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Program Details

Sunday October 1

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Workshop Registration Desk Open

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception in Stinson-Remick Hall

Monday October 2

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Workshop Registration Desk Open in Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Session AA: Social Science

Chair: Val Swail

9:50 a.m. Break

Session B: Coastal Risk 1

Chair: Keith Roberts

Session BB: Wave Measurement 1

Chair: Val Swail

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Session C: Coastal Risk 2

Chair: James Kaihatu

Session CC: Wave Measurement 2

Chair: Val Swail

2:50 p.m. Break and Poster Session

Session D: Boulder Dynamics

Chair: Andrew Kennedy

Session DD: Great Lakes

Chair: David Cannon

5:30 p.m. Sessions end for day

Tuesday October 3

Session E: Storm Surge Forecasting 1

Chair: Nadao Kohno

Session EE: Wave Theory 1

Chair: Alex Babanin

  • 8:30 a.m. - EE1 - The Role of 4-wave interactions in shoaling waves
    • Donald Resio and John Loveland
      Presenter: Resio
  • 8:50 a.m. - EE2 - Effect of mean current on spatial evolution and directional spreading of young wind-waves
    • K. Kumar and Lev Shemer
      Presenter: Shemer
  • 9:10 a.m. - EE3 - Tidal modulation of surface waves in nearshore environments
    • Allison Ho, Sophia Merrifield, Nick Pizzo, Eric Terrill, Mark Merrifield, Bill O’Reilly, Mika Siegelman and Andre Amador
      Presenter: Ho
  • 9:30 a.m. - EE4 - Fully Nonlinear Waves have a Linear Fourier Superposition Law Just as Linear Waves Do: Applications to Data Analysis, Wave Simulations and Transfer Functions
    • Alfred R. Osborne
      Presenter: Osborne

9:50 a.m. Break and Poster Session

Session F: Coastal Waves

Chair: Johannes Gemmrich

Session FF: Forcing in Wave Models

Chair: Stephane Law-Chune

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Session G: Coastal Forecasting

Chair: Fernando Mendez

Session GG: Wave Model

Chair: Clare O’Neill

2:50 p.m. Break and Poster Session

Session H: Wave-Ice Interaction

Chair: Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Session HH: Hindcasts and Reanalysis

Chair: Merce Casas Prat

5:10 p.m. Sessions end for day

6:30 p.m. Reception/Dinner at Studebaker Museum complex

Wednesday October 4

Session I: Tsunami and Meteo-tsunami

Chair: William Pringle

Session II: Wave Forecasting 1

Chair: Jean Bidlot

9:50 a.m. Break and Poster Session

Session J: Storm Surge Modelling 1

Chair: Joannes Westerink

Session JJ: Wave Forecasting 2

Chair: Lotfi Aouf

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Session K: Extreme Water Levels

Chair: Sanne Muis

Session KK: Wave Forecasting 3

Chair: Stefan Zieger

2:50 p.m. Break and Poster Session

Session L: Air-sea Interaction

Chair: Takuji Waseda

Session LL: Compound Flooding

Chair: Hendrik Tolman

5:30 p.m. Sessions end for day

Thursday October 5

Session M: Storm Surge Forecasting 2

Chair: Natacha Bernier

Session MM: Wave Theory 2

Chair: Don Resio

9:50 a.m. Break and Poster Session

Session N: Wave Climate Change

Chair: Alberto Meucci

Session NN: Storm Surge Modelling 2

Chair: Clint Dawson

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Session O: Wind and Wave Climate

Chair: Val Swail

Session OO: Case Study

Chair: Jennifer Irish

2:50 p.m. Break and Poster Session

Session Q: Coastal Modelling

Chair: David Munoz

Session QQ: Hindcasting and Trend

Chair: Val Swail

5:30 p.m. Sessions end for day

6:30 p.m. Reception/Dinner in Downes Ballroom in Corbett Family Hall

Friday October 6

Session RR: Coastal Impacts and Resilience

Chair: Val Swail

9:50 a.m. Break and Poster Session

Session SS: Coastal Climate Change

Chair: Ian Young

12:20 p.m. Closing Remarks

1:00 p.m. Workshop Ends

2:00- 5:00 p.m. Surge Model Intercomparison Project (SurgeMIP) meeting in Room 202

Saturday October 7

8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Coordinated Wave Climate Project (COWCLiP) meeting in Room 202

Session P: Posters - sessions Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

