8th April Monday 13h00-14h00 Registration 14h00-18h00 Fieldtrip to Loughor Estuary For queries outside registration time, please

go to Rm 139, Wallace Building 9th April Tuesday Speaker 8h30 -9h00 Registration 9h00-9h15 Welcome and Introduction TBC

Wallace Foyer Wallace Foyer

Location Wallace Foyer Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

9h15-9h30

Official opening to the Symposium

Prof. Ian Cluckie

9h30-9h40

Welcome to Swansea University and the College of Prof. Rory Wilson Science Keynote presentation - title to be confirmed Prof. Kenneth Pye

9h40-10h25

10h25-10h45

Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries European Marine Site: problems and pressures, management and Blaise Bullimore measures in a site of European marine conservation importance

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Foyer

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee and Poster presentations Temporal evolution and land use changes of small 11h15 -11h40 Mediterranean estuaries systems in the eastern coast of Mallorca 11h40-12h05 Gloomy prospect or bright future? The stability of cockle populations The impact of increasing saline intrusion upon estuarine and riverine benthic macroinvertebrates

Miquel Grimalt & Joan Estrany

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

Ruth Callaway

12h05-12h30

12h30-12h55

Sally Little , Paul J Wood & David B Ryves Timothy Whitton , Chris Richardson, Colonisation patterns of cockle Cerastoderma edule Jan Hiddink, Stuart Linnaeus (1758) post-larvae Jenkins & Bryan Jones Lunch Towards Predicting the Influence of Freshwater Abstractions on the Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport of a Small, Strongly Tidal Estuary: The Devonshire Avon

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Cafe West, Fulton House

12h55-13h55

13h55-14h20

RJ Uncles , JA Wallace Joint Stephens & C Harris Lecture Theatre

14h20-14h45

Long-term mean annual microphytobenthos chlorophyll a variation correlates with air temperature

Victor N de Jonge, Willem F de Boer, Dick J de Jong & Verena S Brauer Adam Mellor , Stuart Barr & Laurence Rooney Chris Evans & Tim Wright

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

14h45-15h10 15h10-15h40 15h40-16h05

In-Situ monitoring in impounded estuaries Coffee and Poster presentations Historic morphological changes in the Teifi estuary as a guide to future change

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Foyer Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

16h05-16h30

Histological analysis of tissues of fishes dwelling in Naida Abdullaeva & Wallace Joint estuaries of the river Terek of the Dagestan coast of Patimat Lecture Theatre Caspian sea Asadulayeva Round up and introduction to evening workshop Christian Lonborg Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Dining Room B, Fulton House

16h30-16h45

18h30-21h00

Supper and optional evening workshop 10th April Wednesday Speaker

Location Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

9h00-9h03 9h03-9h10

Welcome and housekeeping ECSA- Introduction to the organisation and benefits Prof. Victor de of being a member Jonge Keynote presentation - Nutrient Transport Through Prof. Tim Jickells Estuaries

9h00-9h45

9h45-10h10

Margaret Kadiri , Nutrient dynamics in the Severn and Solva Estuaries Bettina Bockelmann- Wallace Joint in Wales, UK Evans & William B Lecture Theatre Rauen Effects of river damming on estuarine phytoplankton: the Guadiana estuary case study (SW Iberia) Bivalve populations in French Estuaries Coffee and Poster presentations Soft Intertidal Habitat Restoration: GIS and Multi Criteria Analysis as Assessment Tools Rita B Domingues , Ana B Barbosa & Helena M Galvo Jean-Paul Ducrotoy Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Foyer Dafydd Lloyd Jones , Simon Bray, Ilse Wallace Joint Steyl & Elizabeth Lecture Theatre Williams

10h10-10h35

10h35-11h00 11h00-11h30

11h30-11h55

11h55-12h20

Use of LiDAR in the Teifi estuary to quantify morphological change Small Estuary, Big Port progress in the management of the Stour-Orwell Estuary system Lunch Impact of resuspension of cohesive sediments in coastal and estuarine waters on nutrient exchange across the sediment-water interface

Chris Evans & Tim Wright John Baugh

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Cafe West, Fulton House

12h20-12h45 12h45-13h55

13h55-14h20

Gary R Fones , Fay Couceiro, Charlie EL Wallace Joint Thompson & Peter J Lecture Theatre Statham Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

14h20-14h45

Recognising small estuaries in the Water Framework Steve Coates Directive How eutrophic is the Christchurch Harbour estuary, Prof. Duncan A Dorset, UK Purdie Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Saltmarsh Habitat Replenishment a Case Study, Lymington Harbour, Hampshire Round up of Symposium, closing comments and thanks Coffee and Poster presentations ECSA AGM TBC Stuart Lowe

14h45-15h10

15h10-15h35

15h35-15h45 15h45-16h00 16h00-17h30

TBC

Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Morgans Hotel, Swansea City Centre

19h00

Conference Dinner

11th April Thursday 8h30-9h00 9h00-9h10 Registration Introduction and housekeeping

Practitioner's Workshop Speaker Suzanne Grenfell , SEACAMS Location Wallace Foyer Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

