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Allan Williams gained a BSc (Hons) in Geography, a BSc in Geology and as a Commonwealth Scholar, a PhD in Coastal Geology. He is a chartered engineer, Member of the Institution of Materials, Mining & Metallurgy, London, UK, chartered scientist and a Winston Churchill Fellow, who has supervised >30 PhD and MPhil students and been external examiner for >25 research students. He has published over 300 papers and technical reports, generated over £2M in research grants, coordinated several international research projects e.g. ‘DUNES' under the EC ELOISE programme. Previously he has held chairs at the University of Glamorgan and Bath Spa University, and been a Research Scholar, at the International Hurricane Centre, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA and an Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand as well as a research scientist at the Universities of Massachusetts and Maryland, USA He is a founder member of MEDCOAST and has been a scientific advisor and consultant to many European universities and EU agencies, for example, the European Commission: Member of the ‘Expert - Evaluator' panel for marine environmental research projects, Committee member of the UK National Aquatic Litter Group (NALG), Scientific Advisor to the DISEPLA Research Group, Instituto Hidrogafico, Lisbon, Portugal, Evaluator for all Portuguese Universities Marine Research Programmes, Fundação para a Ciênciae a Tecnologia, Lisbon, and the UK Councillor for the European Union for Coastal Conservation, He is a referee for a number of leading environmental journals, for example, ‘Jn. of Coastal Research', ‘Ocean and Shoreline Management', ‘Area', ‘Water, Air and Soil Pollution', ‘Coastal Management', ‘Journal of Environmental Management', ‘Shore and Beach', ‘Sedimentology', ‘Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science', 'Earth Surface Processes and Landforms', ‘Marine Pollution Bulletin' and was the joint co-editor for the Journal of Coastal Conservation (2001- 2004);. He has been a plenary speaker at several international conference e.g., ‘Plastic Debris: rivers to sea', Redondo beach, Ca, USA, 2005, and session chair/facilitator at many international conferences/meetings e.g. Medcoast conferences 2001 - present; ICS meeting, Itapi, Brazil, 2004; International Coastal Dunes Conference, Santander, Spain, 2007; and invited lecturer at many international workshops e.g. Innovative Shore Protection Strategies, Massa, Italy, 2007, and also at NATO Advanced Science Series Workshops. Additionally, many consultancies have been carried out e.g. litter for the UK Environment Agency, Croatian bathing areas for the Rome branch of the WWF, offshore wind farms for Hyder Research, UK, coastal structures for Wardell-Armstrong and Partners, UK, Severn estuary sediment inputs for the Severn Estuary Tidal Power Group. Additionally, he has been an expert witness in several law cases involving coastal issues. As a result of his research, he has been invited to appear on several BBC and ITV television documentaries and radio programmes, as well as giving interviews for many newspaper articles. Several seminal journal articles over a 30 year period, e.g. Marine Geology (1971), Jn. Sed. Pet, (1974) are still cited by current researchers. The Council of Europe has recently commissioned him to write children's books about coastal processes - Sammy Sand Grain (2006) & Peter Pebble (2007) which have been translated into 7 languages. Currently a book on ‘Beach Management' has been commissioned by Earthscan. He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Natural & Built Environment in the Faculty of Applied Design & Engineering.

Selected Publications

  • Blakemore, F.B., and A. T. Williams. British tourists' valuation of Turkish beaches using Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods. Journal of Coastal Research, (in press)

  • Tudor, D.T., and A. T. Williams. Important aspects of beach pollution to managers: South Wales and the Bristol Channel, UK. Journal of Coastal Research, (in press)

  • Phillips, M.R., and A. T. Williams. Depth of closure and shoreline indicators: empirical formulae for beach management. Journal of Coastal Research, 23(2), 487-500, 2007.

  • Williams, A T., Sellars, V., and M R Phillips. An assessment of UK Heritage Coasts in South Wales: J, A. Steers revisited. Journal of Coastal Research, SI50, 453-458, 2007.

  • Williams, A.T., Phillips, M.R., and K Banfield. Coastal erosion management, Swansea Bay, Wales, UK. (In), Integrated Coastal Zone Management: the Global Challenge, (eds.), Krishnamurthy, R. R., Glavovic, B. C., Kanne, A., Green, D. R., Ramanathan, A. L., Han, Z., Tinti, S., and T. Agardy, 305-325, Research Publishing Services, 2007.

  • Williams, A.T., and D.T. Tudor. The question of dogs on beaches, Shore and Beach, 74 (4), 1-5, 2006

  • Tudor, D.T., and A. T., Williams. A rationale for beach selection by the public on the coast of Wales, UK. Area, 38(2), 153-164, 2006.

  • Ergin, A., Williams, A.T., and A. Micallef, Coastal Scenery: Appreciation and Evaluation. Journal of Coastal Research. 22(2), 958-964, 2006.

  • Williams, A.T., Ergin, A., Micallef, A., and M.R Phillips. The perception of coastal structures: groyned beaches. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 141, 111-122, 2005

  • Davies, P., Sunamura, T., Takeda, I., Tsujimoto, H. and A. T. Williams. Controls of shore platform width: the role of rock resistance factors at selected sites in Japan and Wales, UK. Journal of Coastal Research, SI39. (ICS 2004), 160-164, 2004

  • Ergin, A., Karakaya, T., Micallef, A., Radic, M., and A. T. Williams. Coastal scenic evaluation: a study of some Dalmatian (Croatia) areas. Journal of Coastal Research, SI39 (ICS 2004), 898-902, 2004

  • Balas, C. E., Williams, A.T., Ergin, A., and L. Koc. Marine litter evaluation in Wales (UK) by fuzzy logic systems, Journal of Coastal Research. SI39, (ICS 2004), 1515-1519, 2004.

