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Session Proposal: Dynamic Coastlines amidst Changing Sea Levels: Advancements in Understanding of Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Impacts (AGU25)

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Dynamic Coastlines amidst Changing Sea Levels: Advancements in Understanding of Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Impacts

Session ID#: 247884

Session Description:
Changes along our coastlines threaten growing populations, economic resources, infrastructure investments, and natural ecosystem functioning. Coastal communities and environments are subject to hazards such as sea-level rise, tropical cyclones and other coastal storms, tsunamis, earthquakes, erosion, and subsidence, most of which are further exacerbated by climate change. To mitigate and adapt to the combined effects of climate change and coastal hazards, a thorough understanding of these hazards – including records of how they have changed through time and projections extending into the future – is essential. We welcome abstracts that reconstruct past, document present, or project future coastal change utilizing methods ranging from geological proxy to remote sensing to numerical and statistical modeling techniques. Relevant topics could include coastal studies over various spatiotemporal scales covering topics such as changing sea level, tropical cyclones or other coastal storms (including storm surge flooding), earthquakes and tsunamis, or ecosystem function.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4355 Miscellaneous [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Sue Walker, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, United States
Conveners:  Andra Jenn Garner, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, NJ, United States and Isabel Hong, Villanova University, Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova, PA, United States
 
Shifting Shores: Integrating Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations to Understand Embayed Beach Dynamics under Climate Change along Central West Coast of India (1854566)
Puneet Mishra1,2, Mani Murali1,2, Deepika Dwivedi1,2, SK Ariful Hossain1,2, Mr. Santhosh Kumar Sakthivel2,3, Shincy Francis1,2 and Richa Rai1,2, (1)Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India, (2)CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography Division, Dona Paula,Goa, India, (3)Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
 
Delta in Flux: Multi-Decadal Morphodynamic Transformations and Forcing Mechanisms in the Indian Sundarbans (1854636)
Deepika Dwivedi1,2, Mani Murali1,2 and Puneet Mishra1,2, (1)Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India, (2)CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography Division, Dona Paula,Goa, India
 
Climate-Driven Depopulation of a Low-Elevation Coastal Zone (1854932)
Torbjorn E Tornqvist, Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, Brianna Castro, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, Jesse Keenan, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, United States, Jayur M Mehta, Florida State University, Department of Anthropology, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Zhixiong Shen, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
 
Marine Heatwaves and Modified Lagoons: The 2024 Coral Bleaching Event in Kavaratti, Lakshadweep Archipelago (1860487)
Arya P Kumar and Anu Gopinath, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Department of Aquatic Environment Management, Kochi, India
 
Observational and Modeling Insights into Storm-Driven Coastal Boulder Transport (Aran Islands, Ireland) (1861547)
Hannah Spero, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, Therese Reisch, University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, Melissa A Berke, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Aman Tejaswi, University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Joannes J Westerink, Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Mary Bourke, Trinity College Dublin, Discipline of Geography, School of Natural Sciences, Dublin, Ireland, Michael J Starek, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, United States, Niamh Cullen, Dublin City University, School of History and Geography, Dublin, Ireland, Jacob Berryhill, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, James Herterich, University College Dublin, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Dublin, Ireland and Andrew B Kennedy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
An explainable machine learning prediction system for early-warning of heat stress on Florida’s Coral Reef (Invited) (1870266)
Marybeth Arcodia, University of Miami, Miami, United States, Richard Karp, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, United States and Elizabeth Barnes, Boston University, Computing and Data Sciences, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States
 
Barystatic Sea-Level Uncertainty Induced by Geocenter Motion in Satellite Gravimetry (1872781)
Weihang Zhang1, Fan Yang1,2 and Zhicai Luo1, (1)Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Physics, Wuhan, China, (2)Aalborg University, Geodesy Group, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg, Denmark
 
Anthropogenically-Caused Sea-Level Rise has Tripled the Likelihood of Coastal Extremes since 1900 (1892944)
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
 
Hydrogeologic Controls on the Position of the Marsh-Forest Boundary in the Mid-Atlantic (1898684)
Abigail McGraw, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Newark, United States, Dannielle Pratt, University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States and Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States
 
Acceleration of western Gulf coast sea level rise influenced by river discharge (1899901)
Christopher G Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Roger Creel, Texas A& M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States, Kathleen Creel, Northeastern University, Boston, United States and Caroline Ummenhofer, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
 
