11th International Conference on the Environmental Management ofEnclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS 11)

1. Introduction
The 11th International Conference on theEnvironmental Management of Enclosed CoastalSeas (EMECS 11) was held for six days fromMonday, August 22, 2016 to Saturday August 27,
2016 in the city of St. Petersburg in the RussianFederation. The conference was held as a joint
conference with the “Sea Coasts” Working Group of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, under the title
EMECS 11 Sea Coasts XXVI.
The main theme of the joint conference was“Managing risks to coastal regions and communities
in a changing world.” The conference was attended
by 365 enclosed coastal sea researchers and otherpersons from 21 countries around the world. The joint
conference featured an ICM & Satoumi SpecialSession, a Students and Schools Partnership Session(SSP Session) and individual sessions held at threevenues. In addition to the 130 oral presentations,
there was also a poster session in which 116 posters

Main venue: Azimut Hotel, St. Petersburg

were exhibited.
View from the 18th floor of the Azimut HotelAt the closing ceremony on Friday, August 26, the St.
Petersburg Declaration and The Students and Schools Partnership Declaration (SSP Declaration)
were adopted as the achievements of the conference. It was announced at the closing ceremonythat the next EMECS conference, EMECS 12, will be held in 2018 in Pattaya, Thailand.
In addition, a city tour of St. Petersburg was held on the afternoon of Thursday, August 25. On thefinal day of the conference, Saturday, August 27, a technical excursion was held in which
participants visited the Flood Protection Barrier and the city of Kronshtadt.

2. Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony started at 9:30 a. m. on
Tuesday, August 23, and was held in the Azimut
Hall on the second floor of the Azimut Hotel, themain conference venue. George Gogoberidze of theRussian State Hydrometeorological University, whoserved as vice chair of the local organizingcommittee, was the master of ceremonies for theopening ceremony.
Opening Ceremony (Azimut Hall)

The opening ceremony featured words of welcome from seven representatives of both Russia andJapan, including Ivan Serebritsky (Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee for Use ofNatural Resources, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety), Kazuo Kanazawa (ViceGovernor, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan), Leonid Zhindarev (Head, Sea Coasts Working Group,
Russian Academy of Sciences) and Valery Mikheev (Acting Rector, Russian State
Hydrometeorological University).
Finally, Alexandra Ershova (Russian State Hydrometeorological University) of the local
conference secretariat provided an overview of the conference.

3. Opening Session
Following a coffee break, the opening ceremony began at
10:20 a. m. This was followed by the plenary session, withMasataka Watanabe (Chair, Scientific & Policy
Committee, International EMECS Center) serving as chair.
The plenary session featured keynote addresses by AndreyZatsepin (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology),Motoyuki Suzuki (International EMECS Center) andEvangelos Papathanasio (Hellenic Centre for Marine
Research). Following the keynote addresses, a photo session
with all of the participants was held in order to takecommemorative
photographs.

Chair: Masataka Watanabe(International EMECS Center)【Keynote addresses】
1. Andrey Zatsepin, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Russia
Short-term variability of coastal zone hydrodynamics under an external forcing:observations at the Black Sea research site of SIO RAS
2. Motoyuki Suzuki, President, International EMECS Center, Japan
Human Activities and Coastal Seas3. Evangelos Papathanasiou, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, GreeceTools and specific recommendations for policy makers based on the results of thePERSEUS EU Project

4. ICM & Satoumi Special Session
The ICM & Satoumi Special Session began at 2:00 p.
m. on Tuesday, August 23, in Room Berlin on the 18th
floor of the Azimut Hotel. Tetsuo Yanagi (InternationalEMECS Center) served as chair.
The special session began with a greeting from Kazuo
Kanazawa (Vice Governor, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan).

