Coastal Erosion and Management for Safer Coasts in a Changing Climate (CEMSAC) - EXCEED Summer School –
FINAL REPORT
1. Introduction The Expert Seminar took place from Monday, 9 September (Arrival day of most participants) to Sunday, 22 September 2013 (Departure day of most participants). The seminar intended primarily to provide an overview of the most important aspects of managing coastal erosion in a changing climate. To achieve this goal we selected the best researchers in the field and the best applicants. In this way we had to select scientists from EXCEED participating countries and from non EXCEED participant countries. The total number of lecturers was 9 plus the organizers. Among the EXCEED member countries we had professors: Dieter Muehe, Eduardo Siegle and Antonio Klein from Brazil, Ismael Mariño and Edgar Mendonza from Mexico. From non-EXCEED countries we had professors Andrew Cooper (Northern Ireland), Magnus Larson (Sweden), Jaap de Vries (Netherlands) and Raul Medina (Spain). As organizers lecturers we had professors Hocine Oumeraci and Rodolfo Silva. The participants were selected among more the 90 applicants from several countries members and not members of the EXCEED Project. The selection criteria were the best fit to attend the CEMSAC Summer School. The focus of the CEMSAC was an understanding of the coastal processes driving coastal erosion, better related prediction models and monitoring technology as well as a more efficient collaboration between experts and managers in order to close the gap in the interface between science and policy. It was presented that despite the development of advanced scientific knowledge, high performance models and monitoring technologies as well as more efficient structural and non-structural measures against coastal erosion, many of these new advances remain under used in day-to-day coastal erosion management. One of the highlights of the Summer School was the presentation of Case Studies by the participants and the discussion afterwards with the lecturers. We believe we achieved the main objectives of the CEMSAC Summer School, which were after the completion of the seminar each participant will be equipped with the essential state-of-the art knowledge on
(i) the physical processes which cause coastal erosion, including their modelling, (ii) the most promising soft and hard measures to control coastal erosion (iii) selected monitoring strategies and techniques, possibly including evaluation
methodologies.
2. Final Schedule
Day 1. Monday, 9 Sept. 2013 Arrival of participants in Recife International Airport, transfer of participants to Tamandaré according to arrival in Recife and “Ice Breaker” in the evening
Day 2.Tuesday, 10 Sept. 2013
Introductory Session
09:00 – 9:10 Edmilson de Lima (UFPE)
Welcome
09:10 –10:40 HocineOumeraci (TUB)
Lecture 1 (i) Recent advances and challenges towards a sustainable
coastal protection against erosion
10:40 –11:40 Rodolfo Silva (UNAM)
Lecture 2 (ii) Coastal erosion problems and challenges in Mexico
11:40 –13:00 Dieter Muehe (UFRJ)
Lecture 3 (iii) Coastal erosion problems and challenges in Brazil
14:00 –18:00 (iv) Discussions and feedback from participants
Part 1: Theoretical Background, processes causing coastal erosion and models
Day 3.Wednesday, 11 Sept. 2013
Understanding coastal erosion - General introduction and key concepts
09:00 –13:00
Andrew Cooper (UlsterUniversity)
Lecture 4 (i) Objectives and content (ii) Coastal erosion patterns and processes (iii) Timescales of coastal change (iv) Shoreline erosion as a problem (v) Human responses to coastal erosion
14:00 –16:30
Andrew Cooper (UlsterUniversity)
(v) Natural and anthropic shorelines (vi) Understanding coastal change: model limitations and
alternatives
14:00 –18:00 (vii) Presentations of local problems by participants
