Coastal Engineering Journal (CEJ)
Call for 2025 Special Issue "Interdisciplinary Exploration of Coastal Morphodynamics"
Guest Editors
Toru Tamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Keiko Udo, Tohoku University, Japan
Janaka Bamunawala, Tohoku University, Japan
We are pleased to announce an upcoming special issue of the Coastal Engineering Journal entitled "Interdisciplinary Exploration of Coastal Morphodynamics" and invite you to submit a manuscript for publication.
Coastal morphodynamics not only constitutes a basis for coastal engineering but also is highly relevant to diverse disciplines, such as geology, geomorphology, geophysics, ecology, agriculture, and archaeology. For example, long-term accumulations of coastal sediments have been subject to a range of analyses as archives of past coastal environments and/or responses to extraordinary events, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and storm surges, and as analogues of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Coasts also provide habitats for diverse faunas and floras, which grow and evolve in interactions with coastal morphodynamics. Outcomes from different disciplines are thus integrated to potentially provide valuable insights into coastal morphodynamics that are not achieved solely by conventional approaches of coastal engineering. In this special issue, we are interested in interdisciplinary contributions to understanding of coastal morphodynamics that are explicitly or potentially beneficial to coastal engineering. Such contributions may include but are not limited to research on the long-term evolution of coastal systems, geoscientific characterization of sediment provenance and transport, and interaction of coastal biology with morphodynamics. Surveys with recent technological advances in relevant disciplines and their reviews are particularly welcome. We strongly encourage contributions from students and historically underrepresented groups in all relevant disciplines.
Special Issue editors are Dr. Toru Tamura (AIST, [email protected]), Prof. Keiko Udo (Tohoku Univ., [email protected]), and Dr. Janaka Bamunawala (Tohoku Univ., [email protected]). If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.
Please send a letter of intention with a tentative title and abstract by 1 December 2023 via Google form (https://forms.gle/iaKVMDkQSGdmWvEH8). In case you cannot access the Google form, please send us via email to the guest editors. Full publication timeline follows below.
Special Issue timeline:
Letter of intention with tentative title and abstract (Google form/email) ………1 December 2023
Notice of abstract acceptance…………………………………………………………Immediate
Full Papers Due…………………………………………………………………… 1 April 2024
Advance Online Publication……………………………………… Immediate Upon Acceptance
Publication as Special Issue………………………………………………………… March 2025
Yours sincerely,
Toru Tamura, Keiko Udo, and Janaka Bamunawala
