On June 17th, 2016 was closed at the headquarters of Granada of the «III CEIMAR International Summer School Estuarine and Nearshore Systems: From Fundamentals to Cutting-Edge Knowledge» Interuniversity Institute Earth System in Andalusia (Iist), organized by the University of Granada and the Aula del Mar (CEIMAR) with the collaboration of the University of Utrecht.

The school was attended by 22 students of Master, Doctoral and Postdoctoral specialized in civil engineering, ecology, oceanography and coastal morphodynamic coastal physics, originating from many different institutions in Asia, America and Europe.

During the two weeks of school, students received specialized in hydrodynamics, morphodynamics and ecology (mainly estuaries, continental shelves and sandy beaches and gravel) through thematic seminars, tutored practice, experiments in laboratories Iist and coastal systems training field practice on the ship SAR Mastelero in the Granada coast.

These activities were directed by Professors Andrea D’Alpaos (U. Padova), Huib E. de Swart (Utrecht U.), Javier Ruiz (Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia), Gerd Masselink (U. Plymouth), Sandro Longo ( U. Parma), Henk Schuttelaars (U. Delft) and Miguel Ortega-Sanchez and Manuel Díez-Minguito (U. Granada), internationally renowned experts in their respective fields of research.

And from the organizing committee we would like to thank everyone for their participation in this event again, stimulating in the scientific and personally. Thank you very much for everything and success in your present and future career.

 
Sincerely,
The organizing committee.

For more information about the school, you can visit the website or contact http://gdfa.ugr.es/summerschool16/ the organization seagrass@ugr.es.