Role
Qualifications & background
Feb 2005: Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Plymouth, UK
Teaching interests
Stage 1
Techniques for Ocean Science
Stage 2
Scientific Diving
Field week
Stage 3
Beaches and Coasts
Honours project module leader
Integrating module
Stage 3 Tutor for Ocean Science students
MSc
Oceangography and Sedimentation for Hydrographers
Research interests
Analysis and interpretation of large scale (spatial and temporal) coastal hydrodynamic and morphodynamic data sets.
Use of Electro-optical imaging for the remote sensing of nearshore coastal systems
Application and utility of complex adaptive system approaches for studying coastal systems ... in particular the use of Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation.
Research informed teaching and enhancement of the student learning experience through programming
Grants & contracts
Gresty, Kingston and Auburn. Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund. "The Plymouth Student Scientist". Feb 2007- Jan 2009. £55,000
Kingston. NERC New Investigator Award. "Land Based Multispectral Monitoring of the Nearshore Environment". Oct. 2004 - Mar. 2007. £50,342
Publications
M.W.J Smit, S.G.J. Aarninkhof, K.M. Wijnberg, M. González, K.S. Kingston, H.N. Southgate, B.G. Ruessink, R.A. Holman, E. Siegle, M. Davidson and R. Medina, 2007, 'The role of video imagery in predicting daily to monthly coastal evolution', Coastal Engineering, Vol. 54, No. 6-7, pp 539-553
Plant, N.G., Aarninkhof, S.G.J., Turner, I. and Kingston, K.S., 2007, ‘The Performance of Shoreline Detection Models Applied to Video Imagery’, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp 658-670
Woodd-Walker, R.S., Kingston, K.S. and Gallienne, C.P., 2001, ‘Using Neural Networks to Predict Surface Zooplankton Biomass Along a 50°N to 50°S Transect of the Atlantic, Journal of Plankton Research, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp 875-888
Davidson, M.A., Kingston, K.S. and Huntley, D.A., 2000, ‘New Solution for Directional Wave Analysis in Reflective Wave Fields’, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 4, pp 173-181
Kingston, K.S., Ruessink, B.G., Van Enckevort, I.M.J. and Davidson, M.A., 2000, ‘Artificial Neural Network Correction of Remotely Sensed Sandbar Location’, Marine Geology, Vol. 169, No. 1-2, pp 137-160
Ruessink, B.G., Van Enckevort, I.M.J., Kingston, K.S., and Davidson, M.A., 2000, ‘Analysis of Observed Two- and Three-Dimensional Nearshore Bar Behaviour’, Marine Geology, Vol. 169, No. 1-2, pp 161-183
Kingston, K.S. and Davidson, M.A., 1999, ‘Artificial Neural Network Model of Sand Bar Location for a Macro-Tidal Beach, Perranporth, UK’, IAHR Symposium on River Coastal and Estuarine Modelling, Genoa, Italy, pp 227-236
Kingston, K.S. and Davidson, M.A., 2001, ‘A Parametric Morphologic Descriptor for Nearshore Sandbar Features’, Proceedings of 4th Conference on Coastal Dynamics '01, ASCE, Lund, June 11-15, pp 673-682
Mallet, C., Kingston, K.S., Davidson, M.A. and Huntley, D.A., 2000, ‘The Use of Video in the Study of Sandbar Dynamics, International Workshop “Marine Sandwave Dynamics”, 23-25 March 2000, Lille, France.
Ruessink, B.G., van Enckevort, I.M.J. and Kingston, K.S., 1999, ‘Characteristics of Alongshore Nonuniform Sandbar Behaviour’, Published as a supplement to EOS, Transactions, AGU, Vol. 80, No. 46, pp F538
Additional information
Convenor of the Coastal Processes Research Group (CPRG)
Member of the Centre for Coastal Dynamics & Engineering (C-CoDE) Steering Commitee
