The International Association on Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and its Latin American Division (LAD), in association with the Water Science and Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), are proud to announce the 6th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics. This highly successful series of conferences has played a key role in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to river and coastal problems. The conference is unique in its emphasis on the intersection between basic research and engineering applications, blending aspects from fundamentals in fluid mechanics to laboratory experiments and field studies in river and coastal morphodynamics. It provides a stimulating forum for communication among applied mathematicians, engineers, geologists, ecologists, biologists, geomorphologists, computer scientists and water managers involved in the study of Earth surface processes. The meeting will take place in the background of the Parana River, one of the largest rivers in the world, which provides a unique opportunity for observations of flow, sedimentation, ecology, biology and morphology in a natural laboratory.

Conference themes

RCEM focuses on the morphodynamics of rivers, estuaries, coasts and shallow seas. Contributions on theory, modelling, and laboratory and field studies in the following topics -but not restricted to- are welcome:

• River and coastal morphodynamics, theory and observations
• Morphology of deltas and alluvial plains
• Mechanics of sediment transport in rivers and estuaries
• Bed form dynamics
• Eco-morphodynamics and biogeomorphology
• Computational morphodynamics
• Morphodynamics and global warming
• Scour and erosion around structures
• Hydroacoustic measurements of flow, sediment transport and morphology
• The future of Earth Sciences