“Safeguarding our seas and shores – a conversation” is the title of a public meeting hosted by Blue Ireland in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin on March 3rd.
Keynote speakers at the event will be Prof Iris Möller, who is chair of geography at Trinity College, Dublin, and Norman Fullam, maritime safety and environmental protection specialist.
Blue Ireland is an association of citizens’ groups with a shared vision to protect Irish seas, in light of government plans for vast offshore wind development around the Irish coast.
Prof Iris Möller is a coastal geomorphologist who researches how physical and biological processes interact at the coast, particularly in the intertidal zone (the area between tidal high and low water).
She brings over 20 years of experience working on the southeast coast of the UK, where she was Deputy Director of the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
She will speak at the meeting on the theme of “ Coastal processes in the nearshore - how energy and seabed material moves in shallow water”.
Norman Fullam, a blue water sailor, former merchant naval officer, solicitor and pilot, held national responsibility for management of maritime communications, search and rescue and marine environmental protection.
He is a former member of the Irish Environmental Law Association and the Irish Maritime Law Association.
The title of his talk is “Why are Dubliners in the dark about offshore wind projects?”
The public meeting takes place in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, on March 3rd at 7.30pm.
