“The Conference will include participation on-site but will also utilise state-of-the-art remote participation options to ensure inclusion and engagement.”
Programme Schedule
The thematic structure and topics for Sea Level 2022 are presented below. All times are Singapore Standard Time with UTC provided in parentheses. Virtual attendees will have access the sessions live and on-demand, as well as to all posters.
08:30 - 08:45: Opening Address by Minister Ms Grace FU
08:45 - 09:00: Prof Dr Detlef Stammer (Chair, Joint Scientific Committee, World Climate Research Programme): WCRP’s Commitment to Sea-level Research
09:00 - 09:15: Ms Hazel Khoo (Director Coastal Protection, Public Utilities Board): Coastal Adaptation in Singapore
09:15 - 09:30: Dr Aurel MOISE (MSS/CCRS): Overview of Singapore’s National Sea Level Program
09:30 - 09:45: Noelle O'Brien (Director, Asian Development Bank): Sea-level Rise as a Development Challenge: The ADB Perspective
09:45 - 10:00: Prof Benjamin Horton (Director, Earth Observatory of Singapore): Sea-level Research in Southeast Asia
10:00 - 10:15: INVITED TALK - Dr Vladimir Ryabinin (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO): IOC Perspective on Sea Level
Chairs & rapporteurs: Aurel Moise
Rapporteurs: Matthias Mengel, Fiona Turner
Plenary Oral Session:
11:00 - 11:15: INVITED TALK - Dr Cunde Xiao (Director, Beijing Normal University): The Irreversibility Of Ice Sheet Changes And Effects On Global Sea Level Commitment
11:15 - 11:30: INVITED TALK - Dr Alexander Robel (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology): Why are (some) projections of the future Antarctic contribution to sea level rise so high?
11:30 - 11:45: INVITED TALK - Roderik van de Wal (Professor, Utrecht University): A High-End Estimate Of Sea-Level Rise For Practitioners
11:45 - 12:00: INVITED TALK - Dr Judy Lawrence (Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand): IPCC State of the Art Working Group 11, 2022
Chairs & rapporteurs: Robert Nicholls
Rapporteurs: Matthias Mengel, Fiona Turner
Plenary Oral Session:
14:30 - 14:45: INVITED TALK - David Behar (Climate Program Director, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission): A Practitioner Perspective
14:45 - 15:00: INVITED TALK - Dr Daniella Hirschfeld (Assistant Professor, Utah State University): Sea-Level Science in Practice: A Global Survey of Scenario Use
15:00 - 15:15: INVITED TALK - Joseph Intsiful (Green Climate Fund): Global Adaptation Needs On The Coast
Chairs & rapporteurs: Benjamin Horton
Rapporteurs: Matthias Mengel, Fiona Turner
Plenary Oral Session:
Adaptation Leading Practices
15:15 - 15:30: INVITED TALK - Dr Arthur Webb (Coastal Adaptation Specialist, United Nation Development Program): Atoll Islands - Impacts and Adaptation
15:30 - 15:45: INVITED TALK - Prof Munsur Rahman (Professor, Institute of Water and Flood Management) Prospects And Constraints Of Sedimentation Enhancing Strategies In The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta In Managing Relative Sea Level Rise
15:45 - 16:00: INVITED TALK - Anh Cao (PhD Candidate, University of Tokyo): Adaptation To Sea Level Rise - Induced Flooding: A Comparison Of Countermeasures Being Employed In Ho Chi Minh City And Tokyo
16:00 - 16:10: INVITED TALK - Fangyi Tan (PhD Student, Nanyang Technological University): Coral Recorders of Holocene Sea-level change in Singapore
16:10 - 16:20: INVITED TALK - Dr Stephen Chua (Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University): A new Holocene sea-level record for Singapore
16:20 - 16:30: Cheryl Tay (Nanyang Technological University): Contributions Of Local Land Subsidence To Relative Sea-Level Rise Across Major Coastal Cities: An Insar Perspective
Chairs & rapporteurs: Benjamin Horton
Rapporteurs: Matthias Mengel, Fiona Turner
Plenary Oral Session:
Examples from work in Singapore and Southeast Asia:
17:00 - 17:30: INVITED TALK - Bette Otto-Bliesner (Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research): WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity and Sea Level
17:30 - 18:00: INVITED TALK - Bruce Hewitson (Climate System Analysis): WCRP Regional Information for Society
18:00 - 19:00: Open Discussion
Synthesising Day 1: both science and practitioners.
What is needed in the next 10 years for practitioners and scientists?
