Conference Agenda

8:15am - 8:30am

Quantifying wave loads on near-coast structures behind hybrid nature-based coastal protection

Navid Tahvildari, Abdollah Ojaghi

Old Dominion University, United States of America

8:30am - 8:45am

Large scale physical model experiments of hybrid green-gray structure performance for overtopping mitigation

Tori Tomiczek¹, Margaret Libby², Dan Cox², Pedro Lomonaco², Dan McMann¹, Jordan Keck¹

¹United States Naval Academy, United States of America; ²Oregon State University, United States of America

8:45am - 9:00am

Strengthening the case for Nature Based Solutions in the Caribbean

Andrew Williams, Deborah Ann Villarroel-Lamb

The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

9:00am - 9:15am

Reefense X-REEFS: hybrid biological and engineered reef structures for Nature-based Coastal Defense

Borja Reguero¹, Benjamin Norris¹, Brian Haus², Joseph Bartolai³, Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos², Camila Gaido¹, Taylor Squires⁴, Mike Yukish³, Michael W. Beck¹

¹University of California Santa Cruz, United States of America; ²University of Miami; ³Penn State University; ⁴AECOM

9:15am - 9:30am

Bio-cementation of coastal sediment features and rock revetments to reduce erosion and flood risk

Jens Figlus¹, Jaclynn Turnbaugh¹, Manoj Kamalanathan²

¹Texas A&M University, United States of America; ²Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences