Program
Note that the published program may be subject to last minute changes. Always check our website for an up-to-date program. The presenters per session will be announced soon!
Keynotes
Dr. Alice Lefebvre
MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Keynote title: Underwater dune morphology and flow dynamics
Dr. Lefebvre research focusses on the interaction between hydrodynamics, geomorphology and sediment dynamics with a particular interest on bedforms. Alice studied geology and oceanography at the University of Bordeaux (France) and Southampton (UK). In 2009, she graduated from a PhD in coastal oceanography at the National Oceanography Center, Southampton. Since then, she has been working at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany. Her primary interest is the complex interaction between hydrodynamics and the morphology of large dune fields, in rivers, estuaries, tidal inlets and shallow continental shelves.
Dr. Giovanni Coco
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) - CSIC
Keynote title: Shaping the Seafloor: Defects, Equilibrium and Open Questions in Small and Large-scale Bedform Research
Giovanni obtained a PhD with a thesis on nearshore morphodynamics at the University of Plymouth (UK). After working at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (USA), NIWA (NZ), the University of Cantabria (Spain) and the University of Auckland (NZ) , he is now at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (Spain). His research uses a variety of approaches that include numerical and data-driven modeling informed by field and laboratory observations.
Dr. habil. Roy M. Frings
Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Keynote title: When rivers act contrary to design: dune scour during extreme floods
Dr. habil. Roy Frings is a lecturer in river morphology and holds a senior position at Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch national water authority. As a physical geographer, he is particularly fascinated by the response of river systems to human impacts. He is an expert on the morphodynamics of the Rhine and Meuse rivers and loves teaching, fieldwork, and occasionally a good Latin dance.