Thursday, March 18, 2010
International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
Estoril, 2010, Portugal. 11-17 April.
The Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Cascais Municipality, the Cascais Energy Agency, the Cascais Atlantic Agency and the Organizing Committee, are pleased to announce the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean (ICCCM2010), that will be held on April 11 to 17, 2010 at the Estoril, Cascais (Portugal).
This multi-disciplinary international conference is convened as a forum for scientists, engineers, planners and managers to discuss recent and new advances in scientific, technical, and socio-economic understanding of environmental issues related to coastal processes. The conference includes an interesting programme, with several field trips to the diverse and scenic coastal environment of the Lisbon area. International experts will offer a post-conference short course and thematic workshops.
It is also the objective of this conference to promote international exchange of knowledge among researchers, managers and technicians, as well as other professionals working in coastal zones conservation and management. The Conference also aims at sharing experiences and developing contacts and networks among all the practitioners.
Conference Goals
The coastal zone attracts many uses, such as fishery, industry, transportation, recreation and tourism, different types of development that are compatible only to a limited extent. The increased human pressure on the coastal zone carries the risk of a substantial reduction of ecosystem services, and threatens Natural Parks Natural Parks and other protected areas. Multiple uses of the coastal zone, aggravated by the existence of several property-rights create a variety of conflicts that urge to be solved, especially when different social compromises are being pursued, such as sustainability, economic efficiency and equity.The Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Cascais Municipality, the Cascais Energy Agency, the Cascais Atlantic Agency and the Organizing Committee, are pleased to announce the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean (ICCCM2010), that will be held on April 11 to 17, 2010 at the Estoril, Cascais (Portugal).
This multi-disciplinary international conference is convened as a forum for scientists, engineers, planners and managers to discuss recent and new advances in scientific, technical, and socio-economic understanding of environmental issues related to coastal processes. The conference includes an interesting programme, with several field trips to the diverse and scenic coastal environment of the Lisbon area. International experts will offer a post-conference short course and thematic workshops.
It is also the objective of this conference to promote international exchange of knowledge among researchers, managers and technicians, as well as other professionals working in coastal zones conservation and management. The Conference also aims at sharing experiences and developing contacts and networks among all the practitioners.
Themes
1. Strategic Environmental Assessment in Coastal Areas
- Assessment, best practices and case study reports
- Methods and techniques
- Indicators of sustainable development
- Other indicators (governmental actions, ecological indicators)
2. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Integrated approaches on estuaries and adjacent coastal zones
- Integrated coastal interventions and soft protection measures
- Integrated approaches on coastal streams and coastal zones
- Waterfront regeneration and city-port relationship
- Governing and governance. Capacity building
- Coastal observatory and spatial data infrastructures for coastal environments
- Local Agendas 21 and public participation process
- Socio-economic costs and benefits of ICZM
- Adaptation to risks and the impacts of climate change
3. The Sea
- Marine spatial planning (MSP)
- Coastal laws, their application and associated problems
- Sea and coastal pollution
- Transport and coastal pollution
- Civil protection
- Ocean energy
4. Living with Erosion
- Erosion versus land use
- Sedimentary budgets and coastline evolution
- Storms and consequences
- Coastal erosion indicators
- Coastal restoration & mitigation
5. Tourism and Coastal Conservation
- Tourism and natural areas
- Tourism and coastal hazards
- Good practices for tourism on coastal zones
- Defining, measuring and evaluating the carrying capacity of tourism
- Towards quality of coastal tourism: integrated quality management of coastal tourist destinations
- Environmental Planning of Coastal Resorts
- Coastal Greenways
Important dates
| 1st June 2009 | Pre-registration opening |
| 23rd October 2009 | Abstract submission deadline |
| 30th November 2009 | Acceptance notification |
| 31st January 2010 | End of reduced fee for registration |
| 31st March 2010 | NEW DEADLINE for submission of papers for publication |
Workshops
Workshops will be held on the following topics:- W1 - Workshop CONSCIENCE Concepts and Science for Coastal Erosion Management (session pdf)
- W2 - Workshop on Coastal Streams Restoration (session pdf)
- W3 - Workshop on Carrying Capacity in Coastal Areas (+ info soon)
- W4 - Workshop on Ocean Energy (+info soon)
- More information here
Book: Sedimentary Responses to Forced Regressions
por Hunt, D.; Gawthorpe, R. L. Publicación: Tulsa, OK Geological Society of London, 2000.
