FW: European Geophysical Union EGU2026 Session - Rock Coasts - Form, Processes and Evolution

[Wayne Stephenson]

Tena Koutou Colleagues,

 

Following the successful International Rock Coast 2025 Conference in Trieste, in June, we are now pleased to announce the following session at EGU2026. Please consider submitting an abstract to our session:

 

Rock Coasts - Form, Processes and Evolution GM8.2

Co-sponsored by IAG

Convener: Wayne Stephenson | Co-conveners: Ritienne Gauci, Zuzanna Swirad^ECS, Md Sakaouth Hossain

 

Rock coasts form striking and dynamic boundaries between land and sea and are shaped by diverse processes acting across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Processes include wave action, subaerial weathering, tectonics, and biological activity, and increasingly the influences of human intervention and climate change, for example storm surges and sea level rise. These landscapes including cliffs, shore platforms, stacks, sea caves and arches and provide critical buffers to marine inundation. Rock coasts are formed by erosive processes but paradoxically from a management perspective, are considered vulnerable to erosion. This session invites contributions on all aspects of rock coast geomorphology, including quantification of erosion rates, weathering forms, sediment dynamics, lithological and structural controls, marine forcing and biogeomorphic interactions. We welcome studies using field monitoring, numerical or physical modelling (including the use of AI), remote sensing and image analysis (e.g., UAV, LiDAR, videography), or geochronological approaches (e.g. cosmogenic radionuclides). We are especially interested in research addressing change across timescales from event-based processes (e.g., storms, coseismic uplift) to long-term evolution as well as studies spanning local observations to regional syntheses. Contributions that highlight methodological innovation or interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Sponsored by the IAG Rock Coast Working Group, this session seeks to showcase current advances in rock coast geomorphology and stimulate discussion around future research priorities.

 

- The abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2026

- Information on how to submit your abstract is here: https://www.egu26.eu/authors/how-to-submit.html search “rock coast”.

 

 

Nāku noa, nā

Wayne

 

PROFESSOR WAYNE STEPHENSON (he/him) University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka School of Geography | Te Iho Whenua Dunedin Campus, Po Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand | Aotearoa T +64 3 479 8776

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