EP027
Tropical Coasts: Land-Ocean Environments at Low-Latitudes

Session ID#: 159826

Session Description:
Land-ocean (coastal) environments afford ecosystem services such as blue carbon storage, food safety, tourism-based economy, maritime trade, and resiliency to communities. In the tropics, coastal systems comprise estuaries-deltas of large rivers that discharge most of the global runoff and massive sediments, nutrients, and pollutants; highly productive muddy landscapes dominated by mangroves; and coastlines fronted by coral and sand-shoal reefs. This high dynamism implies that our understanding of tropical coasts depends on transdisciplinary efforts. With these premises, the Tropical Coasts session invites contributions on the geomorphology, oceanography, and ecology of low latitude coasts, emphasizing the connectivity across environments.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EGU: European Geosciences Union -
Index Terms:

1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
4231 Equatorial oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]

Primary Convener:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Department of Earth Sciences, HyNA Research Group, Medellin, Colombia; University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Isamar Cortes, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States; Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences (GeoLatinas), Newark, United States, Oscar Andrés Alvarez-Silva, Universidad del Norte, Department of Physics and Geosciences, Puerto Colombia, Colombia and Shalimar Moreno, East Carolina University, Greenville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Isamar Cortes, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
 
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Gisselle Esther Guerra, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Centro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama; Sistema Nacional de Investigación, SNI Panamá, SENACYT, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama and Estación Científica Coiba AIP, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
 
Empirical Assessment of Remotely Sensed Beach Slopes (1145585)
Hayley Flanagan, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, United States, Charles Henry Fletcher II, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Kammie-Dominique Tavares, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Urban and Regional Planning, Honolulu, United States, Kimberly Lowe, NOAA, Honolulu, United States and Anna Mikkelsen, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Earth Sciences, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
Connecting communities with the coastal zone, from land to sea (Invited) (1177628)
David Lagomasino1, Amanda Payton2, John P Walsh3, Nathan Marc Thomas4, Sonnet Xu5, Madeline Kronebusch6, Lin Xiong7, Sean P Charles2, Kinsey Blumenthal8, Shalimar Moreno5, Benjamin Poulter9, Marc Simard10, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta11, Andre Uychiaoco12 and Temilola Fatoyinbo9, (1)East Carolina University, Integrated Coastal Programs, Wanchese, United States, (2)East Carolina University, Department of Coastal Studies, Greenville, NC, United States, (3)Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (5)East Carolina University, Greenville, United States, (6)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (7)East Carolina University, Department of Coastal Studies, Wanchese, United States, (8)East Carolina University, Integrated Coastal Studies, Greenville, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Wageningen University and Research Center, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen, Netherlands, (12)USAID Fish Right Program, Manilla, Philippines
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