ECSA promotes estuarine and coastal sciences,
and celebrates it 50th anniversary in 2021.
We are an international society and our mission
is to promote and advance multidisciplinary
research into all aspects of estuarine and
coastal environments, and to support the
application of science and technology for their
sustainable environmental management.
To achieve this our main aims are:
- To promote excellence in estuarine
and coastal marine science, technology
and management - To focus on promoting young scientists
and early-career academics - To actively engage in global outreach with
an emphasis on developing countries
We run science meetings at local and
international scales to promote knowledge
dissemination, and to provide young scientists
with opportunities to present their work, and to
network with more established scientists. We
hope to have an international meeting in India in
the next few years (recent ones have been in
Australia, Germany and China). A joint meeting
with EMECS (the International Center for
Environmental Management of Enclosed
Coastal Seas) due to be held in Hull, UK this year
has been postponed to 2021 because of
covid-19. We have run many workshops, and
also produce handbooks and other publications.
ECSA members, and members of ECSA Council,
come from a wide range of academic,
regulatory, consultancy and other backgrounds.
The covid-19 crisis is likely to mean changes to
how we all operate, and we are further
developing our website to extend online
communications and resources.
We are keen to encourage the next
generation of scientists in a range of disciplines
and career areas, particularly workers in
developing countries. To do this we have a
range of membership fees. We have a range ofSignal Boost
awards to support members’ attendance at our
conferences. For our most recent international
meeting in Australia we awarded 32 grants to
cover travel and fees. We can support research
work where individuals need small grants to
support their work, for example en-abling the
purchase of sampling equipment.
We have a student/early career representative
on ECSA Council, and are actively engaging with
student members.
The world needs to address major threats
to marine and coastal ecosystems – climate
change, sea-level rise, ocean acidification,
ecosystem shifts, plastic pollution, mineral
resource exploitation, biodiversity loss and
more. To help do this we need to share
knowledge and ideas, and ECSA actively
promotes this type of knowledge gathering and
exchange. We all need to rise to the challenge.Want to help?
Join the ECSA community to help understand and protect
our coastal and estuarine ecosystems for a better world.
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