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]]>Presently I am focusing on the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, a WW2 liberty ship, which wrecked after becoming stranded on a sandbank off the Sheerness. The hull still contains some 3,000 tonnes of ammunitions; maritime archaeologists are therefore concerned with the stability of this ship. Since 1995 the wreck has undergone near annual multibeam bathymetry surveying, this has provided an exceptional time-series of the changes in the seabed height.
As well as using this field data to describe the site, I am also drawing on my oceanographic background in order to account for the site stability observed in the bathymetry time-series. This includes measurements of the local tidal and wave-induced currents.
As part of the MOOC, I shall be introducing the concepts of geophysical surveying and describing a few case studies, including the Richard Montgomery.
I you would like to follow my future research you can follow me on twitter @Amelia_Astley.
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