Water Research Laboratory Project Engineer Alessio Mariani will attend the 10th International Coastal Symposium that will be held in Lisbon on the 13th - 18th April. The symposium will reunite more the 400 coastal and environmental scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss a broad range of themes from coastal engineering to coastal management and science, climate change and impact of extreme storm events. For a full list of conference themes click here

Alessio will present the paper “Wave Overtopping of Coastal Structures. Physical Model Versus Desktop Predictions”. The paper was co-authored by Matt Blacka, Ron Cox, Ian Coghlan and James Carley, of WRL, and will be published in the Special Issue 56 of the Journal of Coastal Research.

After the conference, Alessio will visit some of the major hydraulic laboratories in Europe including the French SOGREAH Laboratories in Grenoble, and the Portuguese LNEC in Lisbon, Portugal.

Alessio working in the 1m Flume at WRL