25 Nearshore and Estuarine Research: Dynamics and Future Resiliency in the Coastal Zone II

This session focuses on drivers of change in coastal environments as well as planning for future resiliency in tidal marshes, mudflats, estuaries, and barrier systems, including human activity impacts, sea level rise, & changing sediment supply.

Monday, 23 March 2026
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CCC, Room 22/23

Participants

• Chair Bryan Oakley
• Chair Mark Borrelli
• Chair Zoe Hughes
• Chair Brian C. Yellen
• Chair Tim Cook
• Chair Sintra Reves-sohn
• Chair Tansir Zaman Asik
• Chair Phoenix Susak
• Chair Ashlyn Oh

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  Balancing the Scales: Appropriate Temporal and Spatial Resolutions Along the Shoreline and Shoreface with Regards to Form, Function, and Management Implications
  Mark Borrelli, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA and Pedro dos Santos, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA and Daniel Solazzo, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  411457 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  Coastal Engineering Resilience for the Northeast: A screening tool that integrates coastal geomorphology from topobathy lidar with waves and water levels
  Charlene Sylvester, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Concord, MA and Scott Spurgeon, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Kiln, MS and Quin Robertson, Woolpert and Zhifei Dong, Tellus
  411417 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  Assessing the Decadal Recovery of Anthropogenically Modified Washout Channels: Follet’s Island, TX, USA
  Manica Nawaz, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and Kat Wilson, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and Katherine Willis, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and Anthony Edgington, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and Tim Cook, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  411091 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  Response and recovery of welded barrier following ‘Superstorm’ Sandy and the 2023/2024 Extratropical Cyclones: Napatree Point Conservation Area, Watch Hill, Rhode Island
  Bryan Oakley, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT and Emma Bean, Eastern Connecticut State University, Ashford, CT
  411347 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  Morphosedimentary Stability of an Estuarine Spit Terminus (Kinburn Peninsula, Ukraine): From Antique Maps to War-Time Imagery
  Andrii Cherniavskyi, Kherson State University, Kherson and Ilya Buynevich, Temple University, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA and Oleksiy Davydov, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius
  411104 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Regional Synthesis of Late Quaternary Nearshore Sediments Across Coastal Connecticut
  Preston Senderoff, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and William Ouimet, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  411469 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  Tidal Flat Sediment, Access, and Carbon Storage in the Gulf of Maine
  Ashlyn Oh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Jonathan Woodruff, Amherst, MA and Hannah Baranes and Marissa McMahan and Emily Farr
  411447 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Santorini Tsunami Risks to the Aegian and Mediterranean Urban Population Centers- A Geological Perspecttive
  Samuel Epstein, Geoval Consulting, Rockaway Park, NY and Peggy Epstein, Geoval Consulting, Rockaway Park, NY and Howard Feldman, Touro Universtiy, New Yorkl, NY
  411088 (Technical Sessions)