The annual Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), organized by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), takes place February 28 – March 3. This event is the premiere conference for the ocean sciences community and draws an international stage of researchers involved in studying Earth’s oceans and coasts. 

Scientists from across the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program are involved in OSM every year through presenting posters and lightning talks, chairing sessions, and more. This year, there will be 25 presentations given by CMHRP staff, and many more abstracts on which they are co-authors. Our team attends every year to promote the work of USGS, exchange research ideas with other scientists, and network with potential partners from around the world. 

Check out the schedule below for all OSM presentations from the USGS coastal and marine team: 

Monday, February 28, 2022: 

• Jessica Lacy will present, “Physical and biotic factors influence cohesive sediment erodibility in San Francisco Bay” at 11:25 a.m. ET 

• Dr. Legna Torres-Garcia will present, “Coastal Vulnerability Assessments in Puerto Rico: Focused Stakeholder Engagement to Foster Equity and Inclusion” at 3:40 p.m. ET.  

• Dr. Kurt Rosenberger will present in the session, “Protecting Coastlines Using Nature-Based Solutions” beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET. 

• Dr. Curt Storlazzi will present, “Rigorously Valuing Coral Reef Restoration in Florida and Puerto Rico to Reduce Coastal Risk” at 5:10 p.m. ET. 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022: 

• Dr. Mark Buckley will present, “Contrasting responses of wave-driven water levels at coral reef sites with and without channels” at 9:05 a.m. ET. 

• Rae Taylor-Burns will present, “The influence of vegetated marshes on wave transformation under daily and storm conditions in a sheltered estuary” in the “Protecting Coastlines Using Nature-Based Solutions” session beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET. 

Wednesday, March 2, 2022: 

• Dr. Jenna Brown will present a poster on, “Using Machine Learning to Approximate Bare Earth Surfaces from Structure-from-Motion Topographic Products” in the “Remote Sensing of Nearshore Processes and Coastal Morphology” session beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  

• Sharifa Karwandyar will present a poster on, “Case Study: Validation of the USGS/NOAA Total Water Level & Coastal Change Forecast Viewer at Madeira Beach, FL” in the “Coastal Processes Posters” session from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. ET.  

• Dr. John Warner will present, “Applications of a coupled modeling system to investigate Hurricane impacts” in the session, “Storm-induced Coastal Impacts: Prediction, Monitoring, Response, and Mitigation” beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. 

• Dr. Erika Lentz will present, “Regional Scale Projections of Dynamic Landscape Change Using a Probabilistic Approach” at 2:30 p.m. ET. 

• Elizabeth Pendleton will present, “The Coastal Change Likelihood: An update of the USGS Coastal Vulnerability Index to Sea-Level Rise” at 2:35 p.m. ET. 

• Travis Sterne will present, “The USGS Coastal Change Likelihood: Methodology Driving the Updates of the ‘New CVI’” in the “Dynamic Coastal Change: Knowledge, Gaps, and Decision-Support “ session at 2:40 p.m. ET. 

• Dr. Tarandeep Kalra will present, “Modeling vegetation growth in marsh and estuarine environments” in the session “Advancing our understanding of biogeochemical coupling with models and observations in estuaries and coastal waters” at 2:40 p.m. ET. 

• Dr. Sara Zeigler will present, “Predicted Sea-Level Rise-Driven Biogeomorphological Changes on Fire Island, New York: Implications for People and Plovers” at 2:45 p.m. ET.  

• Dr. Davina Passeri will chair the session, “Dynamic Coastal Change: Knowledge, Gaps, and Decision-Support” and present on, “Modeling decadal barrier island evolution and resilience to storms and sea level rise” at 2:55 p.m. ET. 

• Dr. Donya Frank-Gilchrist will present, “Integrated Morphological Modeling of Barrier Island Evolution in the Gulf of America” at 3:35 p.m. ET.  
• Dr. Karim Alizad will present, “Pascagoula-Escatawpa-Grand Bay (PEG) Coastal Wetland Resiliency to Sea-level Rise and Proposed Restoration Strategies” at 3:55 p.m. ET. 

Thursday, March 3, 2022: 

• Dr. Sean Vitousek will present, “A model integrating satellite-derived shoreline observations for predicting large-scale shoreline change due to waves and sea-level rise” at 2:30 p.m. ET.  

• Kara Doran will present, “Assessing Coastal Change Forecasts on the Louisiana Coast During the 2020 Hurricane Season” at 2:45 p.m. ET. 

Friday, March 4, 2022: 

• Justin Birchler will present, “Skill Assessment of Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecasts During Hurricane Isaias” at 10:05 a.m. ET. 

• Dr. Alfredo Aretxabaleta will present, “Climatological current-influenced wave conditions along the US east coast” at 10:20 a.m. ET. 

• Dr. Patrick Barnard will present, “Defining Climate Change-Driven Tipping Points Across Coastal Systems” at 12:30 p.m.  

• Dr. Margaret Palmsten will be a session chair for the “Close Range Remote Sensing of Nearshore Physical Processes” session, and will present, “Role of wave runup in ocean-driven total water level forecasts” at 3:00 p.m. ET. 

• Dr. Salme Cook will present, “Effects of storms and bathymetry on salinity intrusion in the Delaware Bay Estuary” at 3:30 p.m. ET 

• Alexander Seymour will present, “Classifying 20-yr Dune Morphology Trends on North Carolina's Natural and Developed Barrier Islands” at 3:40 p.m. ET. 

Abstracts and schedule of events can be viewed here: https://osm2022.secure-platform.com/a/gallery?roundId=3  

Main conference website: https://www.aslo.org/osm2022/