencer, Tom; Paterson, David M.; Unsworth, Christopher A.; Christie, Elizabeth K.; Blight, Andrew J.; Brown, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Brooks, Helen; Lichtman, I. Dougal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Wei, Xiaoyan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8407-6958; Li, Xiaorong; Thorne, Pete ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; Leyland, Julian; Godbold, Jasmin A.; Thompson, Charlie; Williams, Megan E.; Plater, Andrew; Moller, Iris; Amoudry, Laurent O.. 2023 Biological–physical interactions are fundamental to understanding and managing coastal dynamics. Royal Society Open Science, 10 (7). 10.1098/rsos.230155

Publication year

2023

Publication type

Article

Authors

Baas, Jaco H.; Malarkey, Jonathan; Lichtman, Ian D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Amoudry, Laurent O.; Thorne, Peter D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; Hope, Julie A.; Peakall, Jeffrey; Paterson, David M.; Bass, Sarah J.; Cooke, Richard D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6205; Manning, Andrew J.; Parsons, Daniel R.; Ye, Leiping. 2021 Current- and Wave-Generated Bedforms on Mixed Sand–Clay Intertidal Flats: A New Bedform Phase Diagram and Implications for Bed Roughness and Preservation Potential. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. 10.3389/feart.2021.747567

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Guerrero, Q.; Williams, M.E.; Guillén, J.; Lichtman, I.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Thorne, P.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; Amoudry, L.O.. 2021 Small-scale bedforms and associated sediment transport in a macro-tidal lower shoreface. Continental Shelf Research, 225, 104483. 10.1016/j.csr.2021.104483

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Hope, J. A.; Malarkey, J.; Baas, J. H.; Peakall, J.; Parsons, D. R.; Manning, A. J.; Bass, S. J.; Lichtman, I. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Thorne, P. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; Ye, L.; Paterson, D. M.. 2020 Interactions between sediment microbial ecology and physical dynamics drive heterogeneity in contextually similar depositional systems. Limnology and Oceanography, 65 (10). 10.1002/lno.11461

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Article

Authors

Baas, Jaco H.; Baker, Megan L.; Malarkey, Jonathan; Bass, Sarah J.; Manning, Andrew J.; Hope, Julie A.; Peakall, Jeffrey; Lichtman, Ian D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Ye, Leiping; Davies, Alan G.; Parsons, Daniel R.; Paterson, David M.; Thorne, Peter D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; McArthur, Adam. 2019 Integrating field and laboratory approaches for ripple development in mixed sand–clay–EPS. Sedimentology, 66 (7). 2749-2768. 10.1111/sed.12611

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Lichtman, Ian D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-2182; Baas, Jaco H.; Amoudry, Laurent; Thorne, Peter D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4261-0937; Malarkey, Jonathan; Hope, Julie A.; Peakall, Jeffrey; Paterson, David M.; Bass, Sarah J.; Cooke, Richard D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6205; Manning, Andrew J.; Davies, Alan G.; Parsons, Daniel R.; Ye, Leiping. 2018 Bedform migration in a mixed sand and cohesive clay intertidal environment and implications for bed material transport predictions. Geomorphology, 315. 17-32. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.04.016

Publication year

2018

Publication type

Article