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CSDMS 2021: Changing Landscapes and Seascapes: Modeling for Discovery, Decision Making, and Communication


Atolls & Ecogeomorphology: Investigating the feedbacks between physical, anthropogenic, and ecological processes under changing climates via remote sensing, computational modeling, and fieldwork



Aleja Ortiz

Colby College, United States
acortiz@colby.edu


Abstract
Within our lifetime, climate change has the potential to drastically alter coastal resiliency. Atoll island nations are particularly vulnerable to climate change: from increasing ocean temperatures (causing coral die-off), to ocean acidification (decreasing coral resiliency), to increasing SLR. We must understand what will happen to the atoll islands because they are the inhabited portion of these systems. However, we lack a comprehensive understanding about the primary processes driving atoll island evolution under rising sea levels and varying wave climate. This uncertainty in predictions hinders local communities’ preparation for the future; we must understand how atoll islands respond and evolve with changing environmental forcings on a global scale. To predict the response of these islands to changing climate, we must understand the feedbacks between physical and ecological processes at different temporal and spatial scales. In addition, we must account for the actions and processes taken by humans driving landscape change on these islands. My lab has focused on investigating the feedbacks inherent in these landscapes using numerical modeling and remote sensing.




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Of interest for:
  • Coastal Working Group
  • Marine Working Group
  • Chesapeake Focus Research Group
  • Human Dimensions Focus Research Group
  • Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group
  • Coastal Vulnerability Initiative