Chairs & rapporteurs: Roderik van de Wal
Rapporteurs: Matthias Mengel, Fiona Turner
Speakers:
Plenary Oral Session:
08:30 - 08:45: INVITED TALK - Angélique Melet (Researcher, Mercator Ocean Internationa): Towards A European Coastal Flood Awareness System
08:45 - 09:00: INVITED TALK - Prof Miguel Esteban (Professor, Waseda University): Adaptation To Sea Level Rise: A Comparative Analysis Of Current Examples Of Adaptation Around The Planet
09:00 - 09:15: Prof Bart van den Hurk (Scientific Director, Deltares): Searching for SLR Early Warning Signals for Societal Adaptation
09:15 - 09:30: Dr Benjamin Hamlington (Research Scientist, NASA JPL): Opportunities for Satellite-Based Signposts and Adaptation Pathways in US Sea Level Rise Projections
09:30 - 09:45: Dr Marjolijn Haasnoot (Senior Researcher, Deltares Utrecht University): Lessons from Pathways Studies for Coastal Adaptation
09:45 - 10:00: Dr Scott Kulp (Principal Computational Scientist, Climate Central): Spatial Resolution of Population Data Influences Coastal Flood Exposure Estimates
10:00 - 10:15: Vanessa Völz (PhD Student, Global Climate Forum e.V.): Using Learning Scenarios to Improve Coastal Adaptation Decisions
10:15 - 10:30: Dr Ven Paolo Valenzuela (Research Fellow, National University of Singapore): Land Reclamation as Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Chairs & rapporteurs: Yi Jin
Rapporteurs: Tim Hermans, Graham Rush
Poster session:
- Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Coupling Coastal And Inland Flood Models With Dynamic Future Extreme Boundary Conditions
Full Name: Abhishek Saha
Organisation: Hydroinformatics Institute - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Geological Records Of Extreme Sea Level From Storm And Tsunami Deposits: A Review Of Recent Issues
Full Name: Prof Adam Switzer
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Impacts Of Extreme Sea Level Events On The Global Port Network: A Case-Study Of A Manila Trench Tsunami
Full Name: Dr Constance Chua
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Initial Tsunami Risk Assessment Of Singapore In Face Of A Changing Climate
Full Name: Elaine Tan
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: An Efficient Early Warning System Of Coastal Flooding For Samoa And Tonga
Full Name: Prof Fernando J. Mendez
Organisation: Universidad de Cantabria - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Co-Developing Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Scenarios For The Maldives
Full Name: Dr Geronimo Gussmann
Organisation: Global Climate Forum e.V. - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Tropical Cyclones Impact On Sealevel Rise In Northern Coastal Belts Of Sri Lanka
Full Name: Gobishankar Sathiyamohan
Organisation: National Institute of Fundamental Studies - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: The Contribution Of Coclico To Developing Climate Services For Coastal Adaptation In Europe
Full Name: Dr Gonéri Le Cozannet
Organisation: BRGM - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Assessing Impacts And Adaptations Against Sea Level Rise In Japanese Coastal Areas
Full Name: Dr Makoto Tamura
Organisation: Ibaraki University - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: How Can Sand/Boulder Transport Inform Future Coastal Hazard Assessment?
Full Name: Dr Masashi Watanabe
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Hourly Coastal Water Levels With Long-Term Trends For Impact Attribution: The Hlt Dataset
Full Name: Dr Matthias Mengel
Organisation: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: How Sea Level Rise Will Affect The Frequency Of Future Compound Floodings Of Eastern Coast Of Canada
Full Name: Mohammad Bizhanimanzar
Organisation: Ouranos - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Spatio-Temporal Variations Of Aerosols, Tropospheric Ozone, And Meteorological Parameters Over Arabian And Red Sea And Adjacent Coastal Areas
Full Name: Dr Muhammad Zeeshaan Shahid
Organisation: University of the Punjab - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Future Changes In Extreme Storm Surges In East Asia
Full Name: Prof Nobuhito Mori
Organisation: Kyoto University - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Currents And Their Extremes In Singapore
Full Name: Puah Jun Yu
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Potential Of Tsunami In The North Atlantic Ocean Due To Glacially Triggered Earthquakes Offshore Greenland
Full Name: Dr Rebekka Steffen
Organisation: Lantmäteriet - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Contemporary Human Experience Of Relative Sea-Level Rise
Full Name: Prof Robert Nicholls
Organisation: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: The Impact Of Sea Level Rise On Existing Patterns Of Migration
Full Name: Roland Smith
Organisation: University of East Anglia - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Sea Level Science Application To Devise Adaptation Planning For The Coastal Communities: Lessons From Metropolitan City Of India
Full Name: Dr Shailendra Mandal
Organisation: National Institute of Technology Patna - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Sea Level Rise Exposure: Disparate Property Market Impacts And Fiscal Vulnerability
Full Name: Steven Koller
Organisation: University of Miami - Topic: Coastal risks and adaptation
Paper Title: Investigating The Influence Of Monsoon Seasonality On Compound Flooding In Southeast Asia
Full Name: Xu Jiamin
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University
Plenary Oral Session:
14:30 - 14:45: INVITED TALK - Dr Natasha Barlow (Associate Professor, University of Leeds): The Paleo Sea-Level Perspective
14:45 - 15:00: INVITED TALK - Dr Andrew Lloyd (Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University): The role of the solid Earth in ice sheet and sea level evolution
15:00 - 15:15: Prof Alessio Rovere (Professor, Ca' Foscari University of Venice): The World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (Version 1.0)
15:15 - 15:30: Caroline Van Calcar (PhD Candidate, Delft University of Technology & University of Utrecht): Simulation of a Fully Coupled 3D GIA - Ice Dynamical Model for the Antarctic Ice Sheet Over a Glacial Cycle
