Coastal and Marine Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Ramesh Sivanpillai, Senior Research Scientist, Dept of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA Ramesh Sivanpillai is a Remote Sensing Scientist at the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC) at the University of Wyoming. His research interests include digital processing of satellite and aerial images, data fusion, image enhancement and classification. Jean Taylor Ellis is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is interested in coastal and aeolian geomorphology and the impact of humans on the coastal environment. She and her students approach research from a field and instrument-intensive perspective and work with community members to bridge the gap between science and the public. Dr. Ellis has published over 30 scholarly articles, is on the editorial board of international journals (including Elsevier's Aeolian Research), and was a Fulbright Scholar. Douglas Sherman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama. His research interests are in coastal and aeolian geomorphology and sedimentation. He has published more than one hundred scholarly articles, and edited volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology on Coastal Geomorphology and Aeolian Geomorphology, and co-edited Coastal and Marine Hazards, Risks and Disasters. Much of his recent research involves human impacts on coastal sedimentation and the physics of sediment transport, especially wind-blown sand. He is an AAAS Fellow and has twice been a Fulbright Senior Scholar.

1. Introduction to coastal and marine hazards and disasters 2. Generation, characteristics, and dynamics of tsunami 3. Paleo-tsunami 4. Tsunami warning and mitigation 5. Tsunami case studies 6. Generation, characteristics, dynamics, and modeling storm surge 7. Paleo-storm surge 8. Storm surge warning and mitigation 9. Storm surge case studies 10. Sea level rise scenarios and causes 11. Adapting to sea level rise 12. Mitigating coastal change 13. Shoreline change case studies 14. Extreme waves 15. Rip currents/undertow 16. Sea ice 17. Threats to mangrove resources and mitigation 18. Threats to coral resources and mitigation 19. Threats to marsh resources and mitigation 20. HABs