Conference Program

Monday, June 5, 2023

Sea Level Conference, International Maritime Museum Hamburg, Deck 10

Session

Time

Presenter

Subject

Opening Session

9:00 – 9:30

(30 minutes)

9:00 – 9:15

Detlef Stammer, SPP1889

 

9:15 – 9:20

Vize-Präsident Louis, UHH

9:20 – 9:30

Senator Kerstan, FHH BUKEA

Thematic Introduction

9:30 – 10:30

(60 minutes)

9:30 – 9:50

Rapti Siriwardane, Johannes Herbeck, Gerhard Schmidl

Thematic Introduction: Regional societal impacts of sea level rise in Northern Europe and South East Asia/ Indonesia.

9:50 – 10:10

Robert Nicholls

A global perspective on climate-induced versus relative sea-level rise: implication for risk and adaptation.

10:10 – 10:30

Shaikh Nahiduzzaman

Climate Change, Sea level Rise & It’s Impact on Water Management for the Coastal Communities of Bangladesh.

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Thematic Introduction

11:00 – 12:30

(90 minutes)

11:00 – 11:15

Jochen Hinkel, Boris Braun, Nassos Vafeidis

Thematic Introduction: Adaptation, Decision Analysis and Governance.

11:15 – 11:35

Bart van den Hurk

Sea level rise and risk management of long term spatial planning decisions in low-lying areas.

11:35– 11:55

Abhisek Chatterjee

Regional downscaling of sea level projections for the north Indian Ocean.

11:55– 12:10

Monika Rhein, Ben Marzeion, Juergen Kusche

Thematic Introduction: Physical Contributions to global and regional sea level changes.

12:10 – 12:30

Lee-Lueng Fu

The status of the SWOT Mission and its potential applications to the impact of sea level rise to coastal regions.

12:30 – 13:30 

Lunch

Session 1:

Northern Europe/German Bight

Chair: J. Hinkel

13:30 – 15:00

(90 minutes)

13:30 – 13:45

Gonéri Le Cozannnet

Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to sea-level rise

13:45 – 14:00

Detlef Stammer

Mechanisms behind Sea Level Variations in the North Sea.

14:00 – 14:15

Gerhard Schmiedl

Unraveling the signals of sea level and storminess in the southern North Sea of the past millennium.

14:15– 14:30

Zeinab Azarakhsh

Vertical land motion of German Bight with focus on Cuxhaven.

14:30 – 14:45

Karina Stockmann

Sea-level services at BSH for North and Baltic seas.

14:45 – 15:00

Tim Hermans

The Timing of Decreasing Coastal Flood Protection Due to Sea-Level Rise

15:00 – 15:30 

Coffee Break

Session 1:

Northern Europe/German Bight

15:30 – 17:30

(120 minutes)

15:30 – 15:45

Gabriele Gönnert

Hamburg´s approach to sea level rise in the context of flood protection

15:45 – 16:00

Johannes Pein

A framework for estuarine future sea level scenarios: Response of the industrialised Elbe estuary to projected mean sea level rise and internal variability.

16:00 – 16:15

Sunna Kupfer

SEASCApe: Comprehensive assessment of future flood risk and optimal adaptation strategies to sea level rise.

16:15– 16:30

Stephan Seibert

The role of past and future hydrogeological boundary conditions for groundwater salinization in Northwestern Germany.

16:30 – 16:45

Leena Karrasch

Groundwater salinization in North West Germany - a societal challenge of climate adaptation.

16:45 – 17:30

Wrap-up Discussion 

Monday, June 5, 2023

Public Sea level Event, International Maritime Museum Hamburg

17:30 – 18:00

Drinks and snacks Deck 10

18:00 – 19:30

Chair: D. Stammer

 

 

Public Evening Event, Deck 10 of the IMMH:

Sprache: Deutsch

 

Klimawandel und Küstenschutz – sind wir vorbereitet?

Moderation: Kristina Sterz

 

Impulsvortag: Peter Fröhle

 

Panel Diskussion:

Professor Peter Fröhle (TUHH)

Professor Gabriele Gönnert (LSBG)

Professor Bart van den Hurk (Deltares)

Privatdozent Jochen Hinkel (GCF)

Michael Pollmann, Staatssekretär FHH BUKEA

Anka Dobslaw, Staatssekretärin im niedersächsischen Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz

Katja Günther, Staatssekretärin im Ministerium für Energiewende, Klimaschutz, Umwelt und Natur, Schleswig -Holstein

Michael Schirmer, Deichhauptmann, Bremen

 

19:30 – 21:00

Reception, Deck 2 of the IMMH

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Sea Level Conference, International Maritime Museum Hamburg, Deck 10

Session

Time

Presenter

Subject

Session 2: Indo-Pacific Region (1): SLR projections and impacts

Chair: G. Schmidl

9:00 – 10:30

(90 minutes)

 

9:00 – 9:15

Benjamin Horton

The Southeast Asia Sea-Level Program.

9:15 – 9:30

Gerd Masselink

Natural adaptation of atoll islands to sea-level rise offering opportunities for ongoing human occupation.

9:30 – 9:45

Rémi Thieblemont

Emergence of high-tide flooding in French Guiana due to sea-level rise.

9:45 – 10:00

Eduardo Zorita-Calvo

Prediction of extreme sea-levels in Southeast Asia and the Baltic Sea with Random Forest.

