The Unit of Marine Engineering of Rivers and Estuaries (IMARES) is a facility composed of a multidisciplinary group of qualified researchers. The Unit is comprised of agricultural engineers, civil, and surveyors, as well as student assistants that together they achieve a comprehensive work that allows you to generate efficient solutions and quality, as well as a reliable research.

IMARES is committed to the sustainable development of the country, so that their lines of research seek to provide tools to improve the quality of the design of coastal work, and, in turn, make a good management and management of marine and coastal ecosystems.

Among its main features are: - determination of wave conditions and flows extraordinary, flood zones, danger of erosion and sediment transport; in addition to the numerical propagation of the wave and waves of the tide and the design of protection works of the coat, both river and costal.