EC23A:
Observations and Modeling of Physical Processes along Coral Reef-Lined Coasts I


Session ID#: 11331

Session Description:
Coral reefs function as protective barriers that shelter many of the world’s tropical and sub-tropical coastlines from storm and tsunami waves while producing carbonate sediment that form most of their beaches and reef islands. Physical processes along these coasts tend to be quite distinct from open coast shorelines because hydrodynamics over coral reefs tend to be strongly influenced by steep slopes, complex topography, and large, often spatially variable, bottom roughness. Sediment transport is complicated by the small-scale interactions with corals, as well as in situ biogenic sediment production and diagenesis that ultimately make determining sediment budgets in these areas challenging. Although reefs reduce wave energy reaching the coastline, their role in shaping coastal morphology through short-term processes such as storms and longer-term changes in oceanographic forcing or sediment supply is often unclear. This session aims to synthesize recent advances in this broad, multi-disciplinary research area, including hydrodynamic and sedimentologic processes in reef environments and their resulting impacts on coastal geomorphology, ecosystems, and hazards both at present and under future climate-change scenarios. Studies focusing on a diversity of reef types using process-based field, laboratory, and numerical modelling approaches are encouraged.
Primary Chair:  Curt Daron Storlazzi, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Chairs:  Ryan Lowe, The University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Perth, Australia and Ronald K Hoeke, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Moderators:  Curt Daron Storlazzi, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Ronald K Hoeke, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Curt Daron Storlazzi, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Ronald K Hoeke, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Australia
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • MG - Marine Geology & Sedimentology
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

EC23A-01
Alongshore Momentum Budget Variations Over a Fringing Coral Reef (93362)
Isabella Beatriz Arzeno, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, United States, Audric Collignon, University of California, San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sarah N Giddings, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Mark A Merrifield, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Tech, Honolulu, HI, United States and Geno R Pawlak, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
EC23A-02
Wave Transformation over a Fringing Coral Reef and the Importance of Low-Frequency Waves and Offshore Water Levels to Runup and Island Overtopping (86807)
Olivia M Cheriton1, Curt Daron Storlazzi1 and Kurt J Rosenberger2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
EC23A-03
An Integrated Study of the Degadation of a Reefscape in the Florida Keys (88085)
David G Zawada and Kimberly Kaye Yates, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States
EC23A-04
High Temporal Resolution Characterization of the Carbonate Chemistry and the Relative Influence of Community Metabolic Processes on Controlling Coral Reef Dynamics at La Parguera, Puerto Rico (92667)
Melissa Melendez, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States, Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Dwight K Gledhill, NOAA, Ocean Acidification Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Sylvia Musielewicz, NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Julio M Morell, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Derek Manzello, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States
EC23A-05
Uncovering the Fine-Scale Connectivity of Coral Reefs via Lagrangian Coherent Structures. (88621)
Thomas Peacock, Dept of Mech Eng - RM 1-310, Cambridge, MA, United States, Matthieu Leclair, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gregory N Ivey, University of Western Australia, Australia, Ryan Lowe, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia and Zhenlin Zhang, University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Crawley, Australia
EC23A-06
Modeling Hydrodynamics on the Wave Group Scale in Topographically Complex Reef Environments (91747)
Johan Reyns, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands; IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Department of Water Sciences and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, Janet M Becker, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Mark A Merrifield, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Tech, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jan Adriaan Roelvink, UNESCO-IHE, Coastal Systems & Engineering and Port Development, Delft, Netherlands
EC23A-07
Modeling Motu: Using hydrodynamic modeling to parameterize morphodynamic interactions between reef flats and reef islands (89183)
Andrew D Ashton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Alejandra C Ortiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States and Jeffrey P Donnelly, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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