9h10-9h20

Welcome to Swansea University

Geoff Profitt , Wallace Joint Swansea University Lecture Theatre Prof. Mike Elliot , University of Hull Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

9h20-10h05

Keynote presentation - title tbc

10h05-10h30

The political background to management in estuaries: what are the priorities for Wales

Welsh Government representative Wallace Joint (Jenny Hartley or Lecture Theatre other)

10h30-10h55 10h55-11h25

Welsh estuaries: legislation, designations and management implications Coffee

Ziggy Otto , CCW & Wallace Joint Swansea Lecture Theatre Metropolitan Wallace Foyer

11h25-11h50

Challenges facing coastal managers (experiences from the ground): Milford Haven Waterway Blaise Bullimore & Wallace Joint Environmental Surveillance Group: twenty years of Mike Camplin , CCW Lecture Theatre partnership surveillance Managing water quality: sources of pollution and plans for the future Managing fisheries in estuaries: dynamics of fish/bivalve stocks Lunch Opportunities for Business: how Swansea University can help Planning for the future: strategies for coastal infrastructure and housing development Ecosystem services: can marine conservation designations help? Hamish Osborn , EA Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Foyer Nicole Esteban, Wallace Joint Swansea University Lecture Theatre TBC Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

11h50-12h15

12h15-12h40 12h40-13h40 13h40-14h05

David Palmer , Cefas

14h05-14h30

14h30-14h55

Richard Unsworth, Wallace Joint Swansea University Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Foyer Margam 318 & 121 Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre Wallace Joint Lecture Theatre

14h55-15h20 15h20-15h45 15h45-16h20 16h20-16h35

Prof. Dominic Understanding coastal change: Estuary response to Reeve, Swansea sea level rise University Coffee Discussion groups Report back from discussion groups Discussion group chairs TBC

16h35 -16h40 Thanks and conference closure

Posters Estimation of net physical transport and residence times in the Bilbao estuary using a box model Regulation of plankton metabolism in a mesotidal coastal lagoon J Duque, F Villate, I Uriarte, I Ameztoy Wallace Foyer & A Iriarte Ana B Barbosa Wallace Foyer

Estuarine wetlands in blocked-valley settings: can we predict the impact of rising sea level?

SE Grenfell , R Callaway, CM Bertelli, AF Mendzil, Wallace Foyer I Tew, MC Grenfell & L Wilberforce

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Final Schedule - correct as of 28 March 2013

Swansea University, Swansea

April 2013

13h00-14h00 14h00-18h00

8th April Monday Registration Fieldtrip to Loghour Estuary, Selwyns Seafoods cockle processing plant, Gower peninsula

For queries outside registration time, please go to Rm 139, Wallace Building 9th April Tuesday Session chair: 8h30 -9h00 9h00-9h15 9h15-9h30 9h30-9h40 9h40-10h25 Ruth Callaway Registration Welcome and Introduction Official opening to the Symposium Welcome to Swansea University and the College of Science Ruth Callaway Prof. Ian Cluckie Prof. Rory Wilson Swansea University Swansea University Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd Speaker Affiliation of speaker

Keynote presentation: Effects of coastal squeeze, Prof. Kenneth Pye managed realignment, land claim and dredging on small estuaries: general principles and British examples Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries European Marine Site: problems and pressures, management and measures in a site of European marine conservation importance Blaise Bullimore

10h25-10h50

CB&E EMS Relevant Authorities Group

10h50 - 11h15 Coffee and Poster presentations Session chair: Prof. Mike Elliot 11h15 -11h40 Temporal evolution and land use changes of small Miquel Grimalt & Joan University of Mediterranean estuaries systems in the eastern Estrany the Balearic coast of Mallorca Islands 11h40-12h05 12h05-12h30 Gloomy prospect or bright future? The stability of Ruth Callaway cockle populations Swansea University

The impact of increasing saline intrusion upon Sally Little , PJ Wood & University of estuarine and riverine benthic macroinvertebrates DB Ryves Hull Colonisation patterns of cockle Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus (1758) post-larvae Timothy Whitton , C Bangor Richardson, J Hiddink, S University Jenkins & B Jones Cafe West, Fulton House

12h30-12h55

12h55-13h55 Session chair:

Lunch Suzanne Grenfell

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13h55-14h20

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Towards Predicting the Influence of Freshwater RJ Uncles, JA Stephens Plymouth Abstractions on the Hydrodynamics and Sediment & C Harris Marine Transport of a Small, Strongly Tidal Estuary: The Laboratory Devonshire Avon Long-term mean annual microphytobenthos chlorophyll a variation correlates with air temperature In-Situ monitoring in impounded estuaries Victor N de Jonge, WF University of de Boer, DJ de Jong & Hull VS Brauer Adam Mellor, S Barr & AFBI L Rooney

14h20-14h45

14h45-15h10

15h10-15h40 Session chair: 15h40-16h05 16h05-16h30

Coffee and Poster presentations Christian Lnborg How eutrophic is the Christchurch Harbour estuary, Dorset, UK? Prof. Duncan A Purdie University of Southampton

