Coastal and saline lake sediments contain important archives of past environmental change, recording signals of both rapid and longer-term changes (including salinity, climate, sedimentation pattern, sea level, and nutrient concentrations) in their sedimentology, geochemistry and biological remains, while coasts have long been favoured for human habitation, resource exploitation, transport and commerce. This session welcomes studies of past environmental and ecological change in any coastal, estuarine or saline setting (including brackish and saline lakes, fjords, lagoons, coasts), especially those that link coastal and inland environments, using historical, sedimentary and archaeological archives and records.

We welcome examples documenting abrupt change as well as longer-term development, and from any period of the Quaternary including the recent past, as well as approaches to quantification of biological indicators and modelling.

Sponsored by the EU Marie Curie project CLIMSEAS-PIRSES-GA-2009-247512: “Climate Change and Inland Seas: Phenomena, Feedback and Uncertainties. The Physical Science Basis”