15:30 - 15:45: Dr Jedrzej Majewski (Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University): Utilizing Coral Microatolls to Extend Instrumental Sea-Level Records
15:45 - 16:00: Dr Juliet Sefton (Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University): Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes and Archaeology in the Equatorial Western Pacific Ocean
16:00 - 16:15: Roger Creel (Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University): Probabilistic Assessment of Mid-Holocene Global Mean Sea Level
16:15 - 16:30: Dr Sarah Woodroffe (Associate Professor, Durham University): Saltmarsh Records of Recent Mass Balance Changes in Greenland
Chairs & rapporteurs: Yi Jin
Rapporteurs: Tim Hermans, Graham Rush
Poster session:
- Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: A Reassessment Of The Reliability Of Erosional Geomorphological Sea-Level Indicators In Soft Substrates: A Case Study From The Mediterranean Coast Of Israel
Full Name: Alyssa Victoria Pietraszek
Organisation: University of Haifa - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Coral Evidence For Mid-Holocene Sea-Level Rise Revealing An Abrupt Uplift Event At Badoc (Ilocos Norte) And Cabugao (Ilocos Sur), Philippines
Full Name: Anandh Gopal Perumal
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: The Mid Holocene Sea-Level Change In The Arabian Gulf
Full Name: Barbara Mauz
Organisation: University of Liverpool - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: The Greenland Ice Sheet - Comparing The Last Interglacial With Projections For The Future
Full Name: Dr Bette Otto-Bliesner
Organisation: National Center for Atmospheric Research - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Constraining Common Era Relative Sea Level Changes In The Far-Field Location Of Singapore
Full Name: Christabel Tan
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Proxy Records Of Late Holocene Sea-Level Change In Southern New Zealand
Full Name: Dr Ed Garrett
Organisation: University of York - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: The Rate And Magnitude Of Last Interglacial Sea-Level Change In Northwest Europe: Lessons For The Future
Full Name: Dr Graham Rush
Organisation: University of Leeds - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Vertical Land Motion And Its Uncertainty €“ Experiences From Development Of A Land Uplift Model Based On Gnss Data And Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Model
Full Name: Dr Holger Steffen
Organisation: Lantmäteriet - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Quantifying The Contribution Of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment To Current And Future Global Sea-Level Change Using 3-D Earth Models
Full Name: Dr Maryam Yousefi
Organisation: McGill University and Pennsylvania State University - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Gps Rates Of Vertical Bedrock Motion Suggest Late Holocene Ice-Sheet Readvance In A Critical Sector Of East Antarctica
Full Name: Prof Matt King
Organisation: University of Tasmania - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Last Interglacial Global Mean Sea Level From High-Precision U-Series Ages Of Bahamian Fossil Coral Reefs
Full Name: Oana Dumitru
Organisation: Columbia University - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Assessing The Sensitivity Of Last Interglacial Sea Level In The North Sea Region To The Penultimate Deglaciation
Full Name: Oliver Pollard
Organisation: University of Leeds - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Relative Sea-Level Changes In Southeastern Australia During The 19Th And 20Th Centuries
Full Name: Sophie Williams
Organisation: Durham University - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Mid-Holocene Sea-Level Highstand In Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Modelling
Full Name: Dr Tanghua Li
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change - The Hidden Story Told By The Coral Microatolls In Singapore
Full Name: Teo Jireh
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Multi-Millennial Sea-Level Changes In Singapore
Full Name: Dr Timothy Shaw
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Of A 3D Earth: Consequences For Past And Present Sea Level Variations
Full Name: Volker Klemann
Organisation: German Research Centre for Geosciences - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Sea Level Response To Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Sediment Loading Along The Great Barrier Reef
Full Name: Yucheng Lin
Organisation: Durham University - Topic: Paleo sea-level and glacial isostatic adjustment
Paper Title: Relative Sea-Level As A Driver Of Coastal Evolution In A Late-Holocene Mangrove Environment In Jurong Lake, Singapore
Full Name: Yudhishthra Nathan
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Individual Climate Model Emulation And Its Use In Predicting Land Ice Contribution To Sea Level Rise
Full Name: Dr Fiona Turner
Organisation: King's College London - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Relative Importance Of Surface Mass Balance And Outlet Glacier Forcing In Ismip6 Greenland Ice Sheet Sea-Level Projections
Full Name: Heiko Goelzer
Organisation: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Trends In Greenland And Antarctica Mass Balance And Their Contributions To Global Mean Sea Level
Full Name: Dr Ines Otosaka
Organisation: University of Leeds - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Climate Variability As A Major Forcing Of Recent Antarctic Ice-Mass Change
Full Name: Prof Matt King
Organisation: University of Tasmania - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Impact Of Himalayan Glacier Melting On Sea Level Rise Using Satellite And Field Based Observation
Full Name: Meenu Rani
Organisation: G B Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Nonlinear Land-Ice Interactions From The Observational Record And Their Implications For Sea-Level Projections
Full Name: Sandy Avrutin
Organisation: University of Southampton - Topic: Quantifying the contribution of land ice to near-future sea level rise
Paper Title: Do Debris Covers And Frontal Ablation Matter For The 21St-Century Sea Level Change?
