Really cool learning opportunity!
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Subject: [Cascadiacopeshub_friends] April 3 CoPes Hub/ RCN Seminar- Modeling Coastal Erosion, Deposition, and Scour from Tsunamis Impacting the PNW
Dear Colleagues,
Please join us next Thursday, April 3rd at 9am PT for our next Cascadia CoPes Hub—Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN virtual seminar:
Modeling Coastal Erosion, Deposition, and Scour from Tsunamis Impacting the Pacific Northwest
Speakers:
Dan Cox (OSU),
Meagan Wengrove (OSU),
Erick Velasco (OSU),
Carly Ringer (OSU),
Yong Wei (NOAA)
When:
Thursday, April 3rd, 9:00 -10:00 AM PT (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting
here - Once you've registered, you will have a personal zoom link in your calendar that will work for all seminars this year (first Thursday of every month at 9am).
Abstract:
Recent tsunamis have demonstrated how incoming waves can drastically reshape coastal morphology by remobilizing sediments, intensifying scour at critical locations, and
threatening key infrastructure. However, sediment transport is often overlooked in hazard assessments. This webinar will have three, short presentations on numerical simulations of tsunami sediment transport. The hydro-morphodynamic simulations show that
incorporating sediment dynamics reveals significant secondary impacts on jetties, bridge piers, and tsunami deposit distribution — posing additional challenges for post-event remains management. For example, high sediment availability amplifies erosion and
inundation, substantially altering hazard estimates, while sediment mixtures and variable surface roughness reduce these effects. These three talks underscore the importance of integrating sedimentary processes into tsunami modeling to improve hazard assessments
and inform effective response planning in coastal environments.
Please share this invitation with others you think might be interested.
Looking forward to seeing you all Thursday morning,
Peter Ruggiero, David Schmidt, Ann Bostrom, Ali Burgos, and the Hub and RCN Seminar Subcommittees*
*Funding from the National Science Foundation for the Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN and the Cascadia CoPes Hub is gratefully acknowledged (NSF Awards 1940034 and 2103713). Please contact
Cascadia CoPes Hub Project Manager Alessandra Burgos if you have any questions,
cascadia.copes@oregonstate.edu.
Previous Cascadia CoPes Hub/CoPe RCN recorded webinars can be found
here.
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Alessandra Burgos| Project
Manager Cascadia CoPes Hub
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Oregon State University
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