Conference Title
Location
Day Month Year
50th ECSA Conference: Today's science for tomorrow's Management
3-7 June 2012, Venice, Italy
Register here. Early booking deadline: 9 March 2012
Recent decades have seen emergent issues that bear potentially massive risks for the long-term trajectory of coastal environments and the uses we make of them. These issues have raised awareness, and in some cases, motivated investment of much funding and research and management efforts. It seems timely, at a time of economic constraints, and a time when too many issues demand international attention, to take a hard look at the evidentiary basis, current data, and future predictions surrounding these issues. This conference will cover the fundamental natural and social sciences for estuaries, coasts and marine areas and emphasis the links to the integrated and sustainable management of these areas.
Win a Delegate Pass! – Click here
Following the success of the renowned ECSA conferences and workshops, the 50th ECSA Conference: Today's science for tomorrow's Management will bring together researchers, environmental managers, policy makers and graduate students to present research results, explore collaborations and to spark new ideas, with the aim of learning about marine, coastal and transitional systems worldwide, catching up on leading-edge techniques and, lastly, appreciating the constraints of the science and the management.
Invited Speaker Spotlight
Omar Defeo
Dr. Omar Defeo is a Titular Professor at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. During the last 30 years, Defeo has worked on biodiversity conservation and the development of adaptive co-management approaches in artisanal shellfisheries, particularly on sandy beach ecosystems. His long-term research, which also includes experimental designs to better distinguish natural variability from anthropogenic impacts, showed that the threats to sandy beach ecosystems span a range from the local, such as trampling.
For more information, click here.
Themes
The themes of the conference will be:
- Ecosystem structure and functioning – type habitats (coastal lagoons, estuaries, wetlands, sandy beaches, biodiversity, etc)
- Systems analysis – physics, chemistry and biology; organism-environment links, nutrient fluxes and eutrophication in coastal systems, trophic webs in coastal systems, ecohydrology; Challenging techniques – use, revision and development (e.g. stable isotopes and other techniques)
- Anthropogenic change – Response, trends and effects; solutions, indicators, tools for management; causes of loss of habitat (e.g. oxygen decline/anoxia), Challenging techniques for assessment and for the restoration of systems
- Ecosystem services and societal benefits – links to management: fisheries/food resources, physical resources used by society; links to biodiversity and functioning; links to marine governance, tools for management, Challenging techniques
- Valuing ecosystems - cultural and economic aspects, economic techniques, links to societal benefits resulting from ecosystem services
- ‘Future-proofing the science’ – climate change scenarios, changing environments including repercussions of temperature changes, freshwater balance and sea level rise (including sinking areas), impact on coastal zones; acidification; Disaster management in coastal systems – techniques and approaches for dealing with climate change, Challenging techniques, uncertainty analysis and the (in)adequacy of our science
Why you should be there:
Attendance at this conference will enable you to:
- Access unique, high-quality content
- Profit from the inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary character of the conference: hear world class speakers and leading researchers on all aspects of estuarine and coastal marine science, as well as on the application of science for conservation and environmental management
- Gain an understanding of about other marine, coastal and transitional systems worldwide
- Catch up on new state of the art techniques, and, at the same time, appreciate the constraints of the science and the management
- Present your latest research
- Network with an interdisciplinary group – including researchers from all fields related to estuarine and coastal marine science
Language
The official language of the conference will be English.