Full Name: Dr Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi
Organisation: University of Bremen
08:30 - 08:35: David Behar (Climate Program Director, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission): INTRODUCTION TO PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES ON SEA-LEVEL SCIENCE
Plenary Panel Session:
Adaptation planning starts with the science, but that science is complex, ever-changing, and uncertain. How is sea-level science used today in planning, what challenges do practitioners face in that use, and how are coastal climate services evolving to better connect “actionable science” to on-the-ground action?
08:35 - 08:40: Introductions
08:40 - 08:55: INVITED TALK - Gordon Smith (Strategic Lead, Community Climate Action, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada)
08:55 - 09:10: INVITED TALK - Abby Sullivan (Senior Advisor for Climate Science and Risk Communication, City of Philadelphia, USA)
09:10 - 09:25: INVITED TALK - Dr Benjamin Hamlington (Team Lead, NASA Sea Level Change Team, USA)
09:25 - 09:40: INVITED TALK - Adam Parris (Senior Consultant - Climate Planning, ICF International, New York, USA)
09:40 - 09:55: PANEL ROUNDTABLE: What can WCRP do to best support adaptation planning?
09:55 - 10:30: Question and Answer with Audience
Chairs & rapporteurs: Angélique Melet
Rapporteurs: Tim Naish, Roland Smith
Plenary Panel Session:
We are beginning to see adaptation action, i.e. measures implemented on-the-ground to maintain or create resilience to rising seas. This session will include jurisdictions that have put in place adaptation measures to sea-level rise and describe how they got there.
11:00 - 11:05: Introductions
11:05 - 11:20: INVITED TALK - A/Prof Thao Nguyen Danh (Vice President, Ho Chi Minh City University, Vietnam)
11:20 - 11:35: INVITED TALK - Katherine Hagemann (Resilience Program Manager for Adaptation, Miami-Dade County, USA)
11:35 - 11:50: INVITED TALK - Dilip Trivedi (Vice President, Moffat and Nichol, San Francisco, USA)
11:50 - 12:05: INVITED TALK - Adam Robinson (Project Director, Boston Barrier, Environment Agency, United Kingdom)
12:05 - 12:20: PANEL ROUNDTABLE: How can the science enterprise best support your work planning community resilience?
12:20 - 13:00: Question and Answer with Audience
Chairs & rapporteurs: Jochen Hinkel
Rapporteurs: Tim Naish, Roland Smith
Plenary Panel Session:
Context matters in responding to sea-level rise. Our first panel presenting approaches to the development of adaptation programs will feature case studies drawn from small island contexts.
14:30 - 14:35: Introductions
14:35 - 14:50: INVITED TALK - Erin Derrington (Office of Planning, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, USA)
14:50 - 15:05: INVITED TALK - Luteru Agaali'l Tauvale (Director of Meterology, Samoa)
15:05 - 15:20: INVITED TALK - Laurice Jamero (Manila Observatory, Philippines)
15:20 - 15:35: INVITED TALK - Amon Martin (Assets and Planning Manager, Thames-Coromandel District Council, New Zealand)
15:35 - 15:50: PANEL ROUNDTABLE: How can the science enterprise best support your work planning community resilience?
15:50 - 16:30: Question and Answer with Audience
Chairs & rapporteurs: Violet Wulf Saena
Rapporteurs: Tim Naish, Roland Smith
Plenary Panel Session:
Context matters in responding to sea-level rise. Our second panel presenting approaches to the development of adaptation programs will feature case studies drawn from large cities.
17:00 - 17:05: Introductions
17:05 - 17:20: INVITED TALK - Felipe Cerbella Mandarino (City Information Coordinator, Instituto Pereira Passos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
17:20 - 17:35: INVITED TALK - Zahirul Hacque Khan (Executive Director - Operation, Institute of Water Modeling, Bangladesh)
17:35 - 17:50: INVITED TALK - Karen Partington (Environmental Services Manager, City of Lake Macquarie, Australia)
17:50 - 18:05: INVITED TALK - Teck Ho Chai (Deputy Director, Public Utilities Board, Singapore)
18:05 - 18:20: PANEL ROUNDTABLE: How can the science enterprise best support your work planning community resilience?
