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USGS St. Petersburg Science Seminar Series

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

The SPCMSC hosts a monthly seminar featuring scientists from both U.S. Geological Survey and non-USGS scientists. The seminars are usually hosted the third Tuesday of each month at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT on Microsoft Teams and are open to the public. Check out our schedule below for upcoming events.

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Friday, June 7, 2024, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 

Kristen Splinter

Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney

"Monitoring and Modelling sandy coastal change on timescales of days to decades." This will be a hybrid seminar. Please join us in Conference Room B or join the meeting virtually.

Abstract:

A gently curving beach shows erosion; part of the dune was cut away by recent storms.
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Narrabeen-Collaroy Beach, New South Wales, post June 2011 storms.  The photo shows the impacts of a recent storm, with clear dune scarping visible.  This sand was transported offshore into the sandbar (visible by wave breaking). Under milder waves the sand will return to the beach.

Understanding how our sandy coastlines are changing on a range of timescales is important for making informed planning decisions related to coastal hazards and future development. This is under-pinned by good quality and long-term data sets in which we can base our understanding on and on suitable numerical models that can capture the processes that we are most interested in.  This presentation will give a short overview of the opportunities in satellite-derived shorelines and present new shoreline modelling methods based on empirical methods to machine learning techniques.

 


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