Primary Convener:
Jennifer Walker, Rowan University

Convener:
Andra Garner, Rowan University
Isabel Hong, Villanova University

Chair:
Jennifer Walker, Rowan University
Andra Garner, Rowan University
Isabel Hong, Central Washington University

Changes along our coastlines threaten growing populations, economic resources, infrastructure investments, and natural ecosystem functioning. Coastal communities and environments are subject to hazards such as sea-level rise, tropical cyclones and other coastal storms, tsunamis, earthquakes, erosion, and subsidence, most of which are further exacerbated by climate change. To mitigate and adapt to the combined effects of climate change and coastal hazards, a thorough understanding of these hazards – including records of how they have changed through time and projections extending into the future – is essential. We welcome abstracts that reconstruct past, document present, or project future coastal change utilizing methods ranging from geological proxy to remote sensing to numerical and statistical modeling techniques. Relevant topics could include coastal studies over various spatiotemporal scales covering topics such as changing sea level, tropical cyclones or other coastal storms (including storm surge flooding), earthquakes and tsunamis, or ecosystem function.

Index Terms
1630 Impacts of global change
1641 Sea level change
4355 Miscellaneous
4217 Coastal processes

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Climate Change and Global Policy

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering