The emerging concept of Anthropocene, era in which human influences modify various environmental properties, has direct implications on coastal research. Indeed, anthropogenic chemical (e.g. metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals), physical (e.g. microplastics, sediments, temperature) and biological (e.g. invasive species, eutrophication) stressors increasingly affect marine and coastal aquatic systems. Thus, what is the meaning of pollution if the understanding of coastal environments is intrinsically linked to the identification of shifts on contaminant baselines, biology, and oceanographic variables. I will be chairing a session at YOUMARES 7 (link below), and welcome abstracts (deadline June 15) discussing coastal and marine pollution in a broad context including environmental changes related to human interference. 

Also contribution and responses posted here might be presented during the session opening. 

http://www.youmares.net/index.php/prog-venue/session-abstracts/249-sessions-at-youmares-7#8

http://www.youmares.net/