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

这次为期四天的国际会议将汇集70名与会者，其中包括三角洲过程方面的顶尖专家、有前途的研究人员和研究生，他们将介绍三角洲系统中物理和生物过程的科学和综合前沿知识。会议将在俄罗斯贝加尔湖畔的伊斯托里诺举行，紧挨着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展，确定需要改进的地方，并促进近期变革性的三角洲研究。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，今天拥有超过5亿人口。然而，由于强烈的人为影响，包括沉积物供应减少、地下流体开采、堤坝和海平面上升导致的下沉，这些沿海景观的可持续性还远未确定。这次国际研讨会将汇集三角洲地区多学科的科学家，在三角洲居民的关键时刻影响三角洲地区的研究议程。参加研讨会的美国科学家和学生由地球科学部的地貌学和土地利用动力学项目以及国际和综合活动办公室的国际科学和教育科共同支持。

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.