The Land-Ocean-Interactions in the Coastal Zone LOICZ project announces the first cross-cutting workshop. the workshop will introduce advanced researchers to the LOICZ tools and products and how these can be applied to coastal lagoon research. A different tool or application will be covered on each day of the workshop. A scientific article will be drafted as a result of each workshop day base on the results obtained. These will be compiled in a special issue on coastal lagoons to be submitted to the international journal Hydrobiologia, http://www.springer.com/life+sci/ecology/journal/10750.