CP014
The connections between coral reef state, physical processes, and coastlines
Session ID#: 84672
Session Description:
With more than 100 million people living less than 10 m above sea level and within 10 km of coral reefs, the changes to coral reefs that are being observed around the world will have a direct impact on many coastal communities. Geophysical features such as the complex bathymetry, the health and changing composition of coral reef platforms through time, as well as physical processes such as waves and currents, not only influence the coral reef ecosystem but also the evolution of the adjacent shorelines with ramifications for coastal erosion, flooding and habitability. This session aims to consider what the future may look like for coral reef-lined coasts by exploring the dynamic connections between coral reef health, physical processes (hydrodynamics and sediment transport), the evolution of the adjacent shoreline and coastal flooding. Summaries of current site-specific studies, regional investigations, modeling results, and efforts towards multi-disciplinary and integrated approaches to understanding the current and future state of coral reefs, and how this affects physical processes as well as the adjacent coastline are all encouraged, along with presentations on new and experimental techniques that may improve or change the way these dynamic connections and processes are understood.
Index Terms:
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair: Andrew William Mackay Pomeroy, The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School, Crawley, Australia; Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Australia; University of Western Australia, The UWA Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia
Co-chairs: Curt Daron Storlazzi, USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Ap Van Dongeren, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Primary Liaison: Andrew William Mackay Pomeroy, University of Western Australia, The UWA Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia; The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School, Crawley, Australia; Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Australia
The Influence of a Cross-Reef Channel on Wave Setup and Circulation over a Fringing Reef at Ipan, Guam, Revisited (637414)
Janet M Becker1, S. Jeanette Clark2, Mark Merrifield3 and James Behrens1, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Reconciling Reef Representations: A Comparison of Obstacle and Surface Models, and Consequences for Drag (637907)
Melissa Duvall, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States, Johanna H Rosman, Univ. N. Carolina Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC, United States and James L Hench, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, NC, United States
Relating Offshore Wave Conditions to Incident Waves and Shoreline Water Levels at Ipan, Guam during Extreme Events. (639744)
Athina Lange1, Janet M Becker2, Mark Merrifield3, James Behrens2 and Eric J Terrill4, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Nonlinear Tide and Wave Setup Interactions on Reefs with Observations from Ofu, American Samoa (642519)
Mathilde Lindhart1, Justin Rogers1, Samantha Allysa Maticka1, Clifton Brock Woodson2 and Stephen G Monismith1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Hydrodynamics on Fringing Reef Systems with Spur and Groove Structures (644802)
Cesar Acevedo1, Wayne J Stephenson1, Ismael Marino-Tapia2 and Sarah Wakes3, (1)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES-Merida), Merida, YC, Mexico, (3)University of Otago, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dunedin, New Zealand
A coral reef surfzone: The dynamics of wavy flows on a shallow reef flat (644935)
Stephen G Monismith1, Samantha Allysa Maticka1, Justin Rogers1, Benjamin Brian Hefner2 and Clifton Brock Woodson3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Dynamics of flow on a wide reef flat at Dongsha Atoll (645946)
Emma Catherine Reid, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States, Kristen A Davis, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States and Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
On the importance of grain density to modeling bedload transport of carbonate sediment on coral reefs (647029)
Kurt J Rosenberger, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology, Baltimore, MD, United States, Curt Daron Storlazzi, USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Olivia M Cheriton, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Andrew William Mackay Pomeroy, University of Western Australia, The UWA Oceans Institute, Crawley, WA, Australia, Jeff Hansen, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia and Michael Cuttler, The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and UWA Oceans Institute, Perth, WA, Australia
West Maui – A Stellar Example of Spatial Variability of the Wave-Driven Components of Runup and Inundation (647977)
Camilla Tognacchini, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Martin D. Guiles, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Assaf Azouri, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Volker Roeber, University Pau & Pays Adour, Pau, France and Douglas S Luther, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Modelling the Physiological, Biogeochemical and Physical Processes Controlling the Interaction of Corals with Their Environment (650683)
Deniz Disa, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Matthias Munnich, ETH Zurich, Environmental Systems Science, Switzerland and Nicolas Gruber, ETH Zurich, Environmental Physics, Zurich, Switzerland
Extending Coral Reef Elevation-Change Studies from Regional- to Centimeter-Scale with a New High-resolution, Underwater Imaging System (651570)
David G Zawada1, Gerald A Hatcher2, Christine Kranenburg3, Andrew C Ritchie2, Jonathan A Warrick4, Kimberly Kaye Yates5 and Evan Dailey2, (1)USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, CA, United States, (3)USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, FL, United States
A Hybrid Approach to Develop Runup Parameterisations for Reef-Lined Coasts (652092)
Gemma Franklin1,2 and Alec Torres-Freyermuth1,3, (1)Laboratorio Nacional de Resiliencia Costera, Sisal, YC, Mexico, (2)CONACYT - Laboratorio de Ingenieria y Procesos Costeros, Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sisal, YC, Mexico, (3)Laboratorio de Ingenieria y Procesos Costeros, Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sisal, Mexico
Drivers of Circulation at a Senile Coral Reef (652735)
Legna Maria Torres-Garcia1,2, Maitane Olabarrieta3, P. Soupy Dalyander4 and Kimberly Kaye Yates1, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (4)The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, FL, United States
Circulation in a Tidally-Flushed Atoll Lagoon (656218)
Sarah Ruth Merrigan, University of California, Irvine, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Kristen A Davis, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Geno R Pawlak, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Gregory Sinnett, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States
Corals’ Response to Rising Sea Surface Temperatures for the Past 200 years across the Central and Western Pacific (656899)
Carlos P Carvajal1, Paul S Kench2, Claudine H Stirling3 and Oliver M Knebel1, (1)University of Auckland, School of Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)Simon Fraser University, Department of Earth Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Drivers of reef island morphodynamics revealed through high temporal resolution satellite imagery (657089)
Michael Cuttler1, Paul Branson2, Kilian Vos3, Michael O'Leary4, Jeff Hansen5, Nicola Browne6 and Ryan Lowe5, (1)The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and UWA Oceans Institute, Perth, WA, Australia, (2)The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School and UWA Ocean Institute, Perth, WA, Australia, (3)UNSW Sydney, Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)The University of Western Australia, School of Earth Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia, (5)The University of Western Australia, Oceans Graduate School, School of Earth Sciences, and UWA Oceans Institute, Perth, WA, Australia, (6)Curtin University, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia
