ECSA’s next major Symposium, ECSA  53 will take place in partnership with the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and  Coastal Research (SKLEC) at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

The  close links between ECSA and Elsevier (Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)have  already proven to be very beneficial and based on that historical success we  propose to further intensify our long lasting co-operation. This time this  co-operation is to organize a meeting in a part of the world from where we  expect further excellent scientific results: China.

The  fast economic growth and related human activities in China during the last few  decades are dramatically influencing the environment, from river catchments to  estuaries and seas; and natural phenomena further amplify these effects.  One of these rapidly changing systems is the Yangtze estuary, with Shanghai,  the largest city in China, located close to it. The Yangtze is the 3rd largest river  in the world, and constitutes an excellent case study for large scale impacts  on ecosystems due to human activities and an excellent place for one of the  major global events in 2013.

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Conference Topics
(preliminary)

    Environmental challenges and remediation in view  of climate change and related phenomena
                
    Effects of dams on water resources management  and on geomorphology/erosion/sedimentation in estuaries and coastal areas   
                                      
    Effects of engineering constructions within estuarine systems on geomorphology and sediment input from catchment and sea   
                   
    Estuarine Wetlands, their restoration,  rehabilitation and use as natural filter  
                                      
    Eutrophication, anoxia and harmful algal blooms   
                   
    Technological advances for monitoring and  managing heavily modified estuaries  
                                    
    Economic development and ecological and  socio-cultural risks: the socio-cultural-economic-ecology interface   
                  
    Biogeochemical cycles of bio-relevant materials  from land and sea
                    
    Estuarine ecosystem ‘health’
                    
    Detecting change: technical developments in  monitoring
                    
    Strategies for improved estuarine management  
                  
    Special sessions
                                   
    Writing,  refereeing and publishing papers

      

Conference Chairs  

Prof.  Victor N. de Jonge, University of Hull, UK
Prof.  Dr. Yunxuan Zhou, State  Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University,  China

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