2017 Fall Meeting

11-15 December

The world’s major river deltas are densely populated and vital to global food security, commerce, energy production, and industrial development. Many of these deltaic regions are rapidly sinking into the sea due to a number of natural and anthropogenic factors, including reduced sediment input, river engineering, coastal land subsidence, and sea level rise. Over the past decades, the world’s major river deltas have experienced rapid population increase and urbanization. The anthropogenic activities have interfered with delta-forming processes and, in return, the altered deltaic forming processes are affecting humans, presenting a dynamically coupled natural-human system. This session aims at bringing together the latest research on the world’s large deltas as a complex dynamic system between the natural and human environments. We encourage submissions based on field, modeling, and synthetic studies concerning deltaic geomorphology, sediment transport, estuarine hydrology, spatial organization, population dynamics, and policy making in the world’s vulnerable deltas.