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Dear all,
The abstract deadline for ECSA 55 has been extended till April 10th (http://www.estuarinecoastalconference.com/index.html).
If you haven’t checked it out yet, this is what we have in store:
Conference Topics
• People and coasts through time.
• Biology and ecology of coastal and estuarine systems: evolution, adaptation and shifting baselines.
• Physical and chemical processes in estuaries and coasts: geochemical, sedimentary, hydrodynamic and geomorphological change.
• Interactions between biological, geochemical and physical processes: fluxes and functions.
• Valuing estuaries and coasts: Shifting social, economic and cultural perspectives.
• Managing challenges: Working towards resilient and sustainable coasts and estuaries.
• Estuaries and coasts in the future: Prediction and adaptation.
• The challenges of heavily modified, industrialised megacity estuaries
Special Sessions
• Creating space for coastal change: sustainability, challenges and successes
• Ecogeomorphology of estuarine systems
• Environmental management of enclosed coastal seas. EMECS SPONSORED
• Estuaries of the world: comparing estuarine ecosystem functioning and management
• Estuarine restoration: from restoring habitats to delivering ecosystem services?
• Everyone is involved in risk assessment and risk management, so how do we achieve good status of transitional and marine waters?
• From rock pool to regional sea – can coordinated multi-scale, multi-pressure monitoring, protect the marine environment?
• How to proceed with analysing, assessing and judging environmental, social, economic and integral networks?
• Long-term monitoring to record change in coastal and transitional waters: what to learn from existing monitoring and data analysis
• Looking back to see forward: long-term perspectives on coastal change
• Modelling of hydrodynamics and sediment transport in estuaries
• Physical, ecological and chemical process interactions in coastal wetlands
• Species redistribution across the globe: processes and patterns of community change
• The role of estuaries and coastal waters in energy generation
• Urban sprawl in the marine environment
Invited Speakers
Bärbel Bischof, Stetson University, USA
Roland Cormier, New Brunswick, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada - Are we managing to maintain the baseline, resilience or sustainability?
Minham Dai, Xiamen University, China - Diagnosing the CO2 fluxes in the land-ocean interface: coupling the physical dynamics and biogeochemistry.
John W. Day, Jr., Louisiana State University, USA - 21st Century Megatrends and the Sustainability and Management of Coastal Systems
Catherine Lovelock, The University of Queensland, Australia - “Blue Carbon” for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Robert Nicholls, University of Southampton, UK - The challenge of climate-induced sea-level rise
Charles A. (“Si”) Simenstad, University of Washington, USA - Confronting the Climate Change Hydra at the Land Margin: Is There Hope without a Hercules?
Stijn Temmerman, University of Antwerpen, Belgium - Tidal wetlands in a changing world: self-organization, sustainability and coastal defense value
Eric Wolanski, James Cook University, Australia - Physics-biology links determining connectivity for fauna and flora at scales of m to 10,000 km
There is quite a buzz about this meeting – it’s going to be a good one. Would be great to see you there!
Many thanks and best wishes,
Sally
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