18:20 - 19:00: Question and Answer with Audience
Chairs & rapporteurs: Chan Eng Soon
Rapporteurs: Tim Naish, Roland Smith
Plenary Oral Session:
08:30 - 08:45: Dr Eric Larour (Group Supervisor Sea Level and Ice, Jet Propulsion Laboratory): New Sea-Level Projections Accounting for Spatio-Temporal Covariances in the Barystatic Contributors
08:45 - 09:00: Filippo Giaroli (MSc Student, University of Genoa): Future Changes in Joint Waves and Storm Surge Events in the Mediterranean Sea
09:00 - 09:15: Dr FU Lee Lueng (Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory): Potential Applications of Swot High-Resolution Sea Surface Height Observations to the Study of the Coastal Impact of Sea Level Rise
09:15 - 09:30: Dr Ivan Haigh (Associate Professor, University of Southampton): Challenges Facing Storm Surge Barriers with Sea-Level Rise
09:30 - 09:45: Dr Joanna Staneva (Head of Department Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon): Wind Waves Contribution to Sea-Level Variability in the Land-Ocean Continuum
09:45 - 10:00: Julius Oelsmann (Research Associate, DGFI-TUM): The Impact of Continuous Space and Time-Resolving Vertical Land Motion on Relative Sea Level Change
10:00 - 10:15: Dr Lucia Pineau-Guillou (Researcher, IFREMER): Changes In Extreme Sea Levels along the North Atlantic Coasts From 1846 to 2018
10:15 - 10:30: Victoria Schoenwald (Graduate Student, University of Miami RSMAS): Understanding Sea Level Rise Acceleration along the East Coast of North America
Rapporteurs: Jonathan Chenal, Jennifer Walker
Poster session:
- Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Sea-Coastal Variability Mapping, Soil Salinization, Induntation, Coastal Dynamics Changes With The Rise Of Sea Level For The Indian Subcontinent And South East Asian Region
Full Name: Abhinav Galodha
Organisation: Indian Institute of Technology - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Origins Of Interseasonal To Seasonal Sea Level Variability On The Shelf Of The U.S. Atlantic Coast
Full Name: Anrijs Abele
Organisation: University of Bristol - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Contributions Of Local Land Subsidence To Relative Sea-Level Rise Across Major Coastal Cities: An Insar Perspective
Full Name: Cheryl Tay
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Sea Level Variability In Jamaica: Investigation Of The Characteristics Of Jamaican Sea Level In The Context Of Regional Sea Level Variability In The Altimetry Era
Full Name: Deron Maitland
Organisation: The University of the West Indies, Mona - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Detection And Attribution Of Manometric Sea-Level Variations Along The Norwegian Coast Using Grace Mascons Solution
Full Name: Fabio Mangini
Organisation: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Coastal Sea Level Variability
Full Name: Fouad Issoufa Ali
Organisation: Nationale Agency of Civile Aviation and Meteorology - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Decadal Sea Level Variability In The Tropical Atlantic
Full Name: Franck Eitel Kemgang Ghomsi
Organisation: University of Cape Town - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: The Increasing The Coastal Inundation Over Semarang City Due To La Nina Events
Full Name: Furqon Alfahmi
Organisation: Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Shore Line Changes And Sea Level Rise Along East Coast Of India : Implications To Climate Change
Full Name: Dr Jayaraju Nadimikeri
Organisation: Yogi Vemana University - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: New Network Of Altimetry-Based Sea Level Virtual Stations In The World Coastal Zones
Full Name: Dr Jean-Francois Legeais
Organisation: Collecte Localisation Satellites - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Coastal Trapped Wave Retrieval From Alongtrack Satellite Altimeter Data
Full Name: Dr Junyi Li
Organisation: Guangdong Ocean University - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Monitoring Of Seasonal Variability Suspended Sediment Concentration Along Coast Zone Of Arabian Sea, India Using Oli Sensor
Full Name: Dr Pavan Kumar
Organisation: Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Tidal Analysis Of Sea Levels From Multi-Frequency And Multi-Constellation Gnss Interferometric Reflectometry
Full Name: Dr Peng Dongju
Organisation: Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: An Overview Of The Sea Level Changes Caused By The Tonga Eruption In Eastern Indonesia
Full Name: Randi Firdaus
Organisation: Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Study On Shoreline Changers And Climate Change Impacts In Sri Lanka
Full Name: Prof Ranjana Piyadasa
Organisation: University of Colombo - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Sea Level Rise And Climate Variation Impact To North Western Region Coastal Region Of Sri Lanka
Full Name: Prof Ranjana Piyadasa
