Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
An aerial view of the icebergs near Kulusuk Island, off the southeastern coastline of Greenland, a region that is exhibiting an accelerated rate of ice loss.
Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Observations from 11 satellite missions monitoring the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have revealed that the regions are losing ice six times faster than they were in the 1990s. If the current melting trend continues, the regions will be on track to match the "worst-case" scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of an extra 6.7 inches (17 centimeters) of sea level rise by 2100.
Gary Griggs: Coastal armoring and disappearing beaches
An important study, focused on the effect of coastal armoring on beaches was published on Coastal Care by Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Director Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.
EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online: GM6.4 Coastal Zone Session re-scheduling
EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20) brings part of the activities of the EGU General Assembly 2020 online. We hope that authors and conveners will join us in sharing their research and discussing with colleagues.
Regarding the EGU General Assembly 2020, we hereby inform you that our session GM6.4: Coastal Zone Geomorphological Interactions: Natural versus Human-Induced Driving Factors has been re-scheduled for the new format EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online.
Conveners: Hannes Tõnisson (Estonia), Margarita Stancheva (Bulgaria), Andreas Baas (UK), Giorgio Anfuso (Spain) and Guillaume Brunier (France).
THE SESSION IS SPONSORED BY THE COMMISSION ON COASTAL SYSTEMS (CCS) OF THE INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU) (http://www.igu-ccs.org)
CoastGIS 2020 in Raseborg, Finland: Abstract Submission and Early Bird Registration Open Until 30 April
CoastGIS 2020, the 14th International Coastal GIS Symposium, will be held on 17-19 September at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Raseborg, Finland. The Symposium theme this year is “Sustainable Coastal Planning in a Changing World”.
Abstract submission and early bird registration for CoastGIS 2020 are now open until 30 April!