Canada has the world’s longest coastline, comprising a huge diversity of geomorphological and climatic environments. These coastal sites provide a natural laboratory for studying how oceanographic and atmospheric forcing, including tides, currents, storm waves, and ice, shape the landscape. Coastal hazards such as erosion and flooding are only becoming more prevalent in the changing climate, exacerbated by rising sea level, increasing storm activity and amplified air and ocean temperatures. These processes must be studied across a wide range of settings to support appropriate adaptation strategies for coastal communities. This session highlights innovative research on the geomorphologic and hydrodynamic processes in the coastal zone, including non-cryotic, seasonally frozen, and permafrost environments. We invite contributions from a spectrum of physical coastal process topics, including but not limited to: monitoring and modelling of coastal change, wave dynamics and sediment transport, nearshore sea ice processes, late Quaternary coastal evolution, and coastal hazard assessment. We welcome studies conducted at all spatial and temporal scales, from detailed field studies, lab experiments, or numerical modeling approaches to large-scale remote sensing analyses.

• 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm | Evolution of a Managed Dykeland Realignment Landscape in a Hypertidal System – Danika van proosdij
• 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm | Evidence for widespread barrier overstepping in coarse-clastic paraglacial coastlines: insights from Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia – Cameron Greaves
• 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm | The impacts of wind-generated waves on suspended sediment concentrations over storm-to-seasonal timescales in the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy – Élise Rogers
• 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm | Comparing Methods of Measuring Coastal Change Rates in the Maritime Provinces – Miranda Reid
• 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm | Field and Model Investigations of Hydrodynamic and Morphologic Storm Impacts on the Coast of Nova Scotia – Sarah Hall
• 5:15 pm – 5:30 pm | Wave breaking in the surf zone: hydrodynamics from large-scale laboratory wave basin experiments and a phase-resolving numerical model – Thomas Pendergast