Coastlines are home to vast natural resources and anthropogenic infrastructure that will be among the most affected by climate change and sea level rise. It is therefore necessary to increase focus on evaluating coastal vulnerability and developing adaptation strategies to protect coastal resources. Anticipated effects of climate change on nearshore regions include, but are not limited to: inundation and flooding, shoreline/dune/cliff erosion, sediment supply changes, loss of natural resources and habitat, and saltwater intrusion. This session welcomes abstracts discussing measurement and modeling studies to characterize climate change effects on nearshore regions, for example:
- Coastal and beach geomorphology
- Nearshore sediment supply and transport
- Coastal biogeochemistry and ecology
- Groundwater daylighting and effect on flood extents
- Sustainable infrastructure mitigation strategies and evaluation.
In particular, we invite studies that discuss novel tools and strategies to characterize geophysical, bioecological, and socio-economic impacts of changing coastal processes with the aim to reduce prediction uncertainties and better inform resource management.
Primary Chair: Kara Scheu, Integral Consulting Inc, Marine Science and Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
Co-Chair: David Revell, Revell Coastal, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Kara Scheu, Integral Consulting Inc, Marine Science and Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
Moderators: Kara Scheu, Integral Consulting Inc, Marine Science and Engineering, Portland, OR, United States and David Revell, Revell Coastal, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Kara Scheu, Integral Consulting Inc, Marine Science and Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
Sorting out Spatial Distributions and Temporal Population Fluctuations of the Endangered Light-footed Ridgway’s Rail in Southern California Coastal Salt Marshes (638084)
Jennifer Taylor1,2, Eric D Stein1, Richard Zembal3 and Richard F Ambrose4, (1)Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Influence of Burrowing Crabs on Salt Marsh Substrate Stability and Vegetation (637851)
Sofi Courtney, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States; NOAA, National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Megan Tyrrell, US Fish and Wildlife Service, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Chatham, MA, United States
The Adaptation of Selected Pathogenic Microbes to Elevated Temperature and Their Detection In Situ in the Coastal Marine Environment (650928)
Valentina Turk, National Institute of Biology Slovenia, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia, Neža Orel, National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia, Katja Klun, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia, Maja Ravnikar, National Institute of Biology Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Ion Gutierrez-Aguirre, National Institute of Biology Slovenia, Marine Biology Station, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Climate oscillation factors controlling hydrodynamic variability in urban lagoons under extreme environmental conditions in the southern Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates (650530)
Georgenes Cavalcante1,2, Filipe Vieira3, Mohamed Abouleish3, Serter Atabay4 and Edmo J Campos5,6, (1)College of Arts and Science of the American University of Sharjah, Department of Biological, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (2)Instituto de Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil, (3)College of Arts and Sciences of the American University of Sharjah, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (4)College of Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (5)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (6)College of Arts and Science of the American University of Sharjah, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Calibration and assessment of two process-based numerical models, XBeach and CShore, for predicting beach profile evolution in southern California (653288)
Nikos Kalligeris1,2, Pieter Smit3, Bonnie C Ludka4, Robert T Guza4 and Timu Gallien1,4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Geodynamics, Athens, Greece, (3)Sofar Ocean Technologies, San Francisco, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Correcting model bias in multiscale coastal storm surge models with climate change (646399)
Justin Rogers, Jupiter Intelligence, San Mateo, United States, Elaine Yang, Jupiter Intelligence, United States, Stephan R Sain, Jupiter, Boulder, United States and Alicia R Karspeck, Jupiter, Boulder, CO, United States
Studying atmospheric forcing mechanisms for regional sea level changes using ECCO adjoint (655631)
Hong Zhang1, Ian G Fenty2, Ichiro Fukumori3, Tong Lee4, Dimitris Menemenlis2 and Ou Wang3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, United States
Ongoing Beach Nourishments in San Diego County, Ca. (648601)
Bonnie C Ludka1, Mark A Merrifield2, Adam Young3, William C O'Reilly3 and Robert T Guza3, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
