Knut Krämer

Report of GLOMAR PhD student Knut Krämer about his participation in the Marine and River Dune Dynamics Conference V (MARID) in Caernarfon, Wales from 4 – 6 April 2016

Thanks to GLOMAR funding, I attended the Marine and River Dune Dynamics Conference (MARID) conference organized by Bangor University in Caernarfon, North Wales. MARID is a small conference with a scientific community focusing on bedform dynamics in rivers, estuaries and shelf seas. With only around 70 attendees, the there was one plenary session which gave me the opportunity to get a good idea about the research in this specific field and opened the floor for some in-depth discussions on methods and results. There were speakers from Asia, Europe and the US including a number of 'big names' in the field.

I gave a 2-minute pitch presentation and had a poster about methods for in situ measurements of ripple dynamics in the German Bight. With the help of the tips I received during the GLOMAR workshop on poster presentations it won the Best Poster Award.

The venue was nicely located in the Menai Straight with a tidal range of more than 4 m and geomorphological properties such as sand banks and inter-tidal sand bars visible at low tide just outside the conference center. After the conference, we went on an excursion and leaned about a dune regeneration project in Newborough where Natural Resources Wales is re-establishing loose sand habitats in an area of vegetated aeolian dunes.

Caernarfon castle

Newborough dune regeneration project