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Professor Michael Lim

Professor

Department: Mechanical and Construction Engineering

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My research is focused on the interactions between materials, environmental processes, landforms and infrastructure within challenging environments, with particular emphasis on slope behaviour.

My main area of expertise is on investigating the mechanisms that operate in coastal environments and how they interact to shape landforms, habitats and coastal communities. I am particularly interested in rocky coast geomorphology, and the advances enabled through new techniques capable of quantifying complex processes. I have developed and applied approaches to try and better understand slope systems and their relation to impacts in a wide range of environments, from Alpine slopes to the rocky coasts of Svalbard and permafrost thaw complexes in Canada. Much of this research informs my teaching on surveying skills, change detection and analysis, engineering geology, geotechnics and slope geomorphology, hazards and management.

 

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Mechanical & Construction Engineering
Ellison Building, Northumberland Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

My research is focused on the interactions between materials, environmental processes, landforms and infrastructure within challenging environments, with particular emphasis on slope behaviour.

My main area of expertise is on investigating the mechanisms that operate in coastal environments and how they interact to shape landscapes, habitats and coastal communities. I have developed and applied approaches to try and better understand slope systems and mitigate their impacts within a wide range of settings, from automatic detection of debris-flows on mountains slopes to the globally significant controls on the rocky coasts of Svalbard and permafrost thaw complexes in Canada. This research informs my teaching on surveying skills, change detection and analysis, engineering geology, geotechnics and slope hazards and management and enables me to work with an exciting and inpiring community spanning academia, government agencies and industry.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Empowering Indigenous-Led Contaminant Monitoring through Collaborative Partnerships and Two-Way Capacity Sharing, Mercer, L., Pokiak, D., Whalen, D., Lim, M., Mann, P. 23 Oct 2024, In: Arctic Science
  • Instrumentation of Low-Cost IoT Agnostic Data Capturing Platform with Enhanced Sampling and Bandwidth Capabilities for Subsurface Characterization, Khan, M., Martin, J., Lim, M. 11 Oct 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  • Novel multi-scale experimental approach and deep learning model to optimize capillary pressure evolution in early age concrete, Jamali, A., Marani, A., Railton, J., Nehdi, M., Nagaratnam, B., Lim, M., Mendes, J. 1 Jun 2024, In: Cement and Concrete Research
  • Ensuring continuity and impact in Arctic monitoring: a solution-orientated model for community-based environmental research, Mercer, L., Whalen, D., Pokiak, D., Lim, M., Mann, P. 2 Nov 2023, In: Environmental Research: Ecology
  • Slope-Scale Rockfall Susceptibility Modeling as a 3D Computer Vision Problem, Farmakis, I., Hutchinson, D., Vlachopoulos, N., Westoby, M., Lim, M. 23 May 2023, In: Remote Sensing
  • Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring, Mercer, L., Whalen, D., Lim, M., Cockney, K., Cormier, S., Irish, C., Mann, P. 1 Jun 2023, In: Environmental Research Letters
  • A new four stage model of capillary pressure in early age concrete: Insights from high capacity tensiometers, Jamali, A., Mendes, J., Nagaratnam, B., Lim, M. 1 Nov 2022, In: Cement and Concrete Research
  • A New Paraglacial Typology of High Arctic Coastal Systems: Application to Recherchefjorden, Svalbard, Jarosz, K., Zagórski, P., Moskalik, M., Lim, M., Rodzik, J., Mędrek, K. 2 Jan 2022, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • A new predictive skid resistance model (PSRM) for pavement evolution due to texture polishing by traffic, Kane, M., Lim, M., Tan Do, M., Edmondson, V. 1 Aug 2022, In: Construction and Building Materials
  • A New Predictive Skid Resistance Model (Psrm) for Pavement Evolution Due to Texture Polishing by Traffic, Kane, M., Lim, M., Do, M., Edmondson, V. 25 Feb 2022, In: SSRN Electronic Journal

  • Harley McCourt The state and fate of global permafrost. Start Date: 08/04/2024
  • Luca Righetti Start Date: 06/08/2018 End Date: 18/11/2020
  • Samuel Hayes Massive Ice and Coastal Permafrost Dynamics in the Western Canadian Arctic Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 25/06/2020
  • Eleanor Wratten Widescale rates of coastal change in ice-rich permafrost coastlines under specific landfast ice exposure settings across the Northwest Canadian Arctic Start Date: 01/10/2020
  • Bradley Sparkes A monitoring and modelling led investigation into the debris flow geohazard in the west of Scotland Start Date: 15/09/2015 End Date: 24/10/2019

  • Geography PhD September 01 2006
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2011
  • Chartered Geographer CGeog (Geomorph)


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