Date:  Oct. 13–17, 2013

Venue: Shanghai, China

Summary: 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.

Submit abstracts by 12 April 2013. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited on the below topics and should be submitted using the online submission system.

Conferenc Topics

•Functioning of estuarine and coastal waters
•Estuarine Wetlands, their understanding, restoration, rehabilitation, filter function and role in human health
•Inputs to aquatic ecosystems of contaminants, nano-particles, nutrients; partitioning, bioavailability, bioaccumulation and health
•Coastal water - Catchment links, implications and sustainable solutions
•Eutrophication, anoxia and harmful algal blooms
•Environmental challenges and remediation in view of climate change and related phenomena
•Geomorphological, physical and ecological effects of engineering constructions within estuarine systems and coastal waters
•Estuarine ecosystem health and governance
•EMECS Session "Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas"
•Quantifying economic and ecological sustainability
•Economic development and ecological and socio-cultural risks: the socio-cultural-economic-ecology interface
•Technical developments in detecting change and managing heavily modified estuaries
•Strategies and Tools for improved estuarine management
•Special Session/Workshop “Writing, refereeing and publishing scientific papers”


Conference Chairs:

Victor N. de Jonge, University of Hull, UK
Yunxuan Zhou, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Zhongyuan Chen, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (Conference Co-chair)

URL:  http://www.estuarinecoastalconference.com/