Editorial to the INTERCOH 2017 topical collection
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EDITORIAL
Editorial to the INTERCOH 2017 topical collection Francisco Pedocchi 1 & Carl Friedrichs 2 Published online: 24 August 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Keywords INTERCOH . Cohesive sediments . Uruguay
INTERCOH 2017 was the 14th meeting of the International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes. The INTERCOH biannual meetings gather the international community of scientists and engineers who have chosen to embrace the challenge of studying processes and finding solutions related to fine sediment issues in fluvial, estuarine, and marine environments. In these environments, cohesive sediment dynamics are often closely related to associated hydrodynamics, chemistry, and biology. INTERCOH 2017 was held at the Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingeniería Ambiental (IMFIA), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay. This was the second time that the INTERCOH Meeting came to South America; the previous time was in 2009 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Paraty, Brazil (Vinzon et al. 2011). The need for engineering solutions in the Rio de la Plata and Montevideo Bay led to the early study of cohesive sediments in Uruguay. The Montevideo Port is literally built on mud, and dredging and construction in the area required the study of cohesive sediments in the area as early as 1871 (Fernández Saldaña and García de Zúñiga 2010). The “recent” study of cohesive sediments in the Universidad de la República started with the experiences of Oscar Maggiolo in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Gradowczyk et al. 1968; Maggiolo and Guarga 1972). Responsible Editor: Jörg-Olaf Wolff
Research on cohesive sediments largely stopped, as did most scientific studies in the country, in conjunction with the 11 years of political dictatorship, during which most of the research team that worked with Maggiolo was expelled from the University. With the return of democracy, cohesive sediment research at the Universidad de la República also returned in the newly reestablished IMFIA, and the work on cohesive sediments has continued for the following 30 years (Guarga et al. 1988; Piedra-Cueva 1993, 1995; Pedocchi and PiedraCueva 2005; Mosquera et al. 2014; Fossati et al. 2014; Groposo et al. 2015; Santoro et al. 2019). More information on the past and future meetings and the activities of the cohesive sediment research community can be found at http://www.intercoh.org/. The book of abstracts of this edition can be found at https://www.fing.edu.uy/imfia/ intercoh. From the 97 abstracts that were presented during INTERCOH 2017, nine full-length publications are included in this Topical Collection of Ocean Dynamics. The papers in this Topical Collection summarize the current research of groups across the globe, covering the topics of: &
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* Francisco Pedocchi [email protected] Carl Friedrichs [email protected] 1
Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad de la República, Julio Herrera y Reissig 565 CP 11300, Montevideo, Uruguay
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