Understanding the natural and physical processes that govern river deltas, estuaries, and coastal environments is crucial for developing effective management and climate adaptation strategies. Both anthropogenic activities and climate change exert significant influence over these processes, altering them across various temporal and spatial scales. To ensure long-term sustainability of these landscapes, it is essential to understand how these evolving processes interact at the system-wide level.
Managing these environments is challenging due to the complex feedback between physical, biological, biogeochemical, and human-driven processes, all of which drive morphodynamic adjustments to natural and anthropogenic changes in relative mean sea level, sediment supply rates, and hydrodynamic forces such as waves and tides. Quantifying these ongoing changes and predicting future shifts is crucial not only for advancing our understanding of how these systems function but also for enabling effective climate adaptation planning, including the implementation of nature-based solutions.

This session aims to promote the necessary collaborative, cross-disciplinary efforts by bringing together a wide range of scientific communities focused on the study of fluvial, tidal estuarine, and coastal landscapes. This includes, but is not limited to, research on hydrodynamics, hydrology, sediment properties and dynamics, geomorphology, bio-morphodynamics, ecology, biogeochemistry, the impacts of climate change and global sea-level rise, and their implications for management and restoration. We particularly encourage contributions from those engaged in inter- and trans-disciplinary projects within the coastal zone, working at the intersection of different scientific fields, as well as those operating at the interface of science and policy.
We invite presenters to share recent scientific advancements in understanding the fluvial-to-marine transition zone through innovative theories, field studies, data-driven approaches, remote sensing analyses, geological reconstructions, laboratory experiments, and numerical modeling, applied to coastal environments on Earth and potentially on other planets. Additionally, we welcome studies focused on the adaptation, restoration, and management of coastal environments in response to projected climate changes.