OS44B:
Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts and Flooding II


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Session ID#: 57601

Session Description:
Although sea level rise is a global phenomenon, the impacts are local, and are happening now. Changes in sea level are impacting communities across the globe on an almost daily basis through increased erosion and subsidence, greater saltwater intrusion, more frequent “nuisance” flooding, and higher storm surge. The earlier session focused on the drivers of sea level change, while this session will focus on the planning, adaption, and mitigating current and future sea level. This session discusses the information that is needed for such efforts, and identifies areas where improvements still need to be made.
Primary Convener:  Emily A. Smith, NOAA Washington DC, OAR, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States and Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers,, Institute for Water Resources, Washington, DC, United States; US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily A. Smith, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Chairs:  Emily A. Smith, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • C - Cryosphere
  • G - Geodesy
  • G - Geodesy
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1225 Global change from geodesy [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coastal Flooding Risks on the Rise (370857)
Mahshid Ghanbari, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Mazdak Arabi, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Jayantha Obeysekera, Florida International University, Sea Level Solutions Center, Institute of Environment, Miami, United States and William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States
CoSMoS: a comprehensive assessment of coastal hazards due to climate change (422249)
Li H Erikson1, Patrick Barnard2, Amy C Foxgrover3, Juliette Finzi Hart4, Patrick W Limber5, Andrea O'Neill3, Maarten Van Ormondt6, Sean Vitousek7, Nathan J Wood8, Maya Hayden9, Jeanne M Jones10 and Kevin M Befus11, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States, (6)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (7)University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Chicago, IL, United States, (8)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, (9)Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, United States, (10)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Mountain View, United States, (11)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Said the planner to the scientist, “Why mitigate, when we can adapt?” : Assessing future flood damages of coastal cities to reduce risk from sea-level rise and storm surges. (391549)
Luke P Jackson, University of Oxford, Climate Econometrics, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, Thomas Wahl, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States and Svetlana Jevrejeva, NOC, Liverpool, United Kingdom
A multiple methods vertical land movement analysis to support sea level rise planning for Washington State (454466)
Ian M Miller1, Tyler James Newton2, Ray James Weldon3, Guillaume S Mauger4, David A Schmidt5, Eric Grossman6 and Harriet Morgan4, (1)Washington Sea Grant/Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (3)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, (4)University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (6)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Groundwater responses to future sea level rise in California (394071)
Kevin M Befus1, Patrick Barnard2, Daniel Hoover3, Peter W Swarzenski3, Kevin D Kroeger4 and Cliff Voss5, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)USGS, Woods Hole, United States, (5)USGS Water Cycle Branch, Earth System Processes Division, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Comparison of Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Modeling in Three Coastal National Parks to Facilitate Adaptation Strategies. (469148)
Robert E Lewis, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Small Pacific and Indian Ocean Islands among first hit by Sea-level Rise (383703)
Roderik van de Wal, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Thomas Frederikse, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Erwin Lambert, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Maya K Buchanan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States and D.J. Rasmussen, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States
Regional Sea Level Changes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Since 1970s (392376)
Melanie Becker, CNRS/LIENSS UMR 7266, La Rochelle, France, Fabrice Papa, LEGOS Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France, Mikhail Karpytchev, CNRS ULR, La Rochelle, France, Akm Saiful Islam, Bangladesh Institute of Water and Flood Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Stéphane Calmant, Hydro Matters, Toulouse, France
Sea level rise in the Samoan islands escalated by viscoelastic relaxation after the 2009 Samoa-Tonga earthquake (426848)
Shin-Chan Han, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, Jeanne M Sauber, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Fred F Pollitz, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Seattle, United States and Richard D Ray, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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