Recent Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics

Professor Xiao Hua Wang graduated from Ocean University of China, and holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from James Cook University in Australia. He formerly held a Directorship for International Student Recruitment and Exchange, Founding Directorship for the Sino-Australian Research Centre for Coastal Management, UNSW. He is a co-leader of the Sino-Australian Research Consortium for Coastal Management at UNSW Canberra, and an associate editor for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science and Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, respectively. He has over 30 years teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research concerns modelling of ocean circulation, sediment transport dynamics, and understanding of coastal management issues. He has over 130 publications including peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters.

Recent Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics: Observations and Modelling is a thorough reference guide on the most recent trends and developments in observing and modelling of estuaries and coastal oceans. The coasts cover a diverse range of ecosystems within marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. They are some of the most heavily populated and visited areas and are also some of the most threatened natural habitats. Human activities like sewage discharge, overfishing, navigation channel dredging, land reclamation, the construction of shipping ports and marine plastics are also responsible for coastal pollution and degradation. This book focuses on current studies on sediment transport dynamics and hydrodynamics of these environments and presents thorough case studies that aim to help students and researchers working in the field.

1. Introduction 2. In-situ observations of sea surface temperature in coastal areas 3. Satellite remote sensing based coastal bathymetry inversion 4. Coastal eddies: transient but significant coastal features 5. Integrated Catchment-River-Estuary modelling system for better understanding on the sediment dynamics of estuaries and coastal regions 6. Recent methods for estuarine sediment provenance 7. Hydrologic and sediment investigation in coastal zones 8. Historical changes of hydro and sediment dynamics due to coastline changes in Hangzhou Bay 9. Modelling study on hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics in estuarine environments 10. Response of tidal dynamics to the construction of Yangshan Harbor, Shanghai, China 11. Recent progress in the studies of boundary upwelling 12. Influences of extreme rainfall events on the nutrient and chlorophyll dynamics in coastal regions 13. Coastal ecological and environmental management under multiple anthropogenic pressures: a review of theory and evaluation methods 14. Conclusions