Seashore Sediment and Water Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

There is great interest in the monitoring of waters in coastal regions and estuaries as these areas form the boundaries between the sea and the land. Today, they often undergo irreversible changes and biological degradation of natural resources, species, and habitats. This is mostly due to a significant increase in human pressure. Therefore, the rich biodiversity of coastal areas should be monitored and protected. For example, spatially determined turbidity is an important indicator for both water quality monitoring and as an easily measurable parameter to assess the amount of suspended solids in the evaluation of sediment transport. In addition, recent developments in water quality instrumentation and the availability of satellite platforms that have very high spatial and spectral resolution allow performing of more advanced and complex environmental analysis. This is important not only in the most densely populated mid-latitude areas, but also in relatively inaccessible polar regions where in situ measurements depend largely on logistical limitations due to extreme weather conditions.

For this Special Issue entitled “Seashore Sediment and Water Chemistry”, different types of contributions including field observations, description of new methods, numerical simulations, theoretical considerations, review and experimental papers are all welcome.

The Special Issue will include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

• Anthropogenic influence on coastal regions;
• Formation of river deltas;
• Monitoring of heavy metals in estuaries;
• Application of remote sensing in coastal oceanography;
• Evolution of rocky coasts;
• Organic pollutants in freshwaters;
• Sediment transport and geomorphic changes in cold regions.

Prof. Dr. Robert Bialik
Guest Editor

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• remote sensing
• water quality
• coastal oceanography
• sediment transport
• environmental monitoring
• aquatic ecology
• management
• climate change