Integrating field and laboratory approaches for ripple development in mixed sand–clay– EPS

This work was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under grant NE/I027223/1 (COHBED). DMP received funding from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. AJM’s contribution to this manuscript was partly funded by HR Wallingford Company Research project ‘FineScale – Dynamics of Fine-grained Cohesive Sediments at Varying Spatial and Temporal Scales’ (DDY0523). JM and DRP were partially funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Award (725955).