5th Meeting CP Sea Level Change & Coastal Impacts

The 5^th Meeting of ECRA Collaborative Programme Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts (CP SLC) on 11 July 18.00-19.30 in New York was a side meeting of the International Conference on Regional Sea level change**. This meeting intended to discuss strategic developments of the CP SLC and investigate links to related initiatives. Particular topics for the discussion focussed on:  

CP SLC Activities: Past and Future

The General Assembly 2017 has been a very successful meeting arena for scientists, politicians and stakeholders. The community agreed to improve the interaction with stakeholders and social scientists in the future. This includes further outreach events addressed to specific stakeholder groups. Next ECRA SCL meeting is planned during the conference ‘Sea Level Futures’ taking place in Liverpool July 2–4th 2018 (https://conference.noc.ac.uk/sea-level-futures-2018).

CP SLC Strategy document

The CP SLC Plan should be advanced and should include tasks related to the previous CP Strategy, including social scientists and services provided to stakeholders. This may include a list of scientists with expertise and possible services to be published on the website. This should be developed in ongoing workshops organised for both, scientists and stakeholders.

EU COST action

ECRA scientists are interested in developing a COST action proposal to be submitted in 2018. A network linking different communities is of high interest to sea level scientists. Interested people in COST action are kindly asked to contact the CP coordinators Jan Even Nilsen and Gianmaria Sannino (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Jan Even Øie Nilsen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Link to WCRP

WCRP is strongly interested in interacting with stakeholders, economic and social science. Main difference to ECRA is the global focus. WCRP contacts in ECRA: Robert Nicholls, Roderik van de Wal, Jochen Hinkel, and Gonéri Le Cozannet (present).

Participants: Standing, left to right: Mark Carson, Sanne Muis, Per Knutsen, Joanne Williams, Aimée Slangen, Kristin Richter, Kaija J. Andersen, Marta Marcos, Jeremy Rohmer, Ivan D. Haigh, Monica Ionita, Ingo Sasgen, Roland Gehrels, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Begoña Pérez Gómez, Roderik S.W. van de Wal, Robert Nicholls. Sitting, left to right: Svetlana Jevrejeva, Dewi le Bars, Deborah Idier, Renske C. de Winter, Sönke Dangendorf, Jan Even Ø. Nilsen, Thomas Wahl, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Matthias Mengel, Jochen Hinkel, Kristine S. Madsen. Luke Jackson was not present during photo shoot. 29 all in all at the meeting, and of those, 12 new members to the CP activities. Welcome!

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** The ECRA Workshop was a side event during the International Conference on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts, organised by WCRP/IOC (10-14 July): http://www.sealevel2017.org/