Organisation: University of Colombo - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: The Effect Of Tidal Influence On The Surface Water Salinity Profile Which Is A Potemtial Indicator Of Climate Change In Sagar Island Which Is An Important Part Of Indian Sundarban Area
Full Name: Rinku Das
Organisation: Baruipur Girls' High School - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Unprecedented Extreme Sea Level Rise In The Indian Ocean
Full Name: Sreeraj P
Organisation: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Local And Remote Forcing Of Sea-Level Variation Off The Northeast Us Coasts
Full Name: Dr Tong Lee
Organisation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Topic: Coastal sea level variability
Paper Title: Regional Sea-Level Change Of The 20th To 21st Century In Southeast Asia
Full Name: Trina Ng
Organisation: Centre for Climate Research Singapore - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Closing The Global Mean Ocean Mass And Sea Level Budgets Over 2005-2019
Full Name: Dr Anne Barnoud
Organisation: Magellium - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Updating Sea-Level Reconstruction Since 1900
Full Name: Dr Jinping Wang
Organisation: Ocean University of China - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Using Sea Level Budget Reconstructions To Estimate The Effective Climate Sensitivity Time Variations And Further Constraint The Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
Full Name: Jonathan Chenal
Organisation: LEGOS / ENPC - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Evaluation Of Budget Of Local Sea Level Trends Along Coast Of Canada During 1958-2015
Full Name: Dr Li Zhai
Organisation: Bedford Institute of Oceanography - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: The Ipcc Ar6 Combined Assessment Of The Global Energy And Sea Level Budgets 1971-2018
Full Name: Dr Matthew Palmer
Organisation: Met Office Hadley Centre - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Process-Based Estimate Of Global-Mean Sea-Level Changes In The Common Era
Full Name: Dr Nidheesh Gangadharan
Organisation: Université catholique de Louvain - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Recent Advancements In The Arctic Sea Level Research From Space
Full Name: Dr Roshin P. Raj
Organisation: Bjerknes Center for Climate Research - Topic: Sea level budget
Paper Title: Dynamics Of Interannual Variability Of The Ocean Bottom Pressure In The Southern Ocean
Full Name: Prof Xuhua Cheng
Organisation: Hohai University
Plenary Oral Session:
14:30 - 14:45: INVITED TALK - Dr Lijing Cheng (Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences): Ocean heat uptake and the energy budget
14:45 - 15:00: INVITED TALK - Dr Harry Zekollari (Glaciologist, ETH Zurich): Sea-level contribution from glaciers on decadal to multi-centennial time scales
15:00 - 15:15: INVITED TALK - Asst Prof Miren Vizcaino (Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology): Advanced, coupled simulations of Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance, ice flow and global climate evolution.
15:15 - 15:30: INVITED TALK - Thomas Frederikse (Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory): Disentagling the Causes of Global and Local Sea-Level Rise.
15:30 - 15:45: Dr Natalya Gomez (Associate Professor, McGill University): Resolving the Influence of the Solid Earth on Ice Sheet Grounding Lines and The Implications for the Antarctic Ice Sheet's Contribution to Future Global Sea Levels
15:45 - 16:00: Dr Tamsin Edwards (Reader in Climate Change, King's College London): Protecting Coasts: How to Better Quantify Uncertainties in the Next Generation of Land Ice Projections
16:00 - 16:15: Carolina Camargo (PhD Candidate, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research): Regionalizing the Sea-Level Budget Using a Neural Network Approach
16:15 - 16:30: Dr Jennifer Walker (Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University): Common Era Sea-Level Budgets and Timing of Modern Rates of Rise
Rapporteurs: Jonathan Chenal, Jennifer Walker
Poster session:
- Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Projecting Regional Sea Level Change By Including The Internal Variability Induced Uncertainty
Full Name: Dr Aixue Hu
Organisation: National Center for Atmospheric Research - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Full Scenario Flexibility For Multi-Century Sea Level Rise Projections To Better Inform Coastal Adaptation Planning
Full Name: Dr Alexander Nauels
Organisation: Climate Analytics - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: High-Resolution Projections Of Extreme Sea Level Changes Along The Coasts Of Western Europe
Full Name: Alisée Chaigneau
Organisation: Mercator Ocean International - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Sea State Contribution To Steric Sea Level
Full Name: Dr Antonio Bonaduce
