Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, New Orleans, United States, Qiang Sun, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Pravin Maduwantha Mahanthe Gamage, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States, Thomas Wahl, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States, Marta Marcos, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC), Esporles, Spain and Ben Marzeion, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria