Collaborative: International Deltas Meeting: Genesis, Dynamics, Modelling, and Sustainable Development

这个为期四天的国际会议将汇集70名与会者，包括三角洲过程的主要专家，有前途的研究人员和研究生，介绍科学和综合三角洲系统中物理和生物过程的知识前沿状态。 会议将在俄罗斯的伊斯托米诺举行，该城市位于贝加尔湖海岸，毗邻世界上最大的淡水三角洲之一的塞伦加河三角洲。本次会议的总体目标是促进专注于三角洲研究的国际和多学科科学家之间的讨论，描述最近和正在进行的科学进步，确定所需的改进，并促进不久的将来的变革性三角洲研究。由于其非凡的自然资源和生态系统服务，河流三角洲促进了过去和现在文明的发展，如今拥有超过5亿人口。 然而，由于强烈的人为影响，包括沉积物供应减少，地下流体提取，堤坝和海平面上升的沉降，这些沿海景观的可持续性还远远不能确定。 这次国际研讨会将汇集一系列多学科的三角洲科学家，在三角洲居民的关键时刻影响三角洲研究议程。美国科学家和学生参加研讨会是由地球科学司的地貌和土地利用动态计划以及国际和综合活动办公室的国际科学和教育部门共同支持的。

This four-day international meeting will bring together 70 participants, including leading experts on delta processes, promising up-and-coming researchers, and graduate students, to present science and synthesize frontier states of knowledge on physical and biological processes in deltaic systems. The meeting will be in Istomino, Russia, on the shore of Lake Baikal and next to the Selenga River delta, one of the world's largest freshwater deltas. The overarching goal for this meeting is to promote discussion amongst international and multidisciplinary scientists who focus on delta research, to describe recent and ongoing scientific advancements, to pinpoint improvements needed, and to foster near-future transformative delta research.Owing to their extraordinary natural resources and ecosystem services, river deltas have fostered the development of past and present civilizations, and today host over a half billion people. The sustainability of these coastal landscapes is far from certain, however, due to strong anthropogenic influences including sediment-supply reduction, subsidence from sub-surface fluid extraction, leveeing, and sea-level rise. This international workshop will bring together a multidisciplinary range of delta scientists to influence the delta research agenda at a critical juncture for delta inhabitants. Participation of US scientists and students at the workshop is jointly supported by the Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics program in the Division of Earth Sciences and the International Science and Education section of the Office of International and Integrated Activities.