The International Conference "Marine Geology: Marginal Seas - Past and Future", November 27 - December 1, 2023, will be hosted by the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, China, co-organized among others by the University of Szczecin, Section of Marine Geology and Polish Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.
The conference is free of charge and held in hybrid form, in-person and online remote scientific presentations are welcome.
The four thematic sessions are announced:
(1) River impacted continental shelves - sediments and environment,
(2) Coastal processes,
(3) Ecosystem dynamics and
(4) Methodological approaches and Geodata management, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
On behalf of the conveners of the session (2) Coastal processes, Tarmo Soomere (Estonian Academy of Sciences; Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Xinong Xie (China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China), Abdullah Sulaiman (Institute of Geology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), I would like to invite you to join our session.
Coasts around the world are constantly changing as a result of land-sea-atmosphere interaction. The consequence of the ongoing climate change is the observed intensification of extreme phenomena such as storm surges, floods, tsunamis, and heavy rainfalls. This superimposed by eustatic sea level rise, changes in the wind and wave direction, and a general deficiency of sediments in the coastal zone result in increased coastal erosion and pose a real threat to the safety of the coast in terms of the natural environment and the existing infrastructure crucial for coastal municipalities and society. To mitigate current coastal hazards and prevent future impacts, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of the physical, geological, biological, and chemical processes that control the source-to-sink transport of sediments on the Earth's surface, including their anthropogenically driven modifications. The aim of this session is to bring together interdisciplinary, international expertise to provide an overview of the current research status of coastal morphodynamics research and future perspectives. We welcome submissions that are of an analytical or laboratory nature, in the field or involve numerical modeling on a local, regional, or global scale, from single events to the scale of decades and millennia.
The deadline to submit abstracts for contributions is shifted to November 10.
Please, be warmly invited to attend the conference either onsite or online actively and forward the Announcement to your students, research teams, and scientific networks.