Dr Matthew Brain - all publications

Chapter in book

• Pradhan, S., Toll, D.J., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Field monitoring of soil-moisture to understand the hydrological response of a road-cut slope. In: Cardoso, R., Jommi, C. & Romero, E. 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020). EDP Sciences; 2020:01029.
• de Vilder, S.J., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J. & Vann Jones, E.C. Forensic rockfall scar analysis: Development of a mechanically correct model of rockfall failure. In: De Graff, J.V. & Shakoor, A. Landslides: Putting Experience, Knowledge and Emerging Technologies into Practice. Zanesville, Ohio: Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG); 2017:829-839.
• Rosser, N.J., Williams, J., Brain, M.J. & Hardy, R.J. Insights into progressive rockfall failure from 4D scanning. In: Leith, K., Ziegler, M., Perras, M. & Loew, S. Progressive Rock Failure 2017 (Extended abstracts). ETH Zuerich; 2017.
• Whadcoat, S.K., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J. & Hardy, R.J. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rockfalls in Hard Rock Coastal Cliffs. In: De Graff, J.V. & Shakoor, A. Landslides: Putting Experience, Knowledge and Emerging Technologies into Practice. Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG); 2017:633 - 644.
• Brain, M.J., Rosser, N.J., de Vilder, S.J. & Tunstall, N. The effects of stress path and strain rate on the confined compressive strength and failure mode of brittle rocks. In: Leith, K., Ziegler, M., Perras, M. & Loew, S. Progressive Rock Failure 2017 (Extended abstracts). ETH Zuerich; 2017.
• Benjamin, J., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Rockfall detection and volumetric characterisation using LiDAR. In: Aversa, S., Cascini, L., Picarelli, L. & Scavia, C. Landslides and Engineered Slopes: Experience, Theory and Practice. CRC Press; 2016:389 - 396.
• Brain, M.J. Compaction. In: Shennan, I., Long, A.J. & Horton, B.P. Handbook of Sea-Level Research. Wiley; 2015:452-469.
• Parker, R.N., Petley, D.N., Densmore, A.L., Rosser, N.J., Damby, D. & Brain, M.J. Progressive failure cycles and distributions of earthquake-triggered landslides. In: Ugai, K., Yagi, H. & Wakai, A. Earthquake-Induced Landslides. Springer; 2012.
• Nawawitphisit, S., Petley, D.N., Rosser, N.J., Lim, M., Brain, M.J. & Waugh, S. Temporal characteristics and controls on landsliding in glacial tills. In: Eberhardt, E., Frose, C., Turner, J. & Leroueil, S. Landslides and Engineered Slopes: Protecting Society through Improved Understanding. Taylor & Francis Group, London; 2012.
• Lim, M., Rosser, N.J., Petley, D.N., Norman, E.C., Barlow, J. & Brain, M.J. Characterising coastal cliff erosional environments: microclimate-rock interactions. In: Williams, A.L., Pinches, G.M., Chin, C.Y., McMorran, T.J. & Massey, C.I. Geologically Active. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, London; 2010.
• Brain, M.J., Rosser, N., Petley, D., Lim, M., Barlow, J. & Norman, E. Dynamic rock strength in coastal rock cliffs. In: Williams, A.L., Pinches, G.M., Chin, C.Y., McMorran, T.J. & Massey, C.I. Geologically Active. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, London; 2010.
• Norman, E.C., Rosser, N.J., Petley, D.N., Lim, M., Barlow, J. & Brain, M.J. Exploring the relationship between tidal duration and energy delivery to a coastal cliff. In: Williams, A.L., Pinches, G.M., Chin, C.Y., McMorran, T.J. & Massey, C.I. Geologically Active. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, London; 2010.

Doctoral Thesis

• Brain, M.J. Autocompaction of Mineralogenic Intertidal Sediments. 2006.

