Beyond Bathtub: Modeling and Responding to Sea Level Rise and Shoreline Change
December 19, 2012,
10am-4:30pm
Hosted by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
3535 Harbor Blvd., Suite 110, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Coastal managers in California are faced with the challenge of protecting coastal environments and resources from the impacts of climate change. Shoreline change resulting from sea-level rise, coastal erosion, storm activity, and related phenomena, threatens coastal communities, infrastructure and natural habitats. As more models and tools have become available to aid in conducting vulnerability assessments and adaptation strategies, there seems to be a need among coastal managers to better understand the following topics:
- Modeling goes "beyond bathtub" by considering shoreline change
- The range of impacts associated with shoreline change
- The purpose and capabilities of existing models and tools that address shoreline change (e.g. some address storm activity impacts at short-time scales, some address long-term erosion impacts)
- The data and type of information required to run the models
- When/how is it appropriate to invest in model/tool use
- The range of adaptation options
To overcome barriers in moving forward, scientists must hear from managers about management needs and tool utility–the "holy grail" of desired modeling to inform future research and modeling efforts. Likewise, managers must hear from scientists about the state-of-the science and application constraints. This workshop served as a venue for this bi-directional information transfer to occur.
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Workshop Presentations
Welcome: Mary Small, California Coastal Conservancy
Session I: Overview on the National Research Council Report Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon And Washington
Session II: Models and Applications to Address Shoreline Change Impacts: Case Studies
- Coastal Resilience Ventura: Climate Adaptation on an Urban Coast - Lily Verdone, The Nature Conservancy
- Hazard Mapping for Coastal Resilience Ventura - David Revell, Ph.D., ESA PWA
- Our Coast–Our Future - Marina Psaros, Coravai
- Determining climate change-related impacts with the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) - Patrick Barnard, Ph.D., U. S. Geological Survey
- Patrick McCay, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Reinhard Flick, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Russ Boudreau, Moffatt and Nichol
Session III: Tools Demonstration
- Sea Level Rise Viewer – Becky Lunde, NOAA Coastal Services Center
- Our Coast Our Future – Patrick Barnard, Ph.D., U. S. Geological Survey, Marina Psaros, Coravai & Kelley Higgason, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
- Coastal Resilience Tool – Lily Verdone, The Nature Conservancy
Session IV: Sea-Level Rise Guidance Resources
- Beyond Climate Change - Lesley Ewing, California Coastal Commission
- Beyond Bathtub: Modeling and Responding to Sea Level Rise and Shoreline Change - Tom Kendall, United States Army Corps of Engineers
- The State of California's Actions to Support Climate Change Readiness - Sarah Flores, Ocean Protection Council
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