LOOK INSIDE HERE
10th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments
Listvyanka, Lake Baikal, Russia
September 6-12, 2010
September 6-12, 2010
Website: http://lin.irk.ru/gims10
The 10th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments covers all aspects of research related to methane in the ocean. The topics of the conference will include, but are not restricted to:- Formation of shallow gas in sediments
- Subsurface fluid flow, geochemical and thermal gradients
- Biological and biogeochemical processes at seep ecosystems
- Formation and destabilization of hydrates
- Diversity and functioning of methane seeps, bubble sites, pockmarks and mud volcanoes
- Imaging sub-seafloor gas structures by seismic studies
- Regional studies on gas and gas hydrate distribution and quantification
- Seafloor emissions to the water column and the atmosphere
- Methane-derived authigenic carbonates
- CO2-hydrate for CH4-hydrate exchange: option for carbon storage in marine sediments
Host of the Conference The conference will be hosted by the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk, Russia).
Scientific Committee
Antje Boetius, MPI Bremen, Germany
Marc De Batist, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium
Lyubomir Dimitrov, Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria
Ian MacDonald, Tamu Corpus Christi, U.S.A.
Jean-Paul Foucher, IFREMER, Brest, France
Soledad Garcia-Gil, University of VIGO, Spain
Martin Hovland, Statoil Stavanger, Norway
Michael Ivanov, Moscow State University, Russia
Alan Judd, Newcastle, Great Britain
John Woodside, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gerhard Bohrman, MARUM, University Bremen, Germany
Bo Barker Jørgensen, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Nikolay Pimenov, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Michael Grachev, Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia
Anatoly Obzhirov, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russia
Tatyana Matveeva, VNIIOceanology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ira Leifer, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Daniel Orange, Black Gold Energy, Jakarta, Indonesia
Erwin Suess, IFM-.GEOMAR Kiel, Germany
Hitoshi Shoji, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
Local Organizing Committee
Oleg Khlystov
Tamara Zemskaya
Nikolay Granin
Tatyana Sitnikova
Bair Namsaraev
Galina Nagornaya
Alexey Gurulev
Oleg Kotsar
Tamara Zemskaya
Nikolay Granin
Tatyana Sitnikova
Bair Namsaraev
Galina Nagornaya
Alexey Gurulev
Oleg Kotsar
Place and Date
The conference will be held in Hotel “Mayak” from Monday, Semptember 6, to Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Hotel “Mayak” is situated on the shore of Lake Baikal in the village Listvyanka, 70 km from Irkutsk.
Registration
Please find a registration form on the Conference website http://lin.irk.ru/gims10/regform.zip and send the completed form:
- - as e-mail attachment to Oleg Kotsar kotsar@lin.irk.ru;
- - or by fax to +7 3952 42 54 05;
- - or by post to: Oleg Kotsar, Limnological Institute, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk 664033, Russia.
Accommodation
The organizing Committee (contact person: Galina Nagornaya galinan@lin.irk.ru) will book rooms for participants of the Conference in Hotel “Mayak” and Hotel “Baikal Legend” http://www.legenda-hotel.ru/ in single and double rooms, and in suites.
The average daytime temperature in September in Listvyanka is 10°C, and at night 2°C. You are recommended to bring warm clothes for the boat trip. Current weather forecast is shown at http://www.gismeteo.ru/, or http://www.irk.ru/.
| Important Dates |
- 1 December 2009 Deadline for preliminary registration
- 1 April 2010 Deadline for abstract submission
- 1 May 2010 Deadline for final registration
- 1 May 2010 Deadline for hotel booking
- 30 July 2010 Distribution of Conference Programme to all registered participants
| Contact Address |
Limnological Institute,
3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk 664033, Russia
Tel.: +7 3952 42 30 53
Fax: +7 3952 42 54 05
E-mail: tzema@lin.irk.ru
Web-site: http://lin.irk.ru/gims10
First International Conference Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines
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Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt (MWRI) is hosting this conference, in cooperation with other governmental institutions, through its Coastal Research Institute (CoRI) of the National Water Research Center (NWRC) to capitalize on the initiative drive of the conference steering team at Costamarine Technologies (CMT), USA, the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt and the Coastal Zone Foundation (CZF), USA, towards sustainable sea & ocean solutions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The realization of the conference was further established by the participation of the US co-sponsors which are: The American Society of Civil Engineers;ASCE, The United States Geological Survey;USGS, The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association; ASBPA, and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;NOAA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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