Briefing: Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference 2013

Abstract

On 25–26 March 2013, 52 early career scientists and engineers, studying various aspects of coastal science, met at the University of Aberdeen for the ninth Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference. The conference was jointly organised by the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, and Marine Scotland Science. Early-career scientists, researchers and practitioners presented 23 oral and 17 poster presentations over the 2-day meeting. The papers all had a coastal theme with a large diversity in the subjects covered, including waves, currents, tidal energy, coastal erosion, sediment transport, fluid mechanics and particle tracking. This briefing paper reports on the conference, and presents the keynote lecture and four papers voted to be of especially high quality by the panel of judges.

Editorial

“…Ahead of these papers, we open this issue of the journal with a briefing (O'Hara Murray et al, 2014) on the 2013 UK Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference. This is the third year running we have been able to publish details on this event and we are pleased to be able to continue to offer it the support of this journal.…”