The
Sixth International Conference on Estuaries and Coasts (ICEC-2018), organized
by the University of Caen Normandy and the Group of Scientific Interests on
Hydraulics for the Environment and for the Sustainable Development (GIS HEDD), was successfully
held in Caen, France on August 20-23, 2018. About 150 participants from more
than 20 countries and regions around the world participated in the ICEC-2018.
The ICEC-2018 is sponsored by International Research and Training Center on
Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES) and co-sponsored by the French Society of
HydroTechnics (SHF), International Association for Hydro-Environment
Engineering and Research (IAHR), World Association for Sedimentation and
Erosion Research (WASER), Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society Estuary
Regulation and Protection Commission (CHES-ERPC), and Caen la mer.
The
ICEC-2018 was opened on the morning of August 20, chaired by Prof. Dan Nguyen,
the Chairman of the LOC, speeches were delivered by following representatives:
●Mr.
Pierre Denise, President of the University of Caen Normandy;
●Prof.
Liu Guangquan, Deputy Director of the IRTCES;
●Prof.
Lu Zhongmin, Director of the CHES - ERPC;
●Prof.
Liu Cheng, Executive Secretary General of the WASER; and
●Mr.
Jean-Michel Tanguy, President of the GIS HEDD.
The
ICEC-2018, including 8 keynote, 85 oral and 16 Poster presentations lasted for
4 days, including one day technical visit of the Couesnon’s dam. Papers with
the main theme “Estuaries and Coasts in times of Global Change” were presented
and discussed. Keynote presentations include:
●Port
and coastal structures to climate change resilience: the French experience and
that of PIANC (by Prof. Geoffroy Caude);
●The
Mississippi River Delta Plain as a basis for understanding low gradient coastal
land margin systems and how we may engineer our response to climate change (by Prof.
Scott Hagen);
●Towards
understanding the dynamics of intertidal ecosystems in times of global change:
towards linking fundamental and application (by Prof. Tjeerd Bouma);
●Challenges and opportunities of tidal energy conversion:
tidal asymmetry and tidal phasing (by Prof. Neil Simon);
●Efficient
modelling of complex coastal evolution at monthly to century time scales (by Prof.
Roelvink Dano);
●Extreme
waves: Their measurement, generation, modelling and impact (by Prof. Frédéric
Dias);
●Coastal
development under the threat of floods and climate change: risk assessment and
sustainable decision making (by Prof. Barbara Zanuttigh); and
●Interactions
of Waves, Current and Vegetation (by Prof. Weiming Wu).
The
ICEC is a triennial technical event initiated by IRTCES and its Permanent
Secretariat is hosted by the IRTCES. The 7th ICEC was announced to be hosted by
East China Normal University and held in Shanghai, China in 2021.
Opening ceremony
(Mr. Pierre Denise, President of
the University of Caen Normandy; Prof. Liu Guangquan, Deputy Director of the
IRTCES; Prof. Lu Zhongmin, Director of the CHES-ERPC; Prof. Liu Cheng, Executive
Secretary General of the WASER; Mr. Jean-Michel Tanguy, President of the GIS
HEDD; and Prof.Dan Nguyen, Chairman of the LOC.)
Keynote presentations
(Prof. Geoffroy Caude; Prof.
Scott Hagen; Prof. Roelvink Dano; Prof. Tjeerd Bouma; Prof. Neil Simon; Prof.
Frédéric Dias; Prof. Weiming Wu; Parallel session)
Technical visit
of the Couesnon’s dam
ICEC venue
transfer
(Prof. Liu Guangquan thanks
to the LOC for excellent ICEC-2018 organization on behalf of the IRTCES; Dr.
Guo Leicheng introduces the preparation of ICEC-2021 on behalf of the East
China Normal University)
Group photo
