Coastal and marine studies in the department of geography and environment at the University of Aberdeen

David R. Green

doi:10.1080/14702541.2019.1695893

Coastal and marine studies in the department of geography and environment at the University of Aberdeen

David R. Green^*

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The Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen has a long history of coastal and marine teaching and research from the 1960s to the present day. Beginning with the work of Walton and latterly Ritchie, the paper traces the coastal and marine studies in the Geography degree programme, the development of the Marine and Coastal Resource Management degree, and the introduction of more recent courses such as Managing Our Coasts and Seas, Hydrography, and Land and Marine Conservation. Establishment of the Centre for Marine and Coastal Zone Management (CMCZM), and later the Aberdeen Institute for Coastal Science and Management (AICSM), provided a clear focus for continuing academic research into integrated coastal management and marine spatial planning. This complemented long-term involvement with Shell, SOTEAG (Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group), the Association for Geographic Information (AGI), OceanLab, the EUCC, and several Scottish coastal fora. The creation of the Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV)/Unmanned Airborne System (UAS) Centre for Environmental Monitoring and Mapping (UCEMM) in 2014 brought together the role of remote sensing, GIS and photogrammetry in monitoring, mapping and modelling the coastal environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	257-266
Number of pages	10
Journal	Scottish Geographical Journal
Volume	135
Issue number	3-4
Early online date	9 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2019.1695893
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2019

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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Professor William Ritchie for providing valuable information for inclusion in this paper and for his continuing support for the work we undertake in the University of Aberdeen. Also, I would like to express my appreciation to the late Dr John Smith for opening my eyes to the coastline of Scotland, and for all those wonderful field excursions. It was a privilege to experience his perspectives on human and physical aspects of the coast as well as his insights into the history, culture and geology which he conveyed with the passion and enthusiasm of a true geographer and academic; a much-missed colleague.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Keywords

Coastal
geomorphology
GIS
marine
remote sensing

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