AGU 2025 Session: EP027 – Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) and Hydro-Morphodynamic Feedbacks in Enhancing Coastal Resilience
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Kelly Kibler
Jul 2, 2025, 10:39:44 AM7/2/25
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite your abstract submissions to a NbS and aquatic restoration-themed session at this December's AGU Fall Meeting. The abstract deadline is July 30.
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Session Description:
Sea-level rise and storm surge increasingly threaten the resilience of coastal ecosystems and the vital services they provide. In response, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), particularly Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) such as living shorelines, mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrasses, oysters, and corals, are gaining recognition as sustainable infrastructure that restores ecological function while enhancing coastal protection. Understanding hydro-morphodynamic feedbacks within these eco-engineering systems is critical for optimizing their design, implementation, and performance. This session highlights interdisciplinary research advancing knowledge of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, geomorphology, shoreline evolution, and ecological processes in support of NNBF. We invite contributions that examine the design, monitoring, and performance of NNBF through field observations, laboratory experiments, remote sensing, and numerical modeling. We especially encourage studies exploring interactions between physical and biological processes, restoration strategies, and innovative approaches to habitat design. The session seeks to foster collaboration among researchers, engineers, and practitioners advancing NNBF for resilient and adaptive coastal ecosystems.
The AGU Fall Meeting will be held on December 15-19, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, July 30, at 23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC.
We would be thrilled to see your work featured in this session. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to your contributions!
Sea-level rise and storm surge increasingly threaten the resilience of coastal ecosystems and the vital services they provide. In response, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), particularly Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) such as living shorelines, mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrasses, oysters, and corals, are gaining recognition as sustainable infrastructure that restores ecological function while enhancing coastal protection. Understanding hydro-morphodynamic feedbacks within these eco-engineering systems is critical for optimizing their design, implementation, and performance. This session highlights interdisciplinary research advancing knowledge of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, geomorphology, shoreline evolution, and ecological processes in support of NNBF. We invite contributions that examine the design, monitoring, and performance of NNBF through field observations, laboratory experiments, remote sensing, and numerical modeling. We especially encourage studies exploring interactions between physical and biological processes, restoration strategies, and innovative approaches to habitat design. The session seeks to foster collaboration among researchers, engineers, and practitioners advancing NNBF for resilient and adaptive coastal ecosystems.
The AGU Fall Meeting will be held on December 15-19, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, July 30, at 23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC.
We would be thrilled to see your work featured in this session. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to your contributions!
Invited speakers:
Best wishes and thank you! From the Session Conveners:
Jyotismita Taye (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Limin Sun (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory)
Manisha Thenuwara (University of Central Florida)
Kelly Kibler (University of Central Florida)
Limin Sun (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory)
Manisha Thenuwara (University of Central Florida)
Kelly Kibler (University of Central Florida)
Kelly Kibler
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Water Resources Engineering
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology
University of Central Florida
Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering
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