Day 1 - Tuesday 1 July
08:45 – 14:30 Hilbre Island field trip
The coach will be departing from The Liner Hotel at 08:45 prompt. Return is approximate. Please wear appropriate clothing, footwear and bring a bottle of water. See https://www.hilbreisland.info/ for more details of the islands and photos of various stages of the walk.
09:00 – 16:30 CO-Opt Workshop
How can working across disciplines and sectors improve decision making in coastal management? Lessons learned from the Co-Opt project.
18:30 Icebreaker at the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, 36 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX
Day 2 - Wednesday 2 July
09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session (Britannic 2)
09:00 Introduction & Opening of the Conference.
Prof Penny Holliday, Chief Scientist, National Oceanography Centre Laurent Amoudry, National Oceanography Centre
09:45 Keynote 1: Prof Graham Underwood, University of Essex Restoring resilient and productive coastal ecosystems for the 21st century
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 12:30 Parallel sessions: left in Britannic 2; right in Britannic 1
Water Quality and Coastal Ecology Applied Research: Decision Support Tools
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Britannic 3)
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions: left in Britannic 2; right in Britannic 1
Coastal Community Resilience Digital coasts: New Data and Datasets
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee / Tea Break
15:30 – 17:30 Poster session (in Britannic 3)
19:00 Gala Dinner at the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1HU (Pier Head; entrance river side)
Day 3 - Thursday 3 July
09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session (Britannic 2)
09:00 Keynote 2: Nick Hardiman, Environment Agency Research into action: making evidence count in the dynamic delivery climate on the coast.
09:45 Keynote 3: Dr Dafni Sifnioti, EDF Waves, Winds and Watts: Coastal Research in an Energy Industry setting
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 12:30 Parallel sessions: left in Britannic 2; right in Britannic 1
Digital Coasts: Satellite Sensing Applied Research: From Research to Shoreline Management Policies
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Britannic 3)
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions: left in Britannic 2; right in Britannic 1
Geophysics: Estuaries and Intertidal Zones Geophysics: Beaches and Dunes
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee / Tea Break
15:30 – 16:45 Parallel sessions: left in Britannic 2; right in Britannic 1
Geophysics: Hydrodynamics and Flooding Geophysics: Future Projections and Impacts of Human Interventions
16:45 – 17:15 Plenary end of conference (Britannic 2) Laurent Amoudry, NOC, et al.
List of presentations
Wed 2 July
11:00 – 12:30 Water quality and coastal ecology (Chair: Jason Kirby; Britannic 2)
11:00 – 11:15 Charlotte Lyddon Vulnerability of Estuary Water Quality to Climate Change
11:15 – 11:30 Peter Robins Changing Estuary Residence Times
11:30 – 11:45 Hachem Kassem* Paving the Way for Managing Recreational Activities in MPAs
11:45 – 12:00 Yixuan Chang Multi-Decadal Monitoring of Coastal Dune Vegetation and Water Dynamics Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
12:00 – 12:15 Monica McCard Functional Response Metrics Explain and Predict High but Differing Ecological Impacts of Juvenile and Adult Lionfish.
12:15 – 12:30 Will Manning Habitat Compensation and Restoration Programme (HCRP): 20+ Years of Managed Realignment in a Changing Landscape
Wed 2 July
11:00 – 12:30 Applied research: decision support tools (chair: Lee Swift; Britannic 1)
11:00 – 11:15 Tim Poate* SPLASH: Understanding Wave Overtopping Using Artificial Intelligence
11:15 – 11:30 Adam Ward Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Storm Surge Prediction
11:30 – 11:45 Zehua Zhong Probabilistic Assessment of Exposure to Coastal Hazards at a Nuclear Power Station Development Site in the UK
11:45 – 12:00 Gerhard Masselink Predicting Dune Evolution in Cornwall for Coastal Management
12:00 – 12:15 Josie-Alice Kirby Determining Future Shoreline Position of a Highly Variable Coastline for Coastal Management Applications Using High Resolution Coastal Typology Mapping
12:15 – 12:30 Mark Wiggins Defining Beach Recovery: A Case Study Comparison of Erosion and Flood Risk Reporting Metrics
Wed 2 July
13:30 – 15:00 Coastal community resilience (Chair: Marta Payo Payo; Britannic 2)
13:30 – 13:45 Sien van der Plank Resilience Over a Lifetime of Change on the Coast
13:45 – 14:00 Marta Meschini Co-Creating Resilient Coasts: Advancing Equitable and Community-Led Management with DPSIR+
14:00 – 14:15 Serena Pollastri Coastal Nature Lab: Crafting Nature Based Solutions for Community-Led Coastal Protection
14:15 – 14:30 David McGovern Coastal Structure Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise: Initial Results
14:30 – 14:45 Juan Montalvan Lume (Co)Raising Blue Naturesocieties: Transcultural Source- To-Sea Approaches Towards Regenerative Coastal Urban Ecosystems
