Organising Committee

The local organising committee responsible for this conference are:

Seb Pitman

  • Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
  • Twitter: @CoastalScoop
  • Seb is a coastal geomorphologist who researches the behaviour of mixed sediment coastal systems

Heather Sugden

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Heather's main research interests centre around the responses of marine biodiversity, specifically benthic invertebrates, to climate change, ocean acidification and stressors.

Chris Hackney

  • Principal Research Fellow
  • Chris researches sediment and water transport through river and delta systems, particularly in South East Asian deltas such as the Mekong, Red and Irrawaddy systems.

Jack Duffy

  • PhD Researcher
  • Jack researches coastal protection, focusing on the role of natural marine habitats in shoreline defence.

Steering Group

The steering group, responsible for the wider YCSEC series of conferences are:

Jenny Brown, National Oceanography Centre

Chris Blenkinsopp, University of Bath

Daniel Conley, University of Plymouth

Nick Dodd, University of Nottingham

Suzana Ilic, Lancaster University

Claire Neil, Scottish Environment Protection Agency