ECSA’s next major Symposium, ECSA 53: Estuaries and coastal areas in times of intense change will take place in partnership with one of the most important research institutes of China (East China Normal University).

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

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited on the below topics and should be submitted using the online submission system on the ECSA 53 website: http://www.estuarinecoastalconference.com

Conference Topics:

Environmental challenges and remediation in view of climate change and related phenomena

Effects of dams on water resources management and on gomorphology/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