Meet the editor

Professor Andrew J. Manning is a principal scientist (rank grade 9) in the Coasts and Oceans Group at HR Wallingford, UK, who has more than twenty-three years of scientific research experience in both industry and academia examining natural turbulent flow dynamics, fine-grained sediment transport processes, and assessing how these interact. He also lectures in Coastal and Shelf Physical Oceanography at the University of Plymouth,

UK. Internationally, Professor Manning has been appointed visiting/adjunct/guest professor at five universities and is a highly published and world-renowned scientist in depositional sedimentary flocculation processes. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and recipient of a 2007 UoP Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship and 2015 Exemplary Act Award from the United States Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey. He has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in marine science, of which more than 50 have been published in international scientific journals. He also has more than 140 articles in refereed international conference proceedings to his credit. Professor Manning supervises graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students on a range of research topics in marine science. He has led numerous research projects investigating sediment dynamics in aquatic environments around the world, including estuaries, tidal lagoons, river deltas, salt marshes, intertidal, coastal waters, and shelf seas.
