JUNE GAINZA
Since early on, June has been passionate about nature and especially the marine environment. At 16 she started scuba diving and exploring the unknown world hidden in the ocean. Her desire to discover the world saw her participating in various environmental volunteering programs in Canada, Egypt Red Sea, Indonesia, Iceland....
It was during her last year of completing a degree in Marine Science in the Canary Islands that she realised her love for coastal engineering. Following a master’s degree in Ports and Coastal Engineering, she was awarded the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship. She spent 6 months at the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management on the Gold Coast studying Coastal vulnerability and progress in climate change adaptation in south-east Queensland.
Back in Spain, she returned to university at IHCantabria as a PhD student, researching beach stability and long term shoreline modelling. During that time she also worked on consultancy and research projects and taught several subjects related to coastal processes.
Always looking forward to new challenges, June loves thinking about new methodologies to solve numerical problems and trying to understand the morphodynamics and hydrodynamics of our beaches.
