ECSA 56 Coastal systems in transition: From a 'natural' to an 'anthropogenically-modified' state
4-7 September 2016 | Maritim Hotel & Congress Centrum Bremen
Welcome to ECSA’s next major symposium, ECSA 56 – Coastal systems in transition from a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically modified’ state, which will take place from the 4-7 September 2016 in Bremen, Germany.
Humans are drivers of and affected by global change. Human-induced global climate and regional environmental change dramatically modify the structures and functions of coastal systems driving them into a new system state. The altered resource potentials and ecosystem services then, in turn, significantly affect the livelihoods of the population.
Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic control factors and quantifying their impacts is a major challenge in the investigation of hydrodynamic, sedimentological, biogeochemical, ecological and socioeconomic processes in the coastal zone.
Inter- and transdisciplinary efforts are required to gain a profound understanding of these "novel" systems, which provides the basis for a sustainable management.
ECSA 56 brings together a global multi-disciplinary community of researchers and professionals to discuss and address issues of outstanding scientific importance in the science and management of estuaries and coastal seas in this rapidly changing world.
Conference Topics:
1. Changing physical settings and processes
1a. Coastal morphodynamics affected by engineering structures and sea level rise
1b. From measuring to modelling hydro- and sediment dynamics
1c. Impact of extreme events on coastal systems
1d. Monitoring with coastal ocean observing systems
1e. Measuring bio-geophysical processes in dynamic and complex environments
1f. Ecogeomorphology of estuarine systems
1g. Estuarine numerical model development and applications
2. Biogeochemical processes and fluxes at the land – sea interface
2a. Aquaculture and pollution of coastal waters
2b. From catchment to coast: effects of land use change and hydrological regulations
2c. Carbon and nutrient cycling in benthic and pelagic ecosystems
2d. Impact of ocean acidification on coastal systems
2f. Polar estuaries - an early-warning region for temperate systems?
3. Shifting ecosystem structures and functions
3a. Biodiversity in coastal systems
3b. Role of functional and response diversity to changes for ecosystem resilience
3c. Linkages between estuarine, coastal and marine habitats
3d. Stress responses: from molecular to ecosystem level
3e. Analysing, assessing and judging integrated ecosystem food webs and other networks
4. The human dimension: impact, management, governance
4a. Implications of resource use patterns and management for the environment
4b. Participatory management approaches in coastal zone management
4c. Marine and coastal spatial planning/ decision support
4d. Valuing marine ecosystem services
4e. Governing the commons: Institutions for the sea/ marine governance
4f. Experimental economics evidence for contributions to marine and coastal collective goods
4g. A practical illustration of the human dimension in coastal systems and its drivers for change
5 Crossdisciplinary and open topics
5a. EMECS - Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas
5b. Exploring coastal futures in the Anthropocene
5d. Coastal filters under remake
5e. Managing harbours as complex social-ecological systems
5g. Anthropocene and Holocene environmental changes – the past as a window into the future
5h. Repairing the world’s estuaries: opportunities and constraints in the Anthropocene
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Text in red = Special Session
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Conference Chairman
- Dr. Tim Jennerjahn, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Germany
Scientific Committee
- Prof. Mike Elliott, Editor-in-Chief Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, UK
- Prof. Dierk Hebbeln, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
- Prof. Victor de Jonge, Editor-in-Chief Ocean & Coastal Management, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, UK
- Dr. Sally Little, ECSA Conference Coordinator, Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Dr. Inga Nordhaus, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany
- Dr. Kate Spencer, ECSA President, School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
- Dr. Christian Winter, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
Speakers
- Dr Jaco H. Baas, Bangor University, UK
- Prof. Dr. Stuart Borrett, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- Prof. Dr. Robinson W. Fulweiler, Boston University Earth & Environment, USA
- Dr. Francois Galgani, IFREMER, France
- Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen; Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
- Dr. Rute Pinto, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Portugal
- Prof. Dr. Selina Stead, Newcastle University, UK
- Dr. Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