Chair：Tetsuo Yanagi（International EMECS Center）

This was followed by ten oral presentations, divided into two parts. Part 1 introduced special
projects relating to coastal zone management in Japan. Part 2 focused on case studies of ICM andSatoumi. Part 1 featured presentations by five individual topic leaders on the content of research
being conducted in Japan in the area of S-13 “Development of Coastal Management Method toRealize the Sustainable Coastal Sea,” for which Tetsuo Yanagi serves as Head Researcher. (Theresearch is being conducted under the Environmental Research and Technology Development
Fund of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan) The five presentations were given by thefollowing:
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2.
3.
4.
5.

Tetsuo Yanagi (International EMECS Center)
Tetsuji Okuda (Ryukoku University)
Teruhisa Komatsu (The University of Tokyo)
Takafumi Yoshida (Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center)
Kenichi Nakagami (Ritsumeikan University)

Part 2 focused on reports from persons involved in research relating to ICM and Satoumi in Japan,
the United States, the Philippines, Indonesia and Russia:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Keizo Negi (Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Robert Summers (former Secretary of the Environment, State of Maryland), U. S. A.
David Nemazie (University of Maryland), Philippines
Suhendar Sachoemar (Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology),
Indonesia
Ruben Kosyan (P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology), Russia

5. The Students and Schools Partnership Session (SSP Session)
The Students and Schools Partnership Session (SSPSession) has been held since EMECS 6 in 2003, which
was held in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose of thesession is to help to promote environmental education
for the students who will become the leaders ofenvironmental preservation activities in the next
generation. At EMECS 11, a total of 13 students — ninefrom Russia, two from the United States and two fromJapan —participated in the SSP Session.
The initial session (Perspectives on Climate Change andCoastal Environments“) was held beginning at 10:30 a.
m. on Wednesday, August 24, at the A.P. Karpinsky
Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI). Daria
A.P.Karpinsky Russian Geological Research InstituteMuseumRyabchuk (VSEGEI) spoke about the Baltic Sea,
Michael Hardesty (Washington College) spoke about
Chesapeake Bay, Tetsuo Yanagi (International EMECS Center) spoke about the Seto Inland Sea,and Jean-Paul Ducrotoy (The University of Hull) spoke about the North Sea. In the afternoon, thestudents toured the museum at VSEGEI, and at 4:00 p. m. they participated in the poster sessionthat was held at the Azimut Hotel.
On Thursday and Friday, August 25 and 26, Wayne Belland Daria Ryabchuk served as co-chairs for sessions at
the Russian State Hydrometeorological University. The
sessions consisted of oral presentations and a question
and answer session.
At the closing session held on the afternoon of Friday,
August 26, three groups consisting of four students —Yuma Hayashi (Japan), Sergey Krylenko (Russia),
Kirstin Webb (U. S. A.) and Erika Koontz (U. S. A.)
received awards at the Best Poster awards presentation.
In addition, the SSP Declaration prepared by thestudents through discussions was read aloud by six
students in turn.
Discussion by SSP session participants
The students also broadened their knowledge byparticipating in the city tour that was held on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 23 and thetechnical excursion that was held on Saturday, August 27.

6. Oral Presentations (Sessions)
From Tuesday, August 23 through Friday, August 26,
130 oral presentations were given in parallel sessions
at three venues each at the Azimut Hotel and RussianState Hydrometeorological University. The topics ofthe oral presentations were as follows.
・ ICM and Satoumi
・ Coastal erosion and dynamical processes in
the nearshore zone
・ Coastal and marine ecosystems: monitoring
Session at the Russian State Hydrometeorological・ and modelling
University
・ Coastal forecast of Russian tideless seasdevelopment
・ Sustainable use and development of coastal resources: Effective management andapproaches
・ Coastal systems and their dynamics (From coast to water and from water to coast)・ Climate change in the changing world. Coastal adaptation to climate change
・ Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters Risks in Coastal Regions – Special sessionof BRICS countries representatives

