Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines International Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, March 6-10, 2010
Registration for this first international conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines in Alexandria, Egypt is available for those wishing to attend the conference. For full information regarding technical program, registration, events, tours, and the conference organization team, please visit the website at: www.nwrc-egypt.info
For the technical program, more than 80 paper abstracts were submitted from authors residing in many countries in the Far East, Europe, North and South America while the rest were from the Middle East and Africa which makes the conference truly international in representation. The conference opening remarks will be delivered by Professor R.L. Wiegel of the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
The papers submitted cover topics that include: geological processes of deltas and river mouths; coastal change processes and human influences on coasts; coastal defense restoration and erosion mitigation; coastal modeling and risk management; coast and beach ecosystems; dune and wetland management; coastal pollution; contamination control and disaster management; impact of coastal defense systems on ecology of coastal zones; sustainable construction materials for marine and coastal structures; impacts of climate change and adaptation policies; sustainable coastal management human influence on coasts; and case studies of major deltas and low land coastlines.
The conference is hosted by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt in corporation with local organizations to capitalize on the initiative drive of Costamarine Technologies and Coastal Zone Foundation in the USA. The US co-sponsors are ASCE, USGS, ASBPA, and NOAA. Members of the US co-sponsors will receive 15% reduction in conference registration fees.
Nabil Ismail, Costmarine Technologies; Orville Magoon, Coastal Zone Foundation, USA
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