Organisation: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Southern Ocean Sea Level Monitoring Network - The Australian Antarctic Program
Full Name: Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi
Organisation: Australian Antarctic Division - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Rafffts: A Framework To Rapidly Assess Global Chronic Coastal Flood Risk As Sea Levels Rise
Full Name: Ben Hague
Organisation: Australian Bureau of Meteorology - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Statistical Modelling Of Thermosteric Sea-Level Rise As A Function Of Radiative Flux
Full Name: Dr Benjamin Grandey
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Nasa Sea Level Change Team: From Observation To Actionable Information
Full Name: Dr Benjamin Hamlington
Organisation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Sea Level Projections For Coastal Climate Services In South Africa And The Indo-Pacific Region
Full Name: Benjamin Harrison
Organisation: Met Office Hadley Centre - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Sensitivity Of MPI-ESM Sea Level Projections To Its Ocean Spatial Resolution
Full Name: Chathurika Wickramage
Organisation: University of Hamburg - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Long-Term Climate Change Impacts On Global Sea Level Statistics Analysed From A Single Model Large Ensemble
Full Name: Prof Detlef Stammer
Organisation: University of Hamburg - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Incorporating Sea Level Rise Into Planning And Project Implementation Using Smart, Safe, Growth In The Commonwealth Of The Northern Mariana Islands
Full Name: Erin Derrington
Organisation: CNMI-OPD - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Contributing Processes To The Extreme Sea Level Variabilities In The Northwest Pacific Ocean
Full Name: Fan Linlin
Organisation: Ocean University of China - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Tectonic Contributions To Relative Sea Level Change In Southeast Asia
Full Name: Grace Ng
Organisation: Nanyang Technological University - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Impact On Projections Of The Antarctic Ice Sheet Due To Regional Sea Level Interactions With Ice Flux And Ice-Shelf Basal Melt: Coupled Ice Sheet-Sea Level Model Results Following The New Ismip6-2300 Experimental Protocol
Full Name: Dr Holly Kyeore Han
Organisation: Los Alamos National Laboratory - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: The Evolution Of Process-Based Sea-Level Projections: Comparisons For The Uk And Indo-Pacific
Full Name: Jennifer Weeks
Organisation: Met Office - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Enabling Dynamic Modelling Of Global Coastal Flooding By Defining Storm Tide Hydrographs
Full Name: Job Dullaart
Organisation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: The Impact Of Sea-Level Rise On Extreme Sea Levels In Port Phillip Bay In Southeastern Australia
Full Name: Dr Kathleen McInnes
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Improving High Tide Flooding Outlooks Using Skillful Seasonal Sea Level Forecasts
Full Name: Dr Matthew Widlansky
Organisation: University of Hawaii at Manoa - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Evaluation Of Retracked Sea Levels From Jason-2 Altimetry: A Case Study In Halmahera Sea, Indonesia
Full Name: Maya Eria Sinurat
Organisation: IPB University - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Hybrid Modelling For Sea Level Rise Adaptation Assessment Of Coastal Structures
Full Name: Dr Pablo Higuera
Organisation: National University of Singapore - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Early Career Perspective In The Lac Region: Sea Level Rise Challenges To Adaptation
Full Name: Palmira Cuellar-Ramirez
Organisation: RedLAtM - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: NASA Flooding Days Projection Tool: Version 2.0
Full Name: Dr Philip Thompson
Organisation: University of Hawaii at Manoa - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Uncertainties On Local Sea Level Trends And Accelerations Over 1993-2019 From Satellite Altimetry
Full Name: Pierre Prandi
Organisation: Collecte Localisation Satellites - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: What The Satellite Altimetry Record Of Regional Sea Level Change Is Telling Us About The Future
Full Name: Prof R. Steven Nerem
Organisation: University of Colorado - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Sea-Level Projections For Canada
Full Name: Dr Thomas James
Organisation: Geological Survey of Canada - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: The Effect Of Wind Stress On Seasonal Sea-Level Change On The Northwestern European Shelf
Full Name: Tim Hermans
Organisation: NIOZ, TU Delft - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Incorporating Vertical Land Movements Into Probabilistic Sea-Level Projections: The New Zealand Case.
