HI34B:
The Impact of Seawater Desalination on the Marine Environment Posters
HI34B:
The Impact of Seawater Desalination on the Marine Environment Posters
The Impact of Seawater Desalination on the Marine Environment Posters
Session ID#: 9245
Session Description:
Freshwater is a rare commodity. More than a third of the world’s population lives in areas with water shortages that are vulnerable to drought. The increasing need for potable water, in conjunction with technological advances, has transformed large scale seawater desalination into a fast-growing industry worldwide. In contrast to the rapid technological development, the long-term environmental impacts of desalination on the marine ecosystem have been poorly documented. Among the possible effects are entrainment and impingement of organisms at the intake, changes in the physico-chemical environment at the brine outfall (including chemicals used in the desalination process), and shifts in the biological communities. The scant published studies emphasize the effects of salinity on the benthic communities and those are site- and organism specific and provide conflicting results.
We invite abstracts that explore the impacts of seawater desalination on the physical, chemical, biological, and ecological aspects of the marine environment. We welcome a range of presentations covering in situ field measurements, controlled laboratory studies and modelling of seawater intake and brine discharge. Of special interest are studies integrating the different methodologies into a holistic view, an approach that is lacking in the literature, and is essential for future planning and regulation.
Primary Chair: Nurit Kress, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Res, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel
Chairs: Ilana Berman-Frank, Bar Ilan University, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Ramat Gan, Israel and Nadine Heck, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Moderators: Nurit Kress, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Res, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel, Ilana Berman-Frank, Bar Ilan University, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Ramat Gan, Israel and Nadine Heck, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Nurit Kress, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Res, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel and Ilana Berman-Frank, Bar Ilan University, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Ramat Gan, Israel
Index Terms:
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- EC - Estuarine and Coastal
- ME - Marine Ecosystems
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Coastal Residents Perception of Seawater Desalination and Its Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (87323)
Marine monitoring at seawater desalination brine discharge sites: The challenge of doing it right (88572)
Vertical Mixing of Desalination Reject Brine that Accumulates in Local Depressions in a Tidal Environment (89016)
Influence of internal waves on the dispersion and transport of inclined gravity currents (90334)
Impacts of effluent from Carlsbad Desalination Plant on the coastal biology and chemistry - a in-situ study of pre- and post-discharge. (87420)
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