Histological analysis of tissues of fishes dwelling in Naida Abdullaeva & P Dagestan State estuaries of the river Terek of the Dagestan coast Asadulayeva University of Caspian sea Round up and introduction to evening workshop Supper and optional evening workshop Christian Lnborg Swansea University Dining Room B, Fulton House

16h30-16h45 18h30-21h00

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10th April Wednesday Session chair: 9h00-9h03 9h03-9h10 9h10-9h55 9h55-10h20 Christian Lnborg Welcome and housekeeping ECSA- Introduction to the organisation and benefits of being a member Keynote presentation - Nutrient Transport Through Estuaries Nutrient dynamics in the Severn and Solva Estuaries in Wales, UK Effects of river damming on estuarine phytoplankton: the Guadiana estuary case study (SW Iberia) Unstable common European cockle (Cerastoderma edule) populations in the Baie de Somme (France) Coffee and Poster presentations Prof. Tim Jickells Soft Intertidal Habitat Restoration: GIS and Multi Criteria Analysis as Assessment Tools Impact of resuspension of cohesive sediments in coastal and estuarine waters on nutrient exchange across the sediment-water interface

Swansea University, Swansea

Speaker Affiliation of speaker Swansea University University of Hull University of East Anglia Cardiff University

Christian Lnborg Prof. Victor de Jonge Prof. Tim Jickells

10h20-10h45

Margaret Kadiri , B Bockelmann-Evans & WB Rauen Rita B Domingues, AB University of Barbosa & HM Galvo Algarve Jean-Paul Ducrotoy University of Hull

10h45-11h10

11h10-11h35 Session chair: 11h35-12h00

12h00-12h25

Dafydd Lloyd Jones , S Bray, I Steyl & E Williams Gary R Fones, F Couceiro, C Thompson & PJ Statham

MarineSpace Ltd University of Portsmouth

12h25-12h50

Dissolved organic matter: an important source of Christian Lnborg & nitrogen and phosphorus in coastal waters Xos A. lvarezSalgadob Lunch Prof. Kenneth Pye Small Estuary, Big Port progress in the management of the Stour-Orwell Estuary system Use of LiDAR in the Teifi estuary to quantify morphological change

Swansea University

12h50-13h45 Session chair: 13h45-14h10

Cafe West, Fulton House

John Baugh

HR Wallingford

14h10-14h35

Tim Wright & Chris Evans

Afon Teifi Fairways Committee Afon Teifi Fairways Committee MarineSpace Ltd

14h35-15h00

Historic morphological changes in the Teifi estuary Chris Evans & Tim as a guide to future change Wright Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Saltmarsh Stuart Lowe Habitat Replenishment a Case Study, Lymington Harbour, Hampshire

15h00-15h25

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15h25-15h50

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Swansea Friends of the Earth

Unconventional gas: unconventional problems for Gareth Clubb & John conventional estuaries Childs Coffee and Poster presentations ECSA AGM Conference Dinner, Morgans Hotel, Swansea City Centre

15h50-16h15 16h00-17h30 19h00

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11th April Thursday Session chair: 8h30-9h00 9h00-9h10 9h10-9h20 9h20-10h05 Suzanne Grenfell Registration Introduction and housekeeping Welcome to Swansea University Keynote presentation: Challenges of Estuarine Management - is the science fit for purpose?

Swansea University, Swansea

Practitioner's Workshop Speaker Affiliation of speaker

Suzanne Grenfell Geoff Profitt Prof. Mike Elliot

Swansea University Swansea University University of Hull MHWESG & CCW Swansea University

10h05-10h30

10h30-10h55 10h55-11h25 Session chair: 11h25-11h50

Twenty years of partnership surveillance: Milford Blaise Bullimore & Haven Waterway Environmental Surveillance Mike Camplin Group Opportunities for Business: how Swansea Nicole Esteban University can help Coffee Ruth Callaway Opening a fishery in a protected area: A case study of the Three Rivers cockle fishery Managing fisheries in estuaries: dynamics of fish/bivalve stocks Jenni Hartley

Welsh Government Cefas EA

11h50-12h15 12h15-12h40 12h40-13h40 Session chair: 13h40-14h05

David Palmer

Managing water quality: sources of pollution and Hamish Osborn plans for the future Lunch Christian Lnborg Welsh estuaries: legislation, designations and management implications Planning for Major Infrastructure in the Marine Environment Ecosystem services: can marine conservation designations help?

Cafe West, Fulton House Ziggy Otto CCW & Swansea Metropolitan Swansea University Swansea University Swansea University

14h05-14h30 14h30-14h55 14h55-15h20 15h20-15h45 15h45-16h20 16h20-16h35

Victoria Jenkins Richard Unsworth

Understanding coastal change: Estuary response Prof. Dominic Reeve to sea level rise Coffee Discussion groups Report back from discussion groups Discussion group chairs Suzanne Grenfell

16h35 -16h40 Thanks and conference closure

Swansea University

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