Dr. Urs Neumeier Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER) 310, allée des Ursulines C.P. 3300 Rimouski QC G5L 3A1 Canada phone: ++1 - 418 - 723 1986 ext 1278 fax: ++1 - 418 - 724 1842 e-mail: urs_neumeier "at" uqar.qc.ca    (replace "at" by @ )

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• Sediment transport, especially sediment transport in coastal area and under tidal current, influence of mudflat biostabilisation and bioturbation, field experiments with oceanographic instruments, modelisation of cohesive-sediment transport, and the produced sedimentary structures.


• Sedimentology of salt-marshes, including modification of water flow by the vegetation, methods to quantify the vegetation, spatial variability of sedimentation rate and accretion, and spatial extension of deposited sedimentary facies.


• Diagenesis, with special interest in early cementation and carbonate diagenesis.


• Beachrocks: cementation histories, formation mechanisms, composition of interstitial fluids, use of beachrock as paleoenvironment proxy and indicator of past sea-level.

Neumeier U., Friend P.L., Gangelhof U., Lunding J., Lundkvist M., Bergamasco A., Amos C.L. & Flindt M. (in press) The influence of fish feed pellets on the stability of seabed sediment, a laboratory flume investigation. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Neumeier, U. & Amos, C. L. (in press) Turbulence reduction by the canopy of coastal Spartina salt-marshes. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 39 (Proceedings of the 8th International Coastal Symposium), pg – pg. Itajaí, SC – Brazil

Neumeier U., Lucas C.H. & Collins M. (2006) Erodibility and erosion patterns of mudflat sediments investigated using an annular flume. Aquatic Ecology, 40/4, 543-554.

Neumeier U. & Amos C.L. (2006) The influence of vegetation on turbulence and flow velocities in European salt-marshes. Sedimentology, 53/2, 259-277.

Neumeier (2005) Quantification of vertical density variations of salt-marsh vegetation. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 63/4, 489-496.

Neumeier U. & Ciavola P. (2004) Flow resistance and associated sedimentary processes in a Spartina maritima salt-marsh. Journal of Coastal Research, 20/2, 435-447.

Neumeier U., Bernier P., Dalongeville R. & Oberlin C. (2000) Holocene sea-level changes underlined by beachrock features and diagenesis: example from Damnoni (Crete). Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement, 2000/4, 211-220.

Neumeier U. (1999) Experimental modelling of beachrock cementation under microbial influence. Sedimentary Geology, 126, 35-46.

Neumeier U. (1998) The role of microbial activity in early cementation of beachrocks (intertidal sediments).Ph.D. thesis, University of Geneva. Terre et Environnement No 12, 183 p.

Neumeier U. (1998) Tidal dunes and sand waves in deep outer-shelf environments, Bajocian, southeast Jura, France. Journal Sedimentary Research. 68/3, 507-514.

Neumeier U. (1993) Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Bajocian crinoidal limestone of the Combe d'Envers (Gex, Ain, France), M.Sc. thesis, Department of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Geneva, 79 p. (unpublished)