Day 4. Thursday, 12 Sept. 2013 Hydraulic forcing and boundary conditions
09:00 –13:00 Eduardo Siegle (USP)
Lecture 5 Concepts in numerical modelling (i) Review of main forcing conditions of coastal environments (ii) Basic concepts of numerical modelling (iii) Case studies with applications to coastal environments
under different forcing conditions (iv) Examples of the effects of changes such as sea level rise
will also be presented
14:00 –17:00 Rodolfo Silva (UNAM)
Lecture 6 Implementation of two numerical wave propagation models (v) Summaries of different types of wave numerical models (vi) Explanation of the WAPO and OLUCA models (vii) Implementation of the models and exercises
17:00 –18:00 (viii) Discussions and feedback from participants
Day 5. Friday, 13 Sept. 2013 Coastal morphodynamic processes
09:00 –13:00 Magnus Larson (LundUniversity)
Lecture 7 (i) Objectives and content (ii) Sediment transport processes and morphological change (iii) Modelling coastal processes and model types (iv) Coastline evolution models (I) (v) Coastline evolution models (II)
14:00 –16:30 Magnus Larson (LundUniversity)
(vi) Profile response models (vii) Beach topography change models
16:30 –18:00 (viii) Presentations of local problems by participants
Day 6. Saturday, 14 Sept. 2013 Field work (Monitoring)
08:00 –09:00 Michalis Vousdoukas (FZK for TUB) Pedro Pereira
(UFPE)
Lecture 8 (i) Instrument introduction, preparation and (ii) Field deployment (iii) Topographic survey (iv) Lecture on state of the art in measuring techniques (v) Lecture on sediment characteristics (vi) Instrument retrieval
09:00-16:30 Michalis Vousdoukas (FZK for TUB) Pedro Pereira
(UFPE)
Field work campaign
Day 7. Sunday, 15 Sept. 2013 Technical visit
08:00 –13:00 Edmilson de Lima and Pedro Pereira
(UFPE)
Visit to mangrove, rio Formoso estuary and beach rocks in Carneiros beach
Free afternoon
Part 2: Protection methods, monitoring and management
Day 8. Monday, 16 Sept. 2013 Soft protection approaches (beach nourishment, dunerehabilitation &reinforcement, bioengineering)
09:00 –11:00 Jaap van Thiel de Vries
(Delft University of Technology,
Deltares&UNESCO.IHE Delft)
Lecture 9 (i) Introduction: Causes of erosion (ii) Nourishments: The Dutch approach (iii) Building with Nature:
a. Mega Nourishments b. Eco engineering
(iv) Modelling
11:00 –13:00 Jaap van Thiel de Vries
(Delft University of Technology,
Deltares&UNESCO.IHE Delft)
(v) Modelling event driven erosion: XBeach (vi) Hands on sessions
14:00 –18:00 (vii) Presentations of local problems by participants
Day 9.Tuesday, 17 Sept. 2013 Hard engineered protection methods, including geotextile structures (artificial reefs, detached breakwaters, groins, sea walls) and in combination with beach nourishment
09:00 –10:30 Raúl Medina (University of
Cantabria)
Lecture 10 (i) Section 1: Equilibrium coastal processes
10:45 –12:30 Raúl Medina (University of
Cantabria)
(ii) Section 2: Effect of coastal structures on the equilibrium processes
13:30 –15:00 Raúl Medina (University of
Cantabria)
(iii) Section 3: Conceptual and numerical models and formulations
15:30 – 18:00 Raúl Medina (University of
(iv) Discussion of problems presented by the participants and examples of coastal structures world wide
Cantabria)
Day 10. Wednesday, 18 Sept. 2013 Monitoring of shore protection performance
09:00 –13:00 Antonio Klein (Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina)
Lecture 11 Geomorphic approach for coastal stabilization in headland embayed beaches (i) Why study beaches? (ii) Why study embayed beaches? (iii) Is there a relationship between beach orientation and wave
direction? (iv) Why are embayed beaches curved? (v) What can we do with this knowledge? (vi) Is it robust the parabolic equation? (vii) How to apply/use the equation?
