The Director of the Marine and Aquatic Sciences Application and Research Center (DENAM), Prof. Dr. Lale Balas, and DENAM Advisory Board Member Prof. Dr. Can Balas have participated in the 17th International Coastal Symposium (ICS2024), organized by the Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF) and the Journal of Coastal Research (JCR), and hosted this year by the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST). They contributed with eight papers and served as session chairs in two sessions. DENAM participated in the symposium with a total of eight papers.

The papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Coastal Research (JCR), which is indexed in the Web of Science Q3 category.

Papers presented during the symposium were as follows:

• Integrated Modeling for the Determination of Typology and Boundaries of Coastal and Transitional (Prof. Dr. Lale Balas)
• Enhancing Türkiye's Renewable Energy Capacity: An Advanced Hybrid Model for Combined Offshore Wind and Wave Turbines Design Utilizing Hydrodynamic and Monte Carlo Simulations (Prof. Dr. Lale Balas – Prof. Dr. Can Balas)
• Exploring Renewable Energy on the Coastline of Türkiye: Wind and Wave Power Potential (Prof. Dr. Lale Balas)
• Exploring Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity in a Mediterranean hotspot: Marmaris Bay, Turkey (Prof. Dr. Lale Balas)
• Assessment and Mitigation of Land-Based Pollutants and Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Water Quality (Prof. Dr. Lale Balas)
• A Hybrid Probabilistic Design Model of Riverine Jetties Incorporating Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Transport Phenomena in the Context of Emerging Climate Change (Prof. Dr. Can Balas)
• Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change Through a Monte Carlo–Based Multi-Criteria Decision Model in Marine Spatial Planning (Prof. Dr. Can Balas)
• Assessment of Single-Layer Armor Units in Breakwater Design under Climate Change: In-Depth Case Analysis of Rize–Artvin Airport Breakwater (Prof. Dr. Can Balas)

In addition to the presented papers, Prof. Dr. Lale Balas and Prof. Dr. Can Balas have served as session chairs in two different sessions under the theme “Coastal Management, Policy, and Planning.”

Before the symposium’s closing gala, H.E. Dr. Mustafa Göksu, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Qatar, visited Prof. Dr. Lale Balas and Prof. Dr. Can Balas at the Sheraton Hotel—where the gala was to be held—and received information about the symposium.