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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
State of the Art from Stakeholders
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
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:
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: Sophie Williams
Rapporteurs: Tim Hermans, Graham Rush
Poster session:
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 - Phil Thompson, Director, University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
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 - Chai Teck Ho (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:
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:
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
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 (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 University
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