14:00 –18:00 Michalis Vousdoukas (FZK for TUB)
Pedro Pereira (UFPE) Ismael Mariño (CINVESTAV)
Lecture 12 Hands-on data-processing session (i) Waves (ii) Sediment dynamics (iii) Topography (iv) Coastal images
Day 11. Thursday, 19 Sept. 2013 Monitoring of shore protection performance
09:00 –11:00 Michalis Vousdoukas (FZK for TUB) Ismael Mariño (CINVESTAV)
Lecture 13 (i) Monitoring requirements, approaches and technologies
Management and legal issues
11:00 –13:00 Edgar Mendoza (UNAM)
Lecture 14 (i) Further management options and institutional/legal issues
related to coastal erosion
Cases studies
14:00 –15:00 Edgar Mendoza (UNAM)
Lecture 15 Risk assessment and mitigation options in Cancun, Mexico
15:00 –16:00 Michalis Vousdoukas (FZK for TUB)
Lecture 16 Handling extreme storm events on dynamic barrier islands: Faro Beach, Portugal
16:00 –17:00 Pedro Pereira (UFPE) Lecture 17 Coastal erosion in Recife metropolitan area
17:00 –18:00 (v) Discussions and feedback from participants
Day 12. Friday, 20 Sept. 2013 Cases studies
Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla
(LIM/ UPC)
Lecture 18. CANCELLED Note: The material provided by Professor Sánchez-Arcilla will be in the memory stick. (i) The case study: drivers and responses. (ii) Diagnosis: the Green Book of the Catalan coast. (iii) Anticipating the conflicts: modelling and observations. (iv) Sustainability: present and future.
09:00-13:00 Rodolfo Silva HocineOumeraci
All
In working groups, we will work on writing the articles for the proceedings of the course with case studies
Closing lecture and discussion
14:00 –15:00 Rodolfo Silva (UNAM)
Hocine Oumeraci (TUB)
(i) Summary & conclusions of the course, including final discussions
15:00 –16:00 Rodolfo Silva (UNAM)
Hocine Oumeraci (TUB)
Edmilson de Lima (UFPE)
(ii) Evaluation of the course and suggestions for future collaboration
16:00 –18:00 (iii) Discussions and feedback from participants
Day 13. Saturday, 21 Sept. 2013 Technical visit
09:00 –17:00 Pedro Pereira (UFPE) Lecture 19 Visit to selected critical coastal sites around Recife
19:30 – 22:00 Edmilson de Lima (UFPE)
Farewell dinner and certificate presentation
Day 14. Sunday, 22 Sept. 2013 Departure of participants and invited lectures according to their flight schedule.
3. Participants
No. Participant
Date of Number of
days Arrival Departure
1 Rodrigo Alonso 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
2 Hortência Assis 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
3 Nor Aslinda Awang 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
4 Ronaldo Bezerra 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
5 Daniele Laura Bridi Mallman 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
6 Daniele Gentile Cardoso 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
7 Abril Cid Salinas 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
8 Miguel Angel Delgadillo-Calzadilla 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
9 Mireille del Carmen Escudero Castillo
9/9/13 22/9/13 13
10 Cuauhtémoc Franco Ochoa 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
11 Gabriel Dannunzio Gomes Junior 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
12 José Antonio González Vázquez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
13 Ernesto Gray 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
14 Nabila Halouani 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
15 Abdou Khoukhi 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
16 Raul Lopez Minutti 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
17 João Felipe Lopez do Aragão 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
18 Rubí Esmeralda Martínez Martínez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
19 Ana Laura Meneses Fernandez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
20 Saul Miranda Alonso 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
21 Julio Cesar Morales Hernandez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
22 Itxaso Odériz Martínez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
23 Pedro Pereira 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
24 German Daniel Rivillas Ospina 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
25 Gabriel Ruiz Martinez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
26 Agnieska Barbara Strusinska-Correia
8/9/13 22/9/13 13
27 Teresa Vidal Juárez 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
28 Michalis Vousdoukas 6/9/13 24/9/13 13
29 Karoline Martins 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
No. Exceed Participants/Lecturers Date of Number of
days Arrival Departure
30 Hocine Oumeraci 7/9/13 22/9/13 15
31 Rodolfo Casarin Silva 7/9/13 22/9/13 14
32 Edmilson Santos de Lima 9/9/13 22/9/13 12
33 Dieter Muehe 9/9/13 22/9/13 13
34 Ismael Mariño 15/9/13 22/9/13 7
35 Eduardo Siegle 11/9/13 13/9/13 2
36 Mendoza 18/9/13 22/9/13 4
37 Antonio Klein 16/9/13 19/9/13 3
No. Non-Exceed Participants / Lecturers
38 Agustin Sánchez-Arcilla Cancelled 0
39 James Andrew Cooper 09/09/13 13/9/13 4
40 Magnus Larsson 11/09/13 15/9/13 4
41 Raúl Medina Santamaria 15/09/13 18/9/13 3
42 Jaap van Thiel de Vries 14/09/13 17/9/13 3
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