SPEAKERS:
Coastal processes in the nearshore – how energy and seabed material moves in shallow water
Professor Iris Möller, Professor of Geography, Chair of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the British Society of Geomorphology.
Professor Iris Möller is a coastal geomorphologist who researches how physical and biological processes interact at the coast, particularly in the intertidal zone (the area between tidal high and low water). She brings over 20 years of experience of working on the soft east coast of the UK, where she was Deputy Director of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
She uses her insight to work with others within and beyond the discipline of Geography to develop integrative solutions for a coastal environment in which people are protected from flooding and erosion whilst also taking advantage of the many benefits healthy ecosystems and dynamic coastal landforms have for humans. The monitoring and understanding of long-term coastal morphodynamics (the link between coastal landforms and the processes shaping them) forms a key component of her work, as does how we use these insights to adapt to a changed environmental future through climate change, sea-level rise, and altered storm frequency/severity.
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Mr Norman Fullam, Maritime Safety and Environmental Protection Specialist.
Mr Norman Fullam, a blue water sailor, has a lifelong professional association with maritime safety and protection of the marine environment. He held national responsibility for management of maritime communications, search and rescue and marine environmental protection. He also held responsibility for dealing with all aspects of oil and hazardous and noxious substance pollution at national level, extending at times to participation in combined operations at EU level. His role encompassed pollution preparedness, prevention and response, and salvage operations.
Norman is a former member of the Irish Environmental Law Association and the Irish Maritime Law Association.
To complete the picture, he is a former merchant naval officer, a qualified marine surveyor, a solicitor, a fixed-wing pilot and commercial ocean yacht-master. He was Ireland’s national delegate at the International Maritime Organisation, the European Maritime Safety Agency, the Bonn Agreement and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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