14:45 – 15:00 Elina Apine Social acceptance of nature-based solutions for coastal flood risk management in the UK
Wed 2 July
13:30 – 15:00 Digital coasts: new data and datasets (Chair: Xiaoyan Wei; Britannic 1)
13:30 – 13:45 Jenny Brown Asymmetry in Wave Overtopping Hazard Relative to Predicted High Tide
13:45 – 14:00 Chris Blenkinsopp High-Resolution Long-Term Monitoring of Wave Runup and Morphology Change on Gravel Beaches Using an Off-Grid Lidar System
14:00 – 14:15 Joseff Saunders From Data to Digital Twin: Mapping a Maldivian Atoll for Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Modelling
14:15 – 14:30 Jakub Michalski New High-Resolution Imaging of Submesoscale Surface Divergence in a Macro Tidal Environment
14:30 – 14:45 Nefeli Makrygianni km-scale regional systems coupled at high frequency for meteotsunamis prediction
14:45 – 15:00 Faye Nielsen From Points to Pixels: An Interactive Digital Coastline of Projected Sea Level Rise Across New Zealand
Thu 3 July
11:00 – 12:30 Digital coasts: satellite sensing (chair: Suzanna Ilic; Britannic 2)
11:00 – 11:15 Aikaterini Konstantinou Observations of Gravel Beach Dynamics from Space
11:15 – 11:30 Sophie Mann A Novel Methodology to Map Gravel Beaches Across the UK Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data
11:30 – 11:45 Alfred Hewetson Shoreline Monitoring Using Planetscope Satellite Imagery
11:45 – 12:00 Paul Bell SWOT-Satellite-Enabled Tidal Data in Estuaries
12:00 – 12:15 Dougal Lichtman Nearshore Wave Breaking Detection Using Satellite Radar Altimetry
12:15 – 12:30 Clive Neil Satellite-Enabled Temporal Water Line Inter-Tidal Monitoring: 3 Case Studies: The Mersey, the Wash & Thames Estuary
Thu 3 July
11:00 – 12:30 Applied Research: From Research to Shoreline Management Policies (chair: Helen Jay; Britannic 1)
11:00 – 11:15 Uwe Dornbusch 9 Years of Landward and Laterally Progressing Cliff Retreat in Response to Progressive Defence Failure, Climping, West Sussex.
11:15 – 11:30 Michael Walkden From Academia to Application: Enhancing Coastal Cliff Risk Mapping for a Changing Climate
11:30 – 11:45 Andres Payo Understanding Coastal Protection by Gravel Barriers in a Changing Climate: UK Gravel Barriers Project
11:45 – 12:00 Liz Hopley and Nish Halwyn The Interagency Coastal Geomorphology Network-Who Are We and What Do We Want?-How To Make Your Research Useful for Coastal Conservation
12:00 – 12:15 Dr Tim Stojanovic Historical Evolution of Shoreline Management Planning the UK: 1990-2024
12:15 – 12:30 Katie Eckford Using Adaptive Pathways to Deliver Shoreline Management Plan Policies
Thu 3 July
13:30 – 15:00 Geophysics: Estuaries and Intertidal Zones (chair: Laurent Amoudry; Britannic 2)
13:30 – 13:45 Renjie Zhu Impact of Intertidal Habitats on Salt Dynamics in Tidally Dominated, Periodically Weakly Stratified Estuaries
13:45 – 14:00 James Tempest Regional Vulnerability of Saltmarshes in Great Britain to Sea Level Rise and Drowning Over the Next 200 Years
14:00 – 14:15 Heidi Burgess The Importance of Small Estuaries on the Sediment Budgets of the Wider Seascape: What Do We Really Know?
14:15 – 14:30 Constantinos Matsoukis Coastal Flooding Mitigation by Implementing Hybrid Flood Defenses Consisting of Embankment and Vegetation Fields
14:30 – 14:45 Leo Pancrazzi Interactions Between Fine and Coarse-Grained Sedimentary Materials in the Formation and Development of Barrier Spits at Estuary Mouths: A Case Study of Ynyslas Spit, Wales
14:45 – 15:00 Munawir Pratama Characterising Various Ebb-Tidal Jet Structures Observed in UK Estuaries Through Idealised Modelling
Thu 3 July
13:30 – 15:00 Geophysics: Beaches and Dunes (Chair: Tim Poate; Britannic 1)
13:30 – 13:45 Tom Hamilton Understanding Gravel Beach and Barrier Systems: A New Morphodynamic Approach to Classification
13:45 – 14:00 Nina Ataee Novel Luminescence Dating Approaches to Provide Unique Insights into Coastal Gravel Barrier Dynamics
14:00 – 14:15 Connor McCarron Experimental Investigation of Mixed Sand and Gravel Beach Morphodynamics
14:15 – 14:30 Liane Brodie Sediment Delivery from Beach to Dune at Multiple Sites Along a Heterogeneous Coastline
14:30 – 14:45 Demetra Cristaudo Enhancing Coastal Processes Understanding at Nearshore Breakwaters Using Numerical Modelling: A Case Study for Elmer Beach, West Sussex
14:45 – 15:00 Wassim Seksaf From Dunes to Offshore: A Seismic Approach to Coastal Sediment Resource Assessment
Thu 3 July
15:30 – 16:45 Geophysics: Hydrodynamics and Flooding (Chair: Jenny Brown; Britannic 2)
15:30 – 15:45 William Wright Real-Time Phase-Resolved Wave Prediction in the Coastal Zone
15:45 – 16:00 Florian Bellafont Supporting Coastal Management Decision-Making with High-Resolution Wave Modelling
16:00 – 16:15 Ioannis Karmpadakis* Practical Guidance for Representative Wave Heights and Periods in the Surf Zone
16:15 – 16:30 Demetra Cristaudo* Hunstanton to Snettisham: A Probabilistic Approach to Erosion Enhanced Flooding
16:30 – 16:45 Ankita Bhattacharya Impact of Groundwater in Compound Flooding: A Case Study of the Conwy Estuary in Wales.
