HR Wallingford scientists Professor Richard Soulsby and Dr Richard Whitehouse are primarily responsible for the work the main aim of which is to develop a generic predictor for the size and extent and type of ripples on the seabed, and how these are affected by sediment characteristics and water depth.

The research brings the knowledge of marine sediment transport bedform prediction, and progress is being made through data mining and interpretation of existing data, to underpin the ongoing collection of specific sediment-acoustic data within the ONR programmes.