CD33A:
Barrier Dynamics in a Changing Climate I


Session ID#: 37748

Session Description:
Barrier islands, spits and plains are dynamic environments shaped by interactions between marine and aeolian processes, plants and animals, underlying geology, sediment availability, and human development. They typically consist of beach-dune systems, washover plains, salt marshes and adjacent inlets. Sea-level rise and climate change have put many barriers around the world at risk, especially as they become more developed. We need a quantitative understanding of how biotic and abiotic processes interact to build, move, and influence the long-term (in)stability of these landforms. We invite multidisciplinary contributions on the human influences and bio-morphodynamic feedbacks between plants, sediment, and flow of air and water on barriers, and contributions on specific aspects of barrier dynamics. The scope may vary from the local spatial and event time scale, to the scale of chains of barrier islands and millennia.
Primary Chair:  Maarten van der Vegt, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Co-chairs:  Reuben Biel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Andrew D Ashton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Joseph Long, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
Moderators:  Maarten van der Vegt, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Reuben Biel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Maarten van der Vegt, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3020 Littoral processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • MG - Marine Geology and Sedimentology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Total sediment budget approach to multi-annual morphodynamic response on an exposed, macrotidal and embayed sandy beach (311281)
Nieves Garcia Valiente1, Gerd Masselink1, Jak McCarroll2, Tim Scott1 and Daniel C Conley2, (1)Plymouth University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth University, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Synchronization of sediment exchanges between the nearshore, beach, and dune: Insights from field observations and a coupled numerical model (315832)
Nicholas Cohn1, Bas Hoonhout2, Peter Ruggiero3, Sierd de Vries2, Reuben Biel4, Evan B Goldstein4, Orencio Duran Vinent5 and Jan Adriaan Roelvink6, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (5)Texas A&M University, Ocean Engineering, College Station, United States, (6)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Morphodynamic Modelling of Barrier Islands with Complex Topographies (316445)
Ap Van Dongeren1, Dano J.A. Roelvink2, Robert Timothy McCall1, Stephanie M Smallegan3, Daan Wesselman4, Bas Hoonhout5 and Cornelis Nederhoff III1, (1)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (2)IHE Delft, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Morphodynamic Modelling of the Fire Island Wilderness Breach (319815)
Maarten Van Ormondt, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, Cheryl J Hapke, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Timothy Robert Nelson, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL, United States and Dano J.A. Roelvink, IHE Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Barrier Island Response to Sea-level Rise Predicted by Coupling a Morphodynamic Model with Geomorphological and Storm-response Observations (320661)
Jennifer L Miselis, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States and Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States
Post-Hurricane Matthew Dune Recovery in Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina (324531)
Paige A. Hovenga1, Peter Ruggiero2, Nicholas Cohn2, Sally Hacker3, Katya Jay3, Rebecca Mostow3, Reuben Biel4, Michael Itzkin4, Elsemarie deVries4 and Evan B Goldstein4, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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