Geographic and socioeconomic inequalities of sea-level rise since 1900 (1908051)
Julius Oelsmann, Tulane University, River-Coastal Science and Engineering, New Orleans, United States, Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States, Jerry X Mitrovica, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Hybrid Reconstruction of Monthly Sea Level at Dokdo in the East Sea (1993–2023) Using Tide Gauges, Altimetry, and Machine Learning (1908768)
Dr. MyeongHee Max Han, Phd, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Marine Natural Disaster Research Department, Busan, South Korea and Hak Soo Lim, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Marine Natural Disaster Research Department, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Probabilistic Estimates of Prolonged Sea-Level Change Hotspots (1910429)
Erin Robson, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, New Orleans, United States and Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States
 
A Multi-Method Approach for Estimating Attributable Sea Level Rise and Extreme Water Levels Worldwide (1913374)
Daniel M. Gilford1, Kristina Dahl1, Yucheng Lin2, Andrew J Pershing3, Robert E Kopp4 and Benjamin Strauss1, (1)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, (3)Climate Central, Princeton, United States, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Long-term records of wetland change on the Gulf Coast: a paleo perspective (1915696)
Debra A Willard, USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Miriam Jones, U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, United States, Ken Krauss, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), 8124 Highway 56, Chauvin, LA 70344 USA, LUMCON, Chauvin, United States and Beth Middleton, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, United States
 
Wave Interaction for a Quadrant Front-Face Pile-Supported Breakwater: A Numerical Study (1918112)
Shaik Firoj, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India and Mohammad Saud Afzal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kharagpur, India
 
Investigating the Effects of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Global Ocean Tides (1919897)
Linda Pan, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States, He Wang, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States; NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Olga V Sergienko, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Robert Hallberg, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Matt Harrison, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
 
Evolution of Global Sea-level Rise Projections and Their Uncertainty (1920728)
Andra Jenn Garner, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, NJ, United States, Amy Appollina, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States, Jessica Slotter, Rowan University, Environmental Science, Glassboro, United States, Gregory Garner, Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, Aimee Slangen, CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, Australia, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Benjamin Peter Horton, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Global Coastal Hazard Perspectives: Insights from the 2025 Advanced Studies Institute Graduate Training Program on Multidisciplinary Coastal Zone Hazards in Java, Indonesia (1925675)
Magaly Koch1, Luke Joseph Gezovich2, Matthew Weathers3, Hannah Henry4, Julia Grossman5, Thomas Thelen6, Tyler Lynn7, Stephanie McNamara8, Shalom Entner9, Catherine Hauser9, Eduardo Gonzalez-Lugo10, Sucharita Gopal11, Christine Regalla12, Anindya Wirasatriya13, Muhammad Helmi13, Aris Ismanto13, Muhammad Fakhri Khairillah Almunawir13, Muhammad Shulhan14, Muhamad Nur Al Fajrin14, Sunelsya Surya14, Hermin Indah Wahyuni15, Agung Harijoko16 and Gayatri Marliyani16, (1)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, United States, (3)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Science, Chapel Hill, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, United States, (7)University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)Boston University, Biology, Boston, United States, (10)University of Puerto Rico‐Mayagüez, Geology, Mayagüez, United States, (11)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, United States, (12)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, United States, (13)Diponegoro University, Oceanography, Semarang, Indonesia, (14)Diponegoro University, Marine Science, Semarang, Indonesia, (15)Gadjah Mada University, Communication Science, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, (16)Gadjah Mada University, Geological Engineering, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
 
Common Era Sea-level Change on the Western Coast of Southern New Jersey (Delaware Bay) (1926603)
Fatematuz Zohora Nishi, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, Jennifer Sue Walker, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, United States, Kenneth Miller, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Adalia Xiony Rodriguez, Bryn Mawr College, Departments of Environmental Studies and Geology, Bryn Mawr, United States, Donald Charles Barber, Bryn Mawr College, Departments of Environmental Studies and Geology, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States, Niamh Cahill, Maynooth University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Kildare, Ireland, David Reide Corbett, East Carolina University, Department of Coastal Studies, Greenville, United States, Matthew Brain, Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom and Margaret Christie, McDaniel College, Environmental Studies, Westminster, United States
 
Sea Level Rise and the Future of California’s Beaches: Tourism and Recreation Losses by 2050 and 2100 (1930141)
Vicky Espinoza1, Brett A Buzzanga2, Christine M Lee3 and Benjamin Hamlington3, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Advancing sea-level rise projections in the Gulf to inform coastal adaptation strategies (1936207)
David Rounce1, Matthew Weathers2, Sadaf Mahmoudi1, Eric Y Larour3, Connor Davis4, Richard B. Lammers5, Renee Collini6, Ioannis Y Georgiou7, Nastaran Tebyanian8, Jordan Fischbach9, Alison Rellinger10 and Qiyamah Williams11, (1)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (6)The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, United States, (7)The Water Institute of the Gulf, New Orleans, United States, (8)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (9)The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, United States, (10)Mississippi State University, Extension, Mississippi State, United States, (11)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, United States
 