7. Poster Session
The poster session was held from 4:00 to 6:00 p. m. on Wednesday, August 24 in Azimut Hall at
the Azimut Hotel. A total of 116 posters (101 general and 15 SSP) were presented. At the venue,
there were spirited questions and answers, and exchange of views between participants andpresenters.
In addition, on Thursday, August 25, a meeting of thecommittee to select the winners of the best poster
award was held, with Ruben Kosyan (Russia) serving
as chair. Six general posters and three SSP posters
were selected to receive the awards for outstanding
poster.
Best Poster Award (selected)
No. 11
Ryo Sakamoto; Coastal alteration andchanges in shoreline morphology due toartificial structures in Miiraku Town on
Poster session
Fukue Is. in the Goto Archipelago
No. 45Natalia Andrulionis; Site-SpecificEquations of State for Coastal Waters and Inland Water Bodies
No. 62, Sosuke Otani; Transfer efficiency from primary producers to Ruditapes philippinarum
on an intertidal flat in Hiroshima Bay, JapanNo. 81, Alexander Krek; Oil pollution of the sea surface of the Southeastern Baltic andpossible directions of its propagation
No. 90Mari Maeda; Environmental Education for Schoolchildren in a Seawater Pond for
Creating a Satoumi
No. 97
Violeta Velikova; Identification and prioritization of Hot Spots in managing risks toBlack Sea coastal regions
Best Poster of SSP (selected)
No. 106 Kristin Webb; Viewpoints of the Chesapeake: Influencing Local and Global
Citizenship in the Face of Climate Change
No. 108 Yuma Hayashi; From Amagasaki to the Seto Inland Sea and the World: High SchoolStudent Environment Network
No. 114 Sergey Krylenko; Characteristics of the cliff plant communities of the Tuapkhat massif

8. Closing Session
The closing session began at 2:00 p. m. on August 26.
The plenary session to wrap up the conference was heldin Azimut Hall in the Azimut Hotel, with AndreyZatsepin (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology)
serving as chair. Presentations were given by Vladimir
Kudryavtsev (Russian State HydrometeorologicalUniversity), Zhongyuan Chen (East China NormalUniversity) and Osamu Matsuda (International EMECSCenter).
Andrey Zatsepin（P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology）

【Presentations】

1.

Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, Russian StateHydrometeorological University,Russia
Observation of atmosphere-ocean system and its extremes using satellite sensor
synergy and modelling
2. Zhongyuan Chen, State Key Lab. for Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China
Normal University, China
Water diversion and sea-level rise: Potential threats to freshwater supplies in theChangjiang River estuary
3. Osamu Matsuda, Vice-chair, International EMECS Center, Japan
History of Total Pollution Load Control and Possible Future Coastal Managementin Japan

9. Closing Ceremony
Following a coffee break, the closing ceremony washeld beginning at 4:30 p. m. Masataka Watanabe(International EMECS Center) gave a general overview
of the achievements of the conference and expressedgratitude to all who had helped to make it a success.
In addition, The Students and Schools Partnership
Declaration (SSP Declaration) that had been preparedby the students participating in the SSP Session wasread aloud by them and, with a standing ovation, they
were praised by the conference attendees.
Next, David Nemazie (University of Maryland, U. S.
A.) read the St. Petersburg Declaration, which was
Best Poster awards
adopted by all of the attendees.
Ruben Kosyan (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) announced the winners of the Best PosterAward (nine total, six general and three SSP) that had been selected by the Best Poster Award
selection committee. The winners were introduced and presented with commemorative gifts.
Finally, Piamsak Menasveta (Chulalongkorn University) announced that the next EMECS
conference, EMECS 12, would be held in Pattaya, Thailand in 2018, and invited all of theparticipants to attend.
After the closing ceremony, a gala dinner was held tocelebrate the success of the conference and to facilitate
the deepening of exchanges among the participantsfrom various countries in anticipation of the next
EMECS conference.

Gala dinnerCity tour：August 25

St. Isaac’s Cathedral

Neva river and Hermitage Museum

Technical excursion：August 27

Flood Protection Barrier

City of Kronshtadt