Journal Article

• Swirad, Z.M., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J., Rood, D.H., Hurst, M.D., Wilcken, K.M. & Barlow, J. Cosmogenic exposure dating reveals limited long-term variability in erosion of a rocky coastline. Nature Communications. 2020;11:3804.
• Benjamin, J., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Emergent characteristics of rockfall inventories captured at a regional scale. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2020;45:2773-2787.
• Vane, C.H., Kim, A.W., Moss-Hayes, V., Turner, G., Mills, K., Chenery, S.R., Barlow, T.S., Kemp, A.C., Engelhart, S.E., Hill, T.D., Horton, B.P & Brain, M.J. Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals and Toxicity in Oil Spill impacted Salt Marsh Sediment Cores, Staten Island, New York City, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2020;151:110721.
• Williams, J.G., Rosser, N.J., Hardy, R.J. & Brain, M.J. The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2020;124:2841-2853.
• de Vilder, S.J., Brain, M.J. & Rosser, N.J. Controls on the geotechnical response of sedimentary rocks to weathering. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2019;44:1910-1929.
• Swirad, Z.M., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Identifying mechanisms of shore platform erosion using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2019;44:1542-1558.
• Barnett, R.L., Bernatchez, P., Garneau, M., Brain, M.J., Charman, D.J., Stephenson, D.B., Haley, S. & Sanderson, N. Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2019;203:151-169.
• Vann Jones, E.C., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Alongshore variability in wave energy transfer to coastal cliffs. Geomorphology. 2018;322:1-14.
• Williams, J. G., Rosser, N. J., Hardy, R. J., Brain, M. J. & Afana, A. A. Optimising 4-D surface change detection: an approach for capturing rockfall magnitude–frequency. Earth Surface Dynamics. 2018;6:101-119.
• Kemp, A.C., Wright, A.J., Edwards, R.J., Barnett, R.L., Brain, M.J., Kopp, R.E., Cahill, N., Horton, B.P., Charman, D.J., Hawkes, A.D., Hill, T.D. & van de Plassche, O. Relative sea-level change in Newfoundland, Canada during the past ∼3000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2018;201:89-110.
• Brain, M.J., Kemp, A.C., Hawkes, A.D., Engelhart, S.E., Vane, C.H., Cahill, N., Hill, T.D., Donnelly, J.P. & Horton, B.P. Exploring mechanisms of compaction in salt-marsh sediments using Common Era relative sea-level reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2017;167:96-111.
• de Vilder, S.J., Rosser, N.J. & Brain, M.J. Forensic analysis of rockfall scars. Geomorphology. 2017;295:202-214.
• Brain, M.J., Rosser, N.J. & Tunstall, N. The control of earthquake sequences on hillslope stability. Geophysical Research Letters. 2017;44:865-872.
• Brain, M.J. Past, present and future perspectives of sediment compaction as a driver of relative sea-level and coastal change. Current Climate Change Reports. 2016;2:75-85.
• Sepúlveda, S.A., Petley, D.N., Brain, M.J. & Tunstall, N. The Effect of Dynamic Loading on the Shear Strength of Pyroclastic Ash Deposits and Implications for Landslide Hazard: The Case of Pudahuel Ignimbrite, Chile. Engineering Geology. 2016;205:54-61.
• Swirad, Z.M., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J. & Vann Jones, E.C. What controls the geometry of rocky coasts at the local scale?. Journal of Coastal Research. 2016;75:612-616.
• Brain, M.J., Kemp, A.C., Horton, B.P., Culver, S.J., Parnell, A.C. & Cahill, N. Quantifying the contribution of sediment compaction to late Holocene salt-marsh sea-level reconstructions, North Carolina, USA. Quaternary Research. 2015;83:41-51.
• Vann Jones (née Norman), E. C., Rosser, N. J., Brain, M. J. & Petley, D. N. Quantifying the environmental controls on erosion of a hard rock cliff. Marine Geology. 2015;363:230-242.
• Brain, M.J., Rosser, N.J., Sutton, J., Snelling, K., Tunstall, N. & Petley, D.N. The effects of normal and shear stress wave phasing on coseismic landslide displacement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2015;120:1009-1022.
• Brain, M.J., Rosser, N.J., Norman, E.C. & Petley, D.N. Are microseismic ground displacements a significant geomorphic agent?. Geomorphology. 2014;207:161-173.
• Long, A.J., Barlow, N.L.M., Gehrels, W.R., Saher, M.H., Woodworth, P.L., Scaife, R.G., Brain, M.J. & Cahill, N. Contrasting records of sea-level change in the eastern and western North Atlantic during the last 300 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2014;388:110-122.
• Norman, E.C., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J., Petley, D.N. & Lim, M. Coastal cliff-top ground motions as proxies for environmental processes. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. 2013;118:6807 - 6823.
• Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J., Petley, D.N., Lim, M. & Norman, E.C. Coastline retreat via progressive failure of rocky coastal cliffs. Geology. 2013;41:939-942.
• Barlow, J., Lim, M., Rosser, N.J., Petley, D.N., Brain, M.J., Norman, E.C. & Geer, M. Modeling cliff erosion using negative power law scaling of rockfalls. Geomorphology. 2012;139-140:416–424.
• Brain, M.J., Long, A.J, Woodroffe, S.A., Petley, D.N., Milledge, D.G. & Parnell, A.C. Modelling the effects of sediment compaction on salt marsh reconstructions of recent sea-level rise. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2012;345-348:180-193.
• Brain, M.J., Long, A.J., Petley, D.N., Horton, B.P. & Allison, R.J. Compression behaviour of minerogenic low energy intertidal sediments. Sedimentary Geology. 2011;233:28 - 41.