This Research Topic is linked to the 17th INTERCOH, the international conference on cohesive sediment transport, held between September 18-22, 2022 at Inha University, Incheon, South Korea.

Cohesive sediments, the mixture of water and fine-grained sediments such as clay, silt, fine sand, and organic matter, have cohesive characteristics due to the electrochemical and biological-chemical attraction of fine sediments. For more than four decades, the INTERCOH, the international conference on cohesive sediment transport, has been the premier international platform for scientists and engineers working to understand cohesive sediment properties and dynamics in both natural and man-made environments via laboratory experiments, field observation, and numerical modeling. The 17th INTERCOH will be held between September 18-22, 2023, at Inha University in Incheon, South Korea. In association with the 17th INTERCOH, hereby, we open a venue to publish not only conference participants’ original research articles on cohesive sediment transport, but also non-participants’ contributions.

In recent decades, efforts have been made to understand the physical processes of cohesive sediment in natural environments, but they are still poorly understood. In the era of the Anthropocene, we are increasingly facing cohesive sediment problems such as pollutants and siltation in navigational channels and harbors. The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a venue to share our increased knowledge of cohesive sediment transport not only in natural environments but also in altered environments.

For this Research Topic, we welcome manuscripts related to the topics of the 17th INTERCOH. The INTERCOH topics are included but are not limited to:

- Cohesive sediment dynamics in the Anthropocene

- Flocculation and floc properties

- Erosion, deposition, and consolidation

- Wave-mud interactions

- Biological effects and biogeomorphology

- Mixed mud-sand transport in tidal flats to the continental shelf

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