Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

The interface of 440,000 km long coastline in the world is subject to global change, with an increasing human pressure (land use, buildings, sand mining, dredging, fisheries and aquculture) partly associated to the increase in coastal population. Globally, while land erosion has increased in the last decades, sediment input to the ocean has decreased. Sediment transport and distribution at the land-ocean interface has huge impacts on morphodynamics of estuaries, deltas and coastal zones, on water quality (and related issues such as aquaculture), on navigation and harbor capability, on recreation areas, on ecosystem services, etc. In order to adress these challenges and to refine the sediment budgets along the land-sea continuum (bedload and suspension), the scientific knowledge on sediment dynamics must be improved on processes through field surveys, modelling, space observation or experiments in laboratory. Sediment transport is mainly driven by varying dynamic forcings (currents, tides, wind, waves, turbulence, stratification, density currents, etc.) in estuaries, in Regions Of Freshwater Influence, on shelves or in canyons. It is also affected by chemical and biological processes through complex interactions with sediment mechanisms. After the success of the first Special Issue dedicated to this topic, we are pleased to invite scientists working on various aspects of sediment transport, in muddy, sandy or mixed environments, to share their most recent results and give reviews or examples encompassing different aspects of sediment transport in coastal zones at different scales. Papers may deal with water and sediment analysis (including new methods, new devices) based on experimental studies, numerical modeling, field observation, remote sensing or a combination of several methods.

Dr. Sylvain Ouillon
Dr. Xavier Bertin
Dr. Romaric Verney
Guest Editors

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