The Moving Shoreline Forum

A Shortcourse and Workshop on Coastal Change

April 26-29, 2004

Introduction

As part of the activities of the Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI, we are in the process of organising a forum on coastal change to be held at WHOI from 26th -29th April 2004. The forum is going to consist of a 2 day science meeting followed by a 2 day workshop. The science meeting will feature invited speakers covering topics ranging from sealevel rise, coastal geomorphology, shoreline change (observed and modelled), tools to map the seafloor and policy issues related to shoreline change.

The workshop will be by necessity for a smaller invited group, and is intended to generate a research strategy to addressing shoreline change. We will invite program managers from key federal and state agencies to attend. We will use the workshop to identify outstanding problems in coastal geology and shoreline change, and will generate some specific project outlines that we can follow up on for support.

Schedule & Speaker List

Monday 26, 2004
Time	Title	Speaker/Affilliation
8:30 - 8:45	Introduction	Rob. L. Evans, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, WHOI
8:50-9:30	Setting the Stage: Links between Sealevel Rise, Framework Geology and Coastal Change	Bill Schwab, USGS Woods Hole
9:35-10:15	Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and its Potential Effects on Barrier Coasts of the World	Duncan Fitzgerald, Boston University
10:20-11:00	Storm Events and Other Coastal Hazards	Jeff Donnelly, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, WHOI
11:00 Break
11:20-12:00	Economic Impact and Policy Issues of Continued Coastal Change	Porter Hoagland, Marine Policy Center, WHOI
12:00 Lunch
1:30-2:10	Coastal Geomorphology	Liviu Giosan, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, WHOI
2:15-2:55	Shoreline Change: Measurement, Scales, and Processes	Jeff List, USGS, Woods Hole
3:00- 3:40	Surfzone Morphological Change	Britt Raubenheimer, Dept of Applied Ocean Physics and Enginering, WHOI
3:45-4:25	Impacts of Coastal Change on Ecosystems	Mark Bertness, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
4:30-6:00 Posters and Equipment Demonstrations Location: Coastal Research Lab
7:00 Dinner: After dinner speaker (Cape Cod Geology )

Tuesday 27, 2004
Time	Title	Speaker/Affilliation
9:00-10:20	Modeling Studies and Links to Observations
	(i) Long Term (Geologic Scale) processes (ii) Nearshore Sub-Tidal Processes	(i) Joep Storms, U. Delft, Netherlands (ii) Tom Hsu, Dept of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, WHOI
10:30-11:10	Offshore Mapping Tools	Larry Mayer, University of New Hampshire
11:15 Break
11:30-12:10	Coastal Ocean Measurements	Gail Kineke, Boston College
12:15 Lunch
1:45- 2:25	Onshore Surveying and Sampling Tools	Ilya Buynevich, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, WHOI
2:30-3:10	Role of Observatories in understanding coastal change processes.	Rocky Geyer, Dept of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, WHOI
3:15-3:50	National Assessment of Coastal Change	Rob Thieler, USGS Woods Hole
4:00-6:00 Posters and Equipment Demonstrations Location: Coastal Research Lab

April 28-29, 2004 Workshop Discussing Development and Implemention of an Integrated Research Plan.
Date/Time	Discussion Subject
Wednesday 28th AM	Outstanding issues of shoreline change in response to rising sealevel.
Wednesday 28th PM	Development of an integrated research plan.
Thursday 29th AM	What is needed to implement the integrated research plan on a national and local level?
Contact Information: Robert L. Evans (revans@whoi.edu)