| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Future Coast and Ocean Under Increasing Stormy and Anthropogenic Scenarios |
| Main Convener | Dr. Daidu Fan (Tongji University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Jingping Xu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) Prof. Xiao Hua Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia) Dr. Guan-Hong Lee (Inha University, Korea, South) Dr. Zai-Jin You (Ludong University, China) |
| Session Description | We are living in a world where in many aspects human activities are overtaking natural forces to cause ever-more impacts on global environments, especially in our coast and ocean. Direct marine resource exploitation in the coast and ocean, and land-based human activities (e.g. abrupt reduction in sediment discharge, significant increase in pollutant, and riverine nutrient discharges into the ocean) have greatly altered the once natural coastal and oceanic environmental systems, further exacerbate by the global climate change or coastal storminess. As our fragile coastal-sea ecosystems are negatively impacted due to coastal increasing storminess and human activities, the coastal communities are exposed to greater natural disaster threats. In the long list of many important issues, some become extremely serious at present: coastal flooding, coastal erosion, coastal land reclamation, river delta subsidence and shrinking, overfishing, coastal ecosystem degradation and sea level rise. Since most of these problems are interlinked, they are required to be integrated, undertake collabo¬rative and solutions-oriented researches to tackle these problems with the focused aims of securing a sustainable and healthy development of coastal society and 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 based on field observations, numerical modelling, and sedimentary archives; (3) Coastal hazards and mitigation options, and integrated coastal management using both natural and social scientific knowledge and methods. |