Dr Martin Single - B.A., M.A.(hons), Ph.D.
Martin Single, an associate of Coastal Systems Ltd, is a coastal geomorphologist with particular expertise in the processes and management of lakeshores and mixed sand gravel beaches; two unique environments which make up an important element of the New Zealand coastline. Martin is a Principal Consultant at Shore Processes and Management Ltd is also a Senior Fellow in Geography at the University of Canterbury where we began working with the Coastal Research Group in 1993.
Management on the shorelines of lakes used in hydro-electric power schemes is a speciality developed by the Coastal Research Group at the University of Canterbury since the early 1970s at Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau. Their work includes investigations of hazards and their mitigation, prediction of shoreline development on existing, new and changing lakes such as Lake Dunstan, and deriving information on lakeshore processes and morphologies for resource consents.
Current applied projects include assessing the effects of deepening the Otago Harbour shipping channel and management of dune areas in Otago, Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay. Martin is a co-author of the MfE Lake Manager's Handbook - Lake Level Management. Recent open coast research has focused on coastal change and sustainable use of the mixed sand and gravel beaches in Canterbury, Marlborough and Napier. This includes work on beach nourishment, gravel extraction and littoral processes adjacent to port facilities.
Martin is an author of over 100 technical reports and has given evidence successfully at all levels of the consent hearings process.
Selected Recent Publications:
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James M, Mark A and Single M, 2002, Lake managers’ handbook: Lake level management, Wellington, Ministry for the Environment. |
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Single M B, 2002, Effects on the shoreline of fast ferries in Tory Channel, New Zealand, Proceedings of the 30th PIANC-AIPCN Congress, Sydney, Australia, pp 770-782. |
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Single M B, 2001, Human impacts on the physical environment, in Sturman A P and Spronken-Smith R A (eds), The physical environment: a New Zealand perspective, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, pp 447-454. |
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Kirk R M and Single M B, 2000, Coastal effects of new forms of transport: The case of the interisland fast ferries, in Memon A and Perkins H (eds), Environmental planning in New Zealand, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, pp 228-233. |
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Single M B and Hemmingsen M A, 2000, Mixed sand and gravel barrier beaches of South Canterbury, New Zealand, in Packham J, Randall, R, Barnes, R and Neal, A (eds), Ecology and geomorphology of coastal shingle, Otley, Westbury, pp 261-276. |
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Kirk R M, Morgan R K, Single M B and Fahey B, 1999, Applied physical geography in New Zealand, Progress in Physical Geography, Vol 23, No 4, pp 525-40. |
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Single M B and Kirk R M, 1999, Coastal change and human processes in Tory Channel, Marlborough Sounds, in Forer P C and Perry P J (eds), Proceedings of the 18th Conference, New Zealand Geographical Society, 1995, New Zealand Geographical Society, pp 118-121. |
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