Thierry Garlan

Thierry Garlan received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of Caen, Caen, France, in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1988, he has been an Expert Researcher in marine sedimentology and sediment dynamics modeling with the Service of Hydrography and Oceanography of the Navy (Shom), Brest, France. From 1988 to 1992, he was in charge of the development of nautical charts of atoll environments from satellite data. Since 2008, he has been the Head of the Department of Marine Geology, Shom. He has been the manager of many research projects concerned with sediment dynamics and funded by the French Ministry of Research or the French Ministry of Defence. He has set up and coorganized many international conferences devoted to marine and river dunes dynamics and to coastal dynamics. Dr. Garlan is a member of two French Expert Committees focused on Solid Earth (Commission Spécialisée Terre solide, CNRS/INSU and GT Terre solide ALLENVI). He was the Lead Chief Scientist for the POSA project.