Full Name: Prof Tim Naish
Organisation: Victoria University of Wellington - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Interval Variability And Forced Response In Sterodynamic Sea Level Change In Large Ensembles
Full Name: Dr Víctor Malagón-Santos
Organisation: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Impacts Of Freshwater Discharge Interannual Variability On Ocean Heat-Salt Contents And Regional Sea Level Change Over The Altimetry Periodâ : The Imhotep Project
Full Name: Dr William Llovel
Organisation: CNRS - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Projected Sea Level Change And Variability In The Southeast Asia Region Based On MPI-ESM-ER
Full Name: Dr Yi Jin
Organisation: University of Hamburg - Topic: Progress and challenges for regional sea level, including projections and applications
Paper Title: Pacific Sea Level And Geodetic Monitoring- A Network Providing Critical Baseline Data In The Pacific Island Region
Full Name: Zulfikar Begg
Organisation: Pacific Community
Plenary Oral Session:
08:30 - 08:45: INVITED TALK - Dr Xuebin Zhang (Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO): Progress in Regional Sea Level Projections
08:45 - 09:00: Dr Samuel Akande (Senior Researcher, Federal University of Technology Akure): Geostatistical Modeling of Sea-Level Rise under Future Climate Scenarios for Predicting Coastal Hazards across West Africa's Coasts
09:00 - 09:15: Dr Aimée Slangen (Senior Researcher, NIOZ): Rethinking Sea-Level Projections using Families and Timing Differences
09:15 - 09:30: Dr Dhrubajyoti Samanta (Senior Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University): Detecting Anthropogenic Footprints On Sea-Level Rise Over The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Region
09:30 - 09:45: Sanne Muis (Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Deltares): Setting new standards for global projections of extreme sea levels using storm-resolving climate models: validation, projected changes, and methodological challenges
09:45 - 10:00: Dr Matthew Palmer (Lead Scientist, Sea Level, Met Office Hadley Centre): Towards Physically Consistent Sea Level Rise Storylines for the United Kingdom
10:00 - 10:15: Dr Daniel Gilford (Climate Scientist, Climate Central): Worldwide Attribution of Historical Regional Sea Level Rise to Human-Caused Climate Change
10:15 - 10:30: Nikki Alen Pasaje (Research Specialist, Climate and Impacts, Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation): Improving Local Sea-Level Rise Estimates In The Philippines: Integration Of Local Oceanographic Processes Using Machine Learning Method
10:30 - 10:45: Dr Ricardo da Cruz e Sousa (Landscape Architect, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): Challenges To Sea-Level Rise Adaptation In Copacabana, RJ
Chairs & rapporteurs: Roderik van de Wal
Speakers:
Plenary Oral Session:
This is the final session (part 1) – to facilitate the fully hybrid approach, we will also have an online document where all registered participants can write during the conference their views and comments – speakers will need to look at this before their presentation on Friday and may wish to discuss with others during the conference. The document will remain open until the following Monday to facilitate input from other time zones.
20 minutes plenary discussion, starting with WCRP representatives (Heiko Goelzer, early career scientist)
11:15 - 11:25: Dr Tamsin Edwards (Reader in Climate Change, King's College London)
11:25 - 11:35: Dr Kathy Mcinnes (Research Scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere)
11:35 - 11:45: Dr Alexander Robel (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
11:45 - 12:05: PLENARY DISCUSSION WITH WCRP REPRESENTATIVES
Chairs & rapporteurs: Roderik van de Wal
Plenary Oral Session:
This is the final session (part 2) – to facilitate the fully hybrid approach, we will also have an online document where all registered participants can write during the conference their views and comments – speakers will need to look at this before their presentation on Friday and may wish to discuss with others during the conference. The document will remain open until the following Monday to facilitate input from other time zones.
20 minutes plenary discussion, starting with WCRP representatives and others (Silvina Solman, Jochen Hinkel, early career scientist)
12:05 - 12:15: David Behar (Climate Program Director)
12:15 - 12:25: Prof Robert Nicholls (Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia)
12:25 - 12:35: Dr Marjolijn Haasnoot (Senior Researcher, Deltares / Utrecht University)
12:35 - 12:55: PLENARY DISCUSSION WITH WCRP REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER SPEAKERS
Chairs & rapporteurs: Bart van den Hurk
Plenary Oral Session:
12:55 - 13:00: Conference closing by by Roderik van de Wal (Professor, Utrecht and Department of Physical Geograph).
Venue: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Our world class venue is ready to welcome guests travelling via SafeTravel Lanes to Singapore, including the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL).
Travel & Accommodation
Marina Bay Sands is a premier entertainment destination with its vibrant diversity of attractions and facilities. The vision was to build an integrated development that is timeless, a landmark that possesses a distinct identity which distinguishes Singapore from other cities.
Located along the Marina Bay waterfront, Marina Bay Sands features three cascading hotel towers topped by an extraordinary sky park, ‘floating’ crystal pavilions, a lotus-inspired Museum, retail stores featuring cutting-edge labels and international luxury brands, trendy Celebrity Chef restaurants, endless entertainment at the theatres, the hottest night clubs and a Las Vegas-style casino. Business visitors will also enjoy the extensive Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) facilities featuring state-of-the-art technology, highly flexible exhibition halls, and a convention centre that can host over 45,000 delegates.
Marina Bay Sands seamlessly combines business and leisure into a singular destination unlike any other.
Virtual Platform
The WCRP Sea Level Conference 2022 edition will feature a hybrid experience for both virtual and physical attendees. Online participants can look forward to a dedicated functional online platform hosting themed content sessions with Q&A for all 5 days, exhibition booths by our sponsors and poster sessions by the authors. In addition to live sessions hosted in local Singapore time, all content will be freely available to registered participants on the platform to view at your convenience.
Sponsors
The 2022 sea level conference is being organised with the support of:
Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR)
Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS)
Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS)
Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE)
Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES)
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
University of East Anglia (UEA)
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Universiteit Utrecht
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
US Climate Variability and Predictability Program (US CLIVAR)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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