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Links between Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Civil Engineering and HR Wallingford go back some 50 years to when it was the government's Hydraulics Research Station. Over that period, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ have carried out research using the large-scale facilities at Wallingford, HR Wallingford have sponsored projects and research studentships at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, and we have collaborated on Research Council and EU-funded projects. That collaboration continues, particularly in the fields of seabed scour and tsunami research.

Shown in the photograph are Professor Richard Whitehouse, Chief Technical Director, Coasts & Oceans, HR Wallingford, Professor John Harris, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Visiting Professor and Technical Director, HR Wallingford, Marijke de Vet, MSc Civil Engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and now Graduate Scientist at HR Wallingford, Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, MSc researcher at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, PhD researcher at FEUP Porto, and currently working on HYDRALAB+ funded PROTEUS scour experiments using the large-scale physical modelling facilities at HR Wallingford with Professor Whitehouse, Dr Alejandro Hammeken, PhD at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and now CFD Engineer at HR Wallingford, and Professor Richard Simons, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾.