Submit Special Session Proposals


You have the chance to shape the program of this conference. Besides the below-mentioned General Sessions, you can suggest additional Special Sessions.

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We would like to invite you to submit your proposal for Special Sessions!

Deadline: 24 November 2025

The abstract submission system will open in January 2026

Abstract submission deadline: 6 March 2026

The selection of session proposals will be highly competitive, and priority will be given to sessions that address the overall ECSA 61 theme and are at the cutting-edge of current estuarine and coastal science.

ECSA encourage innovative sessions and formats including, but not restricted, to oral presentations, posters, workshops, practitioner forums, panels and discussions. Session timeslots can be flexible to accommodate alternative formats.

Sessions may be sponsored by relevant institutes, organizations and research groups (see sponsorship section) however sessions do not need to be sponsored in order to appear in the program. Special session organizers will participate (along with the ECSA 61 Scientific Committee) in soliciting and selecting session contributions.

Completed session proposals should include details of the conveners, a session title and a brief description of the session content (in no more than 200 words). This description must highlight how the session addresses the overall conference theme and why the session is of critical importance to the estuarine and coastal scientific community.

Please note that the cost of convener and speaker/presenter attendance in accepted special sessions will not be covered by ECSA 61.

General Session

Physics

  • Coastal hydrodynamics and physical-biological coupling
  • Coastal morphodynamics and sediment transport
  • Impact of extreme events on coastal systems
  • Monitoring and prediction with observation systems and models

Ecology

  • Coastal and estuarine biodiversity and ecosystems
  • Coastal Ecosystem conservation and restoration, including nature-based solutions
  • Connectivity of estuaries, saltmarshes, mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs
  • Stress responses and resilience: from molecular to ecosystem level

Biogeochemistry

  • From Source-to-Sea (S2S): effects of land use change and hydrology regulation
  • Carbon and nutrient cycling in benthic and pelagic ecosystems
  • Eutrophication, acidification and pollution of coastal ecosystems
  • Blue carbon: understanding and quantifying carbon storage in coasts and estuaries

Human Dimension

  • Coastal governance and policy
  • Socio-economic and socio-ecological systems impacts and adaptation
  • Community engagement and stakeholder involvement
  • Decision support tools and marine spatial planning
  • Science communication, citizen science and ocean literacy

Your submission should be in the form of text, no more than 300 words long. If your abstract is accepted, it will be included in the conference app with abstract and program information.

All abstracts will be reviewed by the Committee to ensure that the topic of the submission is consistent with the scope of the topics covered at the meeting.

A condition of submission is that, if accepted, at least one of the authors must register for and present at the conference.

You can submit as many abstracts to the conference for review as you would like. If, after the review by the committee, you have more than one paper accepted for the conference, you will need to register to attend and pay an additional paper fee for each additional paper (i.e., for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th papers – not the 1st). Please note this is for papers that you are the presenting author of, not papers that you are co-author of.

Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you. Please check spam/junk folders as this may sometimes get filtered there.

For revisions or queries regarding papers already submitted
If you do not receive acknowledgement for your abstract submission, DO NOT RESUBMIT your abstract, as this may lead to duplication.

Please email queries to the Conference Content Executive (do not email credit card information under any circumstances). Quote your reference number if you have one.

Please do not email credit card information under any circumstances

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