| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Future Coastal Oceans Under Climatic and Anthropogenic Scenarios |
| Main Convener | Dr. Daidu Fan (Tongji University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Jingping Xu (Ocean University of China, China) Dr. Jingpu (Paul) Liu (North Carolina State University, United States) Prof. Xiao Hua Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia) Prof. Ping Yin (Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China) |
| Session Description | We are living in a world where in some aspects mankind is overtaking natural forces to exert ever-more impacts on global environment, especially in our coastal ocean. Direct marine resource exploitation in the seas and land-based human activities (e.g. abrupt reduction in sediment discharge and significant increase in pollutant and nutrient export by the rivers.) have greatly altered the once natural coastal environmental system, further exacerbated by the climate change. As our fragile coastal-sea ecosystems are negatively impacted, the coastal communities are exposed to greater disaster threats. In the long list of issues, some are extremely serious at present: coastal flooding, coastal erosion, delta subsidence and shrinking, over fishing, coastal ecosystem degradation and sea level rise. Most of these problems are also interlinked, so it requires, integrated, collabo¬rative and solutions-oriented research to tackle them with the aims of securing a sustainable and healthy development of coastal society and coastal ecosystems. We welcome contributions, including but unlimited to (1) ocean dynamics, sediment dynamics, morphodynamics, and ecosystem dynamics; (2) past, present and projected coastal environmental change on the basis of observations, numerical modelling and sedimentary archives; (3) integrated coastal management using both natural and social scientific knowledge and methods. |