  • Williams, A.T., Gregory, M., and D. T. Tudor. Marine debris - onshore, offshore, seafloor. Encyclopaedia of Coastal Processes, (ed.), M. L Schwartz. 623-628, Springer, 2005.

  • Ergin, A., Karaesmen, E., Micallef, A., and A.T.Williams. A new methodology for evaluating coastal scenery: Fuzzy logic systems. Area. 36(4), 367-386, 2004.

  • Tudor, D.T., and A.T. Williams. Development of a ‘matrix scoring technique' to determine litter sources at a Bristol Channel beach. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 10(1/2), 119-127, 2004.

  • Micallef, A., Williams, A.T., Radic, M., and A. Ergin. Application of a novel bathing area evaluation technique - a case study of Croatian island beaches. Jn. World Leisure, 46 (4), 4-21, 2004.

  • Balas, C.E., Balas, L., and A.T. Williams. Risk assessment of revetments by Monte Carlo simulation. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineering, London -Maritime Engineering, Issue MA2, 61-70, 2004.

  • Micallef, A., and A. T. Williams. A novel beach registration/rating scheme: a case study of the Maltese Islands, Ocean and Shoreline Management, 47 (5-6), 225-242, 2004.

  • Williams, A.T., Philipp, R., and K Pond. Aesthetic issues, Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments, Vol. 1 Coastal and Fresh Waters, Chapter 9, 159-167, WHO, Geneva, 2003.

  • Williams, A.T., and Pond, K. Application of guidelines and management options for safe recreational water use, Guidelines for Safe Recreational-water Environments, Vol. 1 Coastal and Fresh Waters, Chapter 13, 189-198, WHO, Geneva, 2003.

  • Williams A. T., and Alvarez R. A. vulnerability assessment as a tool for hazard mitigation, (In), NATO Science Series, Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences Vol. 21, Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis (Editors: A. C. Yalciner, E. Pelinovsky, E. Okal, and C. E. Synolakis), 303-314. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Printed in the Netherlands, 2003.

  • Williams, A.T., Tudor, D.T., and P. Randerson. Beach Litter sourcing in the Bristol Channel and Wales, UK. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 143, 387-408, 2003.

  • Micallef, A., and A T. Williams. Application of Function Analysis to Bathing Areas in the Maltese Islands, Journal of Coastal Conservation. 9 (2), 147-158, 2003.

  • Balas, C.E., Ergin, A., Williams, A.T. and L. Koc. Marine litter prediction by artificial intelligence. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 48 (5-6), 449-457, 2004.

  • Tudor, D T., and A.T. Williams. Public perception and opinion of visible beach aesthetic pollution: the utilisation of photography. Journal of Coastal Research, 19(4), 1104-1115, 2003.

  • Williams, A.T., Davies, P., and A. Ergin. Coastal erosion at the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, UK. Proc. of the 28th International Conference, ‘Coastal Engineering, 2002', (ed.), Jane McKee Smith, 3539-3551, World Scientific, 2002.

  • Williams, A.T., and D.T. Tudor. Litter burial and exhumation: spatial and temporal distribution on a pocket pebble beach. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 42(11), 1031-1039, 2001.

  • Balas, C.E., Williams, A.T., Simmons, S.L., and A Ergin. A statistical riverine litter propagation model. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol. 42(11), 1169-1176, 2001.

  • Williams, A.T. and P. Davies. Coastal dunes of Wales: Vulnerability and Protection. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 7, 145-154, 2001.

  • Williams, A.T., Alveirinho-Dias, J., Garcia Novo, F., Garcia-Mora, M.R., Curr, R.H., and A Pereira. Integrated coastal dune management: checklists. Continental Shelf Research, 21, 1937-1960, 2001.

  • Williams, A. T. and D.T. Tudor. Temporal trends in litter dynamics at a pocket beach. Journal of Coastal Research, 17 (1), 137-145, 2001.

  • Garcia Mora, M.R., Gallego-Fernandez, J., Williams, A.T., and F Garcia Novo. Coastal dune vulnerability classification. The SW Iberian peninsula case study. Journal of Coastal Research, 12(4), 802-811, 2001.

  • Tudor, D.T., Williams, A.T., Randerson, P., Ergin, A., and R. Earll. The use of multivariate statistical techniques to establish beach debris pollution sources. Journal of Coastal Research, 36, 716-725, 2002.

  • Micallef, A., and A.T. Williams. Theoretical strategy considerations for beach management. Ocean and Shoreline Management, 45 (4-5), 261-275, 2002.

  • Blakemore, F.B., Williams, A.T., Coman, C., Micallef, A., and O Unal. A comparison of tourist evaluations of beaches: Malta, Romania and Turkey. Journal of World Leisure, 44(2), 29-41, 2002.

  • Micallef, A., Williams, A.T., and M Casser, Environmental risk assessment of a beach nourishment scheme at St George, Malta. Shore and Beach, Vol. 69 (3), 13-17, 2001.

  • Tudor, D.T., and A.T. Williams. Transect size and other threshold levels in beach litter measurement. Shore and Beach, Vol. 69 (4), 13-18, 2001.

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