ECSA 57: Changing estuaries, coasts and shelf systems - Diverse threats and opportunities
3-6 September 2018 | Pan Pacific Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
Welcome to ECSA’s next major symposium, ECSA 57: Changing estuaries, coasts and shelf systems - Diverse threats and opportunities, which will take place from the 3-6 September 2018 in Pan Pacific Perth, Perth, WA, Australia.
The structure and functioning of our estuaries and seas are shifting due to diverse drivers from local to global scales. The resulting threats to these systems are often all too apparent, yet such changes can also present new opportunities. The challenge is to harness these opportunities through new ways of thinking, scientific developments, innovative technology and more effective integration of science and management.
Conference Topics:
1. Environment
General Sessions
a. Land - ocean linkages
b. Coastal morphodynamics and sediment transport
c. Oceanography and physical-biological coupling
d. Biogeochemistry, element cycling and greenhouse gas dynamics
Special Sessions
e. Coastal wetland vulnerability: Climate change, anthropogenic pressures, and extreme events
f. Similarities, stressors and sustainability of southern hemisphere estuaries on wave-dominated coasts
g. Changing sea levels and changing tides
h. Forecasting physical-biological processes: advances in monitoring, modeling and validation
i. Acid sulfate soils in coastal ecosystems: Impact of anthropogenic and natural activities
j. Coastal response to a changing climate
k. Greenhouse gasses: Production, uptake, and emission
2. Biodiversity
General Sessions
a. Genetic diversity and adaptation
b. Population dynamics
c. Connectivity (e.g. energy, genes, habitats and disease)
d. Ecosystem structure and function
Special Sessions
e. Cyanobacteria and harmful algal blooms in coastal systems
g. Omics advances in estuarine research and applications
h. Trait-based approaches for understanding ecosystem functioning in a changing world
i. Impacts of Marine Noise on ocean biodiversity
j. Paleoecology: A tool for informed management of estuarine and coastal ecosystems
3. People and management
General Sessions
a. Sustainable natural resource exploitation
b. Marine Protected Areas
c. Aquaculture
d. Societal values
e. Citizen science
f. Ecosystem service delivery
Special Sessions
g. Coastal challenges for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
h. Destination Ocean: Challenges of global tourism to ocean and coasts
i. Policies for improvement of artisanal fisheries in developing countries
j. Assessing and valuing our environment: Challenging the ecosystem service approach
k. Estuarine ecology, fishery resources, threats and solutions towards a sustainable management
4. Integration
General Sessions
• EMECS sponsored session - Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas
a. Socio-ecological dynamics, resilience and regime shifts
b. Integrated management – cumulative risk assessment and tradeoffs
c. Case studies of eco-engineering and ecosystem restoration
d. Effective governance – regional to international scales
e. Integrated observing systems and modelling
Special Sessions
f. Grey to green nature-based coastal protection
g. Estuaries in the 21st Century – a new paradigm
h. Assessing cumulative impacts and risks to marine ecosystem values
j. Mangrove restoration: reality or utopia
k. Balancing good marine health status and blue growth
l. Novel approaches to monitoring estuaries, coastal and shelf waters
p. Applied solutions for sustainable and resilient estuaries and coasts
q. Keeping major urban estuaries, ports and harbours viable
r. Modelling threats to coastal systems and restoration options
- Christopher D’Elia, Louisiana State University, USA
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Lynne Eagle, James Cook University, Australia
- Robert Nicholls, University of Southampton, UK
- Gretta Pecl, University of Tasmania, Australia
- Barbara Robson, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
- Alan Whitfield, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa
- Fiona Valesini, Murdoch University, Australia
- Chris Hallett, Murdoch University, Australia
- Matt Hipsey, University of Western Australia, Australia
Scientific Committee
- Mike Elliott, Editor-in-Chief Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (Elsevier) and Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, UK
- Bronwyn Gillanders, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Victor de Jonge, Editor-in-Chief Ocean & Coastal Management and Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, UK
- Gary Kendrick, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Sally Little, ECSA Conference Coordinator, Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Ryan Lowe, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Alan Whitfield, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa
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