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Hilary F Stockdon

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USGS2023

Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts

Predictions of total water levels, the elevation of combined tides, surge, and wave runup at the shoreline, are necessary to provide guidance on potential coastal erosion and flooding. Despite the importance of early warning systems for these hazards, existing real-time meteorological and oceanographic forecast systems at regional and national scales, until now, have lacked estimates of runup necessary to predict wave-driven overwash and erosion. To address this need, we present an approach that includes wave runup in an operational, national-scale modeling system. Using this system, we quantify the contribution of waves to potential dune erosion events along 4,700 km of U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sandy coastlines for a one-year period. Dune erosion events were predicted to occur at over 80% of coastal locations, where waves dominated shoreline total water levels, representing 73% of the signal. This shows that models that neglect the wave component underestimate the hazard. This new, national-scale operational modeling system provides communities with timely, local-scale (0.5 km resolution) coastal hazard warnings for all wave conditions, allowing for rapid decision-making related to safety and emergency management. The modeling system also enables continued research into wave-driven processes at a broad range of coastal areas.

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USGS2019

During Nearshore Event Experiment (DUNEX): A collaborative community field data collection effort

The DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX) is an academic, federal agency, and non-government collaborative community experiment supported by and planned under the U.S. Coastal Research Program (USCRP) to study nearshore coastal processes during storms. The motivation for DUNEX is to improve understanding, numerical representation, and prediction of storm processes and impacts; to exchange research ideas, to improve strategies for short- and long-term coastal resilience, and to develop more effective communication methods for coastal communities impacted by storms. This paper describes the DUNEX pilot study (Fall 2019) and the full experiment (Fall 2020) focused on storm measurements to be conducted along a 160-km stretch of the northern Outer Banks, North Carolina. The US Army Corps of Engineer’s Field Research Facility (FRF) will serve as the logistical base for the operation. Researchers may participate by planning and conducting an experiment, attending or leading a training session, or volunteering to assist with field work.

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USGS2019

US Costal Research Program: Fostering academic research

The US Coastal Research Program (USCRP) was founded in 2016 through a grassroots initiative of scientists, researchers, and practitioners to address nearshore coastal research priorities of greatest relevance to coastal communities and build a skilled US coastal workforce. The USCRP supports academic research to address challenges identified through thematic workshops and pair academic researchers with practitioners to ensure research findings and tools address relevant coastal management challenges. Through these partnerships, the USCRP addresses societally-relevant needs of coastal communities and nurtures the future U.S. coastal workforce. To date, the USCRP has conducted two thematic workshops and funded 13 academic research studies. Herein we provide an overview of the desired characteristics for USCRP’s academic research, summarize accomplishments from studies responding to challenges identified in the 2016 workshop on Dune Management, and provide an overview of ongoing research studies stemming from the 2018 workshop on Storm Processes and Impacts.

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USGS2019

US Costal Research Program: Building a research community to support coastal stakeholders

The U.S. Coastal Research Program (USCRP) was created to develop, coordinate, and enable a National science plan to address growing needs of coastal communities. Researchers from federal agencies, academia, industry, and non-governmental organizations work together to identify priorities that support coastal stakeholders in activities such as emergency response, resource management, planning, and engineering. By fostering existing partnerships and multi-agency collaborations, the USCRP increases the value and impact of these coastal research applications. Through user-driven topical workshops, the USCRP initiates conversation between users and researchers to help ensure that research addresses societal needs along the coastline. By leveraging and expanding federal funding, opportunities are created for coastal science and engineering university programs to advance their research directions, provide graduate student opportunities, and connect their work to National coastal priorities.

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