  • P1 - Can sea waves break the internet?
  • P2 - Development of rapid coastal flood risk assessment methodology for U.S. military installations and surrounding community
    • Lina Cardenas, Matthew Vernon Bilskie, Scott Pippin and Benjamin Lane Carswell
  • P3 - Classification of Weather Patterns and their relation to wave climatology in the Western South Atlantic
  • P4 - Application of new short-term wave distributions for metocean design conditions of worlds first Energy Island, DK
    • Patrick Dich Grode
      • Presenter: Grode
  • P5 - Wave model simulation of the near-surface Stokes drift under shifting winds
  • P6 - R&D NEEDS FOR TEXAS COASTAL RESILIENCY
    • Patrick Kerr, Himangshu Das, Robert Thomas, Mohammed Islam, Max Agnew, Jonathan Marshall, Kelly Burkes-Copes, Roham Bakhtyar, Russell Nasrallah, Jacob Garrett, Tony Williams, Jens Figlus, Chris Massey and Matt Malej
      • Presenter: Kerr
  • P7 - From Redundancy to Synergy: Texas Integrated Flooding Framework Planning Project
    • Amin Kiaghadi, Caimee A. Schoenbaechler, Mohammad “Shahidul” Islam, Patrick Corbitt Kerr, Sam Rendon and Michael Lee
  • P8 - Storm Surge Predictions at Hyperlocal Sites
  • P9 - Reanalysis of wave conditions around the coast of Japan
  • P10 - Considering waves in global ocean modeling within the Copernicus Marine Service framework: present status and future work
  • P11 - WAVERYSv2: a high-resolution global wave reanalysis covering the historical period from 1980 to nowadays
  • P12 - Wave modeling uncertainty in global wave climate projections: assessment and quantification
    • Hector Lobeto, Alvaro Semedo, Melisa Menendez, Gil Lemos, Rajesh Kumar, Adem Akpinar, Mikhail Dobrynin and Bahareh Kamranzad
  • P13R - An Open Source Python Tool for Data-driven Seamless Unstructured Mesh Generation of the Inland-Coastal Transition Zone
    • Soroosh Mani, Fei Ye, Linlin Cui, Joseph Zhang, Saeed Moghimi and Edward Myers
    • Presenter: Mani
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  • P14 - Rapid Interpolation of Digital Elevation Models to Unstructured Meshes using Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs
  • P15 - High-Resolution Computational Modeling of Hurricane Irma to Develop Building Damage Functions Based on Location-Based Data
  • P16 - Wave models at the Canadian Meteorological Centre
  • P17 - Can Tidal and Wave Energy Be Harvested to Reduce Dependence on Fossil Fuels?
  • P18 - Subgrid Correction of Storm Surge Modeling in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates
  • P19 Got Code? Join the UFS Community!
  • P20 - Solving 2D shallow water flow model with subgrid approximation using a mixed-interpolation finite element method
  • P21 - Spatiotemporal Sea-level Variability in Coastal Waters of U.S. East and Gulf Coasts
  • P22R - Impact of ensemble initialization on an extended wave forecast system
    • Ricardo Martins Campos, Jessica Meixner, Ali Abdolali, Saeideh Banihashemi, Matthew Masarik and Avichal Mehra
  • P23 - Atlantic coastal boulder deposits: A mapping approach for wave energy analysis
    • M.C. Bourke, L. Carmel-Spencer, R. Cox, N.D. Cullen, A.J. Mc Hugh and J.A.R. Rogers
  • P24 - Accessing the Model for Prediction Across Scales–Atmosphere (MPAS-A) short range forecasts skill for the Catarina Hurricane
    • Danilo Couto de Souza, Pedro Leite da Silva Dias and Ricardo de Camargo
  • P25 - FORCE ACTING ON THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE DURING OVERFLOW
    • Taeksang Kim, Julien Malherbe, Sirawit Shimpalee, Stefan Felder and Jeremy Bricker
  • P26R - Multi-grid parallelisation on SMC grids in WW3 wave model
  • P27 - Past and Future Seasonal Variability of the Spectral Wave Climate in the Mediterranean Sea
  • P28 - A Wind Wave Model Using Stabilized Finite Elements and Implicit/Explicit Time-Stepping
  • P29R - Validation of GFS/GEFS-wave Prototypes using WW3-tools
    • Matthew Masarik, Ricardo Campos, Jessica Meixner, Ali Abdolali, Saeideh Banihashemi, Ali Salimi-Tarazouj and Avichal Mehra
  • P30 - The Effects of Tropical Cyclone-Driven Storm Surges on Dauphin Island, AL
  • P31 - Laboratory and Numerical Simulation of Wave Inundation on a Partially Sheltered Structural Array
    • Zhongduo Zhang, Andrew Kennedy, Joaquin P. Moris and Damrongsak Wirasaet