Interactions between sediments and water: perspectives on the 12th International Association for Sediment Water Science Symposium

摘要

The International Association for Sediment Water Science (IASWS) is an inter-disciplinary organisation whose mandate is "to promote, encourage and recognise excellence in scientific research related to sediments and their interactions with water and biota in fluvial, lacustrine and marine systems and with particular reference to problems of environmental concern" (www.iasws.org). IASWS grew out of a meeting of an international group of interdisciplinary aquatic scientists in Amsterdam in 1976, and at a second meeting in Kingston, Canada (1981), the organisation was officially formed.