From Subway Cars to Seascapes: Long-Term Insights into the Lifecycle of Anthropogenic Reefs (1948047)
Olivia Hines1, Arthur C Trembanis2, Grant Otto, MS2 and Carter DuVal3, (1)University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States, (3)National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Coastal Landscape Change Product Applications to Evaluate Coastal Asset Risk and Vulnerability (1948174)
Erika E Lentz1, Elizabeth A Pendleton2, Kathleen White3, Marie Barlett4, Julia Heslin4 and Kathryn Weber4, (1)USGS Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)DASD/ER&O, Washington, DC, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States
 
Microfossil diatoms as indicators of hurricane overwash deposits in southwest Florida mangroves (1949545)
Isabel Hong, Villanova University, Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova, PA, United States, Kristen Joyse, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, New Brunswick, United States, Arielle Nogueira, Villanova University, Geography and the Environment, Villanova, United States, Jennifer Sue Walker, Rowan University, Glassboro, United States and Kara Radabaugh, FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Public policies and littoral sustainability in the Caribbean region of Honduras: A propositive analysis in the face of the triple threat (1949893)
Joel Güity, PhD Student, Cadiz, Spain, Pedro Arenas, Associate Professor, Department of History, Geography and Philosophy, Puerto Real, Spain and Ofelia Perez, Professor and researcher, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
 
Topographic Change of Anthropogenic Mixed Sand and Gravel (MSG-A) Beaches: UAV-based Assessment of Annual Variation and Storm Response (1953322)
Yuchen Wang, Martin D Hurst, John MacDonald and Larissa A Naylor, University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
Improving Coastal Sea Level Projections with High-Resolution Models (1953582)
Melanie Becker, CNRS/LIENSS UMR 7266, La Rochelle, France, Mikhail Karpytchev, LIENSs/Université La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France, Simona Flavoni, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, United States and Weiqing Han, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Sediment transport in a large marsh channels: field observations from Cat’s Paw, Florida. (1953681)
Alexandru Sheremet, University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Kailei Cao, University of Florida, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
Evaluating Collection Methods Used for Monitoring Elevation Change in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Point, MS (1961016)
Jessica Yesensky, Elmira College, Elmira, United States and Jonathan L. Pitchford, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Point, MS, United States
 
Assessing Storm Event and Decadal Shoreline Change in Northern Assateague from Satellite Imagery (1961491)
Jessica Cyr1, Julia Greco2, Cameron Bodine2 and Arthur C Trembanis2, (1)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States
 
Tracking the terrestrial to salt-marsh coastal ecosystem transition in southern New Jersey (1962805)
Kris Szymanski1, Sarah Venverloh1 and Jennifer Sue Walker2, (1)Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States, (2)Rowan University, Glassboro, United States
 
Bioturbation in Salt Marshes in Southern New Jersey: Implications for Foraminifera as Sea-Level Proxies (1963871)
Sarah Venverloh1, Brett Wos2 and Jennifer Sue Walker2, (1)Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States, (2)Rowan University, Glassboro, United States
 
Coastal sea level connectivity to continental shelf, slope, and open-ocean variability: using high resolution ocean simulations and ocean bottom density to improve predictions across timescales (1966391)
Jacob Steinberg, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, John P Krasting, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Christopher G Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Stephen Matthew Griffies, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
 
Sand in Motion: Mapping Morphology and Beach Nourishment Response of Northern Assateague Island (1974721)
Julia Greco, Arthur C Trembanis, Grant Otto, MS and Sophie Alpert, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States
 
The Sea-Level Fingerprint of Committed Mountain Glacier Change (1982329)
Lauren Lewright, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Jacqueline Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, Weilin Yang, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Joerg Schaefer, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States and Andrew Mackintosh, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
 
Modeling the Wave Dissipation and Sediment Dynamics over Oyster Reefs (1983282)
Kailei Cao, University of Florida, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Michael-Angelo Y Lam, USACE-Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, United States, Marissa J Torres, US Army Cold Regions, Hanover,NH, United States, Matt Malej, USACE-Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, MS, United States and Alexandru Sheremet, University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
Modeling the Sediment Transport under Tidal Flow in an Intertidal Salt Marsh (1984499)
Jinhyung Lee1, Kailei Cao1, Michael-Angelo Y Lam2, Marissa J Torres3, Matt Malej4 and Alexandru Sheremet5, (1)University of Florida, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)USACE-Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, United States, (3)US Army Cold Regions, Hanover,NH, United States, (4)USACE-Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, MS, United States, (5)University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
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