Thu 3 July
15:30 – 16:45 Geophysics: Future Projections and Impacts of Human Interventions (Chair: Charlotte Lyddon; Britannic 1)
15:30 – 15:45 Katie Hodge Future High Resolution UK Wave Projections
15:45 – 16:00 Lucy Bricheno Present and Future Seabed Vulnerability to the Climate- Crisis Over North Western European Shelf.
16:00 – 16:15 Christopher A. Unsworth The Dominant Role of Turbulence in Driving Changes to Seabed Substrates Away from Windfarm Monopiles.
16:15 – 16:30 Arya Iwantoro Modelling the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Soil Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Forests
16:30 – 16:45 Benedict D. Rogers Prediction of Seaweed Ingress into Cooling Water Intakes for Torness Power Station
Note: * denotes speaker presenting on behalf of someone else.
Wed 2 July: 15:30 – 17:30 Posters (Britannic 3)
1 Charlotte Lyddon Coast-R Network+ and the Resilience Coastal Communities and Seas Programme
2 Neil Watson If We Build It, Will They Come?
3 Bin Guo Investigating the Impact of Meteorological Extremes on the Coastal Ecosystems of the Northwest European Shelf
4 Stanley W. Shen Stochastic Modelling of Particle Transport from River to Ocean: Inertial Effects on Plastic Dispersion and Accumulation
5 Cai Bird A Deep Dive into a Unique Archive of Radar-Derived Coastal Monitoring Datasets Collected in England Between 2015 and 2025 in Support of Shoreline Management Activities
6 Bhargvi Sharan Multi-Temporal Assessment of Reactivation in Deep- Seated UK Coastal Landslide Complexes
7 Jennifer Weeks A New Framework to Explore High-End Sea-Level Rise for the UK: Updating H++
8 Doug Pender Joint Probability Modelling for Coasts and Estuaries: Guidance and Best Practice (FRS18199)
9 Dr Lee Swift The Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Programme - Working with Others to Understand Research Needs and Create Impactful Research
10 Aoife Williams Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Warning
11 Tegan Quinn Vulnerability of Coastal Energy Infrastructure to Climate and Environmental Change
12 Tharindu Manamperi Using Deep Learning for Shoreline Predictions
13 Hendy Fatchurohman Vanishing Shores: Centennial-Scale Shoreline Change in a Tectonically and Anthropogenically Influenced Coastal System in Southern Java, Indonesia
14 Julia Rulent Development of Numerical Modelling Tools to Improve Our Understanding of Future Coastal Flood Hazards.
15 Alex Arnold Applying a fully coupled km-scale model to
investigate compound events impacting UK coastal regions
16 Xiaoyan Wei Assessing Integrated Extreme Water Level Risks in UK Estuaries Under Climate Change
17 Jie Gong Tide-Wave Dynamics in a Mixed Sand-Gravel Inlet System at Deben Estuary
18 Christopher A. Unsworth Tidal Asymmetries in Hydrodynamics Do Not Necessarily Control Sediment Transport in Hyper- Tidal Sand Flats.
19 Tim Poate Dune Notch Dynamics: Morphology and Aeolian Response
20 Robert Jones Monitoring Morphological Variability of Gravel Barriers Using 2D LIDAR
21 Dominique Townsend Gravel Outwash Breach on the UK’s Longest Beach
22 Timothy Scott A New Assessment of Coastal Sediment Cells in North Cornwall
23 Dr. Sabana Parvin Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Air Pressure Dynamics and Water Level Response in a Pneumatic Tsunami Generator
24 Mohammad Tabasi Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Scour and Settlement Around Breakwaters Under Storm and Tsunami Wave Conditions
25 Niki Soleimani Amiri Experiments on Tsunami-Induced Scour at Circular and Rectangular Onshore Structures
26 Craig Grosscurth Engineering Support for Oceanographic Research: Design, Fabrication, and Field Operations