Meet the editor

Professor Andrew J. Manning is a Principal Scientist (Rank Grade 9) in the Coasts & Oceans Group at HR Wallingford (UK), and has over 23 years of scientific research experience (in both industry and academia) examining natural turbulent flow dynamics, fine-grained sediment transport processes, and assessing how these interact (including both field studies and controlled laboratory flume simulations). Andrew also lectures

in Coastal & Shelf Physical Oceanography at the University of Plymouth (UK). Internationally, Andrew has been appointed Visiting/Adjunct/Guest Professor at five universities (Hull, UK; Stanford, USA; Delaware, USA; Florida, USA; TU Delft, Netherlands), and is a highly published and world-renowned scientist in the field of depositional sedimentary flocculation processes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was awarded a UoP Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship (2007), and was presented the 'Exemplary Act Award' by the United States Department of the Interior & U.S. Geological Survey (2015). Andrew has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in marine science, of which more than 50 have been published in international scientific journals, plus over 140 articles in refereed international conference proceedings, and currently has an *H-index* of 24. He supervises graduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students focusing on a range of research topics in marine science. Andrew has led numerous research projects investigating sediment dynamics in aquatic environments around the world with locations including: estuaries, tidal lagoons, river deltas, salt marshes, intertidal, coastal waters, and shelf seas.

Contents

**Section 1**

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Inferences of Change

*and Richard J.S. Whitehouse*

*by Gonzalo Gajardo and Stella Redón*

*by Philip W. Bellamy and Hyun Jung Cho*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface III**

Water Quality and Pollution **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

Water Column and Seabed **55**

**Chapter 3 57**

**Chapter 4 79**

Assessment Techniques **117**

**Chapter 5 119**

**Chapter 6 143**

Pollution Issues in Coastal Lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico *by Alfonso Vazquez Botello, Guadalupe de la Lanza Espino, Susana Villanueva Fragoso and Guadalupe Ponce Velez*

*Mello Monique Alves Leite and e Marques Carine Ferreira*

Environmental Monitoring of Water Quality as a Planning and Management Tool: A Case Study of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon,

*by Giordano Gandhi, Obraczka Marcelo, de Souza Monica Medeiros,* 

Hypersaline Lagoons from Chile, the Southern Edge of the World

Morphodynamics in a Tropical Shallow Lagoon: Observation and

*by Alfred Sunday Alademomi, Andrew J. Manning, Victor J. Abbott* 

A GIS-Based Approach for Determining Potential Runoff Coefficient

Autonomous Systems for the Environmental Characterization of Lagoons

and Runoff Depth for the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA

*by Monica Rivas Casado, Marco Palma and Paul Leinster*
