Coastal Ocean Space Utilization (COSU) Symposium

9529445高桥由国家科学基金会和许多合作伙伴赞助的一系列沿海海洋空间利用（COSU）研讨会激发了人们对沿海地区与环境和谐的平衡利用和管理的极大兴趣、合作和协议。 这些会议的成功可归功于与会者的素质和哲学形式。 COSU系列提供了一个很好的国际论坛，以审查和讨论各种跨学科主题的最新技术进步，概念和研究需求。 由于世界上50%以上的人口和工业及研究活动都位于海岸100公里以内，这是一个非常重要的区域，应着重应用海洋科学和技术的进步，以实现沿海基础设施的可持续发展。 这些专题讨论会是在世界特定的沿海地区举行的，目的是获得不同的观点，从而促进各种想法的相互交流，以解决这些地区面临的许多环境和发展问题。 这些会议提供了新的见解和创新的概念，以处理不断扩大的沿海基础设施的跨学科问题，这是由沿海人口的稳步增长及其伴随的环境，社会和经济影响所驱动的。 经常介绍的概念涉及人工岛屿、浮动城市、环境友好型沿海填海、新的海洋能源开采技术、离岸海岸牧场、人工上升流、自动驾驶汽车和遥感系统等主题。 已经产生了各种国际合作项目。 非常重视可持续的沿海发展，即，与海洋环境和谐发展。 这引入了新的技术、方法和技术，极大地影响了包括沿海基础设施在内的那些系统和项目的设计。 ***

9529445 Takahashi The series of Coastal Ocean Space Utilization (COSU) symposia sponsored by the National Science Foundation and a significant number of partners has stimulated considerable interest, cooperation, and agreement on balanced utilization and management of our coastal region in harmony with the environment. The success of these gatherings can be attributed to the quality of the conferees and the philosophical format. The COSU series has provided an excellent international forum to review and discuss the latest technological advances, concepts, and research needs on a variety of interdisciplinary topics. Inasmuch as more than 50 percent of the world's population and industrial and research activity is located within 100 kilometers of the coast, this is a very important region on which to focus in applying advances in marine science and technology to achieve sustainable development of the coastal infrastructure. These symposia has been held in specific coastal regions of the world to obtain different perspectives and thus stimulate the cross-pollination of ideas for solving the many environmental and developmental problems facing these areas. These gatherings have provided new insights and innovative concepts to deal with the interdisciplinary problems of the expanding coastal infrastructure, which are driven by the steadily increasing coastal population with its attendant environmental, social, and economic impacts. Concepts frequently introduced pertain to such topics as artificial islands, floating cities, environmentally friendly coastal reclamation, new ocean energy extraction techniques, off- shore ranching, artificial upwelling, autonomous vehicles, and remote sensing systems, to mention a few. Various international cooperative projects have already resulted. There is great emphasis on sustainable coastal development, i.e., development in harmony with the marine environment. This has introduced new technologies, methods, and techni ques that have greatly influenced the design of those systems and projects comprising the coastal infrastructure. ***