GC23F:
Connecting Climate Projections to Responses in Coastal and Continental Shelf Environments II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  E Robert Thieler, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Till Jens Joerg Hanebuth, MARUM - University of Bremen, Marine Sedimentation Systems Group, Bremen, Germany
Primary Conveners:  E Robert Thieler, USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-conveners:  Till Jens Joerg Hanebuth, MARUM - University of Bremen, Marine Sedimentation Systems Group, Bremen, Germany, Radley M Horton, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States and Vaughn Barrie, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  E Robert Thieler, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Upper Limit for Sea Level Projections by 2100
Svetlana Jevrejeva, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, L3, United Kingdom, Aslak Grinsted, Centre for Ice and Climate,, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and John C Moore, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
1:55 PM
 
Coastal Aquifer Response to Environmental Change - Implications for Future Projections
Vincent Post, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
2:10 PM
 
Probabilistic Projections of Future Sea-Level Change and Their Implications for Flood Risk Management: Insights from the American Climate Prospectus
Robert E Kopp III1, Michael Delgado2, Radley M Horton3, Trevor Houser2, Christopher M Little4, Robert Muir-Wood5, Michael Oppenheimer4, David M Rasmussen Jr2, Benjamin Strauss6 and Claudia Tebaldi6, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States, (3)Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA, United States, (6)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
2:25 PM
 
A flexible and national scale approach to coastal decision tools incorporating sea level rise
Benjamin Strauss, Scott Andrew Kulp and Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
2:40 PM
 
Do We Really Understand What a Meter of Sea-level Rise by 2100 Means for the Coast?
E Robert Thieler1, Nathaniel G Plant2 and Benjamin Gutierrez1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)U.S Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
2:55 PM
 
Nature of the Lowstand Surface on the Gulf of Cádiz Shelf and the Guadiana Incised-Valley System: Preliminary Results from the LASEA 2013 Cruise
Francisco Lobo1, Susana Lebreiro2, Laura Antón2, Stanislas Delivet3, Salvador Espinosa4, Mari Carmen Fernández-Puga5, Marga García1, Jesús Ibáñez5, María Luján5, Isabel Mendes6, M. Isabel Reguera2, Paloma Sevillano4, Carlos Sinde4, David Van Rooij7 and Pedro Zarandona5, (1)IACT-CSIC, Armilla, Spain, (2)IGME, Madrid, Spain, (3)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (4)IHM, Cádiz, Spain, (5)Cádiz University, Cádiz, Spain, (6)University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal, (7)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium
3:10 PM
 
Impacts of Sea-Level Rise and Human Activity on a Tropical Continental Shelf, RN State, NE Brazil
Helenice Vital1, Tiago Rafael Barros Pereira1, Henrique Ferreira Lira1, Werner F Tabosa1, Patricia Eichler1, Karl Stattegger2, Barun K. Sen Gupta3, Moab Praxedes Gomes1, Mary Lucia da Silva Nogueira1 and Guilherme Cherem Schwarzgui Pierri1, (1)UFRN Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, (2)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
3:25 PM
 
Challenges for Ecosystem Services Provided by Coral Reefs In the Face of Climate Change
Ruy K Kikuchi and Carla Isobel Elliff, UFBA Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil