Acknowledgements

This conference, and these proceedings, are primarily team efforts. We must therefore thank all the authors, particularly those who responded most rapidly and responsively to the reviewers. And to those reviewers, we owe the largest debt of gratitude. All unpaid, often taking papers to the 4^th or 5^th revision, and hence re-reviewing, it is to the Conference Committee members that we owe the greatest thanks:

• William Allsop (HR Wallingford and University of Southampton)

• Kevin Burgess (Halcrow/CH2MHill)

• Tom Bruce (University of Edinburgh)

• Chris Patterson (Jacobs Engineering)

• Tony Camilleri (Mackley Construction)

• Phil Barber (Shoreline Management Partnership)

• Steve McFarland (Aberdeenshire Council, now SEPA)

• Jim Hutchinson (Environment Agency)

• Alice Johnson (Royal Haskoning)

• Rosalind Turner (Mott Macdonald)

• Stephen Richardson (HR Wallingford)

• Simon Burchett (Atkins, now WSP)

• Ian Bryden (University of Edinburgh, now University of the Highlands and Islands)