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

4. Selected Photos

Arrival and icebreaker

Lectures