10:00 – 10:15

Yannis Kappelmann

The evolution of reef islands in Southeast Asia during the Holocene - Effects of sea level, monsoon winds and changing ecosystems.

10:15 – 10:30

Yi Jin

Projected sea-level trends and variability in the Southeast Asia region based on MPI-ESM-ER.

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 2: Indo-Pacific Region (2): Communities, adaptation and social capital

11:00 – 12:30

(90 minutes)

11:00 – 11:15

Niesters Lisa-Michéle

Accommodating coastal hazards: Collective action, social capital, and (trans-)localities - examples from Indonesia.

11:15 – 11:30

Boris Braun/Konstantin Gisevius

Building adaptive capacity through translocal social capital: Sea level rise and resilience of coastal communities in the Indonesian second-tier cities Denpasar and Padang.

11:30– 11:45

Fadjar Thufail

Sea-Level Rise and Mitigating the Loss of Coastal Traditions: A View from Indonesian Small Islands.

11:45– 12:00

Gabriel David

Considering socio-political framings when analyzing coastal climate change effects can prevent maldevelopment on small islands.

12:00 – 12:15

Johannes Herbeck

Fixing the coast? Global trajectories of multifunctional diking and scales of territorialization.

12:15 – 12:30

Rapti Siriwardane

Buoyant Life: Contradictions on ´Deepscaling´ Floating Urban Infrastructural Experiments in Coastal Java.

12:30 – 13:30 

Lunch

Session 3: Sea Level Processes and Methods

Chair: Z. Azarakhsh

13:30 – 15:00

(90 minutes)

13:30 – 13:45

C.K. Shum

Determination of present-day rapid relative sea-level rise at regional scales: challenges and progress.

13:45 – 14:00

Matthias Braun

Estimating regional glacier mass change as a contributor to sea level rise.

14:00 – 14:15

Julia Eis

A new method to allocate the responsibility for regional, glacier-related sea level change.

14:15– 14:30

Oliver Huhn

Basal glacial meltwater on Greenland’s shelves and slopes, from the northeast towards Irminger Sea and Labrador Sea.

14:30 – 14:45

Torsten Kanzow

Evolution of ocean heat transport to glaciers in Northeast Greenland modulated by recirculation of warm Atlantic Water in Fram Strait.

14:45 – 15:00

Charlotte Rahlwes

Uncertainties in projected sea-level contributions from the Greenland ice sheet.

15:00 – 15:30 

Coffee Break

Session 3: Sea Level Processes and Methods, continuing.

Chair: O. Huhn

15:30 – 17:30

(120 minutes)

15:30 – 15:45

Claudia Wekerle

High-resolution simulations of the ocean circulation beneath the 79° North Glacier.

15:45 – 16:00

Tilo Schöne

Coastal Sea Level Change -The Millimeter and the Decimeter.

16:00 – 16:15

Peter Steiglechner

The right mix of cognitive biases and ambiguity of opinions fosters societal concern about climate change.

16:15– 16:30

David Cabana

Climate services for beach management and climate change adaptation.

16:30 – 16:45

Deyshawn Moser

Facing global environmental change: The role of culturally embedded cognitive biases.

16:45 – 17:00

Fiona Hibbert

A Palaeo perspective on high end sea-level scenarios.

17:00 – 17:30

Wrap-up Discussion 

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Sea Level Conference, International Maritime Museum Hamburg, Deck 10

Session

Time

Presenter

Subject

Session 3: Sea Level Processes and Methods, continuing

9:00 – 10:00

(60 minutes)

9:00 – 9:15

Kaiyan Yao

External forcing impact on global mean sea level in the preindustrial millennium.

9:15 – 9:30

Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche, Martin Horwath

Reconciling ocean mass change and glacial isostatic adjustment from satellite gravity and altimetry   

9:30 – 9:45

Jochen Hinkel

Learning Scenarios: the missing link between sea level science and coastal decision making.

9:45– 10:00

Kathleen L. McInnes

Coastal hazard modeling in Australia. Developing new datasets to inform coastal hazards now and in the future.

Session 4: Sea Level Rise Projections and Uncertainties

Chairs: S. Nandini-Weiss

10:00 – 10:30

(30 minutes)

10:00 – 10:15

Benjamin Harrison

Towards Physically Consistent Sea Level Rise Storylines for the United Kingdom.

10:15 – 10:30

Chathurika Wickramage

Sensitivity of MPI-ESM Sea Level Projections to Its Ocean Spatial Resolution.

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 4: Sea Level Rise Projections and Uncertainties, continuing

Chairs: C. Wickramage

11:00 – 12:30

(90 minutes)

11:00 – 11:15

Víctor Malagón Santos

Improving Statistical Projections of Dynamic Sea-Level Change Using Pattern Recognition Techniques.

11:15 – 11:30

Sri Durgesh Nandini-Weiss

Future shifts in sea level statistics- implications with the MPI-GE model.

11:30– 12:30

Final Discussion and Closing of the conference

12:30 – 13:30 

Lunch

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

SPP 1889 Status Seminar, International Maritime Museum Hamburg, Deck 10

Session

Time

Presenter

Subject

Closed Session for SPP members

 

14:00 – 16:00

 

14:00 – 14:15

D. Stammer

Opening

14:15 – 14:45

Chr. Sudmann

Input from the DFG  

14:45 – 16:00

D. Stammer, all

General SPP Discussion