Karin R. Bryan

I received my PhD in Oceanography at Dalhousie University in 1997. I then received a Canadian NSERC postdoc to work at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. In 2001, I became a Faculty member in Earth Sciences and the University of Waikato. Currently, I conduct research under 4 themes that are related in their aim of understanding the dynamics of sediments and nutrients in the coastal environments, and how these contribute to controlling state changes in the physical environments. These themes are (1) dynamics of the swash and surfzone; (2) beach morphodynamics; (3) nutrient dynamics in estuaries; (4